Open Letter To Congress: Impeach Bush/Cheney

Dear Congress:

I am writing to remind you that you swore an oath when you took office. You swore that you would defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. In order to fulfil your sworn duty and your obligation to the citizens of these United States, you must support the movement to impeach the President and the Vice President.

It is clear that there is sufficient cause to impeach.

1. They lied about the Iraqi threat to start an aggressive war against a sovereign nation that was not a treat to us. They knowingly distorted intelligence reports and ignored contrary information in constructing their case for the war. The Downing Street memo and the Bush-Blair memo substantiate that they "fixed" intelligence around a pre-determined policy of preemptive war.

Results: 1,000,000 Iraqi civilian deaths; over 4000 U.S. soldiers dead in two wars, 100s of thousands wounded.

2. Article VI of the Constitution, Senate-ratified treaties such as the U.N. Charter is "the supreme Law of the Land." This war has been shown to be a war of aggression contrary to the U.N. Charter (a crime against peace) and therefore a war crime. A war of aggression not initiated out of self-defense or sanctioned by the UN, is a violation of international law and constitutes an impeachable offense.

3. A report on May 19, 2006, by the United Nations Convention Against Torture concluded that the US should not send suspects to countries where they face a risk of torture, since that would violate international law. This administration has approved of (and Attorney General Gonzales re-defined) torture at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and elsewhere, while simultaneously opposing the International Criminal Court established to check such abuses. According to Amnesty International, the United States has established a Soviet-style "gulag" of torture around the world. Over the years numerous incidents have been made public and a UN report denounced the abuse of prisoners as tantamount to torture. The "torture memos," is evidence of their involvement in the mistreatment of prisoners violating US and international law. The act of ignoring the Geneva Conventions this administration, is culpable for war crimes, and as such that constitutes an impeachable offense.

4. This administration actively spied with warrantless electronic surveillance on American citizens. By authorizing warrantless domestic wiretapping, President Bush violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without legal basis, constituting a felony and as such an impeachable offense.

5. It has been shown that the President and the Vice President participated in the leaking of the identity of a covert CIA operative, jeopardizing her life and her operative’s lives. Their work involved tracking yellow cake uranium used in making dirty bombs that could be used to attack us on our own soil. By exposing the agent’s identity and thereby destroying our ability to circumvent such an attack is clearly aiding and abetting our enemies. This is Treason. Impeachment is insufficient punishment for this crime.

6. By commutting Libby's sentence in the case involving outting a CIA agent; a case in which the president himself may be involved, impeachment was warranted.

7. The Libby investigation revealed the prosecution and subsequent conviction, during an election season, of Georgia Thompson for corruption, which the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit immediately reversed because the prosecution's evidence was "beyond thin." Another federal prosecutor in connection with the Jack Abramoff Guam investigation was unexpectedly demoted and removed from office. These and other firings were intended to influence investigations and election outcomes and is comparable to the “Saturday Night Massacre”, in which the Nixon administration fired Archibald Cox while he was investigating the alleged misconduct by the White House in the Watergate scandal. Blocking an investigation ordered by Congress was an impeachable offense then, and it still is.


You have given your oath to defend us against all enemies. This administration, this president and vice president have repeatedly committed acts that are impeachable. Do not stand aside and allow these actions to go unchecked.

This is not about your party affiliation.

This is about insuring that no future president may cite the Bush administrations actions as a precedent for future abuses to our rights, liberties, and safety. You must act to remove this president and vice president from office, even if it takes until the last day of their term.

PeaceMonger