The Boston Globe claims President Bush has broken 750 laws since he took office. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush on June 9, 2008 including:
Article 1
CREATING A SECRET PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN TO MANUFACTURE A FALSE CASE FOR WAR AGAINST IRAQ;
Article 11
ESTABLISHMENT OF PERMANENT U.S. MILITARY BASES IN IRAQ;
TORTURE: SECRETLY AUTHORIZING, AND ENCOURAGING THE USE OF TORTURE AGAINST CAPTIVES IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, AND OTHER PLACES, AS A MATTER OF OFFICIAL POLICY.
This month, the origins of US torture programs were revealed by the Senate Armed Services Committee. The committee detailed how senior Pentagon officials transformed a program for Special Forces troops to resist torture (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape, or SERE) into a blueprint for torturing terrorism detainees. Robert Grenier, head of the CIA counter-terrorism centre, was fired in early 2006 for opposing such torture programs.
A Physicians for Human Rights report released this month, in which retired Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba expresses grave concerns, details eleven case studies of lives damaged by US torture programs. "After years of disclosures by government investigations," Taguba writes, "media accounts and reports from human-rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes."
Impeachment Article 21, introduced by Kucinich, details the Bush administrations attempts to portray Iran as a nuclear threat while supporting terrorist groups within Iran.
Article 21
MISLEADING CONGRESS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT THREATS FROM IRAN, AND SUPPORTING TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN IRAN, WITH THE GOAL OF OVERTHROWING THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT
In the lead up to the Iraq war President George Bush admitted to Tony Blair that "the US was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach", according to the now infamous leaked memorandum. This plan never eventuated. Conventional propaganda was sufficient enough to initiate the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Will it be sufficient for an attack on Iran?
Gary Hart, former Senator and Council on Foreign Relations member, published an article in late 2007 entitled, Unsolicited Advice to the Government of Iran; outlining historical false-flag events exploited by the US government. On August 7th 1964, the US congress passed a joint resolution, titled The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to conduct military operations in Southeast Asia. In 2005, NSA declassified reports confirmed that the Gulf of Tonkin incident never happened. "You might be well advised," Gary Hart suggests to the Iranian government, "to read the history of the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor in 1898 and the history of the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964."
In the current political atmosphere, President Bush now faces the threat of war crimes charges. Progressing PNAC plans of Middle East domination and spreading the "theater wars" to Iran, with the possibility of radical social and political repercussions, seems too irresistible for Bush and the neo-cons to refuse.
In the event of another major terrorist attack akin to 9/11, the President Bush will take total control of the government, bypassing "state, local, territorial, and tribal governments." In May 2007, legislation was passed granting the President of the United States unprecedented dictatorial powers in the event of a "catastrophic emergency."
