Sunday, May 22, 2005
IMPEACHMENT: NOW MORE THAN EVER!
Removal of George W. Bush through the electoral process has failed. Despite exposure of systematic lying concerning Iraqi WMD and connection to al-Qaeda, George W. Bush has been returned to the US presidency by a majority of voters deceived of his moral and leadership qualities.
But the legal case for impeachment remains, and offers clarity and recourse.
In October 2002, following speeches by Vice President Cheney calling for a preventive war against Iraq, Professor Francis A. Boyle, a leading US expert in international law, set up a national campaign to impeach Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft. On March 11, 2003, Congressman John Conyers, ranking member of the House judiciary committee that has jurisdiction over any bill of impeachment, called for a meeting in Washington, DC to discuss introducing a draft bill of impeachment. Forty to fifty of his top legal advisors met with Dr. Boyle and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and weighed and reviewed the case for impeachment.
The case was argued on its merits: violations of the Constitution, the Bill of Rghts, Human Rights, the UN Charter, international law, etc. There is, today, a second, revised draft bill of impeachment sitting on Capitol Hill, ready to go.
With an expanded military campaign imminent and the prospect of World War III looming on the horizon, a powerful nationwide movement to impeach George W. Bush is only a matter of time.
The historical, legal and policy issues which are inexorably moving the US towards impeachment are discussed in a book by Dr. Boyle...... DESTROYING WORLD ORDER - US Imperialism in the Middle East Before and After September 11
Boyle's hard-hitting analysis covers:
1.a history of American intervention which has led to havoc in the region and destabilization of the international system as a whole.
2.U.S. assistance to Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war.
3.U.S. conduct of the 1990 Persian Gulf War and the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in relation to their violation of the of the laws of neutrality, humanitarian law, the laws of war-and the law of the U.S. Constitution.
4.U.S. policy under the presidency of George W. Bush, evolving into a public assertion of the right to preemptive strike, and its actual implementation.
5.in the concluding chapter, a guide to impeaching President George W. Bush for lying in leading the nation to war.
"The Bush Jr. administration should be viewed as an ongoing criminal conspiracy under international criminal law in violation of the Nuremberg Charter, because its war policies are legally akin to those perpetrated by the Nazi regime in pre-World War II Germany."
Francis A. Boyle holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph.D.in Political Science, both from Harvard University.
He is a leading American professor, practitioner and advocate of international law.
He was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.
He served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988-1992).
He represented Bosnia-Herzegovina at the World Court.
Professor Boyle teaches international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign.
He is author of, inter alia, The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law, The Future of International Law and American Foreign Policy, Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations 1898-1921.
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Removal of George W. Bush through the electoral process has failed. Despite exposure of systematic lying concerning Iraqi WMD and connection to al-Qaeda, George W. Bush has been returned to the US presidency by a majority of voters deceived of his moral and leadership qualities.
But the legal case for impeachment remains, and offers clarity and recourse.
In October 2002, following speeches by Vice President Cheney calling for a preventive war against Iraq, Professor Francis A. Boyle, a leading US expert in international law, set up a national campaign to impeach Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft. On March 11, 2003, Congressman John Conyers, ranking member of the House judiciary committee that has jurisdiction over any bill of impeachment, called for a meeting in Washington, DC to discuss introducing a draft bill of impeachment. Forty to fifty of his top legal advisors met with Dr. Boyle and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and weighed and reviewed the case for impeachment.
The case was argued on its merits: violations of the Constitution, the Bill of Rghts, Human Rights, the UN Charter, international law, etc. There is, today, a second, revised draft bill of impeachment sitting on Capitol Hill, ready to go.
With an expanded military campaign imminent and the prospect of World War III looming on the horizon, a powerful nationwide movement to impeach George W. Bush is only a matter of time.
The historical, legal and policy issues which are inexorably moving the US towards impeachment are discussed in a book by Dr. Boyle...... DESTROYING WORLD ORDER - US Imperialism in the Middle East Before and After September 11
Boyle's hard-hitting analysis covers:
1.a history of American intervention which has led to havoc in the region and destabilization of the international system as a whole.
2.U.S. assistance to Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war.
3.U.S. conduct of the 1990 Persian Gulf War and the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in relation to their violation of the of the laws of neutrality, humanitarian law, the laws of war-and the law of the U.S. Constitution.
4.U.S. policy under the presidency of George W. Bush, evolving into a public assertion of the right to preemptive strike, and its actual implementation.
5.in the concluding chapter, a guide to impeaching President George W. Bush for lying in leading the nation to war.
"The Bush Jr. administration should be viewed as an ongoing criminal conspiracy under international criminal law in violation of the Nuremberg Charter, because its war policies are legally akin to those perpetrated by the Nazi regime in pre-World War II Germany."
Francis A. Boyle holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph.D.in Political Science, both from Harvard University.
He is a leading American professor, practitioner and advocate of international law.
He was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.
He served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988-1992).
He represented Bosnia-Herzegovina at the World Court.
Professor Boyle teaches international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign.
He is author of, inter alia, The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law, The Future of International Law and American Foreign Policy, Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations 1898-1921.
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