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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:olive">RIP: Henry B.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:olive">Fab<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:olive"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:olive"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">-----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">From:
<a href="mailto:nytr@olm.blythe-systems.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">nytr@olm.blythe-systems.com</span></a> [<a href="mailto:nytr@olm.blythe-systems.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">mailto:nytr@olm.blythe-systems.com</span></a>]
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:50 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">To: undisclosed-recipients<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Subject: [NYTr] Henry Gonzalez Resol'n to Impeach Bush I (1991)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">sent by Francis Boyle - Jan 18, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">The Gonzalez Resolution to Impeach George Bush<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Congressional Record, Jan. 16, 1991, at H520-21.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">RESOLUTION OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">the gentleman from Texas [Mr. GONZALEZ] is recognized for 60 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Mr. GONZALEZ, Madam Speaker, it is with great sadness, and yet with equally<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">great, if not greater, conviction, that I introduce today a resolution of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">impeachment of President Bush. It is known as House Resolution 34, and I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">will provide this resolution as introduced to be appended at the end of my<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">remarks today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">At a time when our Nation is deeply divided over the question of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">war, we find ourselves on the brink of a world war of such magnitude that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">our minds cannot fully comprehend the destruction that is about to be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">leveled. The position we are in is a direct result of the actions of one<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">man and the reactions of another. The Iraqi people are as opposed to war as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">are the American people. The difference is that the Iraqi people have no<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">choice but to support their country's leader, but the American people not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">only have the right to oppose and speak out in disagreement with the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">President, but they have the responsibility to do so if our democracy is to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">be preserved. Today I exercise this constitutional right and responsibility<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">to speak out in opposition to war in the Middle East and in support of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">removal of our Nation's Chief Executive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">When I took the oath of office earlier this month, as I had<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">numerous times before, I swore to uphold the Constitution. The President's<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">oath was the same, to uphold the Constitution of the United States. We did<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">not pledge an oath of allegiance to the President but to the Constitution,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">which is the highest law of the land. The Constitution provides for removal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">of the President when he has committed high crimes and misdemeanors,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">including violations of the principles of the Constitution. President Bush<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">has violated these principles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">My resolution has five articles of impeachment. First, the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">President has violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution. Our<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">soldiers in the Middle East are overwhelmingly poor white, black, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Mexican-American or Hispanic-American. They may be volunteers technically,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">but their voluntarism is based on the coercion of a system that has denied<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">viable opportunities to these classes of our citizens. Under the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Constitution, all classes of citizens are guaranteed equal protection, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">calling on the poor and the minorities to fight a war for oil to preserve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">the lifestyles of the wealthy is a denial of the rights of these soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Let me add that since 1981 we have suffered the Reagan-Bush and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">now the Bush war against the poor, and to add insult to injury, we now are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">asking the poor to fight while here, as a result of this fight, even the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">meager programs that the Congress had seen fit to preserve as a national<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">policy will suffer because the money for those programs will be diverted to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">the cause of this unnecessary war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Article II of this resolution states that the President has<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">violated the Constitution, Federal law, and the U.N. Charter by bribing,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">intimidating, and threatening others, including the members of the U.N.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Security Council, to support belligerent acts against Iraq. It is clear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">that the President paid off members of the U.N. Security Council in return<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">for their votes in support of war against Iraq or to abstain from voting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">contrariwise. The debt of Egypt was, for example, forgiven--$7 billion,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">without congressional approval. That, I think, casts doubtful validity on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">that Presidential action. The reason for the cancellation of that debt is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">so that we can then provide an equally enormous amount of armament for Egypt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">which it cannot obtain because of the debt outstanding. A $140 million loan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">to China was agreed to. The Soviet Union was promised over $7 billion in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">aid. This is a sum totally unreported in our country but very well<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">discussed in foreign country presses such as Germany and others. Colombia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">was promised assistance to its armed forces. Zaire was promised military<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">assistance and partial forgiveness of its debt. Saudi Arabia was promised<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">$12 billion in arms, and more than that. Actually in October, the President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">let them have $2.2 billion, and there was a commitment for $21 billion more,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">but because of the outcry in Congress and the Israeli opposition, that is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">being postponed. But there is still a commitment for $22 billion. I am<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">sure this month will see the initial efforts to bring about compliance with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">that commitment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Yemen was threatened with the termination of support, and the United States<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">finally paid off $187 million of its debt to the United Nations after the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">vote President Bush sought was made.