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Posted by Maggie (Guest) - Monday, August 21 2006, 23:33:35 (CEST)
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Pancho,

What you wrote reminded me of Ramsey Clark's indictment against Bush:

The People vs. George Bush : Iraq War Crimes Tribunal
Laying a Foundation to Send the Bush Regime to a Tribunal of the World Court

http://www.iacenter.org/iraq_wct-rc.htm : Document Source

INDICTMENT : Draft by Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General
Representing Class Action by the People of the United States of America

This Criminal Indictment Charges George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John D.
Ashcroft, Tommy Franks, and his successors as Commander of U.S. Forces in Iraq, George J. Tenet, L. Paul Bremer, III,
John Negroponte and others to be named with Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and other
criminal acts in violation of the Charter of the United Nations, International Law, the Constitution of the United States and
Laws Made in Pursuance Thereof.

The Crimes Charged are:

1. Waging a War of Aggression against the sovereignty of Iraq and the rights of its people, resulting in tens of thousands of
deaths and injuries among the people of Iraq, most civilians, from military violence and thousands of U.S. G.I?s. War of
aggression is defined as ?the Supreme international crime? in the Nuremberg Judgment.

2. Authorizing, encouraging and condoning the use of excessive force, in terrorem, tactics called ?Shock and Awe?, targeting
defenseless civilians and, civilians facilities and indiscriminate bombing and assaults.

3. Authorizing and ordering the use of illegal weapons including super bombs, cluster bombs, depleted uranium enhanced
bombs, missiles, shells and bullets and threatening the use of nuclear weapons.

4. Authorizing, ordering, concealing and condoning assassinations, summary executions, murders, disappearances,
kidnappings and torture. 5. Authorizing, financing, utilizing and condoning illegal violence, use of force and torture by highly
paid paramilitary civilian forces operating anonymously and not accountable to U.S. supervisors for their acts, who kill,
coerce, control and contain the Iraqi population.

6. Authorizing, ordering and condoning the systematic destruction of economic, social, cultural, medical, educational,
governmental and diplomatic resources, properties and facilities throughout Iraq.

7. Authorizing, ordering and condoning acts designed to divide the Iraqi population to cause internal conflict and violence
among major segments of the society, ethnic, religious, political and economic, in order to weaken and exhaust the
population and bring all segments under the control of a new surrogate government submissive to U.S. command. .

8. Authorizing, imposing and maintaining a violent, criminal military occupation over Iraq which kills defenseless Iraqi?s
daily and fans the flames of anti-U.S. anger worldwide.

9. Defying and incapacitating the peace making capacity and role of the United Nations by unilateral actions to undermine its
potential effectiveness while continuing to coerce and use the U.N. to pursue U.S. policies in Iraq and elsewhere, and coercing
and enticing other nations to support U.S. policies and actions in violation of international law in the U.N. Security Council
and against Iraq and other nations.

10. Engaging in systematic acts to undermine and destroy international laws and treaties designed to prevent and control war,
weapons of mass and indiscriminate destruction; limit participants in military service; protect the environment; prevent the
economic exploitation of poor nations; and engaging systematic acts to obstruct justice by the evisceration of the
International Criminal Court and manipulation or defiance of other international judicial and regulatory bodies that might
seek to hold the U.S. accountable to international law and the will of the majority of the people of the international
community. 11. Manifesting their continuing commitment to world domination by ordering, directing and condoning violent
regime change in Haiti in March 2004 to replace the independent, elected democratic President Jean Bertrand Aristide with a
U.S. selected and controlled neo Duvalierist surrogate causing growing violence, hundreds of deaths and further
impoverishment of the Haitian people.

12. Threatening the sovereignty and independence of nations, and acting to change regimes that refuse to yield to U.S.
demands for economic subservience and political control for U.S. corporate and government interests, including most
prominently Cuba, Iran, a divided Korea, the Philippines, Syria, Sudan and Venezuela; and supporting Israel?s illegal
occupation, brutalization and expanding settlement of Palestine in defiance of the United Nations, international law and
world opinion; all of which adds to international anger and violence against the United States and its citizens.

13. Destroying the sovereignty, right to self determination, cultural integrity and control of its own resources of Iraq and its
peoples by imposing an interim government headed by a long time C.I.A. asset who directed violence against Iraqi civilians
for the U.S. in the 1990's; and manipulating procedures for the imposition of a new Constitution drafted by and installation
of a new government chosen through controlled electoral processes and subservient to the will and command of the U.S.
government.

14. Usurping the war powers delegated in the constitution to the Congress to pursue wars of aggression and other unlawful
military actions; and attempting to pack the federal courts with judges committed to ideologies in conflict with the
Constitution of the United States to achieve judicial decisions supporting those ideologies. 15. Systematically weakening
fundamental human rights globally and the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution within the U.S. enabling U.S. forces to
unlawfully seize individuals in 100 countries, including U.S. citizens and arrest thousands of aliens in the U.S. and hold them,
transport them, torture many, deny all access to courts to determine the legality of such seizures, arrest and treatment.

16. Making Guantanamo [U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay?] a symbol of U.S. power to imprison and abuse persons on
the soil of a foreign sovereign nation, Cuba, against its will and to publicize U.S. contempt for human rights by displaying its
power to arbitrarily seize, confine and abuse persons without revealing who they are, any charges against them, or what their
future may be, placing U.S. power above all laws, international and national, and beyond the reach of all courts, including
those of the U.S.

17. Giving economic preferences to favored corporations and business interests to extract enormous profits in both war and
peace sectors of the economy from impoverished Iraq and U.S. taxpayers. 18. Systematically utilizing, controlling, directing,
manipulating, misinforming and restricting press and media coverage and deliberately presenting false and misleading reports
to obtain support for U.S. military and political and actions; and to deprive the American people of knowledge essential to
develop an informed opinion , which is essential to democratic processes and elections.

19. All for the purpose of dominating, controlling, and exploiting Iraq and other non compliant nations by military force and
economic coercion. In addition to full accountability for the foregoing crimes and full reparation to victims, the offenses
constitute ?high Crimes and Misdemeanors? under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States requiring the
removal from office of all the participating civil Officers of the United States upon impeachment for and conviction for their
acts.

Dated: August 5, 2004
Ramsey Clark

Source Page of the Indictment : http://www.iacenter.org/iraq_wct-rc.htm

The letter was posted above this information, which we leave intact :

Iraq War Crimes Tribunal call 212-633-6646 for more information
www.PeopleJudgeBush.org for more information
Contribute to the War Crimes Tribunal: www.PeopleJudgeBush.org/donate.shtml

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go to www.peoplesrightsfund.org

pancho wrote:
>...if Syria or Iran arm anyone to defend his home from American/Israeli assault, that person can become a legitimate target...but the United States can arm anyone it pleases to blow YOU up...only you aren't supposed to notice.
>
>When American soldiers get caught raping and murdering civilians...it goes "no higher"...but when Iraqi soldiers do the same...it HAS to be at Saddam's "direct orders".
>
>The sheer magnitude and persistance of the lies coming out of Washington and being reported dutifuly in the media are enough to make you gag..and that's exactly what they're meant to do...overwhelm you and gag you into silence...people are actually BELIEVING this version of reality...it's amazing to watch, really.

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