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A State of Clear and Present Danger: The Case for the Impeachment of George W. Bush

by Tom Wheat

History of Cold War    

History of Cold War

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Conclusion

Of Further Interest

Middle East
Research Links
Historical Documents

Chomsky on Terror

Of related interest: The Tilden Hayes Election

Election Law

Gore won Popular vote

Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Electionwww.gpo.gov

US Strategic goals after the Cold War

Recommended Reading

Global Consumerism

Bush was AWOL

Chinese & Russian Revolutions

Al qaeda timeline

Rumsfeld offered help to Saddam 

 

 

 

The Case for the Impeachment of George W. Bush

Chapter 1


psychology

IMPEACH BUSH

by

Thomas J. Wheat

George W. Bush was never legally elected President in the Florida 2000 elections. Also He was either complicit or inept in preventing the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks. It was his father's administration who put Osama on the CIA payroll. He ignored multiple warnings that the terrorists were going to strike. Finally Bush's family history shows that his grandfather was a banker for adolph hitler, and that Bush was in Business with James Bath who was in business with Osama Bin Laden's elder brother, Salem Bin Laden. Bush must be impeached from office. He is bad for America. He's allowed the NSA to spy on our phonecalls. Bush will trample civil liberties to cement the Republican establishment long after he is gone. Consider what would happen if Al Gore would have won. We would have had two Democrat appointed Supreme Court Justices. These are lifetime appointments. Presidents' throughout history have used foreign policy to expand their control over domestic policy. The White House Administration's War on Terror is a cloak for partisanship, terrorist blackmail and is an attempt to salvage the President's failed Domestic agenda.

The Florida 2000 Election Conspiracy

According to Greg Palast and Martin Luther King III Bush gerrymandered the vote in Florida. In all it is believed that 90,000 eligible black and Hispanic voters were denied the right to vote. These people were denied the right to vote because Database Technologies (ChoicePoint) incorrectly classified these eligible voters as felons. Florida Secretary of State Kathleen Harris hired Database Technologies. She was in charge of elections in Florida. It was Kathleen Harris who was also in charge of Jeb Bush's reelection campaign. Database Tech. was hired approximately a year before the elections offering a $4.3 million dollar bid to tabulate votes. The former company who had tabulated the votes for Florida offered a bid for $5700 dollars.

The US civil Rights commission also found clear evidence of voter disenfranchisement. http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/ch9.htm

Essentially, what happened was that if an eligible black voter with no felonies on his record shared the same surname as another felon both people were denied the right to vote. .

Some features of DBT's voting irregularities include for instance people being charged for future crimes that they never had committed. For instance take the case of Thomas Alvin Cooper, who was denied the right to vote in 2000 for a crime he supposedly committed in 2007. All told some 325 eligible voters were denied the right to vote because of future crimes they had never committed. Remember Al Gore lost Florida by 537 votes when the US Supreme Court stopped Florida vote recount. Out of that 179,855 ballots were never counted. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/09/president.election Furthermore, 4917 eligible black voters were disqualified from voting for felonies they never committed and for which DataBase Technologies (ChoicePoint) had blank conviction dates.

Sources Cited:

US Commission on Civil Rights http://www.usccr.gov/ findings: http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/ch9.htm http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/appendix/lichtman/ltrpt.htm

http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/feature/2000/12/04/voter_file/index.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,824555,00.html

http://www.gregpalast.com/the-great-florida-ex-con-gamernhow-the-felon-voter-purge-was-itself-felonious

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/12/21/State/No_telling_if_voter_r.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/newsnight/1174115.stm

Greg Palast is a reporter for the BBC, the Observer, and the Manchester Guardian. Also, he is the author of, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," a book about the 2000 elections and multinational corporate corruption.

Also Check out Alan Dershowitz's book: "Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000"Amazon.com Dershowitz is a professor at Harvard Law school.

Dershowitz essentially argues in his book that the supreme court decision Bush vs. Gore, 2000) violated the past supreme court ruling Marbury v Madison 1803 specifically the principle of Judicial review.(85) He argues that Article II of the US constitution gives state legislatures the right to determine how they conduct elections.Dershowitz argues that (Bush v. Gore, 2000) violates the 10th amendment. He argues that the 10th amendment and marbury versus madison gives the state judiciary the right to rule on laws that are contradictory, essentially the same power enjoyed by the us supreme court. At issue was the fact that the Florida Supreme court had ruled that pursuant to the Florida election law principle of Clear voter intent via the numerous errors by the votomatic machines warranted an extension of the secretary of state's voter certification deadline by 12 days in order to conduct a manual recount.

