[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:11675] Ramsey Clark Responds to Bush's Television Address (fwd)

[Alfred Kagan]

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>Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:49:41 -0400
>From: Jean Dickson <dickson at buffalo.edu>
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>From: ImpeachBush at VoteToImpeach.org
>>
>>  -- please circulate widely --
>>
>>  Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General, Responds to Bush's Television
>>  Address
>> 
>>  Dear VoteToImpeach Member:
>> 
>>  Sunday night, September 7, President Bush told the American public and
>>  the world to expect more of the same from his administration. More crimes
>>  against peace and humanity, more deaths and destruction, more debts and
>>  poverty. He wants everyone to help.
>> 
>>  President Bush has spent $79 billion attacking Afghanistan and Iraq and
>>  seeks $87 billion more for another year of violence. What he calls "one
>>  of the swiftest and most humane military campaigns in history" has taken
>>  more than 30,000 Iraqi lives, destroyed "tens of billions" in facilities
>>  essential to life, electricity, water supply, sewage disposal, according
>>  to Paul Bremer, and left the whole country destitute, in turmoil, growing
>>  violence and rage. Thousands perished in Afghanistan where the
>>  destruction remains unrepaired, the people disoriented and impoverished,
>>  the highway from Kabul to Kandahar is impassable and violence is mounting.
>> 
>>  U.S. casualties in Iraq alone have reached 300 dead, 1200 with disabling
>>  injuries, and a total of 6000 returned to the United States in body bags,
>>  on stretchers, or sick in body or mind. U.S. soldiers are being killed at
>>  a growing rate, now 1 or 2 a day.
>> 
>>  In the meantime, 2 1/2 million jobs have been lost in the U.S., 1.3
>>  million families slid below the impossibly low poverty line of $17000 a
>>  year for a family of four. U.S. government deficits have erased a surplus
>>  of $590 billion and created a debt of $400 billion, a trillion dollar
>>  loss, with deficits of $400 billion plus expected for the next several
>>  years at least. Not content with his crimes against peace, wars of
>>   aggression, crimes against humanity, assassination, summary execution,
>>   torture and illegal and secret detentions, President Bush boasted
>>   "...and we have captured or killed hundreds of Saddam loyalists and
>>   terrorists... seizing many caches of enemy weapons and massive amounts
>>   of ammunition. We have carried the fight to the enemy... the surest way
>>   to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives
>>   and plans."
>>
>>  That means more wars of aggression. More summary execution and
>>  assassinations. More arbitrary arrests, more illegal detentions and
>>  disappearances. Guantanamo is a symbol to the world of President Bush's
>>  contempt for human rights: torture, suicides, secret detention, military
>>  trials, an execution chamber waiting. Guantanamo should be returned to
>>  Cuba now -- a century late.
>> 
>>  U.S. forces must be withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan. These must be
>>  our last foreign military interventions. U.S. companies must be barred
>>  from profiting from contracts for "rebuilding Iraq" which the U.S.
>>  destroyed. Ten percent of the U.S. military budget at the 2003 level
>>  should be paid into a U.N. fund for the next decade to compensate Iraq
>>  and Afghanistan for U.S. crimes against them, to be used as they choose.
>> 
>>  We are virtually guaranteed more of the same unless President Bush is
>  > impeached for his high Crimes and Misdemeanors. To take back the
>>   Constitution and save our country Vote to Impeach now. This vote is an
>>   unmistakable message from the American people. The world and the present
>>   Administration will understand this message. It means we do not accept
>>   the crimes President Bush has committed in our name and will not permit
>>   their repetition.
>>
>>  Sincerely,
>> 
>>  Ramsey Clark
>>  __________________________________________________
>>
>>  Forward this message to your friends and colleagues who may have not yet
>>  cast their ballot for impeachment at www.VoteToImpeach.org, and invite
>>  them to visit VoteToImpeach.org and become active and vocal members of
>>  this important national movement to impeach George W. Bush.
>>
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