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Bush began to wage war on Iraq BEFORE getting congressional approval (illegal), and the Defence Secretary at that time refered to these bombings as, "spikes of activity.":
http://www.newstatesman.com/nssubsfilter.php3?newTemplate=NSArticle_NS&newDisplayURN=200505300013
Contrary to some previous comments, knowingly misleading the congress into a war IS a crime:
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20C15F73B5C0C708CDDA90994DC404482
Numerous sources told the administration that the yellow cake claims were untrue:
Cheney requested an investigation, and when Wilson arrived in Niger the Ambassador there said she has already told the administration it was false - and Wilson's report concluded it was extremely unlikely. George Tenet advised White House officials and the National Security Advisor that Bush should not include the yellow cake claim in his Oct. 7th speech. Former head of covert ops in Europe (a 28yr. vet of the agency) said the allegations did not hold together - he not only told White House officials that the evidence was weak but that Intel from Saddam's inner circle indicated that Iraq, "had no active weapons of mass destruction program." The Director General of the IAEA sent a letter to the White House and the NSC warning senior officials that he believes the documents were forgeries and should not be cited by the administration as evidence that Iraq was actively trying to obtain WMD. In spite of several follow-up calls to the WH, the NSC and the State Department there was never any response to either the letter or the calls. In January of 2003 the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence reports containing the uranium claims were based on forgeries: <a href="http://impeachforpeace.org/evidence/data/fordmemo.pdf">Declassified Memo</a>
AND the UN declared the documents were "obvious fakes" in March 2003:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/14/sprj.irq.documents/
So don't tell me that the administration didn't KNOWINGLY mislead the public and the congress - a crime.
The <a href="http://impeachforpeace.org/evidence/data/alleightdowningstreet.pdf">Downing Sreet Documents</a> are infamous because British Intelligence reported that Bush was determined to attack Iraq even though the evidence was far too thin to warrant such action, and so the "...intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." High crime to knowingly mislead the people and the congress into war, and abuse of power.
Bush failed to meet requirments laid out in the Oct 2002 approval, such as enforcing "all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq," and removed inspectors before they could complete their job so he could attack.
In fact, Bush said he was going to attack no matter if the UN found evidence of weapons or not and that he told Blair that, "The diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning,"
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1700881,00.html
A note on another comment I'd seen here: The illegal wiretapping did indeed begin BEFORE the Patriot Act was enacted, but to my knowledge, the PA did not overturn the FISA Act anyway. Either way, the wiretapping that happened before, even long before 9/11, was indeed criminal. As is well documented in Part 2 below.
There's a four part series that lists several impeachable offences committed by Bush, all linked to everything from news reports, videos and official documents:
<a href="http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=340571&rel_no=1&back_url=">Part 1</a>
<a href="http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=340571&rel_no=2&back_url=">Part 2</a>
<a href="http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=&no=340571&rel_no=3&back_url=">Part 3</a>
<a href="http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=340571&rel_no=4">Part 4</a>
Whatever your position on impeachment, now is the time to cast your historic vote (yes or no) with the House. Speaker Pelosi's office is taking YOUR calls on the impeachment of both Bush and Cheney:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x79062
Call her office directly at: 202-225-0100
Or use any one of these toll free Capital Hill switchboard numbers here:
1 (800) 828 - 0498 1 (800) 459 - 1887
1 (800) 614 - 2803 1 (866) 340 - 9281
1 (866) 338 - 1015 1 (877) 851 - 6437
http://www.newstatesman.com/nssubsfilter.php3?newTemplate=NSArticle_NS&newDisplayURN=200505300013
Contrary to some previous comments, knowingly misleading the congress into a war IS a crime:
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20C15F73B5C0C708CDDA90994DC404482
Numerous sources told the administration that the yellow cake claims were untrue:
Cheney requested an investigation, and when Wilson arrived in Niger the Ambassador there said she has already told the administration it was false - and Wilson's report concluded it was extremely unlikely. George Tenet advised White House officials and the National Security Advisor that Bush should not include the yellow cake claim in his Oct. 7th speech. Former head of covert ops in Europe (a 28yr. vet of the agency) said the allegations did not hold together - he not only told White House officials that the evidence was weak but that Intel from Saddam's inner circle indicated that Iraq, "had no active weapons of mass destruction program." The Director General of the IAEA sent a letter to the White House and the NSC warning senior officials that he believes the documents were forgeries and should not be cited by the administration as evidence that Iraq was actively trying to obtain WMD. In spite of several follow-up calls to the WH, the NSC and the State Department there was never any response to either the letter or the calls. In January of 2003 the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence reports containing the uranium claims were based on forgeries: <a href="http://impeachforpeace.org/evidence/data/fordmemo.pdf">Declassified Memo</a>
AND the UN declared the documents were "obvious fakes" in March 2003:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/14/sprj.irq.documents/
So don't tell me that the administration didn't KNOWINGLY mislead the public and the congress - a crime.
The <a href="http://impeachforpeace.org/evidence/data/alleightdowningstreet.pdf">Downing Sreet Documents</a> are infamous because British Intelligence reported that Bush was determined to attack Iraq even though the evidence was far too thin to warrant such action, and so the "...intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." High crime to knowingly mislead the people and the congress into war, and abuse of power.
Bush failed to meet requirments laid out in the Oct 2002 approval, such as enforcing "all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq," and removed inspectors before they could complete their job so he could attack.
In fact, Bush said he was going to attack no matter if the UN found evidence of weapons or not and that he told Blair that, "The diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning,"
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1700881,00.html
A note on another comment I'd seen here: The illegal wiretapping did indeed begin BEFORE the Patriot Act was enacted, but to my knowledge, the PA did not overturn the FISA Act anyway. Either way, the wiretapping that happened before, even long before 9/11, was indeed criminal. As is well documented in Part 2 below.
There's a four part series that lists several impeachable offences committed by Bush, all linked to everything from news reports, videos and official documents:
<a href="http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=340571&rel_no=1&back_url=">Part 1</a>
<a href="http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=340571&rel_no=2&back_url=">Part 2</a>
<a href="http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=&no=340571&rel_no=3&back_url=">Part 3</a>
<a href="http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=340571&rel_no=4">Part 4</a>
Whatever your position on impeachment, now is the time to cast your historic vote (yes or no) with the House. Speaker Pelosi's office is taking YOUR calls on the impeachment of both Bush and Cheney:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x79062
Call her office directly at: 202-225-0100
Or use any one of these toll free Capital Hill switchboard numbers here:
1 (800) 828 - 0498 1 (800) 459 - 1887
1 (800) 614 - 2803 1 (866) 340 - 9281
1 (866) 338 - 1015 1 (877) 851 - 6437
