American Hero demands Impeachment

[pat_k]

U.S Army Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright
16 years in active duty in the U.S. Army
13 years in the Army Reserves
16 years U.S. Foreign Service
(one of three State Dept officials to resign in protest in March, 2003)
Retired Ready Reserve

Former soldier, diplomat sees dissent as 'civic duty'
By Gary Loncki
Catholic News Service
http://www.catholic.org/printer_friendly.php?id=21672§ion=Cathcom">Catholic Online
10/18/2006

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She said if the Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives in the November midterm elections, they should work to impeach President George W. Bush for leading the U.S. into what she said is an illegal war.

"We the people have to give them that courage," she said.

She urged citizens to write the president and legislators about the war, organize and participate in protests, and mobilize their friends and neighbors to take action.

"We need to hold government leaders accountable," said Wright. . .

[Monkeyman]

1. HooYa Sir

[babylonsister]

2. So does Elizabeth Holtzman, and I agree with both ladies!

If not now, when? Whoever in our history has so richly deserved it?

Elizabeth Holtzman: President Bush's Grave Misconduct

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-holtzman/presid...


Recent events--the Foley scandal, the Woodward book, revelations about White House scorn for evangelical Christians, the Abramoff scandal, not to mention the increasingly dire situation in Iraq--have all converged in a kind of tsunami headed for the Republican majority in the House and Senate. Of course, it could change course.


But, Democratic control would make impeachment a serious reality.

As I have pointed out many times, impeachment is not only constitutionally warranted but necessary, given the serious abuses of power engaged in by President Bush. Impeachment will help restore the rule of law and repair the damage he has done to our democracy. If on the other hand there is no impeachment, President Bush's grave misconduct, including his refusal to obey the law with respect to wiretapping and his driving the country into war on a basis of deception, will become just the starting point for another President who wants to thumb his nose at our constitution.

The passage of the military tribunals' bill provides another important reason for impeachment. That bill contained a pardon buried deep within it of President Bush and his top team for possible violations of the War Crimes Act of 1996. That Act makes it a federal crime to mistreat detainees in violation of the Geneva Conventions, but the military tribunal bill guts the War Crimes Act and makes the changes retroactive to 1997.

In a remarkable example of the "modified limited hangout"--a Watergate term for covering up by exposing a bit of the truth--the Bush Administration admits that the bill will grant immunity to CIA interrogators for violations of the War Crimes Act. But it never so much as hints that immunity would also extend to those who were complicit with those interrogators. Since the War Crimes Act applies to all US nationals, immunity would also extend to anyone who directed, authorized or otherwise aided and abetted those interrogators in their abuse, including the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of Defense and the Director of the CIA.

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[bonito]

3. KICK!!!

[nam78_two]

4. yes!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[jody]

5. Admirable and I agree with her action but that doesn't make her a hero.

She retired with full benefits so what she did isn't much of a sacrifice.

[pat_k]

6. 29 years of military service makes her a hero in my book. . .

. . .and having the courage to http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0303/032103wright.htm">take a public stand when she resigned is the cherry on top (with or without benefits, when she resigned she was one of just a handful of voices of dissent).

[jody]

7. So any one with 29 years of military service is a hero? Thanks!! n/t

[pat_k]

8. Yes

But even if she had six months of military service, resigning in protest to try to stop the war crimes committed in our names makes her a hero.

[texpatriot2004]

9. We the People will defeat the Evildoers nm

[Kurovski]

10. I'm with Ann Wright.

K&R :patriot: