Meetings to Focus on Bush Impeachment (WI)

Madison.com ^ | June 22, 2005 | Steve Elbow

[Diana in Wisconsin]

The Madison chapter of Veterans for Peace is planning a series of town hall meetings to discuss the impeachment of President Bush.

Retired UW Professor Bob Kimbrough hopes the meetings will spark a serious discussion on impeachment.

"It's pretty much in the air now, thank goodness," he said.

The state Democratic Party has called for the impeachment of Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and some Democrats in Congress have broached the subject.

Kimbrough, Buzz Davis and Don McKeating of Madison Veterans for Peace, Chapter 25, are organizing the events.

"The purpose, since it's a town meeting, is to hear what other people have to say," Kimbrough said. "We're going to keep our presentations short."

Criticism about how Bush and administration officials took the nation to war in Iraq is growing, particularly in light of the so-called "Downing Street memo," which hit the British press early last month. The memo suggests that Bush lied to the public about when he made the decision to go to war. The memo states that facts and intelligence were being "fixed around the policy," and that the U.S. had no clear exit strategy after deposing Saddam Hussein.

The National Veterans for Peace, based in St. Louis, issued charges against the president for war crimes, breeches of U.S. and international law and crimes against humanity.

The local chapter is planning several meetings to discuss the charges, but only the first has been scheduled at 6:30 p.m. next Wednesday at the Public Safety Building in Stoughton, WI.

"We want to take it one step at a time, test our format and see how it goes," Kimbrough said, "then line up a bunch of them after that."

[bohdi777]

just curious. I'm new here. Why are there no links to military recruiting sites like Goarmy.com or military.com on freerepublic.com. It seems the least that could be done to help out with the current recruiting problems.

[TitansAFC]

--"What used to be called freak shows, charging money to peruse, are now called activists and they are their own worst trainwreck.
I have no problem with that."--

I agree. I hope they try to Impeach Bush right around election time 2006.

We won't need to motivate the base. They'll come out in record numbers.

It is especially funny when you consider that Republicans can post actual quote from almost all of these guys about how it is "revenge" for Clinton's trial.

A part of me longs to see thing....the sadist in me would love to see the Dems actually split the party in two for real and for good, which I think would happen as a net result of this process, because I think it would cost them what remains of their obstructionist power.

bring it on, losers!

[GrouchoMarx]

Really.... what impeachable offense(s) did Misters Bush, Cheney et al commit?

1. "He lied to the American Public so that we could invade Iraq" --- if lying to the American public were an impeachable offense, just about every president would have been impeached. Even so, there is no evidence, to my knowledge that President Bush lied to the American public.

2. "The Downing Street Memo is proof positive that the intelligence was fabricated or manipulated" --- first of all, isn't the Downing Street Memo's veracity somewhat questionable? Secondly, the memo claims in one section that the evidence for WMDs is somewhat tenuous, then later on in the same memo, it discusses various war scenarios where Iraq uses WMDs... so which is it?

3. "War crimes"? What war crimes are we talking about? The fact that some soldiers at Abu Ghraib did something naughty? Those soldiers were punished, no link was established, casual or otherwise, that tied GWB to those abuses. "Crimes against humanity" ---- how is the liberation of millions of Iraqis a crime against humanity? I think that Saddam Hussein and his confederates are guilty of this.

4. Breaches of US and international law. Didn't the Senate approve hostilities against Iraq? And how did we break International Law by invading Iraq? Oh, I get it, Kofi Annan called the Iraqi invasion "illegal" --- that's it, isn't it?

OK.... my turn, how about this for criminal offenses?

1. Defamation of character. If anyone is guilty of defamation of character, it is the Left in their ever ongoing campaign to impugn the president, the Vice President and so forth. Now the question is, can the president actually sue someone for making nasty remarks about him, even when they've been proven to be false.

2. Providing aid, comfort and relief to the Enemy during a time of hostilities involving American troops. If a day went by where the Main Stream Media wasn't conjuring up innuendo about our troops, the military, turning public opinion against the war effort and plain out just giving the Enemy fodder for propaganda against America, I don't believe I'd know them.

3. Actively pursuing a course of action which puts American lives at risk.... By calling for a bunch of un-needed investigations of the military during a time of hostility, the focus on fighting the enemy and defeating him is lessened. Also, undermining the national resolve to win this war. In both cases, it can be argued that such actions endanger American lives.