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are you serious....no evidence ....are they blind
EagleSmack you know what happens when you gloat m8 .....
Like i said this wont be the last you will hear on this subject..! Kucinich's not likely to just slink away licking his wounds ,he will rise to the top again like the cream that he is ,you may not think so but he's got balls m8 which is a lot more then most in your congress
Master Shadow Glow is a wise and mystical guy. I don't know much about this guy except he is a good teacher, a philosopher, student, and a person who want to restrict corruption um... maker of weapons. A person like Master Shadow Glow left.
He has had his chance. Congress will soon go into their Summer session. Congress NEVER moves fast. There is only a handful of members that want to see impeachment hearings. The rest of the Democrat led Congress does not want to touch this during an election year. They had since 2003 to impeach Bush and they failed to do so. The Democrats won both sides of the house and STILL failed to Impeach Bush.
He has slinked away and is licking his wounds. It is a battle lost...utterly lost. There is no hope for him to get Bush impeached. Not a glimmer of hope. All those petitions, those protests...all for nothing. Pelosi put the clamps on impeachment right from the start and it was not even heard.
What? Me GLOAT?
With the deficit that's being revealed now, the expense of impeaching someone already headed out the door would be political suicide.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-07-25-voa55.cfmUS Congressional Panel Hears Testimony on Case for Bush ImpeachmentBy Dan Robinson
Washington
25 July 2008
A congressional committee has heard testimony about the case for impeachment of President Bush. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, while majority Democrats have ruled out formal impeachment efforts, they approved the public hearing to examine limitations on presidential powers and arguments about what constitute impeachable offenses.
Critics say President Bush and Vice President Cheney should be impeached because of a range of alleged legal and constitutional abuses.
The list includes administration justifications to Congress and Americans for the war in Iraq, authorization of secret electronic surveillance, approval of harsh interrogation techniques, and defiance of congressional subpoenas.
Dennis Kucinich, 25 Jul 2008Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a former Democratic presidential candidate, introduced formal impeachment resolutions in the House of Representatives, listing numerous actions by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, and appeared as a witness at Friday's hearing:
"The decision before us is whether Congress will endorse with its silence the methods used to take us into the Iraq war. The decision before us is whether to demand accountability for one of the gravest injustices imaginable. The decision before us is whether Congress will stand up to tell future presidents that America has seen the last of these injustices, not the first," he said.
Since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has drawn sharp criticism from within her party for refusing to endorse formal impeachment proceedings against the president.
Although Kucinich presented his resolutions on the House floor, each was turned back to the House Judiciary Committee.
Two committee Republicans asserted that the Friday event amounted to a formal impeachment hearing. Panel chairman John Conyers had this exchange with Iowa Republican Steven King:
"KING: These are impeachment hearings before the U.S. Congress. I never imagined I would ever be sitting on this side when something like this happened.
CONYERS: To the regret of many, this is not an impeachment hearing. To have an impeachment hearing, the House of Representatives has to vote to authorize that a committee begin an inquiry, and that has not taken place yet."
Republican Lamar Smith asserted there is no basis on which impeachment can be pursued, and accused Democrats of playing political games. "Nothing is going to come out of this hearing with regard to impeachment of the president. I know it, the media knows it, and the [House] speaker knows it. The Democratic leadership has said time and again they have no intention of bringing any impeachment resolution for the president or the vice president to the House floor. Why is that? It is because they know it won't pass. That is because there is no evidence to support impeachment."
Stephen Presser of Northwestern University School of Law, asserted there has been no proof that President Bush put his own interests over those of the nation. "For a president to be impeached, he must have committed some grave offense that is contrary to his oath to uphold the Constitution and laws of his country. He must put his interests above the Constitution and the laws," he said.
Jeremy Rabkin, Professor of Law at George Mason University, asserts that any impeachment effort would be unwise. "To put everything on to the somebody must pay for mistakes and impeachment is the way is to make the country ungovernable," he said.
Bruce Fein, a former Associate Deputy U.S. Attorney General and one of the first constitutional legal scholars to call for impeachment, was joined by Vincent Bugliosi, a former Los Angeles County Prosecutor:
"FEIN: The Executive Branch has vandalized the Constitution every bit as much as the barbarians sacked Rome in 410 A.D. The Executive Branch has destroyed the constitution's time honored checks and balanced [and] taken the nation perilously close to executive despotism.
