Ramsey Clark

By Ramsey Clark

09/09/03: 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U.S. forces must be withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan.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

http://www.votetoimpeach.org

-- -Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
http://www.anaphoria.com
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