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May 12, 2008

Contact: John Heuer, (919) 933-6589

COLONEL (RET.) ANN WRIGHT BRINGS HER BOOK “DISSENT” TO N.C.

Five Years and Counting

Five years ago George Bush announced the invasion of Iraq, justified by the threat imposed by the Iraqi regime. It turned out that Saddam was a toothless tiger, despite our assistance to him for decades. The Bush/Cheney regime justified an invasion of Iraq based on the threats of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, because they knew that the American people would not rally behind the cause of “democracy building” in Iraq. The administration launched this war on a platform of deception.

Dear Speaker Pelosi,

As you may be aware, several citizens attended your November '07 address at Meredith College in Raleigh prepared to challenge you on the theme of the lecture series “Ethical Leadership.” The program issued for the event advertised a rigorous discussion of the lecture theme.

Those of us who came to Meredith to challenge your leadership were threatened with arrest if we attempted to display signs, distribute literature, or strayed outside our designated “Free Speech” pen, defined by a circle of orange traffic cones set up out of view of the hall where you were speaking.

As a member of the Grass Roots Impeachment Movement, I came to Meredith to ask you these questions:

If you take impeachment off the table, are you not placing yourself in complicity with, and accessory to the impeachable crimes ascribed to George Bush and Dick Cheney?

And if, as speaker of the house, leader of the majority party who sets the agenda in the house of representatives, you have the power to take impeachment off the table, how can you argue that you lack the power to take war funding off the table?

Madame Speaker, you can’t have it both ways. If you prevent impeachment hearings, you may as well re-register yourself as a Republican, since you are essentially providing the Bush administration the same protection as the 109th Republican Congress.

If you claim to want to end the US occupation of Iraq, but refuse to stop occupation funding, then you are violating your trust as a servant to the people, and are as guilty as Bush and Cheney.

The Constitutional remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors committed by our chief executives is impeachment. If Bush and Cheney are protected by this Democratic Congress from hearings on impeachable crimes, we can never expect that any future administration will be held accountable for lawlessness.

Madame Speaker, you can show us the way and endear yourself to generations of Americans if you remove this veil from your eyes and the eyes of your fellow citizens. We need impeachment hearings NOW!

While we are spreading the word that impeachment is absolutely what the country needs to start the recovery process from the damage inflicted on us by Bush & Cheney, we are constantly hearing, “It’s too late”, “there’s not enough time”, and “they’ll be out of office soon enough anyway”—wrong, wrong, and wrong!!!

Folks, as we at GRIM and other impeachment advocates continue to do our ‘jobs’, here’s how it’s gonna go down:

1. Because of our constant and relentless prodding, Congress will start impeachment proceedings.
2. Impeachment investigations will ‘trump’ the Administration’s shield of Executive Privilege. The real reasons for their unprecedented veil of secrecy will surface—self preservation—hiding their lies.
   

Republished from the original at pebkac.homelinux.net.

I already tagged a link to an educational short on why the Iraq War is illegal, but I'm afraid I didn't do it justice with just a simple link. I'm not sure if there was a straw that broke the camel's back, but I feel I have to make a clear public statement and call to action here.

First let us start with Two theses:

Thesis 1
If the invasion of Iraq by the US was a violation of the UN Charter
AND the UN Charter is a legally binding document
(under both US and International law)
Then the current US military involvement in Iraq is an Illegal War.

Thesis 2
If the US invasion and ongoing occupation of Iraq is an Illegal War,
Then the architects of that invasion
(including but not limited to President Bush and Vice President Cheney)
are War Criminals. Furthermore, US troops actively participating in the occupation of Iraq are (perhaps unwitting) War Criminals.

If you accept that the above Theses are true and correct, then you need to jump directly to my call to action: Impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney for War Crimes.

Hello Jim,

My name is on the listserve. I just want to say that I am a US citizen living in Mexico.

There are about 4,000 USA citizens who live here in this town. I am trying to get people involved in the impeachment effort. We have a Democrats Abroad group here and we will be organizing a public forum for Oct.

I just want to tell GRIM that being on your site has been very helpful in my efforts. I have gotten good postings with news and ideas. The greatest one was yesterday. I think it was GRIM that posted the John Conyers news....good news!