[AGL] Fwd: Harry, a message from Ramsey Clark

[Harry Edwards]

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> From: "ImpeachBush.org" <ImpeachBush at VoteToImpeach.org>
> Date: May 4, 2006 4:00:05 AM CDT
> To: laughingwolf at ev1.net
> Subject: Harry, a message from Ramsey Clark
> Reply-To: "ImpeachBush.org" <ImpeachBush at VoteToImpeach.org>
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> Impeachment message will soon reach millions more
> ImpeachBush.org to place ad in USA Today
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> A Special Message from Ramsey Clark: What's At Stake
>
> Dear Harry,
>
> Our impeachment ads in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, 
> and Boston Globe show that we can make a difference. They broke the 
> media silence on the call for Impeachment and have helped spark 
> widespread discussion of the grounds and basis for taking this 
> necessary constitutional step.? The ads have reached millions of 
> people and generated tens of thousands of new votes for impeachment.
>
> The New York Times carried the Impeachment message in the first 
> section, full page, to readers of more than a million copies of the 
> National Edition and the New York Edition of the New York Times. The 
> most recent ad in the San Francisco Chronicle reached people all over 
> Northern California.
>
> We are planning for the?next ad?to appear soon in the USA Today 
> newspaper.?The impeachment movement?will reach people all over the 
> country with this next ad. We can continue to place these ads with the 
> contributions of those are committed to the impeachment movement. 
> Please help by making a contribution. You can make a donation on-line 
> or by sending a check. Click here to help with your donation.
>
> Spreading the word with more newspaper ads, getting more people to 
> vote for Impeachment, increasing our organizing and fundraising 
> efforts - this?can make Impeachment a major issue in the 2006 midterm 
> Congressional elections. A committed effort over the next months can 
> move Impeachment to the forefront in the elections and to the floor of 
> the House of Representatives which has the "sole power of 
> Impeachment," and onto the Senate for trial.
>
> Ads in newspapers in Congressional Districts can help activate 
> impeachment organizing to bring the issue home to members and 
> candidates where their election will be decided.
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> What?s At Stake?
> A message from Ramsey Clark
>
> George W. Bush and his principal officials are the greatest threat to 
> world peace, to human rights, to economic justice, to the Constitution 
> of the United States and the rule of law that the American people and 
> the world at large face today.? His personal, unilateral war of 
> aggression has wrecked Iraq, taken 250,000 lives or more, created 
> tensions worldwide and significantly isolated the United States, 
> costing us international friendships, trust, respect and 
> alliances.??War of aggression was judged to be ?the Supreme 
> International Crime? by the Nuremberg Tribunal.
>
> Proclaiming himself the ?Decider,? President Bush insists he decides 
> what is right.? He threatens North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Sudan, 
> Venezuela, and most critically at the moment, Iran.? The threats 
> themselves violate international law and the U.N. Charter.? His 
> threats are made real by his personal record of false claims followed 
> by arbitrary acts including the criminal aggression against and 
> occupation of Iraq with its painful consequences just beginning for 
> Iraq and the world.? The additional U.S. military costs approach a 
> trillion dollars and the occupation stretches the limits of U.S. 
> military capacity.?? Yet he has ordered detailed plans for attacks on 
> Iran that he could order to be executed as early as this summer.? He 
> may believe some radical action can save his presidency.
>
> Iran has more than three times the population of Iraq.?? It was not 
> debilitated by the Gulf War which cost Iraq more than 150,000 lives 
> and destroyed its basic infrastructure. Thirteen years of sanctions, 
> from Hiroshima Day, August 6, 1990 to ?Mission Accomplished? Day 
> ?ending? the war of aggression against Iraq announced from the deck of 
> the USS Abraham Lincoln by President Bush on May 1, 2003, cost Iraq 1 
> million lives, half children under the age of five. Iraq suffered near 
> total isolation.? Without international commerce, or the ability to 
> rebuild, Iraq?s economy was devastated.? It suffered physically and 
> psychologically from frequent punitive bombings by U.S. aircraft 
> throughout the sanctions period.? Iran?s economy and power fueled by 
> its oil, grew steadily through all these years.
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> Nothing could unify Iran like a military strike against it by the 
> U.S.? Few acts could better convince Muslims worldwide that George 
> Bush is on a crusade against them.? Iran with its long border with 
> Iraq could radically alter political alignments and the level of 
> conflict in Iraq and serve as an open conduit for fighters from many 
> nations.? Violence could spread from Egypt to neighboring Pakistan and 
> beyond.
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> The Geneva Conventions prohibit assaults on ?inherently dangerous? 
> facilities, which would threaten civilian populations. Nuclear power 
> plants are the prime example.? Iran has a right to develop such 
> plants.? The Shah had ambitious plans 30 years ago, well financed and 
> advanced, to construct nuclear plants across Iran to replace depleting 
> oil reserves.??Iran is six years or more away from the ability to 
> build nuclear warheads if that is its purpose.? The U.S. could 
> incinerate Iran with a single launch from its worldwide land, sea and 
> air nuclear missile capacity in place and alert today.? Iran knows 
> this.? Surely it is better to seek to stop threatening and start 
> seeking better relations and understanding with Iran and other nations 
> that may be hostile.
