George and Dick, you are so through.

Check out this updated resolution from the PHDC, which will be before the California Democratic Executive Board at the end of January. The PHDC had a similar resolution which is up before the board in January and the members felt that, as long as they had to wait to get it passed by the California Democratic Party, it might as well be current. Note that this goes after the whole administration. Bush is the only one they need to impeach as everyone else can just be arrested.

RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH BUSH AND INVESTIGATE CHENEY, ET AL.


WHEREAS, (1) the Downing Street Memos show that President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and various others began planning and executing the illegal war against and occupation of Iraq months before seeking Congressional and UN approval; (2) in furtherance of this planning, (a) intelligence was shaped to fit these plans, (b) illegal bombing runs were made against Iraq and various other potentially illegal operations and actions were taken with the express intent to provoke Saddam Hussein to take military action and decline to cooperate with the UN and other international entities, and (c) false statements to the American people were made by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and others with the apparent intent to deceive Congress and the American public in order to allow the Bush Adminstration to carry out its plan for an unnecessary war; (3) as a direct result of the above actions, the U.S. and U.K. began an unapproved war of aggression against Iraq, killing thousands of American and Iraqi military forces, wounding tens of thousands more, and killing or wounding potentially hundreds of thousands of civilians, women, children and other innocents; (4) that the U.S. has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in this potentially illegal war, to the detriment of the national debt, all citizens of the U.S. and all government programs for which this money might otherwise have been appropriated, and to the benefit solely of the military contractors and supplier corporations who have been shown to be overcharging and otherwise cheating the people and the government of the U.S, and (5) these actions on the part of the Bush Administration fit the definition of high crimes and misdemeanors, and

WHEREAS, the treasonous leaking of the name of Valerie Plame by Bush administration officials for the apparent purpose of revenge threatened the lives of a whole network of CIA operatives and obstructed official operations of the United States Government and decreased the amount of information available to U.S. operatives fits the definition of high crimes and misdemeanors, and

WHEREAS, (1) the advocacy and carrying out of torture in violation of the Geneva conventions, (2) the defunding of the infrastruction and signing of an executive order removing a wetland protecting New Orleans and the delayed FEMA response to hurricane Katrina resulted in the deaths of a great many residents of New Orleans, (3) the giving of no-bid contracts in New Orleans, Iraq and elsewhere to monetary contributors to Bush’s campaign and (4) the extended attacks on the civil liberties of all Americans, including the authorization of illegal surveillance on American citizens, all fit within the definition of high crimes and misdemeanors,

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Patrick Henry Democratic Club urges Congress to immediately begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Patrick Henry Democratic Club asks that all fifty states and a federal grand jury immediately begin investigations into criminal actions by Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, Karl Rove, I. Lewis Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, John Bolton, Jay Bybee and any and all other members and former members of the administration in connection with the above noted past and present actions and any other crimes they may have committed.

Passed unanimously on June 28, 2005. Amended September 30, 2005. Amended December 20, 2005.

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