"President and his administration are war criminals"

[ailsagirl]

Administration's offenses impeachable
Thursday, June 02, 2005 - Bangor Daily News
Robert Shetterly

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...Lies from a president who has taken a sacred trust to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

So, what does it mean? It means that our president and all of his administration are war criminals. It's as simple as that. They lied to the American people, have killed and injured and traumatized thousands of American men and women doing their patriotic duty, killed at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians, destroyed Iraq's infrastructure and poisoned its environment, squandered billions and billions of our tax dollars, made a mockery of American integrity in the world, changed the course of history, tortured Iraqi prisoners, and bound us intractably to an insane situation that they have no idea how to fix because they had no plan, but greed and empire, in the first place.

What does it mean? It means that everyone in this administration should be impeached. It means that our Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins and our Congressmen Tom Allen and Mike Michaud should call for immediate impeachment. They were lied to by their president, voted for war, and are thus complicit in the multiply betrayals of the American people unless they stand up now for the truth.

Richard Nixon was impeached for a cover-up of a two-bit break-in. William Cohen, a young Maine Republican, played an important role for the prosecution in those proceedings. Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about sex with an intern. Now we have the irrefutable evidence that George W. Bush lied about the reasons for taking the United States to war. The intelligence wasn't flawed. The weapons weren't hidden. Our elected leaders were lying.

http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=114420

[Stand and Fight]

1. Damn straight! n/t

[Dave Reynolds]

2. Now, we just need them all

to have a little vacation to the Hague.

[BigBearJohn]

3. EXCELLENT - I'm going to use this for my letters to editor

[stillcool]

4. Ouch.....what an ....

ass-kicking article!! I'm liking DU today!!

[mcscajun]

5. This is comin' out of MAINE??? AWESOME.

:kick:

[stopbush]

6. The saddest part: you could have read 100 posts just like this one

on DU the week the illegal war started.

We were right. The rest of the country feigned ignorance and covered their cowardice in cheap patriotism.

[wtmusic]

13. Yes

It's hard to watch a disaster in the making and be completely helpless.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. That's the case in a nutshell

!!

[MasonJar]

8. Wow! That pretty much nails it!

[Nancy Waterman]

10. This letter is an inspiration for us to keep writing

What a great letter and nothing is held back..

[Slyder]

9. Yes, but......

I agree with the sentiments, but then I hear fingernails across the blackboard! Wrong facts give the opposition something to fix on to try to discredit the whole piece. Nixon was not impeached. He was threatened with impeachment, but resigned before it could happen. Only two presidents have been impeached--Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton--both by Radical Republicans and both were acquitted by the Senate.

[Technowitch]

11. True...

The articles of impeachment were passed out of the House Judiciary Committee by a good margin, and the House itself voted to begin formal impeachment proceedings by a vote of 410-4.

The handwriting was on the wall though -- Nixon was going to be impeached, and conviction was exceedingly likely. So, he resigned rather than accept a certain fate.

[wtmusic]

12. Is impeachment the penalty for war crimes now?

Ten Nazis who were convicted in 1946 of the same crime of "waging an aggressive war in violation of international treaties and assurances" were hung at the end of a rope.

[darkism]

14. YES! The "I" word is starting to increase in frequency.

IMPEACH THE BFEE!

Then put the bastards on trial at the Hague and have them spend the rest of their lives in prison.

[indepat]

15. Irrefutable, smearefutable, a Repug president gotta be allowed to do what

a Repug president wants to do, damn the Constitution, damn the torpedoes, and all sycophants will march to the beat of their drummer.

[silverweb]

16. Treason.

Impeach, then ship to the Hague for trial for war crimes.

It would be some justice.

I won't hold my breath.

[0007]

17. ......and many in the Halliburton & Carlyle Group

Our elected leaders lied.