BUGLIOSI: Whether Republican or Democrat, all Americans should be absolutely outraged by what this administration has done. How dare they do what they have done. How dare they!"
Also testifying were Bob Barr and Elizabeth Holtzman, former Republican and Democratic members of Congress:
"HOLTZMAN: The only remedy and that is the one the framers gave to the Congress of the U.S., the House and the Senate, is the remedy of impeachment because no one can interfere with it.
BARR: If we don't get a handle on this now, in some form or fashion, the next administration and the one after that, regardless of party, will take these abuses, these powers, these liberties with the fundamental institutions of our government, and take them to even higher and higher levels."
Frederick Schwarz, of New York University's School of Law, says any impeachment effort at this stage would be too late and politically divisive, but recommends creation of a bipartisan investigative commission. "I recommend that the Congress and the new president sign a bill that sets up an independent nonpartisan and bipartisan investigatory commission that will look at what has been done wrong, look at what has been done right, and recommend remedies for things that have been done wrong," he said.
Elliott Adams represented the anti-war organization Veterans for Peace. "When our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, they were not worried about political will or about how much time there was or about what parties might effect their political future. They were just worried that they were going to be hanged by the neck, yet they did the right thing. Now gentlemen it is your time to stand up," he said.
Congressman Conyers, at the urging of panel Republicans, repeatedly admonished anti-Bush demonstrators not to interrupt the public hearing. Prominent administration and Iraq war critic Cindy Sheehan was expelled from the room at one point.
I'm not making any of this up.
So what exactly did we miss? Well, we missed a general congressional consensus that the president regularly violates numerous federal laws, and that he even announces his intention to do so with "signing statements."
This is of course absolutely unprecedented and is without any question a major violation of the U.S. Constitution.
We missed hearing that the current president has ignored numerous legitimate requests, subpoenas and contempt citations, effectively overriding the US Congress as having the authority, the duty and the legitimate power to control the Executive and Judiciary Branches, or even to know what those branches are doing with the people's money.
Again, this behavior is completely unprecedented and constitutes a major violation of the basic system of checks and balances established by the US Constitution. When Richard Nixon tried to do something similar (although not nearly as serious) the Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Mr. Nixon.
We missed that the current president has openly confessed to violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and that because of this crime alone, the impeachment of Messrs. Bush and Cheney could be accomplished in under one week because all the necessary information is already in the public domain.
THAT is what we missed because the news media failed in its duty to the citizens.
Don't we have a right to know what happened? Who silenced the media? How was it done? How will our children ever know what happened? And if we but look at the White House website (http://www.whitehouse.gov/) and think that we see numerous signing statements declaring the Chief Executive's intention to violate federal laws and defy Congressional subpoenas, are we delusional? Are we going insane? Are we quietly seething with repressed anger and hatred for bibles, guns and flags? Is this why they say we hate our country?
http://folsomtelegraph.com/detail/90157.html
So what exactly did we miss? Well, we missed a general congressional consensus that the president regularly violates numerous federal laws, and that he even announces his intention to do so with "signing statements."
This is of course absolutely unprecedented and is without any question a major violation of the U.S. Constitution.
We missed hearing that the current president has ignored numerous legitimate requests, subpoenas and contempt citations, effectively overriding the US Congress as having the authority, the duty and the legitimate power to control the Executive and Judiciary Branches, or even to know what those branches are doing with the people's money.
Again, this behavior is completely unprecedented and constitutes a major violation of the basic system of checks and balances established by the US Constitution. When Richard Nixon tried to do something similar (although not nearly as serious) the Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Mr. Nixon.
We missed that the current president has openly confessed to violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and that because of this crime alone, the impeachment of Messrs. Bush and Cheney could be accomplished in under one week because all the necessary information is already in the public domain.
THAT is what we missed because the news media failed in its duty to the citizens.
