Bush and Cheney Arrested

8th March 2008

posted in Corruption, Impeachment, Iraq, Politics, War by themaiden |

Well, not really but maybe if theystop for gas in the wrong towns in Vermont. Yes, this is a symbolic gesture. It isn’t the first though.

I’d prefer we go after his boss but…

Democrats.com has a petition, which I’ve already written about in Now that the Democrats have the House… but which is worth reprinting:

I support the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney for the following reasons:

1. Violating the United Nations Charter by launching an illegal “War of Aggression” against Iraq without cause, using fraud to sell the war to Congress and the public, and misusing government funds to begin bombing without Congressional authorization.

2. Violating U.S. and international law by authorizing the torture of thousands of captives, resulting in dozens of deaths, and keeping prisoners hidden from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

3. Violating the Constituton by arbitrarily detaining Americans, legal residents, and non-Americans, without due process, without charge, and without access to counsel.

4. Violating the Geneva Conventions by targeting civilians, journalists, hospitals, and ambulances, and using illegal weapons, including white phosphorous, depleted uranium, and a new type of napalm.

5. Violating U.S. law and the Constitution through widespread wiretapping of the phone calls and emails of Americans without a warrant.

6. Violating the Constitution by using “signing statements” to defy hundreds of laws passed by Congress.

7. Violating U.S. and state law by obstructing honest elections in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006.

8. Violating U.S. law by using paid propaganda and disinformation, selectively and misleadingly leaking classified information, and exposing the identity of a covert CIA operative working on sensitive WMD proliferation for political retribution.

9. Subverting the Constitution and abusing Presidential power by asserting a “Unitary Executive Theory” giving unlimited powers to the President, by obstructing efforts by Congress and the Courts to review and restrict Presidential actions, and by promoting and signing legislation negating the Bill of Rights and the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

10. Gross negligence in failing to assist New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina, in ignoring urgent warnings of an Al Qaeda attack prior to Sept. 11, 2001, and in increasing air pollution causing global warming. ((Global warming? Ok. I can’t support that clause. Increasing air pollution is not an impeachable offense.))

Cheney? Guilty?

Asked whether the vice-president was guilty of a war crime, Mr Wilkerson replied: “Well, that’s an interesting question - it was certainly a domestic crime to advocate terror and I would suspect that it is … an international crime as well.” In the context of other remarks it appeared he was using the word “terror” to apply to the systematic abuse of prisoners.

Cheney ‘may be guilty of war crime’

Rumsfeld had to flee France.

Oh… but hell we ain’t done nothing?

I know. The US is innocent.

A Report on United States War Crimes Against Iraq to the Commission of Inquiry for the International War Crimes Tribunal

Court case against General Franks in Brussels

Declassified documents point to US war crimes in Iraq

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1 On March 13th, 2008, XenoSapien said:

Get over getting Bush and Cheney arrested. You are hoping against hope.

What Bush has done is the right thing–eliminate a dictator who slaughtered over 500,000 of his own people; who had an on-staff ‘rapist’ rape pre-pubescent children in front of their parents for retaliation of possible subversion of the Saddam regime. A man who gassed to death 30,000 Kurds for the hell-of-it, and as US troops are finding, bones of children with detonators still attatched to their bones, as Saddam tested these detonators to see if they worked; for amusement.

So I must ask: If your home that you live in was infested with cockroaches, where would you rather those cockroaches be? a) All over the house b) All centralized under the refrigerator.

Iraq is “b”, under the frige, as all the cockroaches have assembled there. BUSH has done what should have been done over a decade ago, but the DEMOCRAT CONGRESS would not give him authority unless he agreed to NOT take Saddam out of power. HISTORY will prove our current president Bush correct.

XenoSapien

2 On March 14th, 2008, Huey55 said:

XenoSapien

It is good to know that the government’s propaganda machine is still in working order. Congratulations you have been very well indoctrinated.

I don’t care how many Iraqis Sadam killed. It was none of our business and not worth thousands of American lives to turn the place from a dictatorship that was no threat to us to a hotbed of terrorist recruitment and instability. If you wanted to do something about Iraq you should have gotten together with like minded people and done something. Instead you had the government steal my money to do it for you.

The Kurds that were gassed were attacked for supporting Kurdish rebels not for the hell of it. We sold him the main ingredients to make the gas before and after that incident, so I wouldn’t get to high and mighty if I were you. You claim Saddam killed 500,000 of his own people. That may be so, but he was in power for a long time. In the five years we have been in Iraq it is estimated that we have killed between 100,000 and 600,000 civilians depending on whose numbers you believe. Even if you go by the lower 100,000 number we are killing more people a year than Sadam. Think for a second, if you attached an exploding device to a kid and detonated it with enough force to kill the kid would it still be attached to the bones? Don’t believe everything you read.

3 On March 18th, 2008, themaiden said:

Xenosapien,

You’re right. I am hoping against hope. I’m OK with that.

huey55 has a pretty good point about the bombs. Such things aren’t likely to remain connected to the kiddies. Have you any proof?

That cockroach analogy looks like nonsense to me. The ‘cockroaches’– who are in fact human beings it is worth noting– are not collected in Iraq. Most of them are still where they’ve been for years. What Bush has done is increased the numbers of militants/terrorists more than bin Laden could have ever dreamed possible. Thanks George.

You are right about something else though. Following the first gulf war there was an insurgency in Iraq that we encouraged but didn’t support. We should have supported it.

4 On March 25th, 2008, Jake said:

Xenosapien,

true, the world is a better place without saddam, the thing is, the U.S. and the world would have been better off if G.W., Rumsfeld, and Dick had taken a few minutes to actually listen to advisement and come up with something that resembled a war plan (maybe even a plan for the occupation and eventual withdrawl).

Going after Bin Laden first for what he, not Iraq, did would have made a bit of sense too.

5 On March 26th, 2008, themaiden said: