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Downing St. Memo is Evidence for Bush Impeachment (So Says the Green Party)
The Green Party of the United States ^
| June 9, 2005
Posted on 06/09/2005 11:10:48 PM PDT by RWR8189
The Downing Street Memo proves that invasion of Iraq wasn't the 'last resort' but Bush's intent all along, leading to cooked intelligence and other impeachable offenses; Greens note bipartisan and media complicity in overlooking evidence of deceit, urge public protest.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green leaders reiterated the party's July 2003 call for impeachment of Bush, and called on all Americans outraged by the Bush Administration's list of deceptions, violations of the U.S. Constitution, the disastrous Iraq occupation, and policies that have disgraced the U.S. to demand that Congress begin the impeachment process.
"The invasion and occupation of Iraq has caused the deaths of over 1,600 U.S. military personnel, as well as untold suffering and tens of thousands of civilian dead in Iraq," said David Cobb, the Green Party's 2004 candidate for President of the United States. "The Downing Street Memo confirms what we already knew -- that a conspiracy to deceive the American people led us into the war, and that this conspiracy constitutes 'high crimes and misdemeanors' according to the U.S. Constitution."
The Green Party of the United States called for the impeachment of George W. Bush during the party's 2003 national meeting <http://www.gp.org/press/pr_07_21_03.html>. Greens have organized and participated in numerous protests against the war since early 2003, and have called for an immediate end to the occupation, cancellation of further war spending, and removal of military recruiters from schools as U.S. troops continue to face death and injury in Iraq.
Greens praised Rep. John Conyers' (D-Mich.) public demand for an explanation from President Bush in the wake of Downing Street Memo's publication, and questioned why so many of the mainstream U.S. media have remained silent on the content and implications of the memo.
But Greens also called many Democrats as responsible as Republicans for Iraq policy, having voted in October 2002 to transfer war power to the President, which created the scenario for White House deceit and abuse of power, and having recently voted for another $82 billion for the war.
"It was already apparent, long before the Downing Street Memo, that President Bush's case for invading Iraq was based on fraud," said Rebecca Rotzler, co-chair of the Green Party's Peace Action Committee. "All of the reasons for invasion that Mr. Bush listed in his January 28, 2003 State of the Union address -- Iraqi WMDs, collusion between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, evidence that Saddam had sought nuclear weapons materials from Africa, nuclear aluminum rods, Iraq's supposed threat to the U.S. and to other nations -- are now known to be false. The Downing Street Memo shows that the intelligence supporting an invasion was fixed, with the complicity of the Bush and Blair administrations as early as July 2002."
Green Party leaders also noted that Ahmed Chalabi, whose false testimony to U.S. intelligence officials on Iraqi WMDs formed much of the basis of the claim that Saddam Hussein was an international threat, is now serving as interim Iraqi Oil Minister, with the Bush Administration's approval; and that John Bolton, now under consideration for appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., repeatedly manipulated intelligence and lied to the U.S. media and the U.N. about Iraqi weapons materials.
"Americans should be protesting in every way possible against the continued occupation of Iraq, and for impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney," said Jake Schneider, treasurer of the Green Party of the United States. "But this has also been a bipartisan war all along, and every Democrat and Republican in Congress who has supported it despite evidence of deceit from the very beginning also deserves removal from office."
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: britishmemo; greenparty; greens; leftists
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To: onyx
The Green Party has it's share of sockless goobers. Did you know that?Absolutely. If they had a mascot, it would be a Birkenstock sandal.
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posted on
06/09/2005 11:43:57 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Whop-bobaloobop a WHOP BAM BOOM!!)
To: BigSkyFreeper

Good nite.
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posted on
06/09/2005 11:46:42 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
To: RWR8189
Everything in that "memo" had been published in the British press two days before the date of the memo, and in remarkably similar language.
Nothing to see here, people, lets keep it moving.
To: onyx
LOL! Very nice! And to you a very good night!
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posted on
06/09/2005 11:49:17 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Whop-bobaloobop a WHOP BAM BOOM!!)
To: RWR8189; All
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posted on
06/10/2005 1:25:55 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: RWR8189
So this is the latest lefty scheme to bring down Bush. Let them get their delusional hopes up. I have read a full explanation of that "memo" and none of it would hold up in court. But that won't stop the left.
So go on Conyers, Kerry, Kennedy and all the rest, make fools of yourselves, again.
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posted on
06/10/2005 3:39:19 AM PDT
by
MisterRepublican
("I am not at all comfortable going to Andy for confirmation of anything."-William Rivers Pitt)
To: MisterRepublican
These are the same people who think that GWB should be impeached for reading "The Pet Goat" at the time of the 9/11 attacks.
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posted on
06/10/2005 3:50:20 AM PDT
by
oblomov
To: RWR8189
The Greens used to be fringe-left... but anymore this sort of thing is spouted by mainstream Democrats, so it leaves the Greens left with nothing new or provocative to say. Kind of sad, really.
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posted on
06/10/2005 3:56:58 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(Discarding your own liberty is foolish, but discarding the liberty of others is evil.)
To: RWR8189
Amazing! Karl Rove now is controlling the Green Party also!
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posted on
06/10/2005 3:59:14 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: RWR8189
WGAF what the greens think?
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posted on
06/10/2005 3:51:07 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Veni Vidi Venti: I came, I saw, I drank a lottta coffee.)
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
They are more sad then funny. But they ARE funny.
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06/10/2005 3:51:59 PM PDT
by
m87339
(If you could see what a drag it is to see you.)
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