Don't we have a right to know what happened? Who silenced the media? How was it done? How will our children ever know what happened? And if we but look at the White House website (http://www.whitehouse.gov/) and think that we see numerous signing statements declaring the Chief Executive's intention to violate federal laws and defy Congressional subpoenas, are we delusional? Are we going insane? Are we quietly seething with repressed anger and hatred for bibles, guns and flags? Is this why they say we hate our country?
http://folsomtelegraph.com/detail/90157.html
Update 1: The evidence of Bush’s war crimes and other impeachable offenses grows daily. Investigative reporter Jane Mayer’s new book The Dark Side provides more evidence that Bush authorized torture. The British Parliament accused Bush of torture.
Yet Attorney General Mukasey told Congress he won’t prosecute anyone who followed Bush’s illegal torture orders. Even worse, Bush’s rightwing supporters have begun a propaganda campaign for blanket pardons of everyone in the Bush administration!
http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2004
Yet Attorney General Mukasey told Congress he won’t prosecute anyone who followed Bush’s illegal torture orders. Even worse, Bush’s rightwing supporters have begun a propaganda campaign for blanket pardons of everyone in the Bush administration!
http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=2004
So far bush has got away with criminal activities,and the people are feeling helpless.It would be great if this guy and his entourage be impeached for the lies,deceit,potentially putting this country on par with the old Russia and he is incompetent as a President.He is willing to risk our healthy men and women on this mad quest of his.Is he taking a medication that would qualify (the country) to sue the prozac pharmaceutical company for the harm he has done as our (laughingly/scarily referred to President)?#1 Always protect the Planet Earth.We need new energy sources not oil not nuclear.
They have made clear that their goal is to keep the occupation of Iraq and Bush and Cheney around until November 2008, believing that will help them win elections. Rahm Emanuel has told the Washington Post this, and Congressional staffers tell me this frequently. And the occupation and impeachment fit together, not just because there are so many impeachable offenses related to the occupation, but also because trying to end the occupation would lead to impeachment.
Congressman Brad Sherman asked Petraeus what he would do if Congress ended the occupation but Bush illegally kept it going. Petraeus said he'd have to ask his lawyer. But Sherman was right to assume that Bush will not end the occupation as long as impeachment is off the table, which is one more reason the Democrats will avoid a serious effort to end the occupation unless we force them to act. The thinking on the Hill right now is that if enough Democrats sign that letter and stand firm, Pelosi will go with a bill to please Republicans and win their votes. Pelosi operates in accordance with George Stephanopoulos's myth that she simply must pass a bill, any bill. In fact, when you get away from the topic of war, on every other issue this Congress can address, the consensus among Democrats is that they have two choices. One is to pass atrocities like the Protect America Act, which Bush will sign. That was the bill that erased the fourth amendment and legalized unconstitutional spying. When they get around to the "Love, Harmony, and Joy" Act, you can be sure we're all about to be killed.
The second option, as they see it, is to pass bills and have them vetoed. Of course they know in advance that it's all theater, that their bills are destined to be vetoed, but they view their whole job as an election campaign, and they don't think the public will catch on to what they're doing.
I think there's a third option. Impeach Bush and Cheney, remove them from office, and then pass bills that mean something.
With Bush and Cheney in office, even bills that are signed into law are altered or reversed with signing statements. And these are not just empty statements. The Government Accountability Office studied a sample of Bush's signing statements and found that in 30 percent of them, his administration has proceeded to violate the laws that he announced he had the right to violate. So, while I applaud groups like the ACLU again and again pushing to redundantly recriminalize torture, I long for the ACLU of 1973 that had the decency to stand for impeachment.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/possible
Polling
Congressman Brad Sherman asked Petraeus what he would do if Congress ended the occupation but Bush illegally kept it going. Petraeus said he'd have to ask his lawyer. But Sherman was right to assume that Bush will not end the occupation as long as impeachment is off the table, which is one more reason the Democrats will avoid a serious effort to end the occupation unless we force them to act. The thinking on the Hill right now is that if enough Democrats sign that letter and stand firm, Pelosi will go with a bill to please Republicans and win their votes. Pelosi operates in accordance with George Stephanopoulos's myth that she simply must pass a bill, any bill. In fact, when you get away from the topic of war, on every other issue this Congress can address, the consensus among Democrats is that they have two choices. One is to pass atrocities like the Protect America Act, which Bush will sign. That was the bill that erased the fourth amendment and legalized unconstitutional spying. When they get around to the "Love, Harmony, and Joy" Act, you can be sure we're all about to be killed.
