Articles of Impeachment against:
President George W. Bush
Vice President Richard B. Cheney
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
Attorney General John David Ashcroft
prepared by Ramsey Clark,
former Attorney General of the United States of America, January
15, 2003
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. --Article II, Section 4 of The Constitution
of the United States of America
Acts which require the impeachment of
President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary
of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld; and Attorney General John David
Ashcroft include:
1) Ordering and directing a proclaimed
"pre-emptive", or "first strike" war of aggression
against Afghanistan causing thousands of deaths indiscriminately,
a major proportion non combatants, leaving millions homeless and
hungry and installing a government of their choice in Kabul.
2) Authorizing daily intrusions into the
airspace of Iraq by U.S. military aircraft in violation of the
sovereignty of Iraq and aerial attacks on facilities and persons,
on the soil of Iraq, killing hundreds of people indiscriminately,
initially falsely claiming self defense though over a period of
eleven years not a single U.S. aircraft has been struck or damaged
by gunfire from Iraq, but later admitting the targeting of defense
installations in Iraq, as war preparations they ordered progressed.
3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning
direct attacks on civilians, civilians facilities and locations
where civilian casualties are unavoidable.
4) Threatening Iraq with proclaimed "pre-emptive",
or "first strike" attack and a war of aggression by
overwhelming force and military superiority including specific
threats to use nuclear weapons while engaged in a massive military
build-up in nations and waters surrounding Iraq.
5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty
of Iraq by belligerently proclaiming an intention to change its
government by force while preparing to assault Iraq in a war of
aggression.
6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning
assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other
illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological
coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts
and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within
the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere,
the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth
and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States,
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
7) Authorizing, directing and condoning
bribery and coercion of governments and individuals to cause them
to act in violation of their duty and the law, including to maintain
and tighten enforcement of economic sanctions against Iraq which
continue to increase the death rate of infants, children and elderly
persons; to attack and kill designated groups, or persons; to
permit use of land, facilities, territorial waters, or air space
for U.S. attacks on Iraq; to vote, abstain in a vote, or publicly
proclaim support for a U.S. or U.N. attack on Iraq; to defect
from Iraq, or to falsely accuse it of weapons concealment to break
down opposition to a U.S. war of aggression; and to reject ratification
of the Treaty creating an International Criminal Court, or reject
its jurisdiction over the United States.
8) Making, ordering and condoning false
statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments
and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating
the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing
information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning
acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons
of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear
and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike
attacks by the U.S.
9) Violations and subversions of the Constitution
of the United States of America in an attempt to commit with impunity
crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in "pre
emptive" wars, first strike attacks and threats of aggression
against Afghanistan, Iraq and other nations by assuming powers
of an imperial executive who is not accountable to law and usurping
powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and the people of the United
States to prevent interferences with the unlawful executive exercise
of military power and economic coercion against the international
community.
10) Violations and subversions of the
Charter of the United Nations and international law in an attempt
to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and
war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan,
Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and
the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt
acts and by rejecting, violations and frustrating compliance with
treaties in order to destroy any means by which international
law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise
of U.S. military and economic power against the international
community.
[from the website by former AG Ramsey
Clark http://votetoimpeach.org/]
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