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">This is all so ironic. When our President ran for the U.S. Senate in the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">1960's, he told the people of Texas that if he would be elected to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Senate, he would lead the fight to remove the United States from the United<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Nations if what he called Red China at that time was admitted. Fate and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">power almighty have a very, very mysterious way of working together. Who was<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">to believe during that year in that race in Texas that years later this same<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">man, now the President, would be the man the President would appoint to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">represent us in the United Nations and welcome Red China as a member of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">United Nations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">The vote was bought, and it will be paid for with the lives of our poor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">elements who are going to shoulder the fight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Article III states that the President has conspired to engage in a massive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">war against Iraq, employing methods of mass destruction that will result in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">the killing of tens of thousands of civilians, many of whom will be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">children. No civilian lives have yet been lost that we know of, but when we<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">start using the weapons of massive destruction that are in place for this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">war, there is no doubt that thousands of innocent civilians will lose their<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">lives. As killings occur, the principles laid down in the Nuremberg trials<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">will be applicable. Their deaths will not only be a moral outrage, they will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">constitute violations of international law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Article IV states that the President has committed the United States to acts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">of war without congressional consent and contrary to the U.N. Charter and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">international law. From August 1990 through January 1991 the President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">embarked on a course of action that systematically eliminated every option<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">for peaceful resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis. Once the President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">approached Congress for a declaration of war, 500,000 American soldiers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">lives were in jeopardy, rendering any substantive debate by Congress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">meaningless. It is also ironic that what we have ended up with now is that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">the President has exchanged about 200 to 250 so-called hostages, Americans,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">all of them employees of oil companies in Kuwait or Iraq, and in exchange we<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">now have close to 500,000 American soldiers as hostages. Hostages to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">whims, the caprices, and the decisions and judgments made by other leaders,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">over which this President and our country has no control, all the way from<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Shamir of Israel to the immigrants in the Saudi sands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Article 5 states that the President has conspired to commit crimes against<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">the peace by leading the United States into aggressive war against Iraq, in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">violation of article 24 of the U.N. Charter, the Nuremberg Charter, other<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">international instruments and treaties, and the Constitution of the United<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Again, there is a violation of law by a President, who, believing and acting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">as if he is king, decides for the country, unilaterally, that war is the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Madam Speaker, it is a sad day for our country, and it will be an even<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">sadder day once the fighting starts. President Bush must be stopped. A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">divided Congress reflecting the divided country is no way to conduct a war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">The preservation of lives is at stake, and the preservation of our country,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">indeed, our democracy, is at stake as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">I urge my colleagues to support this resolution. All I ask is a hearing, as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">I have before, before the proper committee of proper jurisdiction, and that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">is it. I will argue the case there. The rest is up to the Members' judgment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Madam Speaker, I urge interest and support of this resolution, and to stand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">up to the President on behalf of the soldiers who will die, the civilians<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">who will be massacred, and the Constitution that will be destroyed if this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">country goes to war in the Middle East.