Impeach the Torture President

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AfterDowningStreet.org
"No administration since Nixon has been so insistent that it has the right to operate without oversight or accountability, and no administration since Nixon has shown itself to be so little deserving of that trust." - Paul Krugman

Alan Northcutt: Time to Mention the Forbidden I-Word
"The grounds for the impeachment process are solid and certainly more substantial in terms of 'high crimes and misdemeanors' than those of the recent impeachment of Bill Clinton for issues of his personal life."

Carl Sheeler
"How do we explain an amoral President who does not get results and is violating his constitutional oath to faithfully execute his office by his gross incompetence, indifference and disregard for our nation and other nations' citizens?"

Cindy Sheehan
"Impeachment... is a Constitutional remedy for elected or appointed officials who are abusing their powers. If George has not abused his powers as president and commander in chief, then no president in history has."

Dan DeWalt: Treason, and Nothing Less
"We are a government of laws, not of men." - John Adams

Dave Lindorff: This Can't Be Happening!
"We of Athens write our own laws and then are ruled by them. We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands." - Euripedes

David Swanson
"Freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Elect a Congress to Impeach Bush and Cheney
"A government for the people must depend for its success on the... morality of the people themselves." - Grover Cleveland

Elizabeth Holtzman: Impeach Bush to Preserve the Constitution
"A President, any President, who maintains that he is above the law--and repeatedly violates the law--thereby commits high crimes and misdemeanors, the constitutional standard for impeachment and removal from office."

Empty Warheads
"Freedom... calls for courage and endurance, not only in soldiers, but in every man and woman who is free and is determined to remain free." - Harry Truman

The Four Reasons for Responsible Citizenship | Free Range Thought | Radio Active Lunch
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Garrison Keillor
"...It is impossible to keep torture secret. It goes against the American grain and it eats at the conscience of even the most disciplined, and in the end the truth will come out."

Green Party of the United States: Impeach Bush
"Even If I am a minority of one, truth is still the truth." - Gandhi

Impeach Bush
"Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the... status quo?" - Adlai Stevenson

Impeach Bush
"Patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-rousing remain the true duty of patriots." - Barbara Ehrenreich

Impeach Central
"We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights." - Felix Frankfurter

Impeach for Change
"No other administration had ever considered the identity of the lobbyists who had helped devise its energy policy a more important national secret than the identity of an undercover American intelligence agent." - Calvin Trillin

Impeach for Peace
"The people have given us the duty to defend them, and that duty sometimes requires the violent restraint of violent men. In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force." - George W. Bush, November 2003
"I actually think that Bush is the greatest threat to life on this planet that we've most probably ever seen. " - Mayor Ken Livingstone, London

Impeach07
"Iraq is sliding into civil war. Iran and North Korea are more dangerous than they were five and a half years ago. And the Taliban continues to present a threat in Afghanistan... This administration cannot be trusted with our security." - Howard Dean

Ivan Eland: George W. Bush's Impeachable Offenses
"George W. Bush may win the prize for committing the most impeachable offenses of any recent president."

Ralph Nader: The "I" Word
"It is time for Congress to investigate the illegal Iraq war as we move toward the third year of the endless quagmire that many security experts believe jeopardizes US safety by recruiting and training more terrorists."

Jamin Raskin: Impeachment
"Impeachment... is our major constitutional instrument for defending the rule of law against willful presidents who defy Congress and refuse to accept any constraints on their power."

John Dean: Is lying about a war an impeachable offense?
"We want no war of conquest. War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed." - William McKinley

Join Wexler's Call for Cheney Hearings
"Is this incompetence or is this treason?" - overheard in the Russian Duma, 1917

Lewis Lapham: The Case for Impeachment
"We have before us in the White House a thief who steals the country's good name and reputation for his private interest and personal use; a liar who seeks to instill in the American people a state of fear; a televangelist who engages the United States in a never-ending crusade against all the world's evil, a wastrel who squanders a vast sum of the nation's wealth on what turns out to be a recruiting drive certain to multiply the host of our enemies."

Richard Dreyfuss (the actor)
"Unless you are willing to accept torture as part of a normal American political lexicon, unless you are willing to accept that leaving the Geneva Convention is fine and dandy, if you accept the expansion of wiretapping as business as usual, the only way to express this now is to embrace the difficult and perhaps embarrassing process of impeachment."

Bob Graham: Bush's Transgressions May Warrant Impeachment
"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong." - James Bryce

David Keene: Ten Reasons Congress Must Investigate Bush Administration Crimes
"The president has asserted that he has virtually unrestrained authority and that Congress and the courts have none.
Congress must exercise, and the president must respect, its constitutional obligation to legislate and conduct oversight on issues like NSA wiretapping, military commissions, the detention and treatment of 'enemy combatants,' habeas corpus, and the power to declare war."

Veterans for Peace Impeachment Page
"This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." - Elmer Davis

Vote To Impeach Bush
"Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government." - Woodrow Wilson

Daniel Meltzer: Was it a High Crime?
"Lying to Congress to justify a war - one that has to date killed nearly 200 Americans and thousands of Iraqi civilians, wounded many thousands more and jeopardized America's position as a force for peace and justice in the world - would constitute a very high crime."

George McGovern: Why I Believe Bush Must Go
"Bush and Cheney... have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world. [This] has been accompanied by the abuse of prisoners, including systematic torture, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Impeachment... is the rightful course for an American patriot."

Elizabeth de la Vega: United States Versus George W. Bush et al.
"...We already have more than enough information to allow a reasonable person to conclude that the President conducted a wide-ranging effort to deceive the American people and Congress into supporting a war against Iraq."