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Your Address
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Assemblymember
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State Capitol
PO
Box
942849
Sacramento
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Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney. Through a rarely exercised statute
of the Jefferson
Manual of the House Rules, section 603, State legislatures may set
impeachment in motion. Last
month your colleague, Assemblymember Paul Koretz, introduced AJR 39, a
resolution calling for
the impeachment of George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney. I am
writing to strongly
encourage you to become a co-sponsor of this bill. Below are just a few of
the undisputable illegal
actions that these two “leaders” have taken on behalf of the American
people. Our country’s status
as a beacon of democracy has been tarnished against our knowledge and
will. We must hold them
accountable for the carnage George W. Bush and Richard Cheney have wrought
upon our great
nation.
Bush
misrepresented and manipulated the intelligence about
public, the Congress and the UN about the threat from
that President Bush was not simply misled by faulty intelligence
about the threat from
given confidential information that contradicted his public statements. He
knew or should have known
that his statements to Congress and to the public were false, or at best
unreliable. By lying to Congress,
Bush undermined the principles of democracy that require an informed
electorate and a balance of
powers. Bush properly sought approval from Congress before invading
meaningless if it was based on his fraudulent statements. Bush also
directly violated US Laws related
to Fraud and False Statements, 18 U.S.C 1001, and Conspiracy to Defraud
the United States,
18 U.S.C. 371.
In
his 2003 State of the Union Address Bush said "The British Government
has learned that Saddam
Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from
Ambassador Joseph Wilson had been sent to
concluded that the stories were false and informed the White House of this
in March of 2002. In July
of 2003, Joseph Wilson went public with his findings. Rather than give up
the nuclear weapons story,
the White House tried to discredit
supported their claim, and revealed that Joseph Wilson’s wife, Valerie
Plame, was a CIA agent. They
did not leak the primary conclusions of the document that refuted their
claims. Bush has admitted
approving the release of the classified information.
3.
Mobile Weapons Labs
Bush
and his team repeatedly claimed that
anthrax. Colin Powell showed diagrams of them at his speech before the UN
justifying the invasion of
Iraq
the stories related to WMD. On May 29, 2003, two small trailers matching
the description were found
in
produce hydrogen for weather balloons. For over a year, Bush suppressed
the report and claimed these
were part of
4.
Torturing
Prisoners
On
6/22/04 Bush claimed “We do not condone torture. I have never ordered
torture. I will never order torture.
The values of this country are such that torture is not a part of our soul
and our being.” Bush, Cheney,
Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales are guilty of violating the "Federal
Torture Act," 18 U.S.C. 113C, the UN
Torture Convention and the Geneva Convention. Torture is outlawed, not
only because it is inhumane, but
also because it is ineffective. People will say anything, true or false,
to avoid torture.
In
December of 2002, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales wrote a memo
advising the President of
“the threat of domestic criminal prosecution under the War Crimes
Act,” a federal statute, for torturing
prisoners. He advised Bush to invent a legal technicality --declaring
detainees in the “war on terror” to be
outside the Geneva Convention -- which, he said, “substantially
reduces” the chance of prosecution. Bush
took Gonzales' advice and signed an order declaring that the Geneva
Convention does not cover members
of Al Qaeda and the Taliban. This gave the green light for torture and
illegal detainment of prisoners. Since
then prisoners have been routinely abducted and “rendered” to prisons
on foreign soil where they can be
tortured.
Bush
has publicly admitted to authorizing the NSA, a secretive spy agency, to
conduct wiretaps on American
citizens. The Bush wiretaps violated 50 U.S.C. 1805 that requires him to
get approval from the FISA court
within 72 hours after starting a wiretap. Bush has argued that these
wiretaps are needed to monitor suspected
terrorists. But the FISA routinely approves any such request. If all Bush
wanted to do was conduct legal wiretaps,
then why did he bypass the court? There is no objection to wiretapping
legitimate suspects with oversight of the
courts. The problem here is the abuse of power in which the executive
branch unilaterally decides who is and is
not tapped. Regardless of his reasons, this is clearly a violation of the
Constitution and statutory law and is grounds
for impeachment.
appointment to office in 2000. All citizens and elected officials are
charged with making sure our leaders are not
breaking the law and disregarding the Constitution. It is our ethical
obligation to stand up for what is right by saying
“we will not tolerate anymore.” The people are behind you. Please
support AJR 39.
Sincerely,
PO Box
942849
Sacramento
,