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Impeach Bush/Cheney/Rice - The Hubris Syndrome
by
Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr.
The US is in jeopardy of bankruptcy and physical attack if we don't immediately impeach President George W. Bush, VP Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. If Bush/Cheney/Rice attacks Iran or Syria it’s all over for the civilized world.
The primary reason for the need to impeach is that both President George W. Bush and VP Dick Cheney have been afflicted with a mental illness, called the Hubris Syndrome, and are on the verge of involving much of the world in endless wars, deaths and destruction.
Let me first explain what the Hubris Syndrome is, by quoting Lord David Owen, from his book, The Hubris Syndrome, published in Wales, in 2007.
The Hubris Syndrome
By
Lord David Owen
It was in drama rather than philosophy that the notion was developed further to explore the patterns of hubristic behavior, its causes and consequences. A hubristic career proceeded along something like the following course. The hero wins glory and acclamation by achieving unwonted success against the odds. The experience then goes to their head: they begin to treat others, mere ordinary mortals, with contempt and disdain and they develop such confidence in their own ability that they begin to think themselves capable of anything. This excessive self-confidence leads them into misinterpreting the reality around them and into making mistakes.
Disillusionment with politicians has grown markedly in recent years and some people will think all politicians are hubristic. But this is not the case with most post-war heads of government in
the USA and the UK. Truman, Attlee, Eisenhower, Macmillan, Douglas-Home, Ford, Carter, Callaghan, Reagan, Major and Bush Sr. showed no signs of hubris. Kennedy's cynicism curbed
any hubris and his mood was affected by the steroids and amphetamines he was being given by his doctors. Any hubris in Eden was short lived and due to his illness, when he was being
given a mixture of amphetamine and Benzedrine. The behavioral symptoms in a head of government which might trigger the diagnosis of hubristic syndrome typically grow in
strength and are represented by more than three or four symptoms from the following tentative list, before any such diagnosis could be contemplated:
• a narcissistic propensity to see the world primarily as an arena in which they can exercise power and seek glory rather than as a place with problems that need approaching in a pragmatic and non-self-referential manner;
• a predisposition to take actions which seem likely to cast
them in a good light - i.e. in order to enhance their image;
• a disproportionate concern with image and presentation;
• a messianic manner of talking about what they are doing and a tendency to exaltation;
• an identification of themselves with the state to the extent that they regard the outlook and interests of the two as identical;
• a tendency to talk of themselves in the third person or using the royal 'we';
• excessive confidence in their own judgment and contempt for the advice or criticism of others;
• exaggerated self-belief, bordering on a sense of omnipotence, in what they personally can achieve;
• a belief that, rather than being accountable to the mundane court of colleagues, or public opinion, the real court to which they answer is much greater: History or God;
• an unshakeable belief that in that court they will be vindicated;
• restlessness, recklessness and impulsiveness;
• loss of contact with reality; often associated with progressive isolation;
• a tendency to allow their 'broad vision', especially their conviction about the moral rectitude of a proposed course of action, to obviate the need to consider other aspects of it, such as its practicality, cost and the possibility of unwanted outcomes;
• a consequent type of incompetence in carrying out a policy, which could be called hubristic incompetence. This is where things go wrong precisely because too much self-confidence has led the leader not to bother worrying about the nuts and bolts of a policy.
It can be allied to an incurious nature. It is to be distinguished from ordinary incompetence, where the necessary detailed work on the complex issues involved is engaged in but mistakes in
decision-making are made nonetheless.
Most syndromes of personality tend to manifest themselves in people by the age of eighteen and stay with them for the rest of their lives. Hubristic syndrome is different in that it should not
be seen as a personality syndrome but as something which manifests itself in leaders only when in power - and usually only after they have been wielding it for some time - and which then
may well abate once power is lost. In that sense it is an illness of position as much as of the person. And the circumstances in which the position is held clearly affect the likelihood that a
leader will succumb to it. The key external factors would seem to be these: holding substantial power; minimal constraint on the leader exercising such personal authority; and the length of
time they stay in power.
An atmosphere of omnipotence can easily grow around any leader, but political leaders are particularly vulnerable, even democratically elected ones.
It is not a condition, usually, which those leaders affected by it bring to office. Rather it appears to develop when heads of government have been in power for a while. Personality traits, though, do seem to make some leaders more susceptible to it than others, and factors to do with the external political situation seem to play a role too.
There is a case for working on the supposition that there is an underlying syndrome in which a combination of signs and features are more likely to appear together than independently, and which may yet be judged by the medical profession as forming a pathological category. I developed this argument in an article for the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, and I hope a debate will now ensue.
Tony Blair and George Bush's Health
At various times both Tony Blair and George Bush have sought to hide their medical history. We do not know whether any drugs or medication they may have taken in office predisposed them to hubristic syndrome. Secrecy, far from stopping speculation, has encouraged it.
George W. Bush 's Health
During the last week of George W. Bush's first presidential campaign, it became known that he had been arrested for driving a car under the influence of alcohol at the age of thirty. Starting in 1999, it had been made fairly clear in unattributable briefings that as a young man the candidate had been too fond of alcohol. This was presented as a passing phase of little consequence; in fact he was an alcoholic. On alcoholism there is no room for complacency. It is a condition that, once it has manifested itself, demands constant vigilance to ensure, alcohol abuse does not continue in total secrecy and with the patient in denial.
Since he has been President, records of Bush's medical condition have been published every year by his doctors. On only one occasion was there some delay. They reveal little of interest except that he has an abnormally low pulse rate. Yet for some years Bush has been uttering so many malapropisms that besides making him the butt of many jokes, they have focused doctors' minds on whether or not he has dyslexia, from which his brother Neil is reported to suffer. There has also been speculation on whether Bush has adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a life-long disorder characterized by overactive behavior, short attention span and poor concentration. A further reason for speculation in Bush's case is that there is a well-established association between dyslexia and ADHD. Also ADHD is one of four psychiatric disorders, the others being depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and schizophrenia, which commonly occur with substance abuse disorders such as alcoholism. Bush claims he has drunk no alcohol since 1987, but there have been rumors in the press to the contrary. On 13 January 2002 he lost consciousness while sitting on a couch in the White House watching a football game. His head hit the floor, resulting in an abrasion on his left cheekbone. The incident was blamed on a combination of not feeling well in previous days and an improperly eaten pretzel. I was contacted by a British doctor who had visited Johns Hopkins University and in talking to a group of young doctors was told that, following this incident, though the President had been admitted to Walter
Reed Hospital, a blood sample of his had been sent to Johns Hopkins which showed a blood alcohol level in the range of 200 mg. All such rumors have been emphatically denied by the
White House and certainly there are no signs of Bush resuming his drinking habits. Personality was once thought to play an important role in alcoholism, although it is felt to play a somewhat lesser role today as a contributor to addiction. Yet it is obvious that some people's personalities are part and parcel of their addictive habit and influence whether they overcome their addiction. Bush has never made any secret of the fact that he does not read much and claims that he is no intellectual. But that does not mean - as some assume - that he has a low IQ. While he was a 'C' student, which means he had to rely on the strength of his family connections to get into Yale, he graduated from both Yale Law School and Harvard Business School, which is not possible
without a fair amount of intelligence. Some who meet Bush one-on-one claim to be pleasantly surprised by his intelligence. Question marks about Bush relate, therefore, more to his
inattention, his incurious nature and inarticulacy: in short, signs that his brain functions in an unusual way.
Armchair psychiatrists, according to one American magazine (New Yorker Magazine, 5 Feb. 2007) have for some time argued that Bush suffers from a classic case of narcissistic personality disorder. This, like other personality disorders, begins in early adulthood. Psychoanalytic
studies of George Bush offer deeper insights. Psychoanalysts have often written about political leaders whom they have not treated as patients: Freud, for example, wrote a book about Woodrow Wilson using evidence provided by a colleague of Wilson's. Blair has been the subject of an analytical study by a former Labour MP, Leo Abse.
One of the analytical books on Bush is by Dr. Justin Frank, who believes that the characteristics of his personality overlap meaningfully with a description of what he defines as a megalomanic state:
The troubles in Bush's early childhood might have made a megalomaniac solution an attractive way to adapt - to cope with, and even triumph over, his circumstances. Both megalomania and mania exhibit three overtly similar defensive characteristics: control, contempt and triumph. Simple mania involves love and the need to deny dependency or loss of a loved person; megalomania involves hate and a need to triumph over paranoid fears. A
manic person wants to repair the damage he's caused, once he recognizes it. He feels guilt. The megalomaniac is indifferent to any damage he caused, because he had a reason for his actions; he is without guilt or compassion, and incapable of even thinking about making reparation.
