And there's more...
An appeal from former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark:
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5225&JServSessionIdr007=gbxxrtpeo1.app5b
Highlights (it's a long read):
"The American people are confronted with the fact of a disastrous War of Aggression by George Bush and Company, based on obviously false and fabricated claims that the Bush Administration with all its resources is fighting fiercely to defend. The war has devastated Iraq, brought unbearable suffering to its people, destabilized the region and savaged Constitutional and human rights at home, while extolling summary execution, torture and unlimited arbitrary detention."
"Thirteen years of genocidal sanctions from August 6 (Hiroshima Day), 1990 to March 19 (Shock and Awe assault), 2003 took at least one million lives, most of them children under five, and physically weakened the larger part of the survivors and effectively prevented recovery and rebuilding from the wartime damage."
"Since 2003, U.S. forces and Iraqis fighting the U.S. occupation and each other have killed hundreds of thousands more - largely indiscriminately (a war crime) - driven 4 million from their homes, destroyed additional billions of dollars of infrastructure and property, and infected the entire population with fear of epidemic proportions."
"Bush is quietly spending billions on a new generation of nuclear weapons and upgrading existing ones, all in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, among others, to which the United States is party. He is deeply committed to the biggest Star Wars system Congress will finance. Bush's aggressions may force the United States to use at least tactical nuclear weapons to extricate itself from the calamities he has caused."
"His government is in the service of wealth with its huge military expenditures, aggression to control Middle East oil, trade and environmental policies, tax cuts and opposition to a desperately needed national health service and safe Social Security."
"All of this is only to say the United States will continue its aggression impelled by its rich, who seek more wealth and power at whatever the cost to others at home or abroad - unless they are stopped by the power of the people."
"President Bush will employ every means within his power to maintain U.S. forces in Iraq until the end of "his" Presidency. The dominant wealth and power in the United States will do all it can to maintain U.S. forces in Iraq as long as the oil lasts or Israel wants us there."
"The most effective way to seriously impact U.S. militarism and propensity to aggression is to impeach the President who seeks to glorify his own tragic aggressions."
"President Bush has unlimited resources with which to confuse, mislead, divert, deceive and overcome the real interests and will of the people. The disadvantage at which we work is revealed by the mere $15 million a handful of his former Ambassadors (all rich, including a multi-billionaire named the third-richest American) have contributed for TV ads in the weeks before September 15 to support a continued Surge in Iraq."
"As you consider what you will do, remember these few words of David Brooks, quoted in the New York Times Book Review this August. Brooks is called a more thoughtful supporter of Bush aggression and rewards for the rich. He has written that the Bush war in Iraq is '...one of the noblest endeavors the United States, or any great power, has ever undertaken.' In the same breath, he condemned LBJ's, or 'the left's' war on poverty as 'hopelessly overreaching.'"
I find that last sentence breathtaking. How can one justify the assertion that a War of Aggression against a poor country half a world away is superior to helping the poor people in one's own country? The expression, "Jesus wept!" comes forcibly to mind.
I hope the organizers of the Peace and Impeachment Rally get all the support and success they deserve on September 15th.
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http://www.impeachbush.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5225&JServSessionIdr007=gbxxrtpeo1.app5b
Highlights (it's a long read):
"The American people are confronted with the fact of a disastrous War of Aggression by George Bush and Company, based on obviously false and fabricated claims that the Bush Administration with all its resources is fighting fiercely to defend. The war has devastated Iraq, brought unbearable suffering to its people, destabilized the region and savaged Constitutional and human rights at home, while extolling summary execution, torture and unlimited arbitrary detention."
"Thirteen years of genocidal sanctions from August 6 (Hiroshima Day), 1990 to March 19 (Shock and Awe assault), 2003 took at least one million lives, most of them children under five, and physically weakened the larger part of the survivors and effectively prevented recovery and rebuilding from the wartime damage."
"Since 2003, U.S. forces and Iraqis fighting the U.S. occupation and each other have killed hundreds of thousands more - largely indiscriminately (a war crime) - driven 4 million from their homes, destroyed additional billions of dollars of infrastructure and property, and infected the entire population with fear of epidemic proportions."
"Bush is quietly spending billions on a new generation of nuclear weapons and upgrading existing ones, all in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, among others, to which the United States is party. He is deeply committed to the biggest Star Wars system Congress will finance. Bush's aggressions may force the United States to use at least tactical nuclear weapons to extricate itself from the calamities he has caused."
"His government is in the service of wealth with its huge military expenditures, aggression to control Middle East oil, trade and environmental policies, tax cuts and opposition to a desperately needed national health service and safe Social Security."
"All of this is only to say the United States will continue its aggression impelled by its rich, who seek more wealth and power at whatever the cost to others at home or abroad - unless they are stopped by the power of the people."
"President Bush will employ every means within his power to maintain U.S. forces in Iraq until the end of "his" Presidency. The dominant wealth and power in the United States will do all it can to maintain U.S. forces in Iraq as long as the oil lasts or Israel wants us there."
"The most effective way to seriously impact U.S. militarism and propensity to aggression is to impeach the President who seeks to glorify his own tragic aggressions."
"President Bush has unlimited resources with which to confuse, mislead, divert, deceive and overcome the real interests and will of the people. The disadvantage at which we work is revealed by the mere $15 million a handful of his former Ambassadors (all rich, including a multi-billionaire named the third-richest American) have contributed for TV ads in the weeks before September 15 to support a continued Surge in Iraq."
"As you consider what you will do, remember these few words of David Brooks, quoted in the New York Times Book Review this August. Brooks is called a more thoughtful supporter of Bush aggression and rewards for the rich. He has written that the Bush war in Iraq is '...one of the noblest endeavors the United States, or any great power, has ever undertaken.' In the same breath, he condemned LBJ's, or 'the left's' war on poverty as 'hopelessly overreaching.'"
I find that last sentence breathtaking. How can one justify the assertion that a War of Aggression against a poor country half a world away is superior to helping the poor people in one's own country? The expression, "Jesus wept!" comes forcibly to mind.
I hope the organizers of the Peace and Impeachment Rally get all the support and success they deserve on September 15th.
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