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RAMSEY CLARK ON WORLDWIDE U.S. MILITARIZATION
THE CASE FOR IMPEACHMENT IS CLEAR BEYOND QUESTION

Dear Lonnie,



Last week ImpeachBush.org placed an ad calling for the impeachment
of George W. Bush on the second page of the internationally
read newspaper, USA Today. The impeachment movement has
placed similar ads in the Boston Globe, the New York
Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. If you believe the time
to impeach is now, you can help support the campaign by clicking here.
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=o066WAlaTR8xrPlksZMnzw..

Spreading the word with more newspaper ads, getting more people to
vote for Impeachment, increasing our organizing and fundraising
efforts - this can make Impeachment a major issue in the 2006
midterm Congressional elections. A committed effort over the next
months can move Impeachment to the forefront in the elections and to
the floor of the House of Representatives which has the "sole power of
Impeachment," and onto the Senate for trial.

Ads in newspapers in Congressional Districts can help activate
impeachment organizing to bring the issue home to members and
candidates where their election will be decided.





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A MESSAGE FROM RAMSEY CLARK:

The case for impeachment is clear beyond question.

The list of Bush's crimes is long. The "Shock and
Awe" invasion was Bush's war of aggression -- a crime
identified as the "the Supreme international crime" by the
Nuremberg Tribunal. Remember Falluja, the American Guernica,
a virtual destruction of a defenseless city by superior military
technology (36,000 homes, 8,400 shops destroyed in the final assault
alone); Abu Ghraib, the shameful celebration of sick forms of sexual
torture; Haifa Street, Baghdad, where a U.S. helicopter gun ship
killed 13 unarmed people and injured 50 dancing around a burned out
Bradley Armored Vehicle; Abu Shifa, a small village, where U.S.
soldiers were accused of rounding up civilians, forcing them into
a room, then opening fire, killing 11 people, including a 75
year-old, a 6 month-old baby, and five children under
the age five; Haditha, where Marines murdered 15 defenseless
civilians, and injured many more, most women and children;
and tiny Guantanamo, where the U.S. has compiled human
rights violations in four years that have been denounced by the entire
world including the United Nations. Yet President Bush arrogantly
refuses to close the Guantanamo prison, or return the land and
sovereignty to Cuba while U.S. officials fret over three prisoners who
committed suicide in one day to "embarrass the U.S."

The grand total of civilian deaths in Iraq is probably more than
250,000, and rapidly growing. (The Lancet Medical Journal) U.S.
military deaths exceed 2500, the seriously injured number more than
15,000 and the number who will suffer mental and physical impairment
from the occupation of Iraq is in the unknown tens of
thousands.

What respect for human dignity! What reverence for life! What better
way to make enemies?

The necessity for citizen action to secure impeachment is also clear
beyond question. The Congress will not act unless We, the People
demand it and vote those out of office who fail to respond.

Our government is geared for war as directed by transnational
corporations, domestic industries, and the corporate media.

Both branches of our One Party system, Democrat and Republican, favor
the use of force to have their way. Consider,

* (1) Regime Change in Iran (1953) the Shah replacing
democratically elected Mossadegh; Eisenhower (R);
* (2) Regime Change in Guatemala (1954) military government for
democratically elected Arbenz; Eisenhower (R);
* (3) Regime Change in Congo (1961) assassination of Patrice
Lumumba, Eisenhower (R)
* (4) the Vietnam War (1959-1975), Eisenhower (R), Kennedy (D),
Johnson (D), Nixon (R);
* (5) Invasion of Dominican Republic (1965), Johnson (D);
* (6) Contra Warfare against Nicaragua (1981-1988), resulting in
regime change from the Sandinistas to corrupt capitalists;
Reagan (R);
* (7) Attack and occupation of Grenada (population
110,000)(1983-1987) Reagan (R);
* (8) Aerial attack on the sleeping cities of Tripoli and
Benghazi, Libya, (1986) Reagan (R);
* (9) Invasion of Panama Regime Change (1989-1990), George H. W.
Bush (R);
* (10) Gulf War (1991), George H. W. Bush (R);
* (11) "Humanitarian" occupation of Somalia leading to 10,000
Somali deaths (1992-1993) George H. W. Bush (R) and Bill Clinton
(D);
* (12) Aerial attacks on Iraq (1993-2001) Bill Clinton (D);
* (13) War against Yugoslavia (1999) 23,000 bombs and missiles
dropped on Yugoslavia, Bill Clinton (D)
* (14) Missile Attack (21 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles) destroying the
Al Shifa Pharmaceutical Plant in Khartoum which provided the
majority of all medicines for Sudan (1998) Bill Clinton (D);
* (15) Invasion and Occupation of Afghanistan, Regime Change
(2001-present) George W. Bush (R);
* (16) War of Aggression against Iraq and Hostile Occupation
(2003)-present) George W. Bush (R);
* (17) Regime Change in Haiti (2004) Democratically elected
Aristide for three years of chaos and systematic killing, George
W. Bush (R).