The relationship between such a megalomaniac disposition and hubris hardly needs spelling out.
Lord David Owen was Labour Foreign Secretary under James Callaghan. He co-founded and went on to lead the Social Democratic Party in Great Britain, and is now a cross-bencher in the Lords. He trained as a medical doctor, and has long been interested in the effect of ill health on heads of government. Lord Owen’s many books include Balkan Odyssey; Time to Declare, his powerful autobiography; and a poetry anthology, Seven Ages.
Lord Owen has studied this problem for many years and is convinced, beyond a shadow of doubt, that Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill had this illness while in office. He is also convinced that Tony Blair, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney became afflicted with this mental illness at least shortly after 9/11, and probably long before that time.
Some examples to illustrate President George W. Bush’s mental illness, Hubris Syndrome are:
"Mission Accomplished", a military phrase associated with completing a mission, is in recent years particularly associated with a sign displayed on the USS Abraham Lincoln during a televised address by United States President George W. Bush on May 1, 2003. Bush stated at the time that this was the end to major combat operations in Iraq. While this statement did coincide with an end to the conventional phase of the war, Bush's assertion — and the sign — became controversial after guerilla warfare in Iraq increased during the Iraqi insurgency. The vast majority of casualties, among both coalition (~96% as of November 2007) and Iraqi combatants, and among Iraqi civilians, have occurred after the speech.
Bush’s walk is like that of a western gunslinger, who swings his arms in a fashion so as to clear the six-shooters strapped to both sides of his hips.
His smile is more like a sneer as he addresses his “subjects” in public.
"My job is a job to make decisions. I'm a decision maker. -- if the job description were, what do you do -- it's decision maker." --George W. Bush, Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007
"I’m the decider! My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions." --George W. Bush, The Decider, Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007
"I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'" --George W. Bush, Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007
"We're also talking to different finance ministers about how we can send a message to the Iranian government that the free world is not going to tolerate the development of know-how in how to build a weapon, or at least gain the ability to make a weapon." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007
"We're kicking ass." --George W. Bush, on the security situation in Iraq, to Australian Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile, Sydney, Australia, Sept. 5, 2007
"I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president." --George W. Bush, as quoted by author Robert Draper in Dead Certain
"I'm going to try to see if I can remember as much to make it sound like I'm smart on the subject." --George W. Bush, answering a question about a possible flu pandemic, Cleveland, July 10, 2007
"You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007
"I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle. He's bigger than that." --George W. Bush, on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as quoted by the Sun newspaper, June 27, 2007
"There's a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 17, 2007
"My relationship with this good man is where I've been focused, and that's where my concentration is. And I don't regret any other aspect of it. And so I -- we filled a lot of space together." --George W. Bush, on British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Washington, D.C., May 17, 2007
"We're going to -- we'll be sending a person on the ground there pretty soon to help implement the malaria initiative, and that initiative will mean spreading nets and insecticides throughout the country so that we can see a reduction in death of young children that -- a death that we can cure." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Oct. 18, 2007
"I fully understand those who say you can't win this thing militarily. That's exactly what the United States military says, that you can't win this military." --George W. Bush, on the need for political progress in Iraq, Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 2007
"We're also talking to different finance ministers about how we can send a message to the Iranian government that the free world is not going to tolerate the development of know-how in how to build a weapon, or at least gain the ability to make a weapon." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007
"I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas." --George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007
"The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear -- I'm a commander guy." --George W. Bush, who apparently is no longer "The Decider," Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007
"You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war President. No President wants to be a war President, but I am one." --George W. Bush, Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 26, 2006
The above quotes come from: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm
So, before much of the world is thrown into endless wars, the only legal answer is to impeach President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and possibly others involved in the planning and execution of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and impending invasions of Iran, Syria, Lebanon and other nations of the Middle East. In that light, I propose the following Articles of Impeachment.
Articles of Impeachment
Articles of Impeachment against George Walker Bush, President of the United States of America, and other officials, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
RESOLUTION
Resolved, that George Walker Bush, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following Articles of Impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:
Articles of Impeachment exhibited by the people of the United States of America, against George Walker Bush, President of the United States of America, and other officials, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors. Be it resolved that:
ARTICLE I - FAILURE TO PRESERVE, PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION
In violation of the oath of office, which reads: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” George Walker Bush, in his conduct while President of the United States has demonstrated a pattern of abuse of office and of executive privilege, and disregard for the Constitution itself. This conduct includes the following:
Manipulating Intelligence and Lying to Justify War
In violation of the separation of powers under the Constitution and his subsequent obligation to share intelligence with the Congress, George Walker Bush, while serving as President of the United States of America, in preparing for the invasion of Iraq, did withhold intelligence from the Congress, by refusing to provide Congress with the full intelligence picture that he was being given, by redacting information by, for example, removing portions of reports such as the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing, and actively manipulating the intelligence on Iraq’s alleged weapons programs by pressuring the Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies to provide intelligence such that “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy” as revealed in the “Downing Street Memo.” To this end, President George Walker Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld created the Office of Special Plans inside the Pentagon to override existing intelligence reports by providing unreliable evidence that supported the claim that Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction posed an imminent threat to the United States of America. By justifying the invasion of Iraq with false and misleading statements linking Iraq to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and falsely asserting that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program for which it was importing aluminum tubes and uranium, these assertions being either false, or based on “fixed” intelligence, with the intent to misinform the people and their representatives in Congress in order to gain their support for invading Iraq, denying both the people and their representatives in Congress the right to make an informed choice, George Walker Bush, President of the United States, did commit and was guilty of high crimes against the United States of America.
ARTICLE II - ABUSE OF OFFICE AND OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE.
In violation of his oath to “faithfully execute the office of President of the United States,” George Walker Bush, in his conduct while President of the United States, has consistently demonstrated disregard for that oath by obstructing and hindering the work of Congressional investigative bodies and by seeking to expand the scope of the powers of his office. This conduct includes the following:
Failure to Uphold Accountability
In abrogation of his responsibility under the oath of office to take care that the Laws be faithfully executed, by which he agreed to act in good faith and accept responsibility for the overall conduct of the Executive Branch, a duty vested in his office alone under the Constitution, George Walker Bush, failed to take responsibility for, investigate or discipline those responsible for an ongoing pattern of negligence, incompetence and malfeasance to the detriment of the American people.
Those whom George Walker Bush, as President of the United States of America, has failed to hold to account include, but are not limited to, the following top-level officials in his administration:
(a) Richard Cheney. In violation of his oath of office to support and defend the Constitution, Richard Cheney, Vice President of the United States of America, played a key role in manipulating intelligence in the interest of promoting the illegal invasion of Iraq by pressuring analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency to “fix” their intelligence estimates of the danger posed by Iraq in relation to weapons of mass destruction, whereby Richard Cheney, Vice President of the United States, did commit and was guilty of high crimes against the United States of America.
(b) Condoleezza Rice, In violation of her Constitutional duty to share and provide accurate and truthful intelligence information with the Congress, as former National Security Advisor to the President, did play a leading role in deceiving Congress and the American public by repeating and propagating false statements concerning Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction program, including false information that the purchase of aluminum tubes demonstrated that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear weapons program, false information that Iraq was seeking to purchase uranium and false information that Iraq sought help in developing a chemical and biological weapons program; whereby Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State of the United States of America, did commit and was guilty of high misdemeanors against the United States of America. By neglecting to superintend the conduct of these officials and to hold members of the Executive Branch responsible for their negligence or violations of law, Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State of the United States, did commit and was guilty of high misdemeanors against the United States of America.
(c) Failure to demand accountability and to punish those behind the trillions of dollars missing and unexplained in the Defense Department budget.
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office.
ARTICLE III - FAILURE TO ENSURE THE LAWS ARE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED
In violation of his duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” George Walker Bush, during his tenure as President of the United States, has violated the letter and spirit of laws and rules of criminal procedure used by civilian and military courts, and has violated or ignored regulatory codes and practices that carry out the law. This conduct includes, but is not limited to the following:
Excessive and Improper Use of Signing Statements
President George W. Bush is flouting the Constitution and undermining the rule of law by claiming the power to disregard selected provisions of bills he signed, using so-called signing statements.