The second option, as they see it, is to pass bills and have them vetoed. Of course they know in advance that it's all theater, that their bills are destined to be vetoed, but they view their whole job as an election campaign, and they don't think the public will catch on to what they're doing.
I think there's a third option. Impeach Bush and Cheney, remove them from office, and then pass bills that mean something.
With Bush and Cheney in office, even bills that are signed into law are altered or reversed with signing statements. And these are not just empty statements. The Government Accountability Office studied a sample of Bush's signing statements and found that in 30 percent of them, his administration has proceeded to violate the laws that he announced he had the right to violate. So, while I applaud groups like the ACLU again and again pushing to redundantly recriminalize torture, I long for the ACLU of 1973 that had the decency to stand for impeachment.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/possible
Polling
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/pollingSubmitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2005-09-30 04:06. Tell every polling company to poll on impeachment! LINK
Read "Public Sentiment for Impeachment Expands".
One-page summary: PDF.
Chart summarizing results.
April, 2008: CNN and Gallup both find Bush to be most unpopular president on record.
February 20, 2008: American Research Group finds record low approval rating of 19 percent for Bush.
November 13, 2007: American Research Group publishes serious poll on impeachment of Cheney and Bush.
November 12, 2007: Republican pollster Rasmussen does poll on impeaching Cheney.
October 31, 2007: Vermonters: 64% say impeach Cheney, 61% say impeach Bush
September 19, 2007: Pew's Putrid Excuse for Refusing to Poll on Impeachment
September 6, 2007: Zogby claims 32% for impeachment of Bush or Cheney or both.
July 16, 2007: Members of Northeast Democratic Club of Los Angeles 78% for impeaching Bush and Cheney.
July 10, 2007: USA Today/ Gallup claims 36% for impeaching Bush.
July 9, 2007: Democrats.com Poll Finds Libby Commutation Boosted Support for Impeachment.
July 6 2007: American Research Group wouldn't take our money a month ago and now did a poll on their own dime and found that 54% of Americans want Cheney impeached, while 40% do not. THIS WAS THE FIRST POLL EVER DONE ON IMPEACHING CHENEY.
July 6, 2007: Rightwing pollster again claims 39% for impeaching Bush.
June 2007: Harris does online poll on impeachment but does not publish results.
June 14, 2007: CNN's polling director comments on impeaching Cheney, but has done no poll.
June 4, 2007: American Research Group refuses to poll, even for money.
May 30, 2007: Harris refuses to poll on impeachment, even for money.
May 29, 2007: Ipsos refuses to poll on impeachment, even for money.
May 8, 2007: Rightwing pollster finds 39 percent want both Bush and Cheney impeached. Here's an analysis.
Jan. 25, 2007: Newsweek finds 58 percent of Americans wish Bush's presidency were over.
Oct. 24, 2006: Newsweek finds majority favors impeachment.
Sept. 9, 2006: CNN Plays With Lies and Statistics.
July 23, 2006: A blog summarizes our polling.
June 1, 2006: Bush considered worst president.
May 23, 2006: Zogby poll finds Impeachment #1 cure for distrust of government.
May 22, 2006: Fox News poll.
May 11, 2006: New Poll Results from Zogby. (49% of Pennsylvanians want Cheney impeachment investigation).
April 11, 2006: Washington Post FINALLY Polls on Censure and Impeachment.
March 18, 2006: Newsweek does poll without us having to pay for it: Results.
March 17, 2006: Finally somebody did a poll without us paying for it: American Research Group Poll.
Jan. 31, 2006: MyDD Posts Results.
Jan. 27, 2006: OpEd News Releases Results.
Jan. 26, 2006: OpEd News does polling inspired by our efforts.
Jan. 16, 2006: We've purchased our fourth poll! READ THE RESULTS.
Jan. 5, 2006: MyDD launches effort inspired by ours to raise money for polls.
