[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: Message from Ramsey Clark

Tue Nov 9 21:58:08 PST 2004

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>Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:44:22 -0600
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>Subject: Message from Ramsey Clark
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>  Message from Ramsey Clark
>"Bush can run, but he cannot hide from the Constitution"
>
>Dear VoteToImpeach / ImpeachBush.org Members,
>
>President Bush can run, but he cannot hide from the Constitution of 
>the United States. The election does not pardon the President for 
>past, or future "high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
>
>Impeachment is not a partisan political issue. The House of 
>Representatives, possessed of the "sole power of impeachment," is 
>required to consider a bill of impeachment on the facts even if 
>every Member were of the same party, or political persuasion, as the 
>President. The seven specific provisions of the Constitution setting 
>forth the powers and duties of the Congress in considering 
>impeachment intend that any President or other civil officer of the 
>United States who has committed a high Crime or Misdemeanor 
>"...shall be removed from Office."
>
>The power of impeachment assures the people against criminal acts 
>and despotic ambitions by government officials.
>
>We, the People have the power to require the House of 
>Representatives to do its duty and act on a bill of impeachment 
>after full investigation and consideration. If it fails to do so 
>those House members who failed to perform this Constitutional duty 
>can and should be voted from office. Remember that President Nixon 
>resigned under threat of impeachment for Watergate less than two 
>years after his landslide reelection in 1972.
>
>Impeachment is Imperative
>
>For the American people who support and defend the Constitution of 
>the United States, who want to prevent further crimes by a lawless 
>administration, who believe we can redeem our country in the eyes of 
>those we have assaulted and those who have witnessed this brutality 
>and who dare to demand of future government leadership, NEVER AGAIN, 
>Impeachment is Imperative. A decent respect to the opinions of 
>mankind requires that we Americans should declare the causes which 
>impel us to impeach.
>
>President George W. Bush chose to wage a war of aggression against 
>Iraq, which had not attacked the United States and presented no 
>imminent threat to our people, or legitimate interests. A small 
>cabal, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby and Rove 
>wrested decision making processes from established institutions of 
>government to reinforce President Bush's desire to seize Iraq, 
>defying international institutions, the opinions of humankind and 
>the rule of law to commence a disastrous criminal military adventure.
>
>A Campaign of Deceit and False Propaganda 
>
>War of aggression is the first offense listed in the Nuremberg 
>Charter as a Crime against Peace. The Nuremberg Tribunal after 
>hearing evidence of Nazi crimes in World War II convicted the 
>leaders of waging wars of aggression, which it called "the supreme 
>international crime."
>
>At Nuremberg, the Chief U.S. Prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson, promised 
>posterity that in the future all nations, including our own, would 
>be held accountable for such crimes.
>
>President Bush and key administration officials engaged in a lengthy 
>campaign of deceit, concealment and false propaganda to create 
>support for, and acceptance of, its war of aggression by claiming 
>Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, harbored terrorists, had 
>close ties with and supported Al Qaeda and intended to attack the 
>U.S., U.S. citizens and U.S. interests. A free society, democratic 
>institutions and constitutional government cannot survive such 
>deceit by its own government.
>
>The U.S. has made civilians and civilian facilities its direct 
>object of attack. It has pursued assassination and summary 
>executions as official policy. President Bush boasted of summary 
>executions in his State of the Union message in 2003. Excessive and 
>indiscriminate force and illegal weapons have been used. Many 
>thousands of Iraqi citizens, whole families, women, children, 
>elderly Iraqis have been killed as a result.
>
>U.S. military casualties exceed 10,000 including more than 1,100 
>deaths with many additional thousands returned to the United States 
>for physical and mental illnesses.
>
>The U.S. has employed torture, including torture to death, rape and 
>sexual assault and humiliation, as approved and ordered policy from 
>Afghanistan and Guantanamo to Iraq, inflicted on thousands of 
>prisoners, many, if not most, without any evidence of wrongful 
>conduct. An admitted 37 human beings have been murdered while being 
>held in captivity by the United States under these conditions. We 
>know not how many more. All the mounting evidence makes clear that 
>this program of torture and death is not aberrational conduct of 
>rogue or undisciplined soldiers but is rather the policy adopted at 
>the highest levels of the Bush/Rumsfeld chain of command. All this 
>in violation of the Geneva Conventions, the International Convention 
>Against Torture, the laws of all nations and common human decency.
>
>Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States 
>provides: The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of 
>the United States, Shall Be Removed From Office on Impeachment for, 
>and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and 
>Misdemeanors
>
>More than 100,000 Dead Based on a Lie 
>
>We learn from the prominent medical journal Lancet of the report by 
>researchers at John Hopkins University, Columbia University and the 
>Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad that the U.S. war of 
>aggression against Iraq and military occupation has cost "at least" 
>100,000 Iraqi lives already must civilian, women and children. 
>Already President Bush has launched a massive aerial and ground 
>assault on Falluja which may kill thousands of defenseless civilians.
>
>Haiti, where President Bush forced the elected President Jean 
>Bertrand Aristide from office, is in chaos with many thousands 
>killed by widespread daily violence committed by U.S. supported 
>paramilitaries against Aristide supporters.
>
>Nearly 500,000 have voted to impeach. Help us increase that number 
>into millions the Congress cannot ignore.
>
>Every American should choose whether to vote for impeachment 
>entirely on the facts, straight up, or down, without political, or 
>partisan fear, or favor. We owe this to the country, its future, the 
>Constitution and our common heritage. Impeachment is Required Now.
>
>Impeachment now is the only way we, the American people, can promise 
>ourselves and the world that we will not tolerate crimes against 
>peace and humanity by our government. Knowing what we know, to wait 
>longer is to condone what has been done and risk more.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Ramsey Clark
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