Torture
Very clear violation of the Geneva Convention on torture, by directing the CIA, DOD and other agencies to use torture in the attempt to gain information from individuals. Besides being illegal, there are clear examples of cases where torture does not reveal the truth. A tortured person is likely to say anything that will stop the pain and suffering. Bush/Cheney/Rise’s way around admitting torture is to re-define the term torture.
Illegal Domestic Spying
In violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [50 USC Chapter 36], George Walker Bush did clandestinely direct the National Security Agency and various other intelligence agencies, in secret and outside the lawful scope of their mandates, for purposes unrelated to any lawful function of his offices, to conduct electronic surveillance of citizens of the United States on U.S. soil without seeking to obtain, before or after, a judicial warrant, thereby subverting the powers of the Congress and the Judiciary by circumventing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) courts established by Congress, whose express purpose is to check such abuses of executive power, provoking the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to file a complaint and another judge to resign in protest, the said program having been subsequently ruled illegal (ACLU vs. NSA); he has also concealed the existence of this unlawful program of spying on American citizens from the people and all but a few of their representatives in Congress, even resorting to outright public deceit as on 20 April, 2004, when he told an audience in Buffalo, New York: “any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires . . . a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so,” whereby said George Walker Bush, President of the United States, did commit and was guilty of high crimes against the United States of America.
In all of this, George Walker Bush has repeatedly and unapologetically misled the American people and has sought to undermine the system of checks and balances established by the Founding Founders. Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct, and in the interest of saving our Constitution and our democracy from the threat of arbitrary government, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
Protect and Defend the Constitution
Article 2, Section 1 of the United States Constitution ends with the following oath that a new President must swear to prior to taking office:
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
The first step in the elimination of the United States Constitution took place at their meeting in Waco, Texas, at the end of March 23, 2005, between U.S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin as they committed their governments to a path of cooperation and joint action, called “Security and Prosperity Partnership” (S.P.P.). This path will eventually lead to the surrender of U.S. sovereignty, independence and national borders. It will result in the establishment of a North American Union currency called the “Amero,” as the dollar is junked. The U.S. will provide the army for defense. The U.S. will provide Social Security benefits for those who are now citizens of Mexico and Canada. Gone will be U.S. citizenship. A new Constitution will be presented for governing these three nations, which will replace the present Constitutions of these three nations. A simple term for this new amalgamation will be the North American Union. The Bush Administration calls this agreement a “Partnership” rather than a Treaty, because if it were a Treaty, the Senate would have to ratify it.
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office.
Failure to Secure U.S. Borders and Ports of Entry
Seaports - Since 9/11, only 2% of the containers entering the U.S. are inspected, and this is after they are already in port. This means that, of the cargo containers that reached our shores last year (2006) aboard ships from virtually every port in the world, some 26.5 million of these containers were shuffled through our ports with no inspections of any kind.
Illegal Immigrants – Official sources within our government estimate that there are somewhere between 12 million and 20 million illegal immigrants in the United States. Nobody knows for sure. It is more likely 30 million, or even more, who have entered the U.S. illegally. As they cross our borders, who knows how much disease, illegal drugs and possible weapons of mass destruction that they bring with them?
It is the responsibility of the President to provide the security of this nation. Not only has he not done so, but he has deliberately encourage illegal immigration by such policies as “Catch and Release”, failure to hire sufficient Border Patrol Agents, failure to erect 2,000 miles of inpenetratable fences along the Mexican border, failure to punish companies that hire illegals, failure to provide sufficient facilities to house captured illegals, and failure to follow up on persons who have overstayed their visas. In addition, the Bush Administration has refused to allow the Social Security Agency and the Homeland Security Agency to work together to find all duplicate uses of Social Security Card numbers within the system. The Justice Department has prosecuted Border Control Agents Compion and Ramos for trying to do their duties, while letting a known drug smuggler off scot-free for testifying against these Border Control Agents. Known Mexican criminals, who have warrants for their arrest in the system for committing crimes, have been simply deported. Within hours, or days, these criminals are back on the U.S. streets committing crimes again.
Failure to protect the Economic Well Being of this Nation
Under Jimmy Carter the admitted debt was $930 billion, then $2.6 trillion under Ronald Reagan, $4 trillion under G.H.W. Bush, $5.6 trillion under Bill Clinton, and the G.W. Bush Administration openly admits that the Federal Debt is now 9,137,339,617,420 (as of November 27, 2007). Recent expert testimony before Congress said that it would take an immediate injection of $65 trillion to put the country on a "sustainable course." This is hidden from the public because the Federal Government is keeping two sets of financial books. Our great-great-great-great grandchildren will not be able to pay off this enormous debt.
The Bush/Cheney Administration has directly contributed to this colossal debt by:
1. Failure to stop the exportation of U.S. jobs to the lowest wage-paying nations of the world. Much lower wages of those still employed could even be tax exempt.
2. Entered into Trade Agreements with most nations around the world, which included the elimination of tariffs on all their goods entering the U.S., but not the elimination of tariffs on U.S. goods entering these nations.
3. Declaring war on Iraq and Afghanistan, which is producing an unending cost of conducting these wars. In August 2007 the Iraq War was costing $177 mil./ day.
4. Exploding the Federal payroll by hiring unlimited bureaucracy to support their policies.
5. Hiding the real cost of war by hiring contractors to do much of the work of wars all around the world.
6. The U.S. military has over 730 military installations and bases in over 50 countries around the world. Our fine men and women serving in the military are easily put in harms way to accomplish the goals of this immoral and inconsiderate administration.
7. The Bush/Cheney Administration is encouraging NASA projects in space that will not produce any material gain for the U.S. taxpayers.
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office.
Deliberately Creating Our Next Enemy – China
The Bush/Cheney Administration has failed to protect the U.S. manufacturing base, and has encouraged U.S. corporations to move their manufacturing operations to China, purchase raw materials and finished goods from China, and allow China to operate ports within the U.S. and the Panama Canal, which generates enormous cash accounts for China to use to build up its military capabilities. The movement of high skilled manufacturing jobs to China depletes the U.S. of very high-skilled jobs, such as tool and die makers, pattern makers, electronic technicians, and so on, which require many years service as apprentices in order to become these very high skilled craftsmen – a national security risk. As China becomes militarily powerful, the surrounding nations will be exposed to the risk of attack and takeover, such as Taiwan, and others. Because the U.S. has agreed to defend Taiwan, this will automatically bring the U.S. into war with China. After the U.S. has moved most of the manufacturing jobs and facilities to China, if the U.S. must eventually go to war with China, where does the U.S. get its weapons - from China?
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office.
Failure to Make the U.S. Energy Independent
The Bush/Cheney Administration has failed to alleviate the energy crisis facing the U.S. citizens. Because of Bush/Cheney’s petroleum background and the influence of the petroleum industry lobbyist on Congress and the Administration, this nation now imports 68% of its oil needs from overseas – an extremely high national security risk. Domestic refineries are running at an excess of 90% of capacity. The oil companies are refusing to build new refineries for various reasons, so foreign sources of refined products are growing. Failure to require transparency regarding proven oil/gas reserves causes much doubt as to the real energy problems around the world. The oil companies are deliberately keeping the law of supply and demand in their favor, artificially keeping oil/gasoline/diesel prices high.
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush and Richard Cheney warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office.
Destroying the Reputation of the United States
The Bush/Cheney Administration have done great harm to the reputation of this nation by:
1. Unilaterally declaring war on Iraq and Afghanistan without these nations posing a threat to the U.S.
2. Threatening to declare war against Iran and Syria without these nations posing a threat to the U.S.
3. Kidnapping individuals around the world and transporting them to secret torture facilities in nations that permit torture.
4. Condoning and encouraging torture around the world by CIA, DOD and other U.S. agencies and contractors in facilities such as Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, and many others.
5. Intentionally lying to Congress and the American people about the above actions or inactions.
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office. It is imperative that Articles of Impeachment for President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Condoleezza Rice be initiated in the U.S. Senate as soon as possible, and certainly before war is declared on either Syria or Iran. Attacking either of these two nations could very well start Armageddon in the Middle East. With Israel possessing over 300 nuclear weapons this could also start a planet-wide nuclear disaster.