Dec. 22, 2005: Newsweek acknowledges demand for impeachment polling.
Dec. 20, 2005: The Washington Post's polling editor is furious that people want impeachment polling.
Dec. 14, 2005: We've purchased our third poll! READ THE RESULTS.
Dec. 10, 2005: Media Continues to Ignore Impeachment Polling
Nov. 11, 2005: What Investors Business Daily thinks of our polls.
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Bushinski has to go down in history as the worst warmongering US president ever, as bad as Hitler, Hussein and Napoleon.
Key Documents
Submitted by mayfirst on Thu, 2006-04-20 20:01. OPEN FOR KEY EVIDENCE OF BUSH AND CHENEY'S IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES
Why We Don't Need Any More Stinkin Investigations
2007: The Year in Evidence
1998 CRS on Censure
1998 CRS on Impeachment
2002 Uranium Memo
2003 State of the Union
39 Disappeared Detainees
A Clean Break
A Pretext for War
A War Conspiracy Documented
Against All Enemies
Alan Foley
AP: Weapons that Weren't
Articles of Impeachment
Attorney Firings Timeline
Audio of Bush Admin. Lies
Aznar Meeting Transcript
Basic Summary
BBC Documentary
BBC Transcript
Blair Impeachment
Blair's Big Lie
Bodyguard of Lies
Bonifaz to Conyers
Bush Articles of Impeachment
Bush in Cincinnati
Bush letter to Congress
Bush Lies Documented
Bush Violates Hundreds of Laws
Bush report to Congress
Bush to U.N.
Bush's Impeachable Offenses, Part 1
Bush's Impeachable Offenses, Part 2
Bush's Impeachable Offenses, Part 3
Bush's Impeachable Offenses, Part 4
Bush's Impeachable Offenses, Part 5
Bush's Uranium Lies
Carne Ross
CATO Institute report
CBC: The Lies That Led to War
Chain of Command
Cheney Meets the Press
Cheney's Notes
Cheney's Nuclear Drumbeat
CIA Iraq Inquiry
CNN: "Dead Wrong"
COE on Detentions
Condoleeza Rice's Role
Constitution in Crisis
Count of the Dead
Counter Dossier
Crusade
Curveball Warnings
Dean on Plame and Bush
Death Squads
Defense Planning Guidance
DIA Tells White House No Chemical Weapons
Downing Street Documents
Evidence of War Lies
Executive Order 13303
Facing the Ugly Truth
Fatah
Feith Report by DOD IG
First Iraq, Then Saudi
Five Biggest Lies
From Contaiment to...
Frontline report
Further Reading
Go Massive!
Gonzales' Memo on Avoiding War Crimes Prosecutions
Hood-Winked
Hundreds of False Statements
Inspections Worked
Iran War Lies (the growing collection)
Iraq and London
Iraq Confidential
Iraq on the Record
Iraq War Reader
Iraq War: The Truth
Iraq-9-11 Connection Lies
Iraqi Scientists
It's All About Oil
Jamal al-Ghurairy
July 22, 2005, hearing
June 16 Testimony
Kay Report
Libby Grand Jury transcripts and exhibits
Lies of George W. Bush
Lt. Gen. Odom
Major Reports
The Melbourne Minutes
Naji Sabri
National Security Strategy
Newbold, Lt. Gen. Greg
Next World Order
Niger Forgeries
No 9-11 Connection
No Al-Qaeda Connection
Nouri Sabri
Paul O'Neil
Summary of Pentagon Inspector General Report on Office of Special Plans
Oil, Power, and Empire
Outside the Box
Paul Pillar
Pentagon Propaganda 2
Pentagon Propaganda 3
Pentagon Propaganda
Perle: War Illegal.
Permanent Bases
Phony Terror Alerts
Plame Leak Timeline
Plan of Attack
Plans for Iraq's Oil
PNAC Letter to Bush, Sept. 20, 2001
Politics and Terror
Politics of Truth
Powell at U.N.