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">102nd Congress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">H.Res.86<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">1st Session<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">____/s/ Henry B.Gonzalez____<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Impeaching George Herbert Walker Bush, President of the United<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">States, of high crimes and misdemeanors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">February 21, 1991 (originally<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">January 16, 1991)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Mr. GONZALEZ submitted the following resolution; which was<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">referred to the Committee on Judiciary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"> A RESOLUTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Impeaching George Herbert Walker Bush, President of the United<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">States, of high crimes and misdemeanors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Impeaching George Herbert Walker Bush, President of the United States, of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">high crimes and misdemeanors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Resolved, That George Herbert Walker Bush, President of the United States is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">of impeachment be exhibited to the Senate:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">United States of America in the name of itself and of all of the people of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">the United States of America, against George Herbert Walker Bush, President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"> ARTICLE I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">In the conduct of the office of President of the United States, George<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Herbert Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">laws be faithfully executed, has violated the equal protection clause of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Constitution. U.S. soldiers in the Middle East are overwhelmingly poor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">white, black, and Mexican-American, and their military service is based on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">the coercion of an system that has denied viable economic opportunities to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">these classes of citizens. Under the Constitution, all classes of citizens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">are guaranteed equal protection, and calling on the poor and minorities to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">fight a war for oil to preserve the lifestyles of the wealthy is a denial of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">the rights of these soldiers. In all of this George Herbert Walker Bush has<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Wherefore George Herbert Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">and trial, and removal from office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"> ARTICLE II<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">In the conduct of the office of President of the United States, George<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Herbert Walker bush, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">laws be faithfully executed, has violated the U.S. Constitution, federal law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">and the United Nations Charter by bribing, intimidating and threatening<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">others, including the members of the United Nations Security Council, to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">support belligerent acts against Iraq. In all of this George Herbert Walker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Wherefore George Herbert Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">and trial, and removal from office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"> ARTICLE III<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">In the conduct of the office of President of the United States, George<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Herbert Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">laws be faithfully executed, has prepared, planned, and conspired to engage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">in a massive war against Iraq employing methods of mass destruction that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">will result in the killing of tens of thousands of civilians, many of whom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">will be children. This planning includes the placement and potential use of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">nuclear weapons, and the use of such indiscriminate weapons and massive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">killings by serial bombardment, or otherwise, of civilians violates the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Hague Conventions of 1907 and 1923, the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Protocol I thereto, the Nuremberg Charter, the Genocide Convention and the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. In all of this George Herbert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Wherefore George Herbert Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">and trial, and removal from office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"> ARTICLE IV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">In the conduct of the office of President of the United States, George<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Herbert Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">laws be faithfully executed, has committed the United States to acts of war<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">without congressional consent and contrary to the United Nations Charter and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">international law. From August, 1990, through January, 1991, the President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">embarked on a course of action that systematically eliminated every option<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">for peaceful resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis. Once the President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">approached Congress for a declaration of war, 500,000 American soldiers'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">lives were in jeopardy - rendering any substantive debate by Congress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">meaningless. The President has not received a declaration of war by<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Congress, and in contravention of the written word, the spirit, and the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">intent of the U.S. Constitution has declared that he will go to war<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">regardless of the views of Congress and the American people. In failing to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">seek a declaration of war, and in declaring his intent to violate the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Constitution in disregarding the acts of Congress - including the War Powers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Resolution - George Herbert Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">of the people of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Wherefore George Herbert Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">and trial, and removal from office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"> ARTICLE V<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">In the conduct of the office of President of the United States, George<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Herbert Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">laws be faithfully executed, has planned, prepared, and conspired to commit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">crimes against the peace by leading the United States into aggressive war<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">against Iraq in violation of Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter, the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Nuremberg Charter, other international instruments and treaties, and the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Constitution of the United States. In all of this George Herbert Walker Bush<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Wherefore George Herbert Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">and trial, and removal from office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:olive">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:olive">(personal comments only)<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Boyle, Francis A
