Tell Congress To Do Their Constitutional Duty And Impeach Bush & Cheney Now!

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TELL CONGRESS TO DO THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY AND IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY NOW

Call your members of Congress now toll free at 800-828-0498, 800-459-1887 or
800-614-2803.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/impeachment_now3.php

Minutes ago the U.S. Senate AGAIN failed to exercise meaningful oversight for the national
suicide which is our policy in Iraq. It is by now abundantly clear that the Republican
caucus is determined to go down with the Bush presidency, and take our military and our
country with them while they do nothing. Instead, a bipartisan cattle stampede of
senators approved two "we don't hate the troops" resolutions, nothing but vain
puffery, swearing to take "no action" about this or that. We don't in the
slightest care about what action Congress is NOT going to take, we want to know is what
they ARE going to do to reverse the insanity of current policy.

On the occasion of the guilty verdicts against Scooter Libby, Howard Dean was quoted as
saying we would have a new president "soon enough." If he is talking about the
2008 election that is NOT soon enough, not even close. Day by day, ever more outrageous
scandals and abuses of power spew forth from the White House, as we now learn that they
have been so corrupted beyond redemption by their power grabs, that they even used the
U.S. attorneys themselves for nakedly partisan witch hunts, to try to influence our
elections, and fired all who would not bend under their political dictate.

And what was Bush's response when called on this monumental affront not just to the checks
in our government, but also to the independency of our very justice system? "What
was mishandled was the explanation of the cases to the Congress," he said. In Bush's
mind there are no policy mistakes, let alone policy crimes. In his world there are only
SPIN mistakes, when we the people aren't quite stupid enough to buy their criminal
hypocrisies. We hear admissions that "mistakes were made," as if mistakes
somehow made themselves. But even where there is verbal responsibility taken, there is
NEVER actual accountability. The sacrificial fall guys will reluctantly resign, but NEVER
is there a price paid by the core perpetrators for their conduct.

The Bush presidency is one of false appearances, phony and disingenuous words of
compassion and democracy, while the true underlying agenda is the embezzlement of our
national treasury, and even those of other sovereign countries, on behalf of their biggest
campaign contributors, who then remorselessly relocate to evade taxes on their ill-gotten
profits. The Bush presidency is to create wars out of whole cloth, to demonize not only
their critics buy entire innocent populations, first Iraq, then Lebanon, now Iran. It is
a mission to exacerbate terrorism to the maximum extent possible, while ignoring its
actual roots causes and laying off its ringleaders, at the mortal peril of our true
national security. And it is not going to STOP in any respect until the day that Bush is
lawfully removed from office.

It was not enough that president Bush should pack our courts with radical ideologue
judges, one of whom just this week presumed to overturn two centuries of 2nd amendment
case law, to let the NRA rewrite our very Constitution. No, even the choice of cases to
bring to court they must warp so that only Democrats could ever be prosecuted for any
crime, despite the fact that most of the wrongdoing they were actually finding was by
Republicans. How their talking head cronies howled after the Libby verdicts that it was
just a political prosecution. Their new rule of law is that it's against the law to
prosecute Republicans, no matter what the crime, and that any attempt to do so is by
definition a political vendetta. And if the the Libby trial exposed nothing, it was that
Cheney was the king culprit.

And hanging over everything is the preemptively declared threat of a presidential veto of
any attempt, no matter how timid, to confront these high crimes. And that is why we have
concluded that Dennis Kucinich is speaking the essential truth. We have long known that
Bush was planning an illegal war of aggression against Iran. Shame on the leadership of
the House for the sudden demise, without even a vote, of the provision in the war
supplemental appropriations bill to preclude an attack on Iran without express
congressional consent. Let there be a vote so we can know which members of Congress think
it's OK for the president to launch horrific and disastrous new wars without even a peep
from them.

What Kucinich so clearly understands in his call for impeachment is that all these things
are mere symptoms of the foundational problem, the cowardice of members of Congress as
they run away from actually restraining the abuse of executive power. What are
non-binding resolutions except avoidance of actually challenging the policy issue? What
are bills that write into themselves exceptions if the president takes
"responsibility" for them? Is the role of Congress to be relegated to
courteously writing the president's signing statements for him?

ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/impeachment_now3.php

Bush loves to lecture the American people on the lessons of 9/11. There was only one
lesson to be learned from 9/11 . . . that we had the WRONG president.

And in five years since there are still too many who have not learned that critical
lesson, which failure is the reason New Orleans was left to sink by a guitar strumming
photo-op president, which failure is the reason even the administration drafted Patriot
Act has been abused to conduct massive illegal surveillance of innocent American citizens.
That failure is the reason for torture of those even suspected of being our enemies has
become official U.S. policy, in utter defiance of all norms of international law and
civilized decency.

That failure is the reason our entire intelligence operation against weapons of mass
destruction, the life long specialty of Valerie Plame, was sabotaged and jeopardized to
try to gain cheap political advantage. Or was it to keep concealed even more heinous acts
of treason. That failure is the reason our military is still pursuing a fool's mission in
Iraq, chasing an enemy who is not there in any significant numbers. We face nothing but
two more years of such disasters and outrages every minute that George Bush, Dick Cheney
and their pod people remain in any office of authority.

So what if Gonzales bites the dust. He is just one more water-carrier. He would already
have been long gone had not Bush PERSONALLY intervened to quash investigation into the
abuse of administration's warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, when that first came
to partial light. We have a president and vice president for whom obstruction of justice
is just another burglar tool in their bag, as they rob the balance of powers in our
Constitution. Let the subpoenas now issuing in the U.S. attorney scandal lead to door of
the oval office, where the trail surely does directly lead.

ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/impeachment_now3.php

And let us renew again and again our call for Congress to impeach ALL those who have
harmed we the people so grievously, and to prosecute those impeachments at the most
mercifully swift speed.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and
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