There have been major aggressions every several years.

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Remember that every Congress in the past half century has approved
excessive military budgets and the last three have approved increases
that have made the U.S. military budget larger than those of all other
nations combined.

The U.S. will remain a military threat to the world until it vastly
reduces its military expenditures. The single highest priority
for peace is cutting the U.S. military budget. The United
States government may have been able to outspend the Soviet Union
into economic collapse in the Cold War arms race, injuring the entire
planet in the process. Now Bush has entered a new arms race and
is provoking a Second Cold War with China. Yet what can China do,
as the U.S. builds a first-strike oriented missile shield and uses
Japan and a huge advanced military base at Pyongtaek on Korea's
west coast, not 500 miles from Beijing?

The U.S. at this time is capable of striking any place on earth with a
nuclear armed missile within one hour of the order to fire, launched
from a Trident II, or other nuclear weapons system. We are at
this time spending billions on a new generation of nuclear weapons
that can be used tactically, against four blocks of Falluja, or
an alleged Al Queda camp in Pakistan. At the same time, we
threaten Iran and others for seeking to develop nuclear energy with
the claim that they may build a crude bomb. Yet the only defense
a nation today has to U.S. militarism is the threat of nuclear
retaliation. The U.S. is seeking total dismantlement and
prohibition of all weapons of mass destruction everywhere else,
because it possesses the vast majority of all WMD's and far
superior delivery systems.

George Bush loved being a War President while he was winning - winning
over the bodies of impoverished and defenseless people, that is.
Someone told him only war presidents can be great presidents. He
will love war again if his polls go up.

President Bush would rather make enemies by the use of force to have
his way, than seek agreement with friends by helping others and
recognizing their rights and interests. He prefers to go it
alone, and then entice or coerce whatever help he can get
from others, whether it is for Iraq, global warming, the
prohibition of land mines, or the use of minors in war, addressing
hunger, poverty, AIDS, natural disaster relief, or most United Nations
activities, and absolutely, the International Criminal Court which
might indict him. He is spared defeat at the polls because he
cannot seek re-election.

He can be held accountable only by impeachment. The American people
must not acquiesce to his crimes.

Consider that all the major candidates, Democrat and Republican
-- Clinton, Edwards, Kerry, McCain, Frist, -- voted for
the war and/or favor the Iraq Occupation.

To stop U.S. militarism, the U.S. must vastly reduce its military
expenditures, 50% in five years and further down from there on. It
must use those savings to combat poverty, hunger, sickness and
unemployment at home and abroad.

The U.S. must seek friends by word and deed, rather than make
enemies. The harm George Bush has done to the way the rest of
the world sees our country will take a generation to overcome, after
we change our warlike ways.

But the only way to convince the world that We the People do not
approve of the conduct of George W. Bush is to impeach him.
Otherwise we can only be seen as approving of his acts, or
as powerless to prevent them.

And the only way we can deter the next, and future Presidents, from
seeking war rather than peace is to impeach George W. Bush and his key
advisors now. Only then will political leadership know the
American people will not accept more war.

Last week ImpeachBush.org placed an ad calling for the impeachment
of George W. Bush on the second page of the internationally
read newspaper, USA Today. The impeachment movement has
placed similar ads in the Boston Globe, the New York
Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. The time to impeach is
now. This movement has grown with your continuing support. Please make
a donation to the campaign today so that the movement will grow in the
coming months. Click here.
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=OxowgryN3OcoyBems46KXQ..

Ramsey Clark
June 15, 2006

Go to www.impeachbush.org to get involved and support the campaign
to impeach Bush.



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