Monday, November 28, 2005
Anti-War Leader Launches Campaign to Impeach Bush
By Michael L. Betsch - CNSNews.com Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) - A former U.S. attorney general has drafted articles of impeachment against President Bush and three other top administration officials as a means of preventing the U.S. from advancing a "first strike, potentially nuclear preemptive war" against Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
"Impeachment is the means by which We the People of the United States and our elected representatives in Congress can prevent further crimes by the President and the human catastrophe they threaten and for accountability for crimes committed," former Attorney General Ramsey Clark states on his website, VotetoImpeach.com.
Clark first announced his campaign to impeach Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in a speech to thousands of anti-war protestors who rallied in the nation's capital on Jan. 18.
According to Clark, the U.S. Constitution provides the legal means for removing both elected officials and appointed officials from office when they have "acted or threatened acts" that are serious constitutional offenses or threaten to "injure the Presidency."
Signatures in support of impeachment will be collected online and "hand delivered to the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee and to the ranking Democrat on the Committee" at an undisclosed time and date.
The International Action Center, the activist group that Clark founded, did not respond to CNSNews.com's inquiries.
'Manufactured Evidence'
"Far from being a threat to the United States, or any other people, Iraq has been a victim of U.S. aggression for 12 years," Clark wrote in his Feb. 7 letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
"Twelve years of sanctions have inflicted death on over 1,500,000 people in Iraq, the majority children under 5 years old. You must remember the enormity of this genocide as you consider whether to agree to another major U.S. military assault on Iraq."
Clark also accuses the Bush Administration of manufacturing evidence against Iraq.
"Secretary Powell's charts, photos and electronic intercepts of conversations require authentication," he said, referring to Secretary of State Colin Powell's Feb. 5th presentation to the United Nations.
"They are repetitious of old tactics like the U.S. claim North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked U.S. Navy ships in the Tonkin Gulf in 1964," Clark stated. "Only later the U.S. admitted there were 'no boats' there.
"The only rational explanation for a war on Iraq is an intention by the U.S. to control and exploit its oil, use oil sales to pay for the cost of the war and occupation, benefit U.S. oil companies and petroleum engineering firms with awards of contracts, control the price of oil to enrich the U.S. and enlarge U.S. geo-political power in the region," Clark said.
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By Michael L. Betsch - CNSNews.com Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) - A former U.S. attorney general has drafted articles of impeachment against President Bush and three other top administration officials as a means of preventing the U.S. from advancing a "first strike, potentially nuclear preemptive war" against Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
"Impeachment is the means by which We the People of the United States and our elected representatives in Congress can prevent further crimes by the President and the human catastrophe they threaten and for accountability for crimes committed," former Attorney General Ramsey Clark states on his website, VotetoImpeach.com.
Clark first announced his campaign to impeach Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in a speech to thousands of anti-war protestors who rallied in the nation's capital on Jan. 18.
According to Clark, the U.S. Constitution provides the legal means for removing both elected officials and appointed officials from office when they have "acted or threatened acts" that are serious constitutional offenses or threaten to "injure the Presidency."
Signatures in support of impeachment will be collected online and "hand delivered to the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee and to the ranking Democrat on the Committee" at an undisclosed time and date.
The International Action Center, the activist group that Clark founded, did not respond to CNSNews.com's inquiries.
'Manufactured Evidence'
"Far from being a threat to the United States, or any other people, Iraq has been a victim of U.S. aggression for 12 years," Clark wrote in his Feb. 7 letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
"Twelve years of sanctions have inflicted death on over 1,500,000 people in Iraq, the majority children under 5 years old. You must remember the enormity of this genocide as you consider whether to agree to another major U.S. military assault on Iraq."
Clark also accuses the Bush Administration of manufacturing evidence against Iraq.
"Secretary Powell's charts, photos and electronic intercepts of conversations require authentication," he said, referring to Secretary of State Colin Powell's Feb. 5th presentation to the United Nations.
"They are repetitious of old tactics like the U.S. claim North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked U.S. Navy ships in the Tonkin Gulf in 1964," Clark stated. "Only later the U.S. admitted there were 'no boats' there.
"The only rational explanation for a war on Iraq is an intention by the U.S. to control and exploit its oil, use oil sales to pay for the cost of the war and occupation, benefit U.S. oil companies and petroleum engineering firms with awards of contracts, control the price of oil to enrich the U.S. and enlarge U.S. geo-political power in the region," Clark said.
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