RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH BUSH AND INVESTIGATE CHENEY, ET AL.

The following resolution is coming before the California Democratic Party Executive Board meeting on January 27-28.

RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH BUSH AND INVESTIGATE CHENEY, ET AL.

WHEREAS, (1) the Downing Street Memos show that President George W.Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, CondoleezzaRice, and various others began planning and executing the illegal waragainst and occupation of Iraq months before seeking Congressional and UNapproval; (2) in furtherance of this planning, (a) intelligence wasshaped to fit these plans, (b) illegal bombing runs were made againstIraq and various other potentially illegal operations and actions weretaken with the express intent to provoke Saddam Hussein to take militaryaction and decline to cooperate with the UN and other internationalentities, and (c) false statements to the American people were made byBush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and others with the apparent intent todeceive Congress and the American public in order to allow the BushAdminstration to carry out its plan for an unnecessary war; (3) as adirect result of the above actions, the U.S. and U.K. began an unapprovedwar of aggression against Iraq, killing thousands of American and Iraqimilitary forces, wounding tens of thousands more, and killing or woundingpotentially hundreds of thousands of civilians, women, children and otherinnocents; (4) that the U.S. has invested hundreds of billions of dollarsin this potentially illegal war, to the detriment of the national debt,all citizens of the U.S. and all government programs for which this moneymight otherwise have been appropriated, and to the benefit solely of themilitary contractors and supplier corporations who have been shown to beovercharging and otherwise cheating the people and the government of theU.S, and (5) these actions on the part of the Bush Administration fit thedefinition of high crimes and misdemeanors, and

WHEREAS, the treasonous leaking of the name of Valerie Plame by Bushadministration officials for the apparent purpose of revenge threatenedthe lives of a whole network of CIA operatives and obstructed officialoperations of the United States Government and decreased the amount ofinformation available to U.S. operatives fits the definition of highcrimes and misdemeanors, and

WHEREAS, (1) the advocacy and carrying out of torture in violation of theGeneva conventions, (2) the defunding of the infrastruction and signingof an executive order removing a wetland protecting New Orleans and thedelayed FEMA response to hurricane Katrina resulted in the deaths of agreat many residents of New Orleans, (3) the giving of no-bid contractsin New Orleans, Iraq and elsewhere to monetary contributors to Bush'scampaign and (4) the extended attacks on the civil liberties of allAmericans, including the authorization of illegal surveillance onAmerican citizens, all fit within the definition of high crimes andmisdemeanors,

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Patrick Henry Democratic Club urgesCongress to immediately begin impeachment proceedings against PresidentBush.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Patrick Henry Democratic Club asks thatall fifty states and a federal grand jury immediately begininvestigations into criminal actions by Vice President Cheney, DefenseSecretary Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,Secretary ofHomeland Security Michael Chertoff, Former FEMA Director Michael Brown,Karl Rove, I. Lewis Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith,John Bolton, Jay Bybee and any and all other members and former membersof the administration in connection with the above noted past and presentactions and any other crimes they may have committed.