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March 13, 2007 at 13:23:55

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Open letter to Rep. Barbara Lee

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Dear Honorable Barbara Lee,

I'm writing to ask that you put impeachment of Bush and Cheney on the table for the 110th Congress, by introducing a bill calling for an investigation into impeachable offenses on the part of both men. Please consider the following points:

1) Libby trial- The testimony in that trial makes it clear that Cheney was behind the outing of Plame, and Bush was complicit. If, indeed, we are involved in a war on terror, then destroying a network devoted to preventing WMD's from falling into the hands of terrorists- Plame's network- is giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war. This is treason.

It is being said that over 100 agents in Plame's network were killed after she was outed. Bush and Cheney may thus be guilty of treason and murder- certainly reason to hold impeachment hearings.

2) Iraq- The quickest way out of Iraq is to start impeachment proceedings. This would undercut Bush's legitimacy, and make it much harder for him to muster support for his imperial policies. His whole regime depends on his being seen as legitimate, and hearings would call his legitimacy into question.

Just starting the hearings would make it much easier for Congress to limit funding for Iraq, especially if racketeering,- funneling of money to Carlyle and Halliburton via the Iraq invasion and occupation,- is made part of the grounds for impeachment.

3) Iran- Same reasoning- undercut Bush and Cheney's legitimacy. The military has already made it plain that an attack on Iran would be disastrous. One push from Congress would break the spell, and Bush would be unable to proceed with his plan to set the Middle East on fire.

The Iran situation makes impeachment urgent, and mandatory, since Bush may believe, professes to believe, in a nuclear Armageddon, and seems to be taking us there. It's not good to have a suicidal captain at the helm

4) Civil liberties- Bush is doing everything in his power to put the apparatus of fascism in place- through the Military Commissions Act, Project Falcon, the firing of honest Federal prosecuting attorneys, building concentration camps... The opposition is too strong for him to fully implement a police state as yet, but soon it will be too late. The time to stop him and Cheney is NOW, with impeachment hearings.

Barbara Lee, you are the ideal person to introduce articles of impeachment into the 110th Congress. Your Congressional district, at least Berkeley, actually put impeachment on the ballot, and 70% of the votes were in favor. The same would probably be true in the rest of the district. You only have to point to the will of the people you speak for, to justify introducing this bill.

Barbara Lee, you are courageous. You stepped out as the lone vote against invading Afghanistan. You refused to be panicked by 9-11, and took a stand against the "war on terror", knowing that terrorism should be a police matter. Your example still shines for us.

We ask you, Representative Lee, to take a stand again, to put forth a bill calling for an investigation of impeachable offenses. The bill introduced by Cynthia McKinney last December is a good place to start. We in your district will do everything we can to back you up.

Carol Wolman, MD

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3 comments

Richard Mynick is a US citizen who, despite the best efforts of the corporate media, noticed something disturbing about how the 2000 election was decided, & felt it augured poorly for democracy.
Richard MynickRichard Mynick is a US citizen who, despite the best efforts of the corporate media, noticed something disturbing about how the 2000 election was decided, & felt it augured poorly for democracy.

It's amazing that it only takes ONE congressperson to

table a motion to begin impeachment proceedings. How is it possible that not even a Barbara Lee, a Maxine Waters, or a Dennis Kucincich has yet been willing to do this? All of them have safe seats, & have already taken immense heat for speaking out in principled fashion on the war & other issues.

There are only a few members in all of Congress that have sufficient principles & courage to do this, but even THEY are not doing it. It is difficult to understand why they believe that failure to at least attempt impeachment is going to leave us in a better place, than would a genuine attempt at removing these depraved criminals from office. If they wait until there's an attack on Iran, it's already TOO LATE. Surely these people understand this.

by Richard Mynick (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 1232 comments) on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 2:03:46 PM

Carol S. Wolman, MD is a psychiatrist in Northern California. A lifelong peace activist, she has written extensively on the psychology of our times. She is a cochair of Bay Area Impeach Bush-Cheney. You can join or form a local group at http://impeachbush.meetup.com/

She ran for Congress in '06, and is now a Gteen candidate for Congress in CA district 1. She is a coordinator of The New Broom Coalition, for a clean sweep of Congress.
Carol WolmanCarol S. Wolman, MD is a psychiatrist in Northern California. A lifelong peace activist, she has written extensively on the psychology of our times. She is a cochair of Bay Area Impeach Bush-Cheney. You can join or form a local group at http://impeachbush.meetup.com/

She ran for Congress in '06, and is now a Gteen candidate for Congress in CA district 1. She is a coordinator of The New Broom Coalition, for a clean sweep of Congress.

what kind of pressure are they under?

We can only speculate as to what Barbara Lee went through after her brave vote against sending troops to Afghanistan. We can only wonder what sorts of leverage, blackmail? threats of bodily injury to self and/or relatives, bribery?, are applied to our Representatives to make them so afraid to challenge the Bush regime.

Peace, Carol Wolman

by Carol Wolman (220 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 105 comments) on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 2:43:25 PM

Mr. Bohne is a clockmaker and activist. He HATES the US Government, and without stretching the truth (reality) will do anything to dig up dirt on any of these bastards, as long as it's REAL dirt.

"the first man to raise his fists, is the first man to run out of ideas."
tedbohneMr. Bohne is a clockmaker and activist. He HATES the US Government, and without stretching the truth (reality) will do anything to dig up dirt on any of these bastards, as long as it's REAL dirt.

"the first man to raise his fists, is the first man to run out of ideas."

"Open letter to Rep. Barbara Lee"

Well said!, a more solid case cannot be made. One can only wonder why Pelosi dumped this, the only way to legally dispatch the bush cretans. Fear perhaps of sharing Barry Seal's fate.

tedbohne

by tedbohne (87 articles, 103 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 119 comments) on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 8:24:51 PM