Posted on 01/18/2003 8:05:04 PM PST by concerned about politics
Ramsey Clark to Protesters: 'Let's Impeach Bush'
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark told a crowd of cheering anti-American demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C. to protest the impending war in Iraq on Saturday that he was launching a campaign to impeach President Bush.
"(The Constitution) provides a means of preventing what President George Bush wants to do - it's called impeachment," Clark proclaimed, before outlining his bill of particulars against the White House.
The Democrat attorney general under President Johnson charged that Bush had engaged in "usurping the power of the Constitution and the people, being above the law, treating anybody any way he wants to - no civil rights, no civil liberties, nothing."
Then Clark engaged in a call and response exercise with the Baghdad-sympathizing demonstrators.
"Has George Bush committed impeachable offenses?" he asked.
"Yes!" the crowd shouted back.
"Has he assumed the power to wage aggressive war by himself on his own decision?" the radical left-wing ex-lawman added.
"Yes!" the protesters repeated.
"Is that an impeachable offense?" Clark asked.
"Yes!" came the retort one more time.
Clark then charged that Bush has already "waged war, first strike and preemption, on his own, without the consent of the Congress or the United Nations." In fact Bush has won resolutions of support for his Iraqi policy from both bodies.
Next the former AG asked the crowd, "Has (Bush) threatened to use nuclear weapons?" "Yes," came the response, despite the fact that, that charge was also erroneous.
"Has he authorized and condoned assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, and secret holding of people in unlawful detention?" Clark wondered aloud, before adding bizarrely, "And bribery!"
"Yes!"
Then, throwing in everything but the kitchen sink, Clark asked, "Has he undermined international law and the Constitution and the charter of the United Nations?" before proclaiming, "Then let's impeach him!"
The ex-AG said he was launching "a major campaign' for Bush's impeachment, announcing, "We're gonna have a website. We're gonna go for it!"
He then exhorted the crowd, "Remember the Republicans impeached Bill Clinton four years ago for nothing. Are we gonna stand by when the whole world is threatening and do nothing about impeaching George Bush?"
ROTFLMAO!!!
Yes.
When Clinton bombed Iraq (was it bagdad?) during the Monica scandal did Ritter protest then?
Didn't Clinton bomb Iraq for years during his term?
Forgive me for not staying on-subject, but I've noticed a lot of FReepers spell "serious" "series". Is this an inside joke or something?
Yeh. We're vey series here.
Uhhhhh.....the name of the condom is Ramses, not Ramsey. Unless you're talking about his other son, Trojan.
Yeh. We're vey series here.
Okay, good. Being the excellent spellerer that I am, that has bugged me like crazy.
Thanx for the visual aid but I still don't get it. But, hey, no big. I understand the nature of inside jokes. I'll figure it out eventually.
This is more series than you thought.
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