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pberq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 03:01 PM
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Impeach Bush - Ramsey clark speech
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/21/1531214

RAMSEY CLARK: Ready to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. We have to take the Constitution back, back from crimes against peace, from war crimes, and crimes against humanity. You know, the Nuremberg tribunal called the war of aggression the supreme international crime, and it is. And George W. Bush has waged a war of aggression against Iraq. He has killed more than 100,000 people. Are their lives worth nothing? Can we have a moment of silence in memory of all of the people that have died in Iraq, because the criminal acts of George W. Bush in waging this war of aggression?

Every moment of their lives is fraught with danger right now because of us. The world is the most dangerous place it's ever been now because of what our country has done, and is doing, and we have to take it back. We can't wait four more years. There can't be any more Fallujahs. Fallujah is the 21st century equivalent of Guernica. We just went in and destroyed that city, drove the people out, killed them, thousands. We don't know how many. They won't even bother to count who's been killed or how many, or estimate how many. They just keep killing. Almost every day we're reading about another checkpoint where some family got wiped out. Because they didn't do what they were supposed to do according to the military there. Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961. That we would torture people that way and on the instructions of the President of the United States and his highest legal advisers, torture is okay, they said. Go for it, fellas. If we can't renounce that and remove it from office, then the Constitution doesn't work anymore. We have got to do more than take back the Constitution; there has to be accountability for what's happened.

The Constitution says that the President, Vice President, and other officials of the United States shall be removed from office upon impeachment for and conviction of high crimes and misdemeanors. If you care about the Constitution, you better start talking to your member of the House of Representatives and say impeachment now is now essential to the integrity of the United States government, and to the future of the United States. We've had more than 500,000 people sign on, "Vote to Impeach." We need to get 5 million, and we need to get 5 million on there quick, and then the Congress will react. The Congress understands something when the people demand it. And the power is in the people. Always has been. The question is whether the people have the will to exercise it. I think that the imperative challenge of the American people now is to live up to the Constitution and demand the impeachment of George W. Bush and the other officials of the government responsible for these crimes. Thank you very much.

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skylarmae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 03:08 PM
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1. If we get 5 million sigs - will the repukes allow it to come to the floor
in the house or senate? Can anything be done without both houses of congress' support. Living in UT means, it wouldn't make a dent in the pro-right reps and sens from our state. I complain and they just keep adding to 'my file'.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 03:11 PM
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2. Thank you, Mr. Clark
Edited on Fri Jan-21-05 03:14 PM by ixion
for saying what desperately needed to be said.

We need to take back our republic and our constitution for which it stands.
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hermetic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 03:13 PM
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3. we need to get 5 million on there quick
OK, where is it?
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 03:16 PM
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4. okay I might be blind
but I'm not seeing a link to the petition

Someone want to play the role of cyber seeing eye dog for me.

Please, I'll give you a biscuit I promise.
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IndyPriest Donating Member (685 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 03:33 PM
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6. Woof! Here it is. Can I have the biscuit?
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 04:45 PM
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9. here ya go
an etheric biscuit. Sorry but I'm a cyber ninnie when it comes to posting pics.

thanks though and I assure you. . . etheric biscuits are even more scrumptious and far more nutritious than communion wafers could ever be !
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pberq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 09:45 PM
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15. The real one
I think this is the real one. It shows over 470,000 signatures.

http://www.votetoimpeach.org/
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 03:27 PM
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5. Heard it yesterday
Edited on Fri Jan-21-05 03:34 PM by EC
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ISUGRADIA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 04:34 PM
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7. 5 million sigs will cause the gop congress to do jack shit
really, they gained seats in the house and senate last year. there is no reason for them to abandon bushie and they are not going to bring impeachment charges to the floor. the neo-cons view clark as a wack job who's associated with the far extreme left. the only way they will ever feel any heat is if they see their own base and swing voters turn against bushie. a landslide lose in 2006 for them, then things could get interesting.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 04:44 PM
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8. He needs to be impeached before he destroys
America.

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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 05:24 PM
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10. This is too good to fall off the front page.
:kick:
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 05:28 PM
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11. That felt great to sign, but only up to 409.
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 05:32 PM
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12. I'm glad Clark is behind this.
I signed the petition months ago but I will again send around to everyone I know.
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hector459 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 06:35 PM
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13. Count me in. He should have been impeached right after we invaded Iraq.
It not then, as soon as the report came out that no WMDs were found. But he won't be. Evil is totally in charge of this country now and for the foreseeable future. If God did have a hand in Bush's re-election, it means that God is punishing the US for its sins against humanity.
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 06:39 PM
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14. we can shout a much as we want
it's all fine with * as long as nothing happens.
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