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 02, 2017 3:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> David Swanson <davidcnswanson@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> C. G. Estabrook <carl@newsfromneptune.com>; peace-discuss@anti-war.net; a-fields@uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman@illinois.edu>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller@illinois.edu>; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke@illinois.edu>; Dave Trippel <davetrippel@ameritech.net>;
Arlene Hickory <a23h23@yahoo.com>; peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net; sherwoodross10@gmail.com; abass10@gmail.com; mickalideh@gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina@worldcantwait.net>; chicago@worldcantwait.net; Mildred O'brien <moboct1@aim.com>; David Johnson
<davidjohnson1451@comcast.net>; Jay <futureup2us@gmail.com>; Karen Aram <karenaram@hotmail.com>; Peace@lists.chambana.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: FW: CIVIL RESISTANCE!--not "disobedience"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#4472C4">Francis A. Boyle: We just need one person to introduce the bill with courage, integrity, principles, and of course a safe seat. In Gulf War I, I worked with the late
great Congressman Henry B. Gonzales on his bill of impeachment against Bush Sr. We put that one in. I did the first draft the day after the war started.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Back in early January 1991 when Ramsey asked me to go in with him and Gonzales on impeaching Bush Sr in order to prevent his Gulf War, Ramsey told me that there were about 5 other
Members of the US House who would endorse Gonzales’s Bill of Impeachment—Ramsey asked me to do the first draft. When push came to shove, the Dems all chickened out but for Gonzales. The Dems are just a Gang of Hopeless Warmongers—in my political lifetime
at least going back to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. <u><span style="color:red">These Dem Jackals of Death cannot change their Spots!<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Fab<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300">Champaign, IL 61820 USA<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300">217-333-7954 (phone)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300">217-244-1478 (fax)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><u><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300">(personal comments only)<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Boyle, Francis A
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 02, 2017 2:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> David Swanson <<a href="mailto:davidcnswanson@gmail.com">davidcnswanson@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> C. G. Estabrook <<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net">peace-discuss@anti-war.net</a>; <a href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu">
a-fields@uiuc.edu</a>; Hoffman, Valerie J <<a href="mailto:vhoffman@illinois.edu">vhoffman@illinois.edu</a>>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <<a href="mailto:jtmiller@illinois.edu">jtmiller@illinois.edu</a>>; Szoke, Ron <<a href="mailto:r-szoke@illinois.edu">r-szoke@illinois.edu</a>>;
Dave Trippel <<a href="mailto:davetrippel@ameritech.net">davetrippel@ameritech.net</a>>; Arlene Hickory <<a href="mailto:a23h23@yahoo.com">a23h23@yahoo.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net</a>;
<a href="mailto:sherwoodross10@gmail.com">sherwoodross10@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:abass10@gmail.com">
abass10@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:mickalideh@gmail.com">mickalideh@gmail.com</a>; Lina Thorne <<a href="mailto:lina@worldcantwait.net">lina@worldcantwait.net</a>>;
<a href="mailto:chicago@worldcantwait.net">chicago@worldcantwait.net</a>; Mildred O'brien <<a href="mailto:moboct1@aim.com">moboct1@aim.com</a>>; David Johnson <<a href="mailto:davidjohnson1451@comcast.net">davidjohnson1451@comcast.net</a>>; Jay <<a href="mailto:futureup2us@gmail.com">futureup2us@gmail.com</a>>;
Karen Aram <<a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:Peace@lists.chambana.net">
Peace@lists.chambana.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: FW: CIVIL RESISTANCE!--not "disobedience"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">The Dems also supported the Bush Jr. War of Aggression against Iraq. They are hopeless Warmongers. Fab.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Boyle, Francis A
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 15, 2015 9:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Killeacle <<a href="mailto:fboyle@uiuc.edu">fboyle@uiuc.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> John Podesta Leaves Obama to Head Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign for 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Dori Smith: Who do you think might be the most effective person to introduce this bill {of impeachment against Bush Jr} and what is in the works in that regard?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Francis A. Boyle: We just need one person to introduce the bill with courage, integrity, principles, and of course a safe seat. In Gulf War I, I worked with the late great Congressman
Henry B. Gonzales on his bill of impeachment against Bush Sr. We put that one in. I did the first draft the day after the war started. So in my opinion there is no excuse for these bills not to have been put in already. In fact, I think I mentioned to you
before, on 11 March 2003 Congressman John Conyers convened a meeting of 40 to 50 of his top advisors, most of whom were lawyers, to debate putting in immediate bills of impeachment against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft, to head off the war. And there
were draft bills sitting on the table that had been prepared by me and Ramsey Clark. And the Congressman invited Ramsey and me to come in and state the case for impeachment. It was a two hour debate, very vigorous debate, obviously all of these lawyers there.
And most of the lawyers there didn’t disagree with us on the merits of impeachment.
<u>It was more as they saw it a question of practical politics, namely, John Podesta was there, Clinton’s former White House chief of staff; said he was appearing on behalf of the Democratic National Committee and they were against putting in immediate bills
of impeachment because it might hurt whoever their presidential candidate was going to be in 2004. Well at that time no one even knew who their presidential candidate was going to be in 2004.
<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I didn’t argue the point, I’m a political independent, my position, and it was not for me to tell Democrats how to elect their candidates. I just continued arguing the merits of
impeachment. But Ramsey is a lifelong Democrat and he argued that he felt that putting in these bills of impeachment might help the Democrats and it certainly wasn’t going to hurt them in 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Well the Democrats did lose in 2004 but as Ramsey and I were walking out after a two hour debate adjourned and I had offered to stay as long as it took to polish up my bills of
impeachment and get them put in right away, because the war started, it was going to start in four days. I turned to Ramsey and I said Ramsey I just don’t understand it, their arguments make no sense, why did they not take me up on my offer to stay and polish
up those bills of impeachment and put them in right away to head off a war. And sadly, Ramsey said, “I think most of the people there want a war.”
<u>That was 11 March 2003.</u> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">It’s very clear that the high officials in the Democratic Party, certainly on the DNC, have been complicit with the Bush Administration in this war against Iraq from the get go.
