{"article":{"id":82037,"heading":"Ramsey Clark Responds To Bush's TV Address","author":"Ramsey Clark","created":"2003-09-11 13:21:35","modified":"2013-11-11 00:25:44","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:25:44","article":"

Ramsey Clark Responds To Bush's TV Address

By Ramsey Clark

Former U.S. Attorney General

9-10-3



Dear VoteToImpeach Member:

 

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

 

 

Forward this message to your friends and colleagues who may have not yet cast their ballot for impeachment at www.VoteToImpeach.org, and invite them to visit VoteToImpeach.org and become active and vocal members of this important national movement to impeach George W. Bush.

 

At this critical time, please give your generous support to the movement to Impeach George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld. To make a contribution to the Impeachment Campaign online through our secure server, or for information on how to write a check, please visit <http:\/\/www.votetoimpeach.org\/donate.htm<\/a>>

the Impeach Bush online donation page.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Brought to you by the Bush Regime: Death, destruction, and misery. In a word EVIL.","numcomment":24,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/09\/82037.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":82039,"heading":"And don't forget","article":"The people who support Bush are no different than Hitler's Brownshirt Brigades in 1939.","author":"Abra Cadaver","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-11 13:23:07","modified":"2003-09-11 13:23:07","fileurl":""},{"id":82041,"heading":"Ramsey Clark","article":"I Love Ramsey Clark!! Kill all Jews!!\r\n\r\nThis message brought by you by Linden LaRouche for President.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/larouchein2004.net\/index.html","author":"IMCer","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-11 13:25:48","modified":"2003-09-11 13:25:48","fileurl":""},{"id":82045,"heading":"^","article":"That was me. I hate anyone who's different from me. That includes Jews. I'm a conservative.","author":"smashtheleft","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-11 13:27:46","modified":"2003-09-11 13:27:46","fileurl":""},{"id":82050,"heading":"I hate anyone who's different from me. That includes Jews","article":"Actually, I'm Jewish and the liberals hate me for it.","author":"David Horowitz","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-11 13:32:04","modified":"2003-09-11 13:32:04","fileurl":""},{"id":82051,"heading":"David Horowitz","article":"I hate you for it as well, you damn kike. I'm a conservative.","author":"smashtheleft","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-11 13:33:20","modified":"2003-09-11 13:33:20","fileurl":""},{"id":82151,"heading":"How's This for an Answer?","article":"Blogress Karol Sheinin reports that an Iranian democracy activist named Banafsheh contacted the most prominent "antiwar" group asking them to take a stand against Tehran's thuggish theocracy. In an e-mail (quoted verbatim), Banafsheh describes the answer she got:\r\n\r\nRecently I contacted a group called A.N.S.W.E.R. COALITION which organizes marches. After having introduced myself and explained to them the situation in Iran (after 4 phone calls and messages) I was told that they won't help the Iranian activists and their friends in organizing marches against the Islamic Republic as they're afraid the Iranian student movement might be run by IMPERIALIST!!!!!\r\n\r\nThey claimed to be "intelligent" and very well informed though essentially they had NO IDEA what on earth I was talking about. They were not only unaware of the crimes committed by the Islamic Republic, they had never even heard that an organized group of hoodlums, called the BADR Brigade, trained by the KGB and Palestinians, armed and bankrolled by the Islamic Republic's ruling theocrats, were infiltrating Iraq to run a muck in killing American soldiers and destroy the future of Iraq! When I explained that the people of Iran are acting on their own but that encouragement from the PEOPLE of the west was crucial in holding anti-Islamic Republic demonstrations etc. (that's all I had asked them for: help in organizing demonstrations) the woman basically said that they won't help because their cause was to eradicate Imperialism! I explained that Iranian oil was being pilfered by member nations of the EU and other countries such as Japan, at which she replied: since we don't live in Europe or Japan, I cannot help! I guess imperialism is concentrated only in the U.S.!!!!! AND that Mullahs can't be "Imperialists!" \r\n\r\nI then explained that Hossein Khomeini (Khomeini's grandson) is now one of the biggest opponents of the Mullacracy in Iran...She told me that he was probably being bought by Americans!!! In other words, she was convinced that there could be no dissent among the Mullahs themselves!!!!!\r\n\r\nI told her about my father and other political prisoners in Iran (not to mention the number of people stoned to death, hung, assassinated, raped...), she thought for a moment and said that my father is probably a dissident and that the Islamic Republic was possibly justified in putting him in prison!!!!! I don't know, but doesn't that seem oxymoronic coming from someone working at an "activist\/protestor" organization????? \r\n\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.alarmingnews.com\/\r\n\r\n\r\nWell, not really. International Answer is the brainchild of America-hating ex-attorney general Ramsey Clark. As noted before, this group makes common cause with every one of America's enemies, from Fidel Castro to Saddam Hussein to Kim Jong Il.\r\n","author":"Ffutal","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-11 17:37:11","modified":"2003-09-11 17:37:11","fileurl":""},{"id":82216,"heading":"Clark thinks Bush is evil?","article":"Gosh.