Impeach Bush and Cheney

President Bush Addresses United Nations General Assembly United Nations New York, New York

Sept. 19, 2006, 12:15 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Secretary General, Madam President, distinguished delegates, and ladies and gentlemen: I want to thank you for the privilege of speaking to this General Assembly.

Last week, America and the world marked the fifth anniversary of the attacks that filled another September morning with death and suffering. On that terrible day, extremists killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, including citizens of dozens of nations represented right here in this chamber.

Who committed the acts of Sept. 11, 2001?   Five years later, we still don't know what happened, but as time passes, the trusim that extremists did it still begs the question of who the extremists are.  What seems clear is that the plan was orchestrated at the operational level by Pakistani intelligence (ISI).  On Sept. 12, 2001, the Taliban denied involvement, as did Osama bin Laden.  On Sept 12, 2001, I went on the Michael Medved radio program to state my belief that it was an inside job by elements within our defense establishment, a belief increasingly supported by the growing 9/11 Truth Movement.  At the time, I primarily relied on my own intuition that such an attack seemed to me to have been imminent, based primarily on the provocative behavior of Dick Cheney in his then recent issuance of the Energy Task Force report. That plan struck me as extremist in its implicit assumption that we would have have to be permanently sitting on the Iraqi oil fields.  That Bush is an extremist is not that hard to believe.  Whether or not he turns out to have been a conscious member of the 9/11 conspiracy, his statement that extremists did it does not necessarily self-consciously exclude himself from responsibility.  The mainstream now wonders what Iraq had to do with 9/11, since there is no apparent connection between Saddam and the nominal 9/11 terrorists in Al Qaeda.  Bush answers that we went into Iraq because of 9/11 because he can't admit that we went into 9/11 because of Iraq oil, and the $5 trillion financial asset that that oil in the ground represents on Wall Street.  I suppose the war would stop the day Wall Street had to properly discount the asset by the security costs associated with fixing it, but without a change in the behavior of our elected representatives (enacting a rational energy policy, impeaching Bush and Cheney, e.g.), the investors won't pay those costs, we all will through taxes and inflation and blood.

Bush: Since then, the enemies of humanity have continued their campaign of murder.

This also begs the question, is Bush self-consciously or not one of the enemies of humanity?  In Iraq alone, perhaps more than 600,000 have died because of Bush's illegal war.

Bush: Al Qaeda and those inspired by its extremist ideology have attacked more than two dozen nations.

Attacking a nation?  That's what armies do, not terrorists, who attack targets within nations by means of certain non-conventional tactics.  Is he talking about London July 7,2005?  Madrid?  Bombay?  Two dozen?

As far as genuine attacks on nations,  Bush himself is the one who has attacked the sovereign nations of Afganistan, Iraq, and Lebanon (by proxy), and is threatening to add Iran to the list.  If he was in on 9/11, add the United States to this list. When asked last week why he wouldn't seek out Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, he replied that he couldn't because Pakistan was a sovereign nation.  If not self-consistent, at least he is acquainted with the the concept of sovereignty. 

Bush: And recently a different group of extremists deliberately provoked a terrible conflict in Lebanon.

Not true.  The same group, Bush and the neo-con Zionists provoked the conflict in Lebanon.

Bush: At the start of the 21st century, it is clear that the world is engaged in a great ideological struggle, between extremists who use terror as a weapon to create fear, and moderate people who work for peace.

This begs the question, who are the extremists?  And who are the "moderate people"?

Bush: Five years ago, I stood at this podium and called on the community of nations to defend civilization and build a more hopeful future.

On Nov. 10, 2001, Bush told the UN:

Bush: Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty.

Yes, let's no longer tolerate the Bush's Big Lie about 9/11, his outrageous conspiracy theory.

Bush: I make this promise to all the victims of that regime: The Taliban's days of harboring terrorists
and dealing in heroin and brutalizing women are drawing to a close. And when that regime is
gone, the people of Afghanistan will say with the rest of the world, "Good riddance."