The Democratic national committee still vigorously opposes putting in any bills of impeachment against Bush and Cheney.
<u>Podesta made that very clear to us on 11 March 2003. <o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">On Tuesday 11 March 2003, with the Bush Jr.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">administration's war of aggression against Iraq staring the American
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">People, Congress and Republic in their face, Congressman John Conyers of
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Michigan, the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee (which has
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">jurisdiction over Bills of Impeachment), convened an emergency meeting
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">of forty or more of his top advisors, most of whom were lawyers. The
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">purpose of the meeting was to discuss and debate immediately putting
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">into the U.S. House of Representatives Bills of Impeachment against
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">President Bush Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Donald Rumsfeld, and then Attorney General John Ashcroft in order to
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">head off the impending war. Congressman Conyers kindly requested that
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ramsey Clark and I come to the meeting in order to argue the case for
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">impeachment.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This impeachment debate lasted for two hours. It was presided over by
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Congressman Conyers, who quite correctly did not tip his hand one way or
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the other on the merits of impeachment. He simply moderated the debate
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">between Clark and I, on the one side, favoring immediately filing Bills
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">of Impeachment against Bush Jr. et al. to stop the threatened war, and
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">almost everyone else there who were against impeachment for partisan
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">political reasons. Obviously no point would be served here by
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">attempting to digest a two-hour-long vigorous debate among a group of
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">well-trained lawyers on such a controversial matter at this critical
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">moment in American history. But at the time I was struck by the fact
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">that this momentous debate was conducted at a private office right down
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the street from the White House on the eve of war.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Suffice it to say that most of the "experts" there opposed impeachment
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">not on the basis of enforcing the Constitution and the Rule of Law,
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">whether international or domestic, but on the political grounds that it
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">might hurt the Democratic Party effort to get their presidential
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">candidate elected in the year 2004. As a political independent, I did
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">not argue that point. Rather, I argued the merits of impeaching Bush
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jr., Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft under the United States
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Constitution, U.S. federal laws, U.S. treaties and other international
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">agreements to which the United States is a party, etc. Article VI of
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the U.S. Constitution provides that treaties "shall be the supreme Law
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">of the Land." This so-called Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">also applies to international executive agreements concluded under the
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">auspices of the U.S. President such as the 1945 Nuremberg Charter.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Congressman Conyers was so kind as to allow me the closing argument in
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the debate. Briefly put, the concluding point I chose to make was
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">historical: The Athenians lost their democracy. The Romans lost their
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Republic. And if we Americans did not act now we could lose our
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Republic! The United States of America is not immune to the laws of
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">history!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">After two hours of most vigorous debate among those in attendance, the
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">meeting adjourned with second revised draft Bills of Impeachment sitting
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">on the table.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Certainly, if the U.S. House of Representatives can impeach President
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Clinton for sex and lying about sex, then a fortiori the House can,
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">should, and must impeach President Bush Jr. for war, lying about war,
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">and threatening more wars. All that is needed is for one Member of
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Congress with courage, integrity, principles and a safe seat to file
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">these currently amended draft Bills of Impeachment against Bush Jr.,
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cheney, Rumsfeld, and now Attorney General Albert Gonzales, who bears
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">personal criminal responsibility for the Bush Jr. administration torture
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">scandal. Failing this, the alternative is likely to be an American
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Empire abroad, a U.S. police state at home, and continuing wars of
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">aggression to sustain both-along the lines of George Orwell's classic
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">novel
<i>1984.</i> Despite all of the serious flaws demonstrated by successive <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">United States governments that this author has amply documented
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">elsewhere during the past quarter century as a Professor of Law, the
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">truth of the matter is that America is still the oldest Republic in the
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">world today. "We the People of the United States" must fight to keep it
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">that way!