The supreme court in a 5-4 decision ruled on procedural grounds that this violated article II. It should be noted that the five judges who voted to stop the recount were all republican appointees. Florida's clear voter intent law says even if ballots are improperly cast if there is sufficient evidence to prove voter intent the ballots must be counted.(59, 86-87) "manual recount authorized in section 102.166(4)(d). Section 102.166(7)(b) states: If a counting team is unable to determine a voter's intent in casting a ballot, the ballot shall be presented to the county canvassing board for it to determine the voter's intent. "

The certification deadline conflicted with the spirit of clear voter intent because it made it impossible to conduct a manual recount when there was strong evidence showing machine malfunction and confusingly designed ballot cards. Dershowitz argues that according to the principle of Judicial review the Florida Supreme court acted within its jurisdiction by extending the voter certification deadline.

Bush filed suit to US supreme court relying on the doctrine of equal protection from the 14th amendment. He argued that improperly cast ballots regardless of the circumstances were void and should not be counted. He argued that to count these ballots would be discriminatory to him and create a process called voter dilution. Essentially he argued that only properly submitted ballots should be cast (even despite the mechanical error of the votomatic machines) and that to count disqualified ballots would dilute his share of the vote and thereby violate the Equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. However, it should also be noted that many of the ballots properly submitted were not tallied by the votomatic machines. Dershowitz argues that Florida's Clear voter intent law is guranteed by the equal protection clause. (57-61)

Dershowitz rightly states that The 14th amendment was originally created to end discrimination against minority races and that it was appaling that such a law was used to disenfranchise minorities when it had been crafted for their benefit. The bush dominated supreme court used that very same amendment to disenfranchise african american's from voting. By far the largest number of rejected ballots were cast by blacks and voters who traditionally voted democrat.(80) It should be noted that the chief justice william Rehnquist was a strong supporter of racial seggregation early on in his career. He argued that Plessy vs. ferguson should be upheld and that brown v board of education was unconstitutional.(Dershowitz, 142)

179,855 ballots were not counted because of the malfunctioning voting machines or because in the case of butterfly ballots they were designed ambigously. Only when the intial manual recount was closing the gap on the Bush lead did he claim a violation of equal protection. Furthermore the Supreme court cited no legal precedent (Stare Decisis) for its ruling in nullyfying the state's rights jurisdiction of the florida supreme court other than to say Article II had been violated.(132)

It is humorous to acknowlege that republicans always bring up the state's right argument but in this case they clearly violated the power of the state court to interpret and rule on conflicting laws. Justice Scalia almost always champions state's rights cases but in this case his ruling reflected reactionary seggregationalist federalism. (125)

Also the Newsweek article "The Truth behind the pillars," exposed the fact that Justice Sandra day O'conner already had a partisan viewpoint regarding the election. while at a party eyewitness accounts overheard here saying that Gore's lead in the polls was 'terrible.'

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmnew/is_200012/ai_kepm319403

Of equal Interest: O'conner also signaled her intention to only retire if a republican president was elected. (156) Also the "Uncle Tom" Justice Clarence Thomas recieved less than favorable ratings from the american bar association.(198) see "Thomas the least qualified nominee so far?" National Law Journal 9/16/91 It should be noted Bush no longer allows the ABA to screen prospective Judges. (200),

Inconclusion the supreme Court's ruling on article II actually violated that statute. Article II does give the state's rights to have their legislature determine how to conduct presidential elections. However, you had to conflicting florida election laws. There was the voter certification deadline and the clear voter intent law. The 10th amendment and marbury versus madison 1804, gives the state judiciary under the power of state's rights and judicial review to rule on conflicting laws. The conservative arguements against this are weak and they refuse to acknowlege that the voting machines did not even tabulate some properly cast ballots. Furthermore the Supreme Court cited no legal precedent in Bush v Gore, 2000. How would the constitution of the United States of america or the Bill of Rights be irrevocably harmed by the florida supreme court's ruling that the voter certification deadline be extended by 12 days. Conservative arguments against this are a red herring fallacy. The resulting argument actually violates the rationale behind the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Thus the procedural ruling disenfrancised 179,000 people. Furthermore The ruling was partisan since the judges who voted for the majority opinion were republican appointees and those who were disenfranchised were blacks and democrat voters. This proves that America no longer has a independant judiciary the cornerstone of a true democracy!

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Background on the Bush family:

The NAZI Connection

Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush was a banker for Adolph Hitler. In 1942 He had his assets in the Union Banking Corporation seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Prescott's Union Banking Corp worked for Brown Brothers Harriman, which was owned by Nazi Financier Fritz Thyssen. Bush helped Thyssen move assets through front companies around the world. Thyssen became wealthy when Hitler decided to rearm Germany. He had owned the largest steel company in Germany. Bush also had financial dealings with several German companies who utilized slave labor from NAZI concentration camps.

For more info: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html

Bush is also the descendant of English royalty on his mother's side. This country was founded as the result of the tyranny of King George. According to this Guardian article George Bush is a direct descendant of William of Normandy. According the guardian, "Mr. Bush has direct descents from William the Conqueror, Henry II and Charles II according to Burke's Peerage."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/US_election_race/Story/0,2763,393341,00.html

BUSH'S ROLE IN THE 9/