[NV Greens] Fwd: Impeachment is in the Air

Wed Jun 15 22:32:59 PDT 2005

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>Impeachment is in the Air
>Rep. John Conyers to Hold June 16 Hearing
>on the Downing Street Memo
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>Join the tens of thousands on September 24
>Who Will Call for Impeachment
>Gather at the White House at 12 noon
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>Dear Paul,
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>Everyone in the ImpeachBush.org movement should feel very heartened 
>that the grassroots effort of the past two years has laid the 
>foundation for what will be the next big move.
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>The movement to impeach George W. Bush is about to reach its highest 
>level yet. The catastrophic invasion and occupation of Iraq is now 
>exposed. The people of the country, and more and more members of 
>Congress, are turning against the war and demanding that President 
>Bush be held accountable. We will insist that accountability means 
>impeachment.
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>We are writing to announce two very important and exciting events:
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>1) Congressman John Conyers is holding a hearing tomorrow (June 16) 
>into the Downing Street Memo which reveals that the Bush 
>administration was lying to the people of the U.S. as they forged 
>forward on their planned path of war against, and conquest of, Iraq.
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>2) September 24 National March in Washington, D.C. - Members of the 
>impeachment movement from all over the country will be marching 
>together as a massive contingent in the huge September 24 antiwar 
>demonstration in Washington, D.C., with coordinated actions in San 
>Francisco and Los Angeles.
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>You can help build this movement
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>We are able to do all of this work only because of the generous 
>donations of people who believe in impeachment. The expenses will be 
>great in the coming period. With your donation, will be able to 
>print hundreds of thousands of flyers and posters, make 
>banners, send out large-scale mailings, and begin renting buses to 
>make sure that the message of impeachment is seen throughout 
>Washington, D.C. that day and rings through the hallways of the 
>White House where we will assemble at 12 noon. Your help is needed 
>now. 
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>ImpeachBush/VoteToImpeach.org members have worked tirelessly over 
>the past two-and-half-years to raise the political consciousness in 
>the U.S. and the halls of Congress demanding that Bush and other 
>high officials of his administration be impeached for their criminal 
>conduct. This work is now reaching a new level - discussion of 
>Impeachment is being picked up by many across the progressive 
>spectrum and it is increasingly being mentioned in commentary and 
>news analysis as a proper course of action. In recent weeks the 
>Green Party, Veterans for Peace, Ralph Nader and many others have 
>issued statements calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush. 
>This list is sure to grow in the coming months.
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>The Downing Street Memo and the Case for Impeachment
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>Tomorrow, June 16, Congressman John Conyers will hold a hearing into 
>the Downing Street Memo, the leaked British briefing notes that 
>document the Bush Administration's intention to attack Iraq and its 
>efforts to create public rationale for their pre-planned illegal war.
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>The Downing Street Memo is the "smoking gun" for those still 
>searching for one indicting President Bush and his administration 
>for high crimes and misdemeanors of the most serious and deadly 
>kind. Its authenticity has not been disputed by either the British 
>or U.S. governments since it was made public by the Times of London 
>on May 1, 2005. While largely ignored for nearly a month by most of 
>the corporate media here, it has now made its way into some news 
>outlets. Rep. John Conyers and 88 other members of Congress have 
>demanded an explanation from the White House.
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>The memo is a document containing minutes transcribed during a 
>meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair, members of his 
>cabinet and other top military and security officials, on July 23, 
>2002. The head of British foreign intelligence (MI 6), Richard 
>Dearlove, identified in the memo as "C," had just returned from a 
>meeting with the U.S. National Security Council in Washington.
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>"C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a 
>perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as 
>inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, 
>justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the 
>intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC 
>had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing 
>material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion 
>in Washington of the aftermath after military action."
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>The key phrase here is, "the intelligence and facts were being fixed 
>around the policy." It makes clear beyond question that the Bush 
>administration had set the course for war on Iraq at least eight 
>months before the U.S./British invasion.
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>In recent days, additional leaked British memos have confirmed the 
>underlying information in the Downing Street Memo and further 
>revealed that the Bush administration was making its plans to launch 
>a war against Iraq and to find a basis to justify the illegal attack 
>as early as March 2002. For instance a memo dated March 22, 2002, 
>revealed that officials in the Blair government recognized that 
>additional efforts would need to be made to justify the war since 
>there was a lack of proof of connections between the Iraqi 
>government and Al Qaida, and that the Iraqi government was not 
>arming itself with weapons of mass destruction as the Bush 
>Administration had claimed.
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>Now, more than 26 months after the invasion, 100,000 Iraqis have 
>been killed (according to the British medical journal The Lancet) 
>and Iraq is in chaos. Over 1,700 U.S. troops have been killed and 
>tens of thousands have been maimed, suffering from serious wounds, 
>injuries and illnesses, including enormous psychological trauma.
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>All this killing, dying and suffering is the result of a war 
>justified by a deliberate campaign of unmitigated lies and deception 
>knowingly carried out by Bush and his top associates - Cheney, 
>Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Wolfowitz, et. al. All who remain in office 
>should be removed and face trial for their war crimes. It is worth 
>noting that the most serious category of war crimes is the Crime 
>Against Peace; that is, planning and carrying out a war of 
>aggression against another state which poses no threat to the 
>aggressor state.
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><http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=fsPwo5TL8ZLt30WOlVTU-Q..>Click here 
>to read the full text of the Downing Street Memo.
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