\r\n\r\nClark. Is. Stupid.\r\n\r\nWonder how he'd explain the 100 million people killed by communism? His heroes aren't exactly the shining light of humanity, you know.","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-11 20:30:48","modified":"2003-09-11 20:30:48","fileurl":""},{"id":82221,"heading":"nonanarchist","article":"Yeah, right. Bush is a saint. His jarheads murdered my mother and father, you sack of shit! Go to hell!","author":"Iraqi","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-11 20:35:49","modified":"2003-09-11 20:35:49","fileurl":""},{"id":82290,"heading":"Riiiiight, fake boy.","article":"Communism has killed 100 million people.\r\n\r\nYet Clark et. al. continue to insist that Bush is evil.\r\n\r\nDo the math. Take off your shoes, if necessary. \r\n\r\nI repeat: Clark. Is. Stupid.","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 06:53:14","modified":"2003-09-12 06:53:14","fileurl":""},{"id":82308,"heading":"Logical Fallacy","article":""Communism has killed 100 million people."\r\n\r\nUnsubstantiated Allegation\r\nFor more on logic at YOUR level, try reading "Logic for Rightwing Dummies (pardon the redundancy)." \r\n\r\n","author":"debate coach","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 11:17:36","modified":"2003-09-12 11:17:36","fileurl":""},{"id":82310,"heading":"Logical Fallacy","article":""Capitalism killed 100 million people." \r\n\r\nUnsubstantiated Allegation \r\n\r\nFor more on logic at YOUR level, try reading "Logic for Leftwing Dummies (pardon the redundancy)." \r\n","author":"debate coach","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 11:30:51","modified":"2003-09-12 11:30:51","fileurl":""},{"id":82352,"heading":""Capitalism killed 100 million people."","article":"Nobody stated that, you moron. \r\nFor more on reading comprehension at YOUR level, try reading "Reading Comprehension for Rightwing Dummies (pardon the redundancy)."","author":"debate coach's mentor","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 14:15:10","modified":"2003-09-12 14:15:10","fileurl":""},{"id":82488,"heading":"nonanarchist the moron","article":""Capitalism killed 100 million people."\r\nby debate coach's mentor Thursday September 11, 2003 02:15 AM\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nNobody stated that, you moron. \r\nFor more on reading comprehension at YOUR level, try reading "Reading Comprehension for Rightwing Dummies (pardon the redundancy)."\r\n\r\n","author":"LMAO!!!!!!","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 20:46:39","modified":"2003-09-12 20:46:39","fileurl":""},{"id":82500,"heading":"LMAO","article":""Nobody stated that, you moron."\r\n\r\nIncluding me, you moron.","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 21:17:10","modified":"2003-09-12 21:17:10","fileurl":""},{"id":82504,"heading":"nonanarchist the moron","article":"Then why are the IP addresses the same?\r\n\r\nMORON.","author":"IP Guru","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 21:20:45","modified":"2003-09-12 21:20:45","fileurl":""},{"id":82508,"heading":"Oooh, look!","article":"It's the guy who pulls IPs out of his butt!\r\n\r\nFor more on the Internet at your level, try reading "I'm Stupid Enough To Think That People Will Believe I Can Find Out Their IP Address" by IP Guru.","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 21:30:00","modified":"2003-09-12 21:30:00","fileurl":""},{"id":82510,"heading":"nonanarchist the MORON","article":"For more on the Internet at your level, try reading "I'm Stupid Enough To Think That People Can Pull IP Addresses Out of Their Butts" by nonanarchist.\r\n\r\n","author":"anti-nonanarchist","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 21:33:13","modified":"2003-09-12 21:33:13","fileurl":""},{"id":82517,"heading":"anti-nonanarchist","article":"For more on humor at your level, try reading "I'm So Singularly Unoriginal That I Must Play Off the Ideas of Others" by anti-nonanarchist.\r\n\r\nAnd now, go ahead and prove it.\r\n\r\nPutz.","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 21:40:37","modified":"2003-09-12 21:40:37","fileurl":""},{"id":82542,"heading":"Thanks for proving my point,","article":"...you moron.\r\n\r\nGet some new material.\r\n\r\nAssuming you're capable of independent thought, that is. All evidence points to the contrary.","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 22:30:45","modified":"2003-09-12 22:30:45","fileurl":""},{"id":82545,"heading":"Logical Fallacy","article":""Thanks for proving my point"\r\n\r\nUnsubstantiated Allegation\r\nFor more on logic at YOUR level, try reading "Logic for Rightwing Dummies (pardon the redundancy)."","author":"debate coach's mentor","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 22:32:17","modified":"2003-09-12 22:32:17","fileurl":""},{"id":82547,"heading":"nonanarchist the MORON","article":""All evidence points to the contrary."\r\n\r\nUnsubstantiated Allegation \r\nFor more on logic at YOUR level, try reading "Logic for Rightwing Dummies (pardon the redundancy)."\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"debate coach","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 22:34:51","modified":"2003-09-12 22:34:51","fileurl":""},{"id":82548,"heading":"Ha. Ha.","article":"Don't you ever get tired of posting the same lame comments?\r\n\r\nOh, well...at least you're a good cure for insomnia.","author":"nonanarchist","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 22:35:59","modified":"2003-09-12 22:35:59","fileurl":""},{"id":82552,"heading":"nonanarchist","article":"Don't you ever get tired of posting the same innane tripe?","author":"Rational Normal Person","parent_id":82037,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-09-12 22:41:06","modified":"2003-09-12 22:41:06","fileurl":""}]}