>From: [log in to unmask] >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Ramsey Clark Responds to Bush's Television Address >Date: tue, 9 sep 2003 11:08:07 -0400 > >-- please circulate widely -- > >- - - Ramsey Clark, Former U.S. Attorney General, >Responds to Bush's Television Address > >Dear VoteToImpeach Member: > >Sunday night, September 7, President Bush told >the American public and the world to expect more >of the same from his administration. More crimes >against peace and humanity, more deaths and >destruction, more debts and poverty. He wants >everyone to help. > >President Bush has spent $79 billion attacking >Afghanistan and Iraq and seeks $87 billion more >for another year of violence. What he calls "one >of the swiftest and most humane military campaigns >in history" has taken more than 30,000 Iraqi lives, >destroyed "tens of billions" in facilities >essential to life, electricity, water supply, >sewage disposal, according to Paul Bremer, and >left the whole country destitute, in turmoil, >growing violence and rage. Thousands perished in >Afghanistan where the destruction remains >unrepaired, the people disoriented and >impoverished, the highway from Kabul to Kandahar >is impassable and violence is mounting. > >U.S. casualties in Iraq alone have reached 300 >dead, 1200 with disabling injuries, and a total of >6000 returned to the United States in body bags, >on stretchers, or sick in body or mind. U.S. >soldiers are being killed at a growing rate, now 1 >or 2 a day. > >In the meantime, 2 1/2 million jobs have been >lost in the U.S., 1.3 million families slid below >the impossibly low poverty line of $17000 a year >for a family of four. U.S. government deficits >have erased a surplus of $590 billion and created >a debt of $400 billion, a trillion dollar loss, >with deficits of $400 billion plus expected for >the next several years at least. >Not content with his crimes against peace, wars >of aggression, crimes against humanity, >assassination, summary execution, torture and >illegal and secret detentions, President Bush >boasted "...and we have captured or killed >hundreds of Saddam loyalists and terrorists... >seizing many caches of enemy weapons and massive >amounts of ammunition. We have carried the fight >to the enemy... the surest way to avoid attacks on >our own people is to engage the enemy where he >lives and plans." > >That means more wars of aggression. More summary >execution and assassinations. More arbitrary >arrests, more illegal detentions and >disappearances. Guantanamo is a symbol to the >world of President Bush's contempt for human >rights: torture, suicides, secret detention, >military trials, an execution chamber waiting. >Guantanamo should be returned to Cuba now -- a >century late. > >U.S. forces must be withdrawn from Iraq and >Afghanistan. These must be our last foreign >military interventions. U.S. companies must be >barred from profiting from contracts for >"rebuilding Iraq" which the U.S. destroyed. Ten >percent of the U.S. military budget at the 2003 >level should be paid into a U.N. fund for the next >decade to compensate Iraq and Afghanistan for U.S. >crimes against them, to be used as they choose. > >We are virtually guaranteed more of the same >unless President Bush is impeached for his high >Crimes and Misdemeanors. >To take back the Constitution and save our >country, Vote to Impeach now. This vote is an >unmistakable message from the American people. The >world and the present Administration will >understand this message. It means we do not accept >the crimes President Bush has committed in our >name and will not permit their repetition. > >Sincerely, > >Ramsey Clark > > >-------------------------------------------------- >------------------------------ > >Forward this message to your friends and >colleagues who may have not yet cast their ballot >for impeachment at http://www.VoteToImpeach.org, >and invite them to visit http://www.VoteToImpeach. >org and become active and vocal members of this >important national movement to impeach George W. >Bush. > >At this critical time, please give your generous >support to the movement to Impeach George W. Bush, >Richard Cheney, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld. >To make a contribution to the Impeachment Campaign >online through our secure server, or for >information on how to write a check, please visit >the Impeach Bush online donation page at http: >//www.VoteToImpeach.org/donate.htm . > >- - - - >This e-mail has been sent to persons who have >previously signed up to receive VoteToImpeach >E-updates. If you have been forwarded this e-mail >by a friend and wish to receive future e-mails >from VoteToImpeach.org, simply send an e-mail to >[log in to unmask] If you have >received this in error, or wish to not receive >future e-communication from us, please send an >e-mail to [log in to unmask] .