>
> Aside from the criminal nature of an attack on Iran, further 
> aggressions by George Bush could put the United States in a rapid 
> decline in international standing, economically and military on the 
> defense, globally and at home.
>
> This is only to suggest what might happen if George Bush remains 
> President.? The immediate question is whether We, the People of the 
> United States of America, believe the future of our country is a 
> spectator sport, or whether we will be players.
>
> Will we let George Bush decide the fate of the nation?
>
> Have his judgment and actions been acceptable?
>
> With thirty-two months remaining in his Presidency, George Bush can 
> inflict greater, even devastating injury on our people and the poor of 
> the rest of the planet.? He has squandered the largest federal surplus 
> in history and created the largest national debt with his 
> determination to be a War President and his ambition to enrich the 
> rich.
>
> He continues increasing military expenditures including the unlawful 
> development of a new generation of nuclear weapons and a ?Star Wars? 
> shield for the U.S., insuring an arms race and increasing the 
> probability of war.
>
> His threats against other governments have strengthened opposition to 
> the U.S. throughout the Muslim world, Latin American, former Soviet 
> Union bloc countries, China, Africa and even West Europe.
>
> President Bush?s tax cuts and ?Free Trade? pressures have accelerated 
> the concentration of wealth in oligarchies at home and abroad and 
> further impoverished the poor.? Nearly 1/3 of his tax cuts have gone 
> to the top one percent of the population.? When his estate tax cuts 
> take hold the top one percent of the population will receive 40% of 
> his tax cuts.?
>
> The number of billionaires is increasing rapidly while incomes of 
> workers and the poor decline and organized labor continue to decline.? 
> And tax cuts combined with increased military expenditures and 
> increasing deficits in balance of payments which make the U.S. the 
> largest debtor nation are compelling cuts in federal expenditures for 
> health care, education, social security, Medicare, humanitarian 
> foreign aid and other needed programs for the poor.? The real income 
> of college graduates fell more than 5% from 2000 to 2004 under 
> President Bush, eroding the middle class while concentrating?wealth in 
> the few.?The richest ten percent of the population received more than 
> half of all his tax cuts benefits.?
>
> But the concentration of wealth is accelerating most rapidly in the 
> top 1/100th of one percent, about 30,000 individuals. The rise in 
> income of these very rich has been astronomical.? Just look at the 
> growing number of billionaires and the bonuses and stock options of 
> corporate CEO?s.
>
> President Bush?s contempt for human rights and civil liberties is 
> unprecedented in the American Presidency.? He is not only above 
> international law, he is above the Bill of Rights.? He can arrest and 
> detain people worldwide, including U.S. citizens, as enemy 
> combatants.? He condones torture.? He wiretaps U.S. citizens and 
> foreigners alike without court approval.? Proclamations concerning his 
> Presidential powers by his Attorneys General, Ashcroft and Gonzales, 
> have stunned the international community.? Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo 
> now symbolize U.S. regard for human dignity. Yet George Bush proclaims 
> himself the champion of freedom and democracy!
>
> Katrina is only one measure of the incompetence and indifference of 
> the Bush Administration.? Secretary of State Rice has acknowledged 
> thousands of mistakes in Iraq without acknowledging the greatest 
> mistake: the unilateral criminal invasion and occupation.
>
> President Bush adheres ideologically to the belief that global warming 
> is not caused in major part by the ever increasing human consumption 
> of oil and other hydrocarbons.
>
> He believes he can bully the world into accepting his way and the 
> American people into accepting his decisions as right.? For him, his 
> ideology is truth.? He professed to believe, despite overwhelming 
> evidence to the contrary, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.? 
> Because Iraq was "evil," and the U.S. is free and democratic, he 
> believes Iraq should be controlled by the U.S.? Iran is racing to 
> develop nuclear weapons in his view, because of its dangerous hatred 
> for freedom and democracy and must be stopped by force now.? His truth 
> translated into force has done more to damage freedom and democracy at 
> home and abroad than all the ?evil empires? he threatens.? For him, 
> his tax cuts, free trade policies and deficits benefited the poor and 
> lower income groups most, if not in dollars, because his ideology 
> holds that when the oligarchy rule, all will fare better.
>
> The imperative need is action now.? We cannot risk delay.
>
> If the American people fail to impeach George Bush and his principal 
> officials for his war of aggression, the world can only see the 
> American people as either powerless, or supportive of it.? If he is 
> charged only, or primarily, with misleading, or lying to the American 
> people, the world can only believe the American people will accept 
> mass murder if it is not lied about.
>
> Why should any other nation refrain from Wars of Aggression against 
> oil rich states and others unable to defend themselves if they believe 
> they can win and get away with it, while the U.S. proceeds with 
> impunity with its threats and attacks?
>
> Impeachment is essential to the integrity of constitutional 
> government.? It is the most urgent duty of the American people.? We 
> have the power to cause impeachment, if we have the will.? Do your 
> part now!? Participate and contribute to the Constitutional Crusade to 
> Impeach George Bush. Click here to make a donation.
>
> Ramsey Clark
> May 3, 2006
>
> Click here to make a contribution to the impeachment movement and help 
> place the ad in more newspapers.
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