PETITION TO IMPEACH

PRESIDENT BUSH AND VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY

We, the undersigned, believe George W. Bush and Richard Cheney should be impeached for the following high crimes and misdemeanors, grounds that the Constitution sets forth for the removal of public officials:

The President and Vice President deceived citizens and Congress in the most serious act that a government can undertake - leading its people to war. The principal reasons they gave have been fraudulent, namely: 

• That there was an imminent threat of a secret attack by Iraq which would use weapons of mass destruction against the US and its allies.
• That Saddam Hussein was cooperating with the al Qaida terrorists, with the implication that he was involved in the attacks of those terrorists on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001.

Even if the President was misinformed by his intelligence agencies, he did not take due diligence in oversight of their information in making the decision to go to war, for which he is accountable. 

The President and Vice President undertook aggressive war under cover of a pre-emptive first strike, contrary to the United Nations Charter to which the US subscribes by treaty. Therefore they violated US law.

They also violated US law and the US Constitution in July 2002 by taking $700 million from funds Congress appropriated for the war in Afghanistan, and secretly diverting them to prepare for an unauthorized war in Iraq.

In both the aggressive wars against Iraq and Afghanistan thousands of civilians were killed and wounded in violation of the Geneva Convention requiring protection of civilians in combat areas. 

The President and Vice President have violated the Constitution's Fourth and Fifth Amendments' protection of civil rights of American citizens and legal residents. Over twelve hundred individuals have been detained, in many cases incommunicado, without charge, without benefit of legal counsel and the right to client confidentiality. 

The President and Vice President have obstructed justice by restricting the investigation of the attacks of September 11, 2001. They have also refused to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of congressional oversight of executive functions. 

For the earlier version of this petition,  click here.

Journalists & Activists

John Aravosis
Knute Berger*
John Bonifaz*
Francis Boyle*
Ramsey Clark*
David Cogswell
John Dean*
Bob Fertik
Denise Giardina*
Meria Heller
Guy James
Andy Johnson
Joyce Lynn*
Mike Malloy
Geov Parrish*
Jerry Pippin
Marcus Raskin*
Linda Ronstadt*
Robert Scheer*
Jane Stillwater
Daniel Welch
Peter Werbe
Howard Zinn*

Websites

ARMNY*
Buzzflash
Chewin' The Fat
Democratic Talk Radio
Democrats.com
Demsonline.net
ImpeachNow*
RadioLeft.com
Unelectable-Bush
VoteToImpeach*

Voters & Representatives

40% of America*
Santa Cruz, CA*
Tom Ammiano*
Cynthia McKinney*

* Support impeachment - but have not signed this petition