Greens Call For Impeachment Of Bush; Withdrawal Of Troops By The Winter

[Tinoire]

Greens Call For Impeachment Of Bush; Withdrawal Of Troops By The Winter Holidays

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 22, 2003
10:00 AM
CONTACT: The Green Party of the United States
Nancy Allen 207-326-4576 [email protected]
Scott McLarty 202-518-5624 [email protected]



Greens Call For Impeachment Of Bush; Withdrawal Of Troops By The Winter Holidays

WASHINGTON - July 22 - At the Green Party's national meeting, state delegates endorse resolutions calling for impeachment and an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
On the final day of the 2003 national meeting of the Green Party of the United States, delegates from state Green Parties represented in the national party's Coordinating Committee approved two major proposals:

(1) The Green Party endorsed a call to Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings and resolved to take political leadership in the growing movement for impeachment.

The resolution cites President George W. Bush's and Vice President Dick Cheney's "pattern of making false statements to Congress, the American people, and the world to win support for actions by the American government and military forces" in violation of the U.S. Constitution, Charter of the United Nations, and other international laws; "squandering the resources of the American people to serve the interests of transnational corporations"; and war crimes, including the use of depleted uranium and cluster bombs in the preemptive invasion of Iraq.

According to the resolution, "Evidence has emerged that the intelligence agencies of the United States had repeatedly informed the President that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction nor means to threaten the United States, and that alleged evidence produced by the administration was fraudulent." The resolution also authorizes the Green Party's Peace Action Committee (GPax) to coordinate party activities with other organizations that have called for impeachment.

"The problem isn't 16 erroneous words in the President's January 28 State of the Union address, but dozens of false statements on dozens of issues," said Elizabeth Shanklin, chair of the Bronx County Green Party and a New York delegate at the national meeting.

(2) Greens endorsed a "Home by the Holidays" campaign calling for the U.S. to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, and the Philippines, with this year's winter holidays as a deadline for total return of military personnel. The resolution demands the removal of U.S. troops from harm's way, citing the rising number of combat deaths (over 340) and injuries and numerous noncombat fatalities and the damage to health and the environment from the deployment of chemical, nuclear, and ecological weapons.

According to the resolution, the White House's policy of invading other countries "is hostile to the democratic traditions of the American Revolution, and must be actively resisted by all patriotic Americans."

The texts of both resolutions will be posted at the Green Party's web site shortly.

The meeting took place from Friday, July 18 through Sunday, July 20 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. During the meeting, the Green Party of Alabama was admitted to the national party, bringing the number of accredited state parties to 43.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/0722-08.htm

C'mon Dems, c'mon! You're being awfully slow with this one!

[johan]

1. how cane

he be impeached when there is a republican majority in Congres?

[librechik]

2. well, DNC? when will you get on board? It's obviously the right thing to d

I'm waiting...

[lastliberalintexas]

3. And just how is that to be accomplished?

The articles of impeachment must be presented and voted on in the House, which as you may remember is controlled by the repubs. Even if some brave soul were to introduce articles, they would never make it out of committee.

And as much as I opposed the Iraq invasion, it would be even MORE criminal for us to leave now. Yes, we need to involve NATO, the UN and as many other nations as possible over there. But we can't abandon those people to the warlords in the power vacuum that WE created. Surely you realize that?

[Parche]

4. greens?

So now the greens are demanding impeachment, when they were the ones
who had nader run, which a vote for the green party was like a vote
for the republicans,
they need to look at themselves and come over to the democratic
side.

[IndianaGreen]

6. Not one Green voted for the Iraq war resolution

Kerry, Gephardt, Lieberman, and Edwards did!

[robbedvoter]

19. Except in Germany, where they actually could vote

And OK, it was the Afghanistan war - but it was the Greens who tipped the deadlock and got troops sent there.

[IndianaGreen]

5. I second the motion, and I also call for war crimes trials for Bush & Co

Democrats Fail to Hold Bush Responsible for War Deceptions.

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES

MEDIA RELEASE

For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Democrats failed to challenge the Bush Administration when it mattered -- before the invasion of Iraq, say Greens, who assert that the White House's deceit was evident long before the war began.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Greens charge that Democratic Party leaders are dragging their feet on holding the ush Administration accountable for massive deceptions it made in order to justify the invasion of Iraq.

"Except for a brave few, Democrats waited until the occupation started to become unpopular, with daily killings of American soldiers and the realization that we face a prolonged, multibillion-dollar occupation while the U.S. economy is failing," said Nathalie Paravacini, secretary of the Green Party of the United States. "Only now are they standing up to question both the motives and justifications for the costly invasion of Iraq, when hundreds of thousands of their own constituencies have voiced their concerns from the start."

"Greens will make bipartisan complicity in Bush's deceit a major issue in the 2004 local and national elections," Paravacini added. "It's possible that the only justice we'll see is if outraged voters vote out both the liars and the spineless next year."

Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) claims that the Senate Intelligence Committee will "review" rather than investigate evidence that numerous administration officials, including Vice President Cheney, knew that the documents showing that Saddam had purchased weapons-grade uranium from Niger were fake. Former CIA deputy director Richard Kerr has revealed that the CIA was pressed by the White House to doctor intelligence about Iraq's WMDs, and acknowledged that there was no credible connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.