Should there be another attack on the US, like 9/11, and/or an economic collapse of the US economy while George Walker Bush and Richard Cheney are in office, the president can and may declare martial law, thereby nullifying the US Constitution, and leading to the creation of the North American Union and a new Constitution covering the US, Canada and Mexico.
Impeachment of George Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice as soon as possible is important for another reason – to demonstrate that illegal, immoral and incompetent behavior by any elected government official will not be tolerated, as an example to others now holding office, and those holding future offices. George W. Bush is basically incompetent. Can you imagine what the next president might do to us if they are competent?
The conspiracy facts are that Elite inner circle members of the Bilderbergs (BB), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Trilateral Commission (TC) are conspiring to politically and economically dominate the entire world under their New World Order, more recently called Globalization, or Global Union, Global Economy, Global Order, Global Environment, and like terms. When President G.H.W. Bush used the term New World Order in several of his speeches, it aroused suspicion and concern among the public. So, the Elite selected a generic term "Globalization" to use, and now Americans are no longer alarmed, because the business world uses this term daily, so it must not be so frightening. But, you cannot change a tiger's stripes. We're still talking about the New World Order. If you don't know about the BB, CFR, and TC, or who are the members of these secret organizations, then you must have a copy of Who's Who of the Elite.
American Union
The Elite originally planed to create the American Union some time during 2005 or 2006. This would include all of the nations of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean Islands, and function just like the present European Union. There will be only one monetary system, one central bank, one (unelected) governing body, one military force, one judicial system, no borders, and no Constitution and Bill of Rights. The Elite have invented a new term for expanded NAFTA, which they now call FTAA, or Free Trade Area of the Americas. The Council of the Americas, at the Quebec City conference in March, 2001, stated very clearly that they plan to complete the FTAA by the year 2005.
Vice President Dick Cheney was thanked for his remarks at the Council of the Americas conference on May 6, 2002, by founder and Honorary Chairman, David Rockefeller. Cheney said that "the FTAA would be completed by January 1st, 2005". There seems to be a problem in doing just that. The members of the Senate, who must ratify any new treaty, are dragging their feet. They know what it's all about, but don't openly say it is a bad treaty, and is certainly not good for the citizens of the United States.
(Reference paragraph 18 of Cheney's speech at http://207.21.242.176/coa/events/2002-CheneySpeech.html and
Paragraph 12 of Otto Reich's speech at http://207.21.242.176/coa/events/2002-ReichSpeech.html)
It is obvious that they are really talking about the American Union.
The American Union follows the first step, the European Union, and then the African Union, in the Elite's plan to control the entire world. Next will be the Asian Union, and the Soviet Union, all to be completed between the years 2010 and 2015. This is not my speculation, it's their stated plans, as detailed in a UN document titled "Our Global Neighborhood" (available in any bookstore, on special order).
Thanks to the single handed efforts of a regional hero, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the creation of the American Union has been delayed until the Elite can get rid of Chavez (one way or another). So, until Chavez can be eliminated, the Elite must settle for the creation of the North American Union.
North American Union
The Bush Administration has been operating in secret to establish what may only be described as a North American Union with the U.S., Mexico and Canada, designed along the same lines as the European Union. It eventually means an end of the U.S. Constitution as our ruling document, to be replaced with a new North American government.
At their meeting in Waco, Texas, at the end of March 23, 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin committed their governments to a path of cooperation and joint action.
It will eventually lead to the surrender of U.S. sovereignty, independence and national borders. It will result in the establishment of a North American currency called the “Amero,” as the dollar is junked. The U.S. will provide the army for defense. The U.S. will provide Social Security benefits for those who are now citizens of Mexico and Canada. Gone will be U.S. citizenship. Gone will be any kind of border control between the three nations of North America (the current flood of illegal aliens will look like a picnic when our borders are gone).
Plans are well underway to establish a N.A.F.T.A. Super Highway, to be the width of eight football fields. It will run from Mexico to Canada, running through the middle of the United States. No tariffs and no inspections will be enforced as trucks from Mexico and Canada drive through what was once our nation. Kansas City, Missouri has been selected to serve as an “inland port” to handle imports and exports among the three nations. Operating quietly, Kansas City has already designated $2.5 million of its taxpayers' money to establish the port. Now, some say, the land on which the port sits will become officially Mexican sovereign territory.
The effort to bring this about began on March 23, 2005, after a summit that was held in Waco, Texas. It was attended by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. Fox and Martin have since retired. The three leaders signed an agreement to create common policies about various economic and security areas among the three nations.
For obvious cover of official denyability the term “North American Union” is not being used. Instead the agreement officially authorized eight tri-national “working groups” to establish the “Security and Prosperity Partnership” (S.P.P.). The concept is being sold simply as a new framework within which the member nations can create free trade and security within the North American continent. However, from the information in the working documents the intent to create the North American Union is impossible to hide.
The trilateral agreement, signed as a joint declaration, has not been submitted to Congress for review. There is no congressional oversight. Nobody will have the opportunity to vote on it.
Security and Prosperity Partnership (S.P.P.)
The joint statement on the S.P.P., issued on March, 23, 2005, described it as an initiative to “establish a common approach to security to protect North America from external threats, prevent and respond to threats within North America, and further streamline the security and efficient movement of legitimate, low-risk traffic across our shared borders.” The working groups are now laying the foundation for a European Union-style integration of the North American continent.
The White House has established the S.P.P. office in the North American Free Trade Agreement (N.A.F.T.A.) office in the U.S. Department of Commerce, where it has worked in virtual secrecy ever since it was established. As the plan proceeds, the S.P.P. groups have not released public reports of their activity.
Since its inception, at least 20 S.P.P. working groups have produced a number of memorandums of understanding and trilateral declarations of agreement. These agreements cover a wide variety of issues, including e-commerce, aviation policy, border and immigration policy and the means for multiple governmental agencies to interact. They may be viewed on the Internet at www.spp.gov.
Source:
This report (North American Union) has been produced by The American Policy Center, 70 Main Street, Suite 23, Warrenton, VA 20186. 540-341-8911, www.americanpolicy.org. Much of the information for this report was contained in material produced by investigative journalist Jerome Corsi. His reports on the North American Union may be found on World Net Daily, www.worldnetdaily.com, Human Events, www.humanevents.com. More information was provided by Dr. Steven Yates, “The United States of North America,” The Ecologic Powerhouse, www.freedom.org. The blueprint for the North American Union may be viewed in its entirety on the web site of the Council on Foreign Relations, www.cfr.org, and the official reports of the S.P.P. working groups, now operating out of the U.S. Department of Commerce, may be viewed at www.spp.gov. [Additional editing and format contributed by George Bushnell.]
Note: Neither Congress, nor the U.S. Citizens have had a chance to review this S.P.P effort, nor vote on it. The founders say that this is an Agreement, not a Treaty, so Congress and the U.S. Citizens have no right, or authority, to review this effort, or to vote on it.
False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, a ship flying the flag of a country other than one's own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and have been used in peacetime: for example, during Italy's strategy of tension.
Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
Examples in the Past
Feb. 15, 1898 - The Maine Bombing – At 9:40 PM an explosion destroyed the American battleship Maine in Havana Harbor and helped propel the United States into a war with Spain. In 1976, Adm. Hyman Rickover, of the U.S. Navy, mounted yet another investigation into the cause of the Maine disaster. His team of experts found that the ship's demise was self-inflicted. Spontaneous combustion of the coal in bunker A16 created a fire that detonated the nearby magazines. 274 crewmen died in this sinking.
May 7, 1915 - The Lusitania - The sinking of the British cargo and passenger ship Lusitania by a German submarine caused serious tension between the United States and Germany and led to America's declaration of war against Germany. There were 5,246 total people on board, including 128 Americans when it sank. A total of 1,272 died in this sinking. 10,351,813 died as a result of WW I.
December 7, 1941 – Pearl Harbor attack by Japanese – Roosevelt knew 12 days before the attack that the Japanese were going to attack and did not warn the Military. The purpose was to have a reason to declare war against Japan. 2,403 military and civilians died this day. 72,155,800 died as a result of WW II.
March 13, 1962 – Operation Northwoods - by L. L. Lemnitzer, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff – a plan to invade Cuba and blame it on the Cubans. JFK turned down his request.