Bush Lies  - The Taliban offered to capture and try Bin Laden upon evidence, but Bush ignored them:

Source: CNN  October 7, 2001,  U.S. rejects Taliban offer to try bin Laden

Bush Lies - The Taliban had just successfully eradicated opium production:

Source: CBC News
Date: 04 July 2001 Taliban bans growing of poppies for opium

Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, banned poppy growing before the November planting season and augmented it with a religious edict making it contrary to the tenets of Islam.

The Taliban, which has imposed a strict brand of Islam in the 95 percent of Afghanistan it controls, has set fire to heroin laboratories and jailed farmers until they agreed to destroy their poppy crops.

The U.N. surveyors, who completed their search this week, crisscrossed Helmand, Kandahar, Urzgan and Nangarhar provinces and parts of two others -- areas responsible for 86 percent of the opium produced in Afghanistan last year, Frahi said in an interview Wednesday. They covered 80 percent of the land in those provinces that last year had been awash in poppies.

This year they found poppies growing on barely an acre here and there, Frahi said. The rest -- about 175,000 acres -- was clean.

After five years under U.S. "control" -

Date: October 08, 2006 UN warns Afghan opium crop to spur heroin deaths:

The 2006 Afghan Opium Survey, published by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, found production of the raw material for heroin hit a record 6,100 tonnes, almost 50 percent higher than last year. This accounted for more than 90 percent of the world's supply.

Date: October 10, 2006 Liberty still eludes women of Afghanistan

Date: October 10, 2006 Taliban Commander Vows to Fight Until Christian Troops Leave

Within a year, Bush moved onto his next target from the same podium:

Date Sept. 13, 2002,  Bush  lies to UN that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

Bush: This is still the great challenge of our time; it is the calling of our generation.

The true calling of our generation is to remove from power those like Bush controlled by the evil forces of the New World Order conspiracy.

The Seattle City Council should follow the lead of other cities and place an impeachment referendum on the ballot such as this model resolution:

Resolution to Impeach President George W. Bush
and Vice President Richard B. Cheney

WHEREAS, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney conspired with others to defraud the United States of America by intentionally misleading Congress and the public regarding the threat from Iraq in order to justify a war in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Section 371; and

WHEREAS, George W. Bush has admitted to ordering the National Security Agency to conduct electronic surveillance of American civilians without seeking warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, duly constituted by Congress in 1978, in violation of Title 50 United States Code, Section 1805; and

WHEREAS, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney conspired to commit the torture of prisoners in violation of the "Federal Torture Act" Title 18 United States Code, Section 113C, the UN Torture Convention and the Geneva Convention, which under Article VI of the Constitution are part of the "supreme Law of the Land"; and

WHEREAS, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney acted to strip American citizens of their constitutional rights by ordering indefinite detention without access to legal counsel, without charge and without the opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the President of a U.S. citizen as an "enemy combatant", all in subversion of law; and

WHEREAS, In all of this George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney have acted in a manner contrary to their trust as President and Vice President, subversive of constitutional government to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of Seattle and of the United States of America; and

WHEREAS, Petitions from the country at large may be presented by the Speaker of the House according to Clause 3 of House Rule XII;

Be it resolved that George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, warrant impeachment and trial, and removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States;

Be it resolved further by the City of Seattle, That our senators and representatives in the United States Congress be, and they are hereby, requested to cause to be instituted in the Congress of the United States proper proceedings for the investigation of the activities of the George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney, to the end that they may be impeached and removed from such office.

Be it resolved further, That the Clerk of the City of Seattle be, and is hereby, instructed to certify to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, under the seal of the City of Seattle, a copy of this resolution and its adoption by the City of Seattle, as a petition, and request that this petition be delivered to the Office of the Clerk and entered in the United States Congressional Journal. The copies shall be marked with the word "Petition" at the top of the document and contain the original authorizing signature of the President of the City Council.