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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