Powell Lied
Powell's Presentation
Price of Loyalty Excerpt
Price of Loyalty
Prisons Used for Illegal Detentions and Torture
RawStory Article
Ray McGovern Book
Really, No 9-11 Connection
Rebuilding Americas Defenses - PNAC
Republican Party Platform
Robin Cook's Diaries
Rumsfeld on 9/11/2001
Sabri, Naji
Searchable database of lies
Secrets and Lies
Selling of the Iraq War
Senate Policy Committee Hearing, June 26, 2006
Senator Roberts
Senators' Letter
Sexed-Up Dossier
Signing Statements
Sorrows of Empire
Source of documents
State of War
Subpoenas Not Complied With
Suing the CIA
Sunday Times Summary
Surgeon General
Swift and Serious
Talking Points
Telegraph article 1
Telgraph article 2
The Spoils
They Knew
Time magazine
Timeline One
Timeline Two
Timeline Three
Timeline Four
Timeline Five
Timeline Six
Timeline Seven
Torture
Torture As Official U.S. Policy
Torture Timeline
Toward a Neo-Reaganite...
Tragedy and Farce
Trent Lott Spills Beans
Tyler Drumheller
UAV Photos Faked
U.N. Cover; Decision Made
UN Warns US
Uncovered
Uranium Forgeries
Uranium Grounds for Impeachment and Request for Special Counsel
US Bugging Security Council
U.S. v. Bush
VIPS Publications
War and Occupation in Iraq
War Crimes Committed by the United States in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability
War on Iraq
War Planning in 2001
Warrior-King
The Way of the World - and Bush and Tenet admit it
Weapons of Mass Deception
Wesley Clark
What Bush Was Told
What I Heard About Iraq
White House Memo
Who Gets the Oil?
Wikipedia
Willful Blindness
Winnebagos of Death
WMD Lies
WMDs Didn't Matter
Wolfowitz Interview
Worldwide Attack Matrix
Worse than Watergate
Year of Iran
Yoo Memo
Yossef Bodansky
MORE EVIDENCE
Submitted by mayfirst on Thu, 2006-04-20 20:01. OPEN FOR KEY EVIDENCE OF BUSH AND CHENEY'S IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES
Why We Don't Need Any More Stinkin Investigations
2007: The Year in Evidence
1998 CRS on Impeachment
2002 Uranium Memo
2003 State of the Union
39 Disappeared Detainees
A Clean Break
A Pretext for War
A War Conspiracy Documented
Against All Enemies
Alan Foley
AP: Weapons that Weren't
Articles of Impeachment
Attorney Firings Timeline
Audio of Bush Admin. Lies
Aznar Meeting Transcript
Basic Summary
BBC Documentary
BBC Transcript
Blair Impeachment
Blair's Big Lie
Bodyguard of Lies
Bonifaz to Conyers
Bush Articles of Impeachment
Bush in Cincinnati
Bush letter to Congress
Bush Lies Documented
Bush Violates Hundreds of Laws
Bush report to Congress
Bush to U.N.
Bush's Impeachable Offenses, Part 1
Bush's Impeachable Offenses, Part 2
Bush's Impeachable Offenses, Part 3
Bush's Impeachable Offenses, Part 4
Bush's Impeachable Offenses, Part 5
Bush's Uranium Lies
Carne Ross
CATO Institute report
CBC: The Lies That Led to War
Chain of Command
Cheney Meets the Press
Cheney's Notes
Cheney's Nuclear Drumbeat
CIA Iraq Inquiry
CNN: "Dead Wrong"
COE on Detentions
Condoleeza Rice's Role
Constitution in Crisis
Count of the Dead
Counter Dossier
Crusade
Curveball Warnings
Dean on Plame and Bush
Death Squads
Defense Planning Guidance
DIA Tells White House No Chemical Weapons
Downing Street Documents
Evidence of War Lies
Executive Order 13303
Facing the Ugly Truth
Fatah
Feith Report by DOD IG
First Iraq, Then Saudi
Five Biggest Lies
From Contaiment to...
Frontline report
Further Reading
Go Massive!
