demnan's quest

My letter to Tom Davis

Dear Congressman Davis:

When President Bush took office he vowed to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States. He has not done so and should be impeached and removed from office.

Before 9/11 George Bush ignored warnings that a terrorist attack was imminent. He ignored reports prepared for him with intelligence warning of the 9/11 attacks. Attorney General Ashcroft even knew at that time that it was dangerous to fly on commercial airplanes and instead took a private jet on his travels.

After 9/11 President Bush, with the assistance of Congress, enacted the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act must have been prepared in advance because within days of the attack it was already ready to be given to Congress.

I doubt Congress fully understood the implications this act had. With the Patriot Act in hand President Bush has expanded his powers and suspended such precious rights as Habeas Corpus. Wiring tapping and spying on our citizens is a crime against the Constitution. This act has been used to justify the imprisonment and torture of people rounded up haphazardly in the wilds of Afghanistan. People who might be in the wrong place at the wrong time have been denied their rights under International Law and refused a trial.

All this occurred before the Iraq War.

The evidence is now clear that the Bush administration falsified intelligence to persuade Congress to enact a war resolution against Iraq. Some in Congress and public life were not fooled, but many went along with the President and gave him the money and backing he needed to start the war with Iraq.

Before we invaded Iraq it was a dictatorship, but in the context of the region, it was not a worse dictatorship than many of the other countries around it. It had no viable way to threaten the United States. The 1991 attack on Kuwait had been thwarted during George H. W. Bush’s administration. Saudi Arabia is a dictatorial monarchy, and this dangerous country, which produced most of the 9/11 hijackers and has promoted hatred toward non-Muslims throughout the world through its funding of ultra-conservative schools, is an absolute monarchy that seems to find the Bush family extremely friendly to its interests.

The Bush family’s unusually close ties to the Saudi Royal family needs to be investigated. Is it possible we got involved in the Iraq war because it was better for Saudi interests? If not, why is it that we removed our military presence from Saudi Arabia and put it in Iraq? Why was our presence in Saudi Arabia suddenly not needed? It’s not sane to consider that we removed them because this was Usama bin Laden’s biggest beef against us, is it?

After we were lied to about the intelligence leading to the Iraq war, members of the Bush Administration from the top brass in Dick Cheney’s office outed a CIA undercover agent because of a grudge against her husband. Whoever did this is clearly a traitor to this country who put the lives of many agents in danger. The trial for this crime is going forth, but very slowly. I demand that whoever is found guilty in this trial be treated as the traitor that they are. We need to know how information is disseminated within the administration. Who has knowledge of our undercover agents? I believe it is Cheney and his top staff and they clearly should be impeached for this traitorous act and imprisoned for this crime. If Cheney was not the one responsible, then he clearly was very negligent about Top Secret information that should have been withheld from journalists, and he and his staff should be impeached and tried just for the negligence.

This does not take Bush off the hook for this crime. He should have demanded an immediate investigation and taken personal action to cleanse this administration and right the wrong. But the Bush administration cares little for the safety and efficiency of its intelligence community. Homeland Security is such a huge organization with such inefficient tools to do their work that I wonder who benefits from this inefficiency.

After the Iraq War Commission gave its findings and recommended gradual troop withdrawal, Cheney was summoned to Saudi Arabia. Why? After he returned, Bush announced that he would be working on a strategic plan for Iraq. Shortly after Christmas he announced that he would not only not take the measured bipartisan advice offered by the Commission, he decided to do the reverse and throw more lives into this war in Iraq. This administration has increased its threatening rhetoric against Iran. Are we throwing precious lives away for the benefit of Saudi Arabia, so that weak monarchy can feel safe around its neighbors?

I demand that the elected officials in this country represent the best interests of the people of the United States and the Constitution that upholds our wonderful county. Our interests over the past six years have been gravely neglected. A beautiful city has not returned to its former glory, Americans are suffering from the economy where jobs pay less and less and housing and health care have sky rocketed. You have the obligation to look to these issues as well, but first we must extract ourselves from this insane situation in Iraq. Impeach the President and Vice President quickly so we can enact the plan put forth by the bipartisan Iraq Commission.

Sincerely,

Nancy Maynard

Dear Madam Speaker:

Enclosed you will find my letter to my Congressman, Tom Davis. As a concerned citizen of this great country and a loyal volunteering and contributing Democrat, I demand that you put impeachment back on the table.

Sincerely,

Nancy Maynard

Ice on the Potomac

Just a few days ago I could look out my cubicle window and see flowing water as the Potomac River gently lapped by.  I was getting a little bit hopeful about the Levin/Warner Resolution in the Senate.   Now the Potomac  is iced over, so is the Senate resolution on the Iraq war.  As Senator Webb (still enjoy saying that) said:

"Winston Churchill once wrote about watching good ideas getting nibbled to death by ducks.  Last night, we saw that phenomenon in action.  We had before us a measure that would allow this Congress to speak clearly of its concerns regarding the woeful lack of leadership by the President on an issue that affects our nation and our military people like no other.  And the other side - including some Senators who had helped to draft the resolution, and had put their names on it - punted the ball down field, rather than giving the people of this country the debate they not only need, but are calling for in every public opinion poll."

Senator Webb was referring to the other Virginia Senator:   Mr. Warner punted.

We are going to have to reach out to the Republicans.  There is no way around it.  If we want an end to the Iraq war (and not a start to the increasingly likely Iran war), we are going to have to convince them somehow to stop the monsters in the White House.  There must be a way to do this.  We have no choice.

When a local group of activists started the 11th Congressional District Impeachment Committee, I still wasn't getting this, but others in the group were.  We have a devoted activist in the group who has personally gone to Tom Davis (our Republican Representative) and implored him to stop the war.  Did it do any good?  Not yet, but she keeps on trying, and we will be trying to get our Congressman's attention.

I'm also going to sit down and write to Senator Warner tonight.  I had thanked him for writing his resolution, he deserves to hear from me on this.  So I implore everyone to do the same.  It is now convince a Republican time.  We're desperate, we have no choice.

Join us for Impeachment

If you live in the 11th District of Virginia, or in Prince William County please come and join us for our activities to investigate the President and Vice President for war crimes.

http://groups.google.com/group/va11thimpeach?hl=en

Please contact us at va11thimpeach@googlegroups.com if you wish to join, joining is by invitation only.

Thank you and

PAZ,

Nancy