Rumors Of Impeachment
Several officials are making a case to remove the President To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
Nuremberg Tribunal Judgment
Roughly 2 months after the US Iraqi invasion, and still no weapons of mass destruction other than the several really-bad allied helicopter pilots. According to Rollcall; Capitol Hill's newspaper, there are formal efforts underway to Impeach President Bush. Understand that George Walker Bush, former ace test pilot for the Texas Air National Guard (after jumping over a waiting list to protect the lone star state from those mean 'ol Viet-cong) was more than determined to initiate a strike against Iraq "regardless."
A report by Sherrie Gossett of WorldNetDaily, this movement was started sometime ago, and was drafted against the president by activist and presented to prominent liberal attorneys for a two-hour session in mid-March. Rep. John Conyers D-Mi hosted the event in an undisclosed location, he was also the only Congressman to attend. The driving force of the meeting was former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Clark had already been pushing for impeachment, holding public demonstrations in DC and San Francisco and even creating a vote to impeach website. Bush has been under scrutiny ever since he began his tenure in the White House after a highly controversial election, and once again after the 9/11/01 attacks, the 3/19 preemptive strike on Iraq that's being called a war by Washington and the major media, may be the straw that breaks not only Saddam but Bush as well.
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter is among the panel that hopes to take the president to task on several charges such as lying to the American Public: "I would be in favor of the impeachment of President Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors and I can't think of any better definition than murder when he talks about American service members and putting them in a war which is not only illegal, but is based on a foundation of lies." What seems to be supporting the activists, attorneys, and scholars accusations a month after the WND story broke is Britain's admission of no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in Iraq. In a radio interview, British Home Secretary David Blunkett added that he "rejoices" in the fall of Saddam Hussein "regardless of whether any weapons of mass destruction were found or not." Given the loss of American military and Iraqi military and civilian life, I give that statement as much credibility as I do the statements of any local racist cop after he claims he saw a weapon after shooting an unarmed Black man.
What the panel is initially looking at are the Tony Blair "intelligence report" that was later revealed to have been plagiarized by a college student, the 1995 claims of Defector Kamal Hussein, who said that all of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were destroyed after the 1st Gulf War, and no nuclear weapons were being made (I think we can pretty much call that one a lock, on the common sense tip, someone strikes at my home and I'm going to use everything I've got), and Secretary of State Colin Powell's 2/5 "smoking gun," the Iraqi drone that blew smoke up the public's assets. What hurts the activists is the suspicious nature of some of their accusers; only days after the WND report, a story was leaked regarding Ritter and an arrest some time ago for the solicitation of an underage girl. It may well be that Ritter should be sharing a cell next to R. Kelly, but the former inspector must have raised someone's ire, the record was under seal. Clark has a reputation for defending despots and war criminals. This is just the 1st salvo to impeachment.