August 2nd & 4th, 1964 – Gulf of Tonkin Incident - The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was an alleged pair of attacks by naval forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (commonly referred to as North Vietnam) against two American destroyers, the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy. This did not happen. This was drummed up by the US military and President Johnson as an excuse to ratchet up the war in Vietnam. 8.744 million military served in this war, 58,169 Americans killed & 153,303 wounded, and 1,948 MIA; 1.7 mil. KIA, WIA & MIA N. Vietnamese military; 4,000,000 million Vietnamese (N. & S.) civilians died; 3 mil Vietnamese (N. & S.) casualties due to Agent Orange; 700,000 Cambodians civilians killed; and 50,000 Laotian civilians killed; 4,900 S. Koreans KIA; 1,446 Chinese Military; 16 Soviet Military KIA; 552 Philippine Military; 351 KIA Tailand; 520 KIA Australians; 37 KIA New Zealanders, during Vietnamese War. At least a total of 6,167,979 lost their lives in the Vietnam War. Total KIA/WIA/MIA casualties - 11,091,282.
February 26, 1993 - World Trade Center Bombing - The Muslim group involved had been infiltrated by Emad Salem, a former Egyptian intelligence agent who was hired by the FBI and ultimately paid $1 million. The FBI even provided the Egyptian with a timer for the bomb. 6 died and 1,042 injured.
April 19, 1995 – Murrah Building, Oklahoma City – A classified report prepared by two independent Pentagon experts has concluded that the destruction of the federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 was caused by five separate bombs, and no ATF or FBI agents were in their offices at the time of the blast (about 9:05 AM) 168 died and 800+ injured in this blast.
September 11, 2001 – World Trade Center & Pentagon attacks – Dozens of researchers have accumulated hundreds of facts proving the complicity, if not full responsibility for these events, on persons within the US Government. 2,993 died, including 19 “terrorist”.
October 7, 2001 – Invasion of Afghanistan – Predicated on the 9/11 false flag. Osama bin Laden was given full credit for 9/11 by Bush/Cheney/Rice. Another reason given was to remove the Taliban regime, which had provided support and safe harbor to Al-Qaeda.
By December 20, 2001, well over 2,000 Afghan civilians had already perished.
July 2007 – 407 US military killed and 1,636 wounded. 226 other nation’s military killed.
March 20, 2003 – Invasion of Iraq – predicated on WMD, links of Al-Qaeda. to Saddam Hussein and Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, to free the Iraqi people and to bring democracy to Iraq.
As of July 30, 2007 – US military deaths – 3,651, British – 163, other Coalition forces – 129
Iraqi military – between 4,900-6,375 died.
Between 68,009 and 74,403 Iraqi civilians died.
May 2005, Imad Khadduri, the Iraqi-exile physicist whose writings helped to discredit American and British fabrications about weapons of mass destruction, reported a story that in Baghdad a driver whose license had been confiscated at an American check-point was told "to report to an American military camp near Baghdad airport for interrogation and in order to retrieve his license." After being questioned for half an hour, he was informed that there was nothing against him, but that his license had been forwarded to the Iraqi police at the al-Khadimiya station "for processing"—and that he should get there quickly before the lieutenant whose name he was given went off his shift.
"The driver did leave in a hurry, but was soon alarmed with a feeling that his car was driving as if carrying a heavy load, and he also became suspicious of a low flying helicopter that kept hovering overhead, as if trailing him. He stopped the car and inspected it carefully. He found nearly 100 kilograms of explosives hidden in the back seat and along the two back doors. The only feasible explanation for this incident is that the car was indeed booby trapped by the Americans and intended for the al-Khadimiya Shiite district of Baghdad. The helicopter was monitoring his movement and witnessing the anticipated ‘hideous attack by foreign elements’."
September 20, 2005 – Two British soldiers dressed in Arab clothes, in a civilian car loaded with explosives and timers were arrested in Basra by Iraqi police. The British military attacked the police station to rescue these two British soldiers.
So, who knows who is REALLY responsible for the bombing of Mosques and Iraqi military and police facilities, businesses and shopping areas? It could be Palestinians on contract with Israeli Mossad without their knowledge of who is paying them; it could be British SAS or MI6 agents in disguise; it could be US Special Forces or CIA in disguise; it could be contractors working for the Israeli Mossad, or; it could be KGB (now FSB), it could be former members of the KGB working as contractors for any nation or secret service; or it could just be someone who just got out of the bed on the wrong side that day.
Why would the Mossad, FSB, CIA, MI6, SAS or other intelligence agencies want to destroy religious shrines and Iraqi facilities? Almost all problems around the world can be traced back to MONEY.
Financial Crisis – July – August 2007
The financial crisis of 2007 has been building for a couple of years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Intra-day Theoretical peaked at 14,121.04 on July 19, 2007. About a month later, on Friday, August 16, 2007 the Dow hit a low of 12,735.71, a loss of 1,385.33 points from the peak, or 9.8% drop. This drop triggered action by the Plunge Protection Team.
The four key members of the Plunge Protection Team (which reports directly to the President of the United States) are the Secretary of the Treasury (Henry M. Paulson), the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Ben Bernanke), the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (William H. Donaldson), and the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Acting Chairman Walter Lukken).
New York Post recently ran a piece on Washington’s tight-lipped Plunge Protection Team, or, the "Working Group," as it is formally known. Essentially, the role of this group is to prevent another 1987 "Black Monday" in the stock market. It was put into law in 1988, as Executive Order 12631, by Ronald Reagan. If you read the Executive Order you’ll note that it essentially allows the government (actually the Federal Reserve System, which is NOT a part of the Federal Government) to intervene in the stock market – should a crash or foreseeable dip appear to be on the horizon – via legislative law, administrative fiat, or the manipulation of private bodies via coercive tactics on the part of the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, or the executive office. Section Two of the order states that its purpose and function is to recognize "the goals of enhancing the integrity, efficiency, orderliness, and competitiveness of our Nation's financial markets and maintaining investor confidence."
The Working Group was established in order to identify issues – which studies have vetted out – in regards to the events surrounding the 1987 market crash. Its purpose is to gather recommendations from anointed experts and consider what government actions, under existing laws and regulations, can be undertaken in order to carry out those recommendations. The last step is to "appropriately consult" with private sector bodies and participants in order to seek any possible private solutions. These "private solutions," however, will come from puppet organizations of the corporatist (banking) establishment.
The final goal, then, is to "maintain investor confidence" in the market in the case of sudden declines. When a rally immediately follows a downturn, the European press will refer to this as a "PPT Rally." Even the American press has not been shy about discussing plunge protection. This is from a 1997 piece by the Washington Post:
These quiet meetings of the Working Group are the financial world’s equivalent of the war room. The officials gather regularly to discuss options and review crisis scenarios because they know that the government’s reaction to a crumbling stock market would have a critical impact on investor confidence around the world.
"The government has a real role to play to make a 1987-style sudden market break less likely. That is an issue we all spent a lot of time thinking about and planning for," said a former government official who attended Working Group meetings. "You go through lots of fire drills and scenarios. You make sure you have thought ahead of time of what kind of information you will need and what you have the legal authority to do."
...The Working Group’s main goal, officials say, would be to keep the markets operating in the event of a sudden, stomach-churning plunge in stock prices – and to prevent a panicky run on banks, brokerage firms and mutual funds. Officials worry that if investors all tried to head for the exit at the same time, there wouldn’t be enough room – or in financial terms, liquidity – for them all to get through. In that event, the smoothly running global financial machine would begin to lock up.
Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/decoster/decoster114.html
So, the FED regularly intervenes in the stock, bond and commodities markets without transparency. Only the insiders know which stocks, bonds and commodities are being bought or sold by the FED. Obviously, if you are "in" on what is about to happen, you can "make a killing". Then, the insiders pump enough money into the pockets of the President and his Administration and both houses of Congress, so that they can get away with looting the public's pockets.
Money Supply
Deflation is defined as a decrease in the nations money supply, and inflation is therefore defined as an increase in the money supply.
M1 Money Supply - is defined as a basic measure of the money supply that includes all coins and currency held by the public, traveler's checks, checking account balances, NOW accounts, automatic transfer service accounts, and balances in credit unions.
M2 Money Supply - is defined as M1, plus savings and small time deposits, overnight repos at commercial banks, and non-institutional money market accounts.
