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We are talking about very serious crimes. No administration before has so deliberately and systematically lied its way into a war that would not have received any support worth mentioning had the facts been known. This is no third rate burglary that was financed by a presidential re-election campaign, series of dirty tricks or other relatively small-scale abuses of the civil liberties of private citizens.
We are talking about war crimes. Bush ordered the invasion of a sovereign state based on facts that he knew to be false or, at best, did not know were true. They all turned out to be false. This was not a mistake. When someone said he "knew" Saddam had weapons of mass destruction or "knew" where they were or "knew" how much of what or "knew" about a reconstituted nuclear program in Iraq, they knew that didn't know any thing like that. They were lying.
Lying to the people to start an unjustified war has got to be the greatest betrayal of public trust imaginable. If that is not an impeachable offense, then nothing is.
Bush and Cheney have shredded the Bill of Rights and the right to be charged with a crime or released from custody under the false pretense of fighting a war against those who staged the September 11 attacks. Depending on the political climate, Mr. Bush either tell us that he will bring in Osama "dead or alive" or that he isn't worried about him.
Therefore, in addition to war crimes, Bush and Cheney should be impeached and removed from office for the NSA wire tapping program, which is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, and for incarcerating at least two American citizens without charges, a violation of the Sixth Amendment and of Article 1/Section 9 of the main body of the Constitution, and for employing torture in prison facilities operated at US taxpayer expense, which is a violation of the Eighth Amendment.
Speaking of torture, that is a violation of the Geneva Conventions and Convention against Torture, international treaties to which the United States is party.
Neither COngress nor any member of the executive branch, including Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney, is competent to declare waterboarding, a method of torture used by the Spanish Inquisition and its predecessors, to be anything other than torture. The Military Commissions Act is contrary to the laws of the United States and to US recognized treaties of international law and therefore without force. It cannot be used as a defense by Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney and their lieutenants.
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