Hi.
Thought some of you might be interested to know what is being tossed around
in the U.S. This was sent up to us today by a friend in Minnesota.
Has anyone from the U.S. heard of a Kucinich who may be running for Pres.
in the next election.
How We Will Reach One Million
Votes
The Each One, Reach One
Campaign
Dear VoteToImpeach Member,
Last month Ramsey Clark appealed
to the 250,000 VoteToImpeach members to help build the
campaign. Now, we are launching a new initiative to take this campaign to the
million vote mark.
The framework of the initiative could not be more
simple. It is captured in its name: Each One, Reach
One. We are asking all VoteToImpeach members to commit
to getting just one additional person to vote to impeach online. We
know that many members will do more. But if each of us got one person to vote
this month we would pass the half a million mark, and if we do the same in the
following months, we will have reached the million
mark.
These million votes will be taken to the House Judiciary
Committee. Twenty-nine years ago next month, the House Judiciary Committee, with
sharp division, voted for Articles of Impeachment for Richard M. Nixon. Within a
month, on August 9, 1974 Richard Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment.
Let us not forget that Nixon's near-impeachment and resignation came a year and
a half after he won one of the biggest landslide elections in U.S. history.
Among the Articles of Impeachment, Nixon was charged with "making
or causing to be made false or misleading statements for the purpose of
deceiving the people of the United States...." The relevance of the
Nixon impeachment proceedings with the case against George W. Bush et al., was
noted recently by John Dean, the former counsel to President Nixon in a June 11,
2003 article titled "The Case for Impeachment."
Responding to
the growing public outcry regarding Bush's lies and deceptions that were used as
the rationale for the invasion of Iraq, Dean wrote, "To put it bluntly, if Bush
has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is
cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence
data, if proven, could be a 'high crime' under the Constitution's impeachment
clause. It would be also be a violation of federal criminal law, including the
broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders it a felony 'to defraud the
United States, or any agency thereof in any manner for any purpose.'
" It's important to recall that when Richard Nixon resigned, he was
about to be impeached by the House of Representatives for misusing the CIA
and FBI. After Watergate, all presidents are on notice that manipulating
or misusing any agency of the executive branch improperly is a serious
abuse of presidential power."
Dean asserts, "in the three
decades since Watergate, this is the first potential scandal I have seen
that could make Watergate pale by comparison. If the Bush administration
intentionally manipulated or misrepresented intelligence to get Congress
to authorize, and the public to support, military action to take control
of Iraq, then that would be a monstrous misdeed." |
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When George W. Bush addressed the nation on March 17, 2003, to
announce that war against Iraq had become inevitable and imminent, he stated,
"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the
Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons
ever devised."
Bush administration officials systematically lied to the
people of the United States, to Congress and to the United Nations. Tens
of thousands of Iraqis have now been killed and maimed. Iraq society has been
plunged into chaos and misery. Its sovereignty shredded by an illegal
occupation. Hundreds of US GI's have been killed and wounded.
While waging an illegal war against the people of Iraq, the administration has
carried out a war home -- an attack on the civil rights and liberties of
the people of the United States and on the Bill of Rights itself.
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The VoteToImpeach campaign is a critical effort. As Ramsey
Clark stated in his May 12 address at the National Press Club
that was broadcast nationally on C-Span: "When people vote to
Impeach it is important. It reminds Americans that the Constitution
provides the means for removing an Imperial President and officials who
commit high crimes." |
The administration's crimes, including its lies and deceptions,
are becoming increasingly exposed in the public discourse and media. Pressure is
growing for Congressional hearings on the Administration's lies and deliberate
manipulation of "intelligence data" related to the much ballyhooed connection
between Iraq and Al' Qaeda and the patently false claim about the "grave and
imminent threat" posed by Iraq's alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction. Under
these circumstances it is all the more important to expand the grassroots
VotetoImpeach campaign.
Participate in the Each One, Reach One initiative, and by clicking here you
will be taken to the Each One, Reach One page where you can send an email
inviting one or more friends, family members or colleagues to join the
Impeachment movement.
Let's keep the pressure on!
All of us at VoteToImpeach.org
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