M3 Money Supply - is defined as M2, plus large time deposits, repos of maturity greater than one day at commercial banks, and institutional money market accounts.
M3 Money Supply
Here is a 2006 statement on the FED's action on M3:
"Federal Reserve System announced that, as of March 23, 2006, they will be ceasing the publication of the M3 monetary aggregate. According to a Fed spokesman, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors wants to “de-emphasize the role of M3.” Academically, they add, this measure of money supply receives less attention than M1 and M2 do. A Fed spokesman also suggested that M3 is “no longer closely tracked by policymakers.”
For those of you who are not econogeeks, M3 is the broadest measure of money supply in the U.S.
Source: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/11/money_supply_an.html
My personal view on the elimination of M3 reporting is that the FED planned massive infusions and withdrawals in the financial markets because they planned this crisis and wanted to cover their tracks by not reporting M3. The FED didn’t want us to know about the large time deposits, repos of maturity greater than one day at commercial banks, and institutional money market accounts. Both houses of Congress have chosen to overlook the curtailment of M3 Money Supply reporting. They have been paid to look the other way.
The REAL United States Federal Debt
Lastly, the US REAL federal debt is actually over US$65 trillion. Our descendants for the next century will not be able to pay this debt off. The Elite international bankers don't want it paid off, because they want the interest on this debt to keep flowing.
Though the Bush Administration’s official budget lists the national debt and deficit as being incredibly high, they are actually far worse than reported, according to Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN). But don’t just take his word for it, even if Cooper is a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Law graduate. The following figures appear in the official U.S. Financial Report, released by the Treasury Department:
* The true national debt is $49 trillion, not the $8.3 trillion Bush reported
o That’s $156,000 for every citizen, or $375,000 for every working American
o This figure has more than doubled in the past five years
o We paid $327 billion last year on interest alone
* The true 2005 deficit was $760 billion, not the $318.5 billion Bush reported
o This is 6.2% of the GDP, not 2.6%
* It’s all getting worse
What accounts for the huge discrepancy? Unlike businesses, the government uses “cash” instead of “accrual” accounting. This means that the government does not report future spending promises like Medicare and Social Security, or even future spending guarantees like veterans’ benefits and federal employee pensions.
“Cash accounting tells you what’s in your bank account. Accrual accounting tells you what’s in your bank account and what’s on your credit card statement,” Cooper told BuzzFlash in an interview. “Whether you’re promising to buy a road or something at Target, you need to know what you promised to buy. That should be a binding obligation of the government. We’ve made a world of promises to folks that we need to keep.”
But wait, there’s more! The U.S. Financial Report does not mention that if Medicare and Social Security are factored into the equation (which the Treasury Department did not), the true deficit was actually a whopping $3.3 trillion last year, over ten times more than Bush claims. And when Social Security projections are adjusted to reflect current life expectancies instead of the old 75-year mark, Cooper said the true national debt is “probably closer to $65 trillion.”
Jul. 7, 2007 Source: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/07/blood-and-treasure/
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, in his October 2005 paper titled, “Is the U.S. Bankrupt?”, estimates that the US real debt, in 2005, was $65.9 trillion, and in order to pay this debt off our children and grandchildren will be paying a federal income tax at the rate of 63% to 80.6%. This means that in 2007 it could be in the $70 to $75 trillion range.
Impeach Bush/Cheney/Rice
The US is in jeopardy of bankruptcy and physical attack if we don't immediately impeach President George W. Bush and VP Dick Cheney. My dear friend, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, filed HR 1106 before she left office in December 2006. Below is a copy of her resolution along with additions that I have made. If Bush/Cheney/Bates attack Iran or Syria it’s all over for the civilized world. Please take this seriously. I welcome questions.
109TH CONGRESS
2ND SESSION
H. Res. 1106
Articles of Impeachment against George Walker Bush, President of the United States of America, and other officials, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPESENTATIVES
DECEMBER 8, 2006
Ms. (Cynthia) McKINNEY introduced the following Resolution:
RESOLUTION
Resolved, that George Walker Bush, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following Articles of Impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:
Articles of Impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of all the people of the United States of America, against George Walker Bush, President of the United States of America, and other officials, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled that:
ARTICLE I - FAILURE TO PRESERVE, PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION
In violation of the oath of office, which reads: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” George Walker Bush, in his conduct while President of the United States has demonstrated a pattern of abuse of office and of executive privilege, and disregard for the Constitution itself.
This conduct includes the following:
Manipulating Intelligence and Lying to Justify War
In violation of the separation of powers under the Constitution and his subsequent obligation to share intelligence with the Congress, George Walker Bush, while serving as President of the United States of America, in preparing for the invasion of Iraq, did withhold intelligence from the Congress, by refusing to provide Congress with the full intelligence picture that he was being given, by redacting information by, for example, removing portions of reports such as the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing, and actively manipulating the intelligence on Iraq’s alleged weapons programs by pressuring the Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies to provide intelligence such that “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy” as revealed in the “Downing Street Memo.” To this end, President George Walker Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld created the Office of Special Plans inside the Pentagon to override existing intelligence reports by providing unreliable evidence that supported the claim that Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction posed an imminent threat to the United States of America. By justifying the invasion of Iraq with false and misleading statements linking Iraq to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and falsely asserting that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program for which it was importing aluminum tubes and uranium, these assertions being either false, or based on “fixed” intelligence, with the intent to misinform the people and their representatives in Congress in order to gain their support for invading Iraq, denying both the people and their representatives in Congress the right to make an informed choice, George Walker Bush, President of the United States, did commit and was guilty of high crimes against the United States of America.
ARTICLE II - ABUSE OF OFFICE AND OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE.
In violation of his oath to “faithfully execute the office of President of the United States,” George Walker Bush, in his conduct while President of the United States, has consistently demonstrated disregard for that oath by obstructing and hindering the work of Congressional investigative bodies and by seeking to expand the scope of the powers of his office.
This conduct includes the following:
Failure to Uphold Accountability
In abrogation of his responsibility under the oath of office to take care that the Laws be faithfully executed, by which he agreed to act in good faith and accept responsibility for the overall conduct of the Executive Branch, a duty vested in his office alone under the Constitution, George Walker Bush, failed to take responsibility for, investigate or discipline those responsible for an ongoing pattern of negligence, incompetence and malfeasance to the detriment of the American people.
Those whom George Walker Bush, as President of the United States of America, has failed to hold to account include but are not limited to the following top-level officials in his administration:
(a) Richard Cheney. In violation of his oath of office to support and defend the Constitution, Richard Cheney, Vice President of the United States of America, played a key role in manipulating intelligence in the interest of promoting the illegal invasion of Iraq by pressuring analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency to “fix” their intelligence estimates of the danger posed by Iraq in relation to weapons of mass destruction, whereby Richard Cheney, Vice President of the United States, did commit and was guilty of high crimes against the United States of America.
(b) Condoleezza Rice, In violation of her Constitutional duty to share and provide accurate and truthful intelligence information with the Congress, as former National Security Advisor to the President, did play a leading role in deceiving Congress and the American public by repeating and propagating false statements concerning Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction program, including false information that the purchase of aluminum tubes demonstrated 1 that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear weapons program, false information that Iraq was seeking to purchase uranium and false information that Iraq sought help in developing a chemical and biological weapons program; whereby Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State of the United States of America, did commit and was guilty of high misdemeanors against the United States of America. By neglecting to superintend the conduct of these officials and to hold members of the Executive Branch responsible for their negligence or violations of law, George Walker Bush, President of the United States, did commit and was guilty of high misdemeanors against the United States of America.
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office.
ARTICLE III - FAILURE TO ENSURE THE LAWS ARE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED
In violation of his duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” George Walker Bush, during his tenure as President of the United States, has violated the letter and spirit of laws and rules of criminal procedure used by civilian and military courts, and has violated or ignored regulatory codes and practices that carry out the law.