Gonzales' Memo on Avoiding War Crimes Prosecutions
Hood-Winked
Hundreds of False Statements
Inspections Worked
Iran War Lies (the growing collection)
Iraq and London
Iraq Confidential
Iraq on the Record
Iraq War Reader
Iraq War: The Truth
Iraq-9-11 Connection Lies
Iraqi Scientists
It's All About Oil
Jamal al-Ghurairy
July 22, 2005, hearing
June 16 Testimony
Kay Report
Libby Grand Jury transcripts and exhibits
Lies of George W. Bush
Lt. Gen. Odom
Major Reports
The Melbourne Minutes
Naji Sabri
National Security Strategy
Newbold, Lt. Gen. Greg
Next World Order
Niger Forgeries
No 9-11 Connection
No Al-Qaeda Connection
Nouri Sabri
Paul O'Neil
Summary of Pentagon Inspector General Report on Office of Special Plans
Oil, Power, and Empire
Outside the Box
Paul Pillar
Pentagon Propaganda 2
Pentagon Propaganda 3
Pentagon Propaganda
Perle: War Illegal.
Permanent Bases
Phony Terror Alerts
Plame Leak Timeline
Plan of Attack
Plans for Iraq's Oil
PNAC Letter to Bush, Sept. 20, 2001
Politics and Terror
Politics of Truth
Powell at U.N.
Powell Lied
Powell's Presentation
Price of Loyalty Excerpt
Price of Loyalty
Prisons Used for Illegal Detentions and Torture
RawStory Article
Ray McGovern Book
Really, No 9-11 Connection
Rebuilding Americas Defenses - PNAC
Republican Party Platform
Robin Cook's Diaries
Rumsfeld on 9/11/2001
Sabri, Naji
Searchable database of lies
Secrets and Lies
Selling of the Iraq War
Senate Policy Committee Hearing, June 26, 2006
Senator Roberts
Senators' Letter
Sexed-Up Dossier
Signing Statements
Sorrows of Empire
Source of documents
State of War
Subpoenas Not Complied With
Suing the CIA
Sunday Times Summary
Surgeon General
Swift and Serious
Talking Points
Telegraph article 1
Telgraph article 2
The Spoils
They Knew
Time magazine
Timeline One
Timeline Two
Timeline Three
Timeline Four
Timeline Five
Timeline Six
Timeline Seven
Torture
Torture As Official U.S. Policy
Torture Timeline
Toward a Neo-Reaganite...
Tragedy and Farce
Trent Lott Spills Beans
Tyler Drumheller
UAV Photos Faked
U.N. Cover; Decision Made
UN Warns US
Uncovered
Uranium Forgeries
Uranium Grounds for Impeachment and Request for Special Counsel
US Bugging Security Council
U.S. v. Bush
VIPS Publications
War and Occupation in Iraq
War Crimes Committed by the United States in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability
War on Iraq
War Planning in 2001
Warrior-King
The Way of the World - and Bush and Tenet admit it
Weapons of Mass Deception
Wesley Clark
What Bush Was Told
What I Heard About Iraq
White House Memo
Who Gets the Oil?
Wikipedia
Willful Blindness
Winnebagos of Death
WMD Lies
WMDs Didn't Matter
Wolfowitz Interview
Worldwide Attack Matrix
Worse than Watergate
Year of Iran
Yoo Memo
Yossef Bodansky
MORE EVIDENCE
In light of the text, plan, and history of the Constitution, its interpretation by both past Administrations and the courts, the longstanding practice of the executive branch, and the express affirmation of the President's constitutional authorities by Congress, we think it beyond question that the President has the plenary constitutional power to take such military actions as he deems necessary and appropriate to respond to the terrorist attacks upon the United States on September 11, 2001. Force can be used both to retaliate for those attacks, and to prevent and deter future assaults on the Nation. Military actions need not be limited to those individuals, groups, or states that participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon: the Constitution vests the President with the power to strike terrorist groups or organizations that cannot be demonstrably linked to the September 11 incidents, but that, nonetheless, pose a similar threat to the security of the United States and the lives of its people, whether at home or overseas. (32) In both the War Powers Resolution and the Joint Resolution, Congress has recognized the President's authority to use force in circumstances such as those created by the September 11 incidents. Neither statute, however, can place any limits on the President's determinations as to any terrorist threat, the amount of military force to be used in response, or the method, timing, and nature of the response. These decisions, under our Constitution, are for the President alone to make. JOHN C. YOO Deputy Assistant Attorney General Office of Legal Counsel
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War and Occupation in Iraq
Arab Commission for Human Rights • Center for Constitutional Rights
Campaña Española contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq
Center for Development of International Law • Code Pink
Council on International and Public Affairs • Fellowship of Reconciliation
Global Action on Aging • Global Exchange • Global Policy Forum
Hague Appeal for Peace • Instituto del Tercer Mundo • Institute for Policy Studies
International Center for Law in Development • International Women’s Tribune Center
Iraq Analysis Group • Jewish Voice for Peace • Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy
Mennonite Central Committee • Middle East Research & Information Project
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation • PLATFORM • Presbyterian United Nations Office
Protection of Human Rights Defenders in the Arab World • Social Watch
Tavola della Pace • Transnational Institute • United for Peace & Justice
United Methodist Church, General Board of Church and Society
US Labor Against the War • Weltwirtschaft, Ökologie & Entwicklung (WEED)
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
June 2007
Click here for the FULL REPORT [pdf version] [Spanish version] [Arabic version] Note that all chapters are linked separately below.