"In the ten weeks since Bush declared an end to the war, no signs of an active WMD program or storage have been found, despite widespread searches," said Mark Dunlea, chair of the Green Party of New York State. "This confirms the initial findings of the U.N. inspection team that Bush had interrupted in his rush to invade Iraq. Saddam's failure to use any such weapons to repel the U.S. invasion confirms that Iraq posed no imminent threat to the U.S. or any other nation. The war was launched for other reasons, especially to gain political control over Iraqi oil resources."

Greens note that current administration members have been drafting blueprints for the invasion for at least a dozen years, especially under the auspices of the Project for a New American Century, which urged President Clinton to invade Iraq in 1988.

http://www.gp.org/press/pr_07_15_03.html

[hippiechick]

13. hear hear !!

http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=iraq

"In theory, pursuing with intent to kill violates a long-standing policy banning political assassination. It was the misfortune of Saddam Hussein's sons, Odai and Qusai, that the Bush administration has not bothered to enforce the prohibition. The brothers were killed during a six-hour raid Tuesday at a palatial villa in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul by U.S. forces acting on a tip from an informant." more...
(bold emphasis mine)


The BFEE isn't even TRYING to look compassionate or WTF ever they said they were, anymore ....


:hi: IG !

[robbedvoter]

20. Interesting! The first word: "Democrats"

Quite clear who their quarrel is with! Their beef is not that we are in the war, but those pesky Democrats need opposin'! Geez, Karl, good timing! yet another angle to throw the SOTU down the memory hole! Good job, team!

[jus_the_facts]

7. zippityfuckin'dooda......

....they talk and they talk....and say "let me tell ya somethin' and I just wanna say this..." WELL THERE'S A PUKE CONTROLLED CONGRESS THAT'S GONNA LAAAAAAAAGH IN YOUR 'GREEN' FACES! :eyes:

They can 'call' for all kinds of stuff....but without a majority of 'greens' in congress it's a pipe dream....but at least they're 'trying' to make a case anyway... :evilfrown:

[RapidCreek]

8. Yep they are trying...

which is a damn site more than the vast majority of Democrats are doing. Therein lies the difference...Greens aren't afraid of being laughed at for demonstrating integrity and moral conviction, as it would appear, Democrats are. Limbaugh chortles and Democrats listen!!! Man that is something I'd be real proud of.....

For christs sake....if everyone thought like some of the posters in this thread, we'd still be praying to the lighting gods to make our dinners hot.

RC

[KG]

9. is this the same greens that 'only attack dems'?

(snicker) :)

[Tinoire]

14. [b]Peace groups open Baghdad office[/b]

If we Dems don't get our ass in gear, we will have no one to blame for alienating progressive voters and losing this next election but ourselves.


WASHINGTON, July 21 — A coalition of anti-war groups has opened an “Occupation Watch Center” in Baghdad to monitor alleged human rights violations by U.S. troops and the actions of corporations such as Halliburton in rebuilding Iraqi infrastructure. The coalition is also exploring the idea of advising U.S. soldiers in Iraq on how they can claim conscientious objector status so that they could be discharged and shipped home.

<snip>

THEY (AMERICAN soldiers) say ‘why are we here? The Iraqis hate us. They don’t want us here. We don’t want to be here,’” said Medea Benjamin, a leading anti-war advocate, who returned from a two-week stay in Baghdad last week.
Benjamin spoke to reporters over the weekend at a gathering of Green Party leaders in Washington. She was the Green Party Senate candidate in California in 2000.

‘BRING THEM HOME’
“When the Green Party says, ‘Bring them home,’ the troops are right on with us,” Benjamin said.
She told MSNBC.com that the anti-war coalition United for Peace and Justice is consulting with Quaker groups and with an organization called Veterans for Peace to see what the options are for “counseling the troops.”

<snip>

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/941541.asp?0si=

[jus_the_facts]

16. integrity and moral conviction....

*points finger and LAUGHS* BWAHAHAHAHAHA...surely you jest! :eyes:

[cprise]

10. Greens are helping inject new ideas

...into the debate.

The Dems need to learn how to take these positions, qualify or tone them down so they get to play the 'responsible' part, then use them to corner the conservatives.

The only danger in this may be that the American public could decide it doesn't want to hear about substantive issues.

[jfkennedy]

12. The Greens have some power

I don't think the Greens would come out with an impeach Bush mantra unless they had something they could use.I have no great love for the Greens but they knew at least in the 2000 elections how to make Democrats and Republicans tremble. The Republicans even went so far as to start funding the Greens campaign in swing states, by paying for their anti Gore ads, on election day.

[jus_the_facts]

15. Welcome to DU!

.....yeah there've been many a looooooooooooong thread around here...all about how Darth Nader is really a puke and on and on and on and on and on...they keep going and going and going.....Greens: they aren't 'energizers' they're dividers! :D


....yeah believe me...I WANT (*) impeached...to infinity and beyond...but just don't see it happening with Congress majority puke....oh how wrong I hope I am....but my cynisism refuses to allow me this fantasy :evilfrown:

:hi: LOVE yer handle! :)

[bushisanidiot]

11. AWOL Better Do what the green say otherwise the greens are

going to run a candidate against him and split the democratic vote.. er.

[Fovea]

17. I really do salute the Greens for this

and with so many seats on the line in the next election.
Seriously though, the Dems should be inspired by this, and lead, not follow the effort.

[robbedvoter]

18. And pot in every bong! Why in the winter? Why not high noon?

Impeachment, huh? Why didn't I think of that? And why not ask for impeachment of all GOP-ers - and Democrats - everyone who is not Green? And a new electoral law where people over 21, without a trust fund, women or minorities are barred from voting? Such high mindedness! I am speechless! Not worthy!