{"id":396,"date":"2008-03-18T10:50:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/bush-earned-impeachment-five-years-ago-today\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T14:02:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T19:02:33","slug":"bush-earned-impeachment-five-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/bush-earned-impeachment-five-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Earned Impeachment Five Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a memo sent to Congress five years ago today, Bush\u00a0decreed that he was attacking Iraq\u00a0\u201cto take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration linked Saddam to 9\/11 to justify commencing a war that has left hundreds of thousands of people dead.<\/p>\n<p>Launching an unprovked aggressive war was recognized as a war crime at the Nuremberg tribunals in 1946, which declared that\u00a0 to &#8220;initiate a war of aggression&#8230; is not only an international crime; it is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_of_aggression\"><strong>supreme international crime<\/strong><\/a> differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration has had five years to offer up evidence to support the Saddam\/9\/11 tie.\u00a0 They have offered nothing.<\/p>\n<p>It is an outrage that Bush has faced no legal or constitutional peril for his\u00a0lethal fraud.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 I also posted this on the Antiwar.com blog.\u00a0 Someone picked up that entry and posted it on DemocraticUnderground.com <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all&amp;address=389x3027313\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a memo sent to Congress five years ago today, Bush\u00a0decreed that he was attacking Iraq\u00a0\u201cto take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.\u201d The Bush administration linked Saddam to 9\/11 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,659,6,10,36,667],"class_list":{"0":"post-396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-bovard","9":"tag-bush","10":"tag-iraq"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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