Arab Commission for Human Rights • Center for Constitutional Rights
Campaña Española contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq
Center for Development of International Law • Code Pink
Council on International and Public Affairs • Fellowship of Reconciliation
Global Action on Aging • Global Exchange • Global Policy Forum
Hague Appeal for Peace • Instituto del Tercer Mundo • Institute for Policy Studies
International Center for Law in Development • International Women’s Tribune Center
Iraq Analysis Group • Jewish Voice for Peace • Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy
Mennonite Central Committee • Middle East Research & Information Project
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation • PLATFORM • Presbyterian United Nations Office
Protection of Human Rights Defenders in the Arab World • Social Watch
Tavola della Pace • Transnational Institute • United for Peace & Justice
United Methodist Church, General Board of Church and Society
US Labor Against the War • Weltwirtschaft, Ökologie & Entwicklung (WEED)
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
June 2007
Click here for the FULL REPORT [pdf version] [Spanish version] [Arabic version] Note that all chapters are linked separately below.
Acknowledgments [pdf version]
Executive Summary [pdf version] [Arabic version (pdf)] [Chinese version (pdf)] [French version (pdf)] [German version (pdf)] [Russian version (pdf)] [Spanish version (pdf)]
Map of Major Coalition Attacks, Bases and Prisons
Political Map of Iraq
1. Introduction [pdf version]
2. Destruction of Cultural Heritage [pdf version]
3. Indiscriminate and Especially Injurious Weapons [pdf version]
4. Unlawful Detention [pdf version]
5. Abuse and Torture of Prisoners [pdf version]
6. Attacks on Cities [pdf version]
7. Killing Civilians, Murder and Atrocities [pdf version]
8. Displacement and Mortality [pdf version]
9. Corruption, Fraud and Gross Malfeasance [pdf version]
10. Long-Term Bases and the New Embassy Compound [pdf version]
11. Other Issues [pdf version]
Press Release
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/occupation/report/index.htm
Executive Summary [pdf version] [Arabic version (pdf)] [Chinese version (pdf)] [French version (pdf)] [German version (pdf)] [Russian version (pdf)] [Spanish version (pdf)]
Map of Major Coalition Attacks, Bases and Prisons
Political Map of Iraq
1. Introduction [pdf version]
2. Destruction of Cultural Heritage [pdf version]
3. Indiscriminate and Especially Injurious Weapons [pdf version]
4. Unlawful Detention [pdf version]
5. Abuse and Torture of Prisoners [pdf version]
6. Attacks on Cities [pdf version]
7. Killing Civilians, Murder and Atrocities [pdf version]
8. Displacement and Mortality [pdf version]
9. Corruption, Fraud and Gross Malfeasance [pdf version]
10. Long-Term Bases and the New Embassy Compound [pdf version]
11. Other Issues [pdf version]
- Iraqi Public Opinion and the Occupation
- Cost of the War and Occupation
12. Conclusion and Recommendations [pdf version] - Cost of the War and Occupation
Press Release
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/occupation/report/index.htm