Articles of Impeachment
Articles of Impeachment of President George W. Bush Vice
President Richard B. Cheney Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
and Attorney General John David Ashcroft The President,
Vice President and all civil Officers of the
1) Ordering and directing a proclaimed "pre-emptive", or
"first strike" war of aggression against
2) Authorizing daily intrusions into the airspace of Iraq
by U.S. military aircraft in violation of the sovereignty of Iraq and aerial
attacks on facilities and persons, on the soil of Iraq, killing hundreds of
people indiscriminately, initially falsely claiming self defense though over a
period of eleven years not a single U.S. aircraft has been struck or damaged
by gunfire from Iraq, but later admitting the targeting of defense
installations in Iraq, as war preparations they ordered progressed.
3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on
civilians, civilians facilities and locations where civilian casualties are
unavoidable.
4) Threatening
5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of
6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations,
summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of
individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to
obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and
individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S.
forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First,
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United
States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
7) Authorizing, directing and condoning bribery and
coercion of governments and individuals to cause them to act in violation of
their duty and the law, including to maintain and tighten enforcement of
economic sanctions against Iraq which continue to increase the death rate of
infants, children and elderly persons; to attack and kill designated groups,
or persons; to permit use of land, facilities, territorial waters, or air
space for U.S. attacks on Iraq; to vote, abstain in a vote, or publicly
proclaim support for a U.S. or U.N. attack on Iraq; to defect from Iraq, or to
falsely accuse it of weapons concealment to break down opposition to a U.S.
war of aggression; and to reject ratification of the Treaty creating an
International Criminal Court, or reject its jurisdiction over the United
States.
8) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and
propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts
by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments
with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and
informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to
obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of
fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike
attacks by the U.S.
9) Violations and subversions of the Constitution of the
United States of America in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against
peace and humanity and war crimes in "pre emptive" wars, first strike attacks
and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and other nations by
assuming powers of an imperial executive who is not accountable to law and
usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and the people of the United
States to prevent interferences with the unlawful executive exercise of
military power and economic coercion against the international community.
10) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the
United Nations and international law in an attempt to commit with impunity
crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of
aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the
United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other
corrupt acts and by rejecting, violations and frustrating compliance with
treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and
institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military
and economic power against the international community.
Ramsey Clark Former Attorney General of the
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