<i><u>Podesta did not!<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">[Francis A. Boyle is a Professor of International Law and a human rights<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">attorney. He is the author of "Destroying World Order" (2004, Clarity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Press).]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Francis A. B</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">oyle<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">Law Building<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">Champaign IL 61820 USA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">217-333-7954 (phone)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">217-244-1478 (fax)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">(personal comments only</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">)</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Boyle, Francis A
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 02, 2017 10:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'David Swanson' <<a href="mailto:davidcnswanson@gmail.com">davidcnswanson@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> C. G. Estabrook <<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net">peace-discuss@anti-war.net</a>; <a href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu">
a-fields@uiuc.edu</a>; Hoffman, Valerie J <<a href="mailto:vhoffman@illinois.edu">vhoffman@illinois.edu</a>>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <<a href="mailto:jtmiller@illinois.edu">jtmiller@illinois.edu</a>>; Szoke, Ron <<a href="mailto:r-szoke@illinois.edu">r-szoke@illinois.edu</a>>;
Dave Trippel <<a href="mailto:davetrippel@ameritech.net">davetrippel@ameritech.net</a>>; Arlene Hickory <<a href="mailto:a23h23@yahoo.com">a23h23@yahoo.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net</a>;
<a href="mailto:sherwoodross10@gmail.com">sherwoodross10@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:abass10@gmail.com">
abass10@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:mickalideh@gmail.com">mickalideh@gmail.com</a>; Lina Thorne <<a href="mailto:lina@worldcantwait.net">lina@worldcantwait.net</a>>;
<a href="mailto:chicago@worldcantwait.net">chicago@worldcantwait.net</a>; Mildred O'brien <<a href="mailto:moboct1@aim.com">moboct1@aim.com</a>>; David Johnson <<a href="mailto:davidjohnson1451@comcast.net">davidjohnson1451@comcast.net</a>>; Jay <<a href="mailto:futureup2us@gmail.com">futureup2us@gmail.com</a>>;
Karen Aram <<a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:Peace@lists.chambana.net">
Peace@lists.chambana.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: FW: CIVIL RESISTANCE!--not "disobedience"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">Failure to sufficiently punish a foreign government, even for an actual proven offense, has never been a high crime and misdemeanor. The United States is in fact bound by the Hague Convention of 1899, the Kellogg-Briand
Pact, and the United Nations Charter to take any such dispute to arbitration and to settle it by pacific means. But that would require producing some evidence rather than mere allegations. Lawless "punishment" is much easier.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">For sure David. These Dem Warmongers against Russia are all a disgrace! But what else do you expect from The Sons And The Daughters of The Best And the Brightest who gave us the Vietnam War? Plus ca change…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Champaign IL 61820 USA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">217-333-7954 (phone)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">(personal comments only</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">)</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> David Swanson [<a href="mailto:davidcnswanson@gmail.com">mailto:davidcnswanson@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 02, 2017 10:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Boyle, Francis A <<a href="mailto:fboyle@illinois.edu">fboyle@illinois.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> C. G. Estabrook <<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net">peace-discuss@anti-war.net</a>; <a href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu">
a-fields@uiuc.edu</a>; Hoffman, Valerie J <<a href="mailto:vhoffman@illinois.edu">vhoffman@illinois.edu</a>>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <<a href="mailto:jtmiller@illinois.edu">jtmiller@illinois.edu</a>>; Szoke, Ron <<a href="mailto:r-szoke@illinois.edu">r-szoke@illinois.edu</a>>;
Dave Trippel <<a href="mailto:davetrippel@ameritech.net">davetrippel@ameritech.net</a>>; Arlene Hickory <<a href="mailto:a23h23@yahoo.com">a23h23@yahoo.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net</a>;
<a href="mailto:sherwoodross10@gmail.com">sherwoodross10@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:abass10@gmail.com">
abass10@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:mickalideh@gmail.com">mickalideh@gmail.com</a>; Lina Thorne <<a href="mailto:lina@worldcantwait.net">lina@worldcantwait.net</a>>;
<a href="mailto:chicago@worldcantwait.net">chicago@worldcantwait.net</a>; Mildred O'brien <<a href="mailto:moboct1@aim.com">moboct1@aim.com</a>>; David Johnson <<a href="mailto:davidjohnson1451@comcast.net">davidjohnson1451@comcast.net</a>>; Jay <<a href="mailto:futureup2us@gmail.com">futureup2us@gmail.com</a>>;
Karen Aram <<a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:Peace@lists.chambana.net">
Peace@lists.chambana.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: FW: CIVIL RESISTANCE!--not "disobedience"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-left:1.0in">Fantasies About Russia Could Doom Opposition to Trump<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span class="gmail-submitted">By David Swanson</span><br>
<span class="gmail-submitted"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__davidswanson.org_node_5399&d=DQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=zV9dXOD2Oi__i9uDGuZ-YQu0rXZ258hs-SyDzgCaV_M&s=bzAYiTrGy0IaK2lMOWvMrfRaRC5ukmqzrP-n0wiuHtM&e=">http://davidswanson.org/node/5399</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-left:1.0in">To many Democrats for whom killing a million people in Iraq just didn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense, and who considered Obama's bombing of eight nations and the creation of the drone murder program to be praiseworthy,
Trump will be impeachable on Day 1.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in">Indeed Trump should be impeached on Day 1, but the same Democrats who found the one nominee who could lose to Trump will find the one argument for impeachment that can explode in their own faces.