This conduct includes the following:
Illegal Domestic Spying
In violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [50 USC Chapter 36], George Walker Bush did clandestinely direct the National Security Agency and various other intelligence agencies, in secret and outside the lawful scope of their mandates, for purposes unrelated to any lawful function of his offices, to conduct electronic surveillance of citizens of the United States on U.S. soil without seeking to obtain, before or after, a judicial warrant, thereby subverting the powers of the Congress and the Judiciary by circumventing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) courts established by Congress, whose express purpose is to check such abuses of executive power, provoking the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to file a complaint and another judge to resign in protest, the said program having been subsequently ruled illegal (ACLU vs NSA); he has also concealed 1 the existence of this unlawful program of spying on American citizens from the people and all but a few of their representatives in Congress, even resorting to outright public deceit as on 20 April, 2004, when he told an audience in Buffalo, New York: “any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires . . . a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so,” whereby said George Walker Bush, President of the United States, did commit and was guilty of high crimes against the United States of America.
In all of this, George Walker Bush has repeatedly and unapologetically misled the American people and has sought to undermine the system of checks and balances established by the Founding Founders. Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct, and in the interest of saving our Constitution and our democracy from the threat of arbitrary government, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
(Note: The above text is what exactly appeared in Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney’s Resolution, but was reformatted in order to conserve space.)
Below are additional articles proposed by Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr. in order to further justify Cynthia McKinney’s Articles on impeachment.
Protect and Defend the Constitution
Article 2, Section 1 of the United States Constitution ends with the following oath that a new President must swear to prior to taking office:
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
The first step in the elimination of the United States Constitution took place at their meeting in Waco, Texas, at the end of March 23, 2005, between U.S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin as they committed their governments to a path of cooperation and joint action, called “Security and Prosperity Partnership” (S.P.P.). This path will eventually lead to the surrender of U.S. sovereignty, independence and national borders. It will result in the establishment of a North American Union currency called the “Amero,” as the dollar is junked. The U.S. will provide the army for defense. The U.S. will provide Social Security benefits for those who are now citizens of Mexico and Canada. Gone will be U.S. citizenship. A new Constitution will be presented for governing these three nations, which will replace the present Constitutions of these three nations. A simple term for this new amalgamation will be the North American Union. The Bush Administration calls this agreement a “Partnership” rather than a Treaty, because if it were a Treaty, the Senate would have to ratify it.
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office.
Failure to Secure U.S. Borders and Ports of Entry
Seaports - Since 9/11, only 2% of the containers entering the U.S. are inspected, and this is after they are already in port. This means that, of the cargo containers that reached our shores last year aboard ships from virtually every port in the world, some 26.5 million of these containers were shuffled through our ports with no inspections at all.
Illegal Immigrants – Official sources within our government estimate that there are somewhere between 12 million and 20 million illegal immigrants in the United States. Nobody knows for sure. It is more likely 30 million, or even more, who have entered the U.S. illegally. As they cross our borders, who knows how much disease, illegal drugs and possible weapons of mass destruction that they bring with them?
It is the responsibility of the President to provide the security of this nation. Not only has he not done so, but he has deliberately encourage illegal immigration by such policies as “Catch and Release”, failure to hire sufficient Border Patrol Agents, failure to erect 2,000 miles of impenetrable fences along the Mexican border, failure to punish companies that hire illegals, failure to provide sufficient facilities to house captured illegals, and failure to follow up on persons who have overstayed their visas. In addition, the Bush Administration has refused to allow the Social Security Agency and the Homeland Security Agency to work together to find all duplicate uses of Social Security Card numbers within the system. The Justice Department has prosecuted Border Control Agents Compion and Ramos for trying to do their duties, while letting a known drug smuggler off scot-free for testifying against these Border Control Agents. Known Mexican criminals, who have warrants for their arrest in the system for committing crimes, have been simply deported. Within hours, or days, these criminals are back on the U.S. streets committing crimes again.
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office.
Failure to protect the Economic Well Being of this Nation
Under Jimmy Carter the admitted debt was $930 billion, then $2.6 trillion under Ronald Reagan, $4 trillion under G.H.W. Bush, $5.6 trillion under Bill Clinton, and the G.W. Bush Administration openly admits that the Federal Debt is now $8.7 trillion (December 31, 2006). Recent expert testimony before Congress said that it would take an immediate injection of $65 trillion to put the country on a "sustainable course." This is hidden from the public because the Federal Government is keeping two sets of financial books. Our great-great-great-great grandchildren will not be able to pay off this enormous debt.
The Bush/Cheney Administration has directly contributed to this colossal debt by:
1. Failure to stop the exportation of U.S. jobs to the lowest wage-paying nations of the world. Much lower wages of those still employed could even be tax exempt.
2. Entered into Trade Agreements with most nations around the world, which included the elimination of tariffs on all their goods entering the U.S., but not the elimination of tariffs on U.S. goods entering these nations.
3. Declaring war on Iraq and Afghanistan, which is producing an unending cost of conducting these wars.
4. Exploding the Federal payroll by hiring unlimited bureaucracy to support their policies.
5. Hiding the real cost of war by hiring contractors to do much of the work of wars all around the world.
6. The U.S. military has over 730 military installations and bases in over 50 countries around the world. Our fine men and women serving in the military are easily put in harms way to accomplish the goals of this immoral and inconsiderate administration.
7. The Bush/Cheney Administration is encouraging NASA projects in space that will not produce any material gain for the U.S. taxpayers.
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office.
Deliberately Creating Our Next Enemy – China
The Bush/Cheney Administration has failed to protect the U.S. manufacturing base, and has encouraged U.S. corporations to move their manufacturing operations to China, purchase raw materials and finished goods from China, and allow China to operate ports within the U.S. and the Panama Canal, which generates enormous cash accounts for China to use to build up its military capabilities. The movement of high skilled manufacturing jobs to China depletes the U.S. of very high-skilled jobs, such as tool and die makers, pattern makers, electronic technicians, and so on, which require many years service as apprentices in order to become these very high skilled craftsmen – a national security risk. As China becomes militarily powerful, the surrounding nations will be exposed to the risk of attack and takeover, such as Taiwan, and others. Because the U.S. has agreed to defend Taiwan, this will automatically bring the U.S. into war with China. After the U.S. has moved most of the manufacturing jobs and facilities to China, if the U.S. must eventually go to war with China, where does the U.S. get its weapons - from China?
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office.
Failure to Make the U.S. Energy Independent
The Bush/Cheney Administration has failed to alleviate the energy crisis facing the U.S. citizens. Because of Bush/Cheney’s petroleum background and the influence of the petroleum industry lobbyist on Congress and the Administration, this nation now imports 68% of its oil needs from overseas – an extremely high national security risk. Domestic refineries are running at an excess of 90% of capacity. The oil companies are refusing to build new refineries for various reasons, so foreign sources of refined products are growing. Failure to require transparency regarding proven oil/gas reserves causes much doubt as to the real energy problems around the world. The oil companies are deliberately keeping the law of supply and demand in their favor, artificially keeping oil/gasoline/diesel prices high.
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush and Richard Cheney warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office.
Destroying the Reputation of the United States
The Bush/Cheney Administration have done great harm to the reputation of this nation by:
1. Unilaterally declaring war of Iraq and Afghanistan without these nations posing a threat to the U.S.
2. Threatening to declare war against Iran and Syria without these nations posing a threat to the U.S.
3. Kidnapping individuals around the world and transporting them to secret torture facilities in nations that permit torture.
4. Condoning and encouraging torture around the world by CIA, DOD and other U.S agencies and contractors in facilities such as Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, and many others.
5. Intentionally lying to Congress and the American people about the above actions or inactions.
Wherefore, by their aforementioned conduct, George Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and Condoleezza Rice warrant impeachment, trial and removal from office. It is imperative that Articles of Impeachment for President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Condoleezza Rice be initiated in the U.S. Senate as soon as possible, and certainly before war is declared on either Syria or Iran. Attacking either of these two nations could very well start Armageddon in the Middle East. With Israel possessing over 200 nuclear weapons this could also start a planet-wide nuclear disaster.
I’m so sorry to have to say that just about every time that I have voted in the past, it was against someone, and not for some one. That’s sad. One of the problems is that one of the available choices has never been “None of the Above”. We should do a much better job in voting, for this determines the quality of life for us and all future generations. As an engineer I tend to be fairly methodical in my thinking, so let me offer one way for you to approach voting. Obviously this is not the only way, just my way. I suggest a ranking of the attributes of the candidates being considered, with a weighted value for each. Each person then will attach a different weight to each attribute, based of their own personal values.
Suggestion – Six Commandments to Qualify for Public Office
Weight--Attribute--Description
25--Intelligence--Do they have enough intelligence to ask the right questions of those supplying the facts that should be used in arriving at a sound decision?
20--Integrity------Check out the backgrounds of all of the candidates and see if there are things in each person’s background that would cause you to be attracted to them, or to be cautious of them. Would you like for this person to be one of your personal friends, for example?
20--Constitution --Is the person that you are considering likely to uphold and defend the United States Constitution, to be best of their ability? I mean REALLY. Not just some meaningless words that they are required to say when they are sworn into office.
15--Honesty-------To the best of your knowledge, do you think that the person that you are considering would be honest and forthright with all of their constituents in all matters before the public? Obviously, we are not including military or State secrets, or matters of truly national security.
10--Impartiality---Are they likely to make their decisions in a manner that is best for the economic stability and quality of life of MOST of their constituents, rather than any special interest group, or groups?
10--Any other factors that you may choose, like; abortion, tall, short, fat, skinny, good looking, bald, full head of hair, race, religion, sex, ethnic background, etc.
If the above test were applied to MOST politicians, and certainly our present President and Vice President, I’m afraid that their names would never have appeared on any ballots in any election in the past, present or future. Maybe that is why there should be a final choice for each race – “NONE OF THE ABOVE”. Then if “NONE OF THE ABOVE” receives a majority of the votes, the entire slate of candidates should be thrown out and a new slate presented for consideration.
Anyway, that’s how I look at it. What about you?
As a side note: Dr. Ron Paul would score at least 90 on the above test, and probably 100, depending on your last category. He might not get 100 if your last category was "a full head of hair", for example.
Torture
Bush/Cheney have greatly added to the danger of our military personnel being tortured, should they be captured, or kidnapped by an opposing force. The CIA has kidnapped quite a number of individuals on public streets and transported them to "black sites" in countries which allow all forms of torture to take place. Congress has even supported this effort by passing legislation that is supposed to clearly define methods of torture that are not allowed. Why would a decent person allow mistreatment of human beings in any form to exist?
Written by Nat Hentoff
Thursday, 23 August 2007
Bush to CIA: 'Leave No Marks'
With no sign of torture on a prisoner, then it didn't happen, right?
On July 20, George W. Bush issued an executive order authorizing the CIA to use "enhanced" techniques (as the president likes to call them) in its terror interrogation program-including in the CIA's secret prisons, known internationally as "black sites."
CIA director Michael Hayden assures us that "now our mission and authorities [to conduct that mission] are clearly defined." Adds national intelligence director Michael McConnell: "We now have a clear legal basis" for the CIA's crucial national-security responsibilities.
The new Bush directive claims to forbid torture and cruel and inhuman treatment, as required by the Supreme Court's 2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision and the Geneva Conventions. However, under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, only the president can interpret the meaning of the Geneva Conventions.
And under his executive order, Bush refuses to list the specific techniques that the CIA can use. All are still classified.
Therefore, "given [this administration's] record," says Jennifer Daskal, the U.S. program advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, where she focuses on counterterrorism policy, "there is absolutely no reason to take the Bush administration's word on trust." For example, Bush has repeatedly insisted that, "We do not torture," despite, as I, and others have documented, a mountain range of evidence to the contrary. (See Jane Mayer's "The Black Sites: A rare look into the CIA's secret interrogation programs," The New Yorker, August 13.)
Why are these special powers of extreme persuasion-exclusively permitted for the CIA-classified? Because, says McConnell, we don't want future inmates of the "black sites" to figure out how to resist these "enhanced" techniques for extracting information.
For over 50 years the CIA has been involved in regime changes around the world. If they cannot get the citizens of a particular country to oust a particular leader from office at the voting poles, or by coup de gras, they have contract killers do the job for them.
Jun. 27, 1954 - Jacob Arbenz Guzman,
President - Guatemala
Jan. 17, 1961 - Patrice Lumumba,
Prime Min. - Republic of Congo
Nov. 1, 1963- Ngo Din Diem,
President - South Vietnam
Nov. 22, 1963 – John F. Kennedy – President, United States
Jan. 17, 1973 - Salvador Allende,
President - Chile
May 9, 1978 - Aldo Moro,
Pres., Christian Dem. Party – Italy
Jul. 31, 1981 – Omar Efrain Torrijos, de facto leader - Panama 1968-81
May 24, 1981 – Jaime Roldos Aguilera, President - Ecuador 1979-81
Chile
Chile will be the next nation absorbed by the (soon-to-be) American Union. It has long had a roundtable in operation, and it is known as the Chilean Council of Foreign Relations.
Venezuela
Since President Hugo Chavez took office on February 2, 1999, the common people of Venezuela have backed him and his reforms. Chavez insists on keeping more of the oil export profits in Venezuela, so that his nation can recover from its chronic financial problems. His strong will has been the stumbling block to the completion of the American Union. The CIA has backed coup attempts to oust this "radical" leader, but the Venezuelans have turned out by the thousands to protest these attempts. The petroleum industry strikes were not strikes at all. They were lock-outs by the oil industry managers, in order to try to embarrass President Chavez, and to turn the public against him. (http://www.narconews.com/)
The Elite-owned mainstream news media and the current Bush Administration have been trying to smear Chavez as being a Communist, a Socialist, a Dictator, and the like, and have made several attempts to remove him from office. This is no differrent than the FBI smearing Reverand Martin Luther King, Jr. with a host of outright lies before they had him assassianted.
President Hugo Chavez is a true American hero. He thumbs his nose at the international bankers as he single-handedly stops the American Union. He has stunned the Elite with the following speech from the 7th African Union summit in Banjul, the Gambia:
July 02, 2006
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Saturday proposed four areas of cooperation among the peoples of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in the spirit of South-South cooperation.
In an extemporaneous speech to African leaders attending the 7th AU summit in Banjul, the Gambia, Chavez suggested the establishment of a joint commission to set up four projects, which he listed as "Petrosouth, Telesouth, Bank of the South and University for the South".
He said through Petrosouth, the leaders would harness the power of oil, which he called a powerful instrument for social development, to develop their peoples.
"It was used by the colonialists (to oppress us). We are now going to use it to liberate our peoples," the President said, adding that 15 percent of the world`s oil reserves are in Africa.
He said Telesouth would involve the establishment of a TV station for the peoples, while the Bank of the South will be a development bank to assist the poor from the three areas. (Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela will provide the funds for this Central Bank, and its purpose is to provide low-interest loans to Latin American nations, so that they can get out from under the domination or the Elite international bankers and their IMF and World Bank.)
Chavez said the University of the South would help train the youths of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in key areas.
Source: http://redpepper.blogs.com/venezuela/2006/07/chavez_proposes.html
Brazil
On December 13, 2002, Brazilian President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva appointed international financier Hernando Meirelles as head of the Central Bank of Brazil. Meirelles was the former president of FleetBoston Financial Corp., and served as a director of David Rockefeller’s Council of the Americas.
Argentina
On December 26, 2002, Argentina's Senate approved the appointment of Alfonso Prat-Gay as president of the Argentina's Central Bank. Prat-Gay was formerly the head of emerging market research for J. P. Morgan Chase bank. David Rockefeller is Chairman of the bank’s International Advisory Committee.
Fast Track Legislation
On August 6, 2002, President Bush signed into law the Trade Act of 2002 (or fast track legislation). This is also referred to as Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). This means that he may be able to complete the North American Union on schedule, because Congress will now only be allowed an up or down vote on treaties that he presents. The Elite will publicly shame and humiliate anyone in the Senate who votes against their treaties. They have reduced their opposition greatly by making sure that Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, and Congressmen Earl Hilliard, and Bob Barr were defeated in recent primaries. They had already ousted Jim Trafficant earlier. Congressman Ron Paul is next on their list.
Senate Majority Leader
Now we really know why Senator Trent Lott was replaced. Not because he made an improper statement (and it was improper), but because he was NOT a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Elite need to do many things within the next few years in order to complete the North American Union and the American Union, so they MUST have one of their own heading the U.S. Senate. The perfect replacement is Senator William (Bill) H. Frist, who was made a member of the CFR in 2002. Did they make him a member of the CFR because they knew that he would be the likely replacement for Trent Lott? Very likely.
Success out of Fear
"Today Americans would be outraged if U. N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." - Henry Kissinger, in an address to the Bilderberg meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992. Transcri