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_impeaching-2Dtrump-5Fus-5F5869b806e4b0eb586489f3a4&d=DQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=zV9dXOD2Oi__i9uDGuZ-YQu0rXZ258hs-SyDzgCaV_M&s=8AyIQkTmkKSkSOiOywadnW4-eHrMOlp2heW9WLS-RFw&e=">
Here's</a> a "progressive" Democrat:<o:p></o:p></p>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
<p style="margin-left:1.0in">"In his dalliance with Vladimir Putin, Trump’s actions are skirting treason. ... By undermining further investigation or sanctions against the Russian manipulation of the 2016 election, Trump as president would be giving aid and
comfort to Russian interference with American democracy."<o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in">There's a bit of a nod there -- in the word "investigations" -- to the lack of any evidence that Russia manipulated any U.S. election, yet that manipulation is stated as fact, and a failure to support further sanctions as punishment
for it becomes "aid and comfort." What level of punishment exactly constitutes the absence of aid and comfort? And how does that level of punishment compare with the level likely to produce war or nuclear holocaust? Who knows.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in">Failure to sufficiently punish a foreign government, even for an actual proven offense, has never been a high crime and misdemeanor. The United States is in fact bound by the Hague Convention of 1899, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and
the United Nations Charter to take any such dispute to arbitration and to settle it by pacific means. But that would require producing some evidence rather than mere allegations. Lawless "punishment" is much easier.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in">But further evidence can emerge to counter the claim. The lack of evidence for the claim can weigh ever more heavily on public opinion. And the dangers of creating further hostility with Russia can enter the consciousness of additional
people.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in">Meanwhile, we have a man planning to be president later this month whose business dealings clearly violate the U.S. Constitution in terms of not only foreign but also
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.salon.com_2016_12_21_conflicts-2Don-2Dtop-2Dof-2Dconflicts-2Danother-2Demoluments-2Dclause-2Dthat-2Dshould-2Dbar-2Ddonald-2Dtrump-2Dfrom-2Doffice_&d=DQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=zV9dXOD2Oi__i9uDGuZ-YQu0rXZ258hs-SyDzgCaV_M&s=D3ale4wkPa2_yQXQRG7YIXCptzQTDZPzM9fHF1bxdec&e=">
domestic</a> corruption. That's a perfectly overwhelming case for impeachment and removal from office that doesn't require opposing a single incident of mass murder or offending a single Pentagon contractor.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in">Beyond that, Trump is becoming president after election day intimidation, the partisan-based removal of voters from the rolls, and opposition to attempting to count paper ballots where they existed. He's arriving with the stated
policies of unconstitutionally discriminating against Muslims, murdering families, stealing oil, torturing, and proliferating nuclear weapons.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in">In other words, Donald Trump will be from Day 1 an impeachable president, and Democrats will have already spent months building their campaign around the one thing that won't work. Imagine what will happen after all their hearings
and press conferences, when their supporters find out that they aren't even accusing Vladimir Putin of hacking into election machines, that in fact they are accusing unknown individuals of hacking into Democrats' emails, and that they are then vaguely speculating
that those individuals could have been sources for WikiLeaks, thereby informing the U.S. public of what was quite obvious and ought to have been widely reported for the good of the U.S. government, namely that the DNC rigged its primary.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in">By the time the Democrats beat themselves to the floor with this charade, more facts will likely have come out regarding WikiLeaks' actual source(s), and more hostility will likely have been stirred up with Russia. The war hawks
have already got Trump talking up nuclear escalation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in">Luckily there is an ace in the hole. There is something else that Democrats will be eager to hold Trump accountable for. And give Trump a month and he'll produce it. I'm referring, of course, to that greatest fear of Our Beloved
Founding Fathers, the ultimate high crime and misdemeanor: the presidential sex scandal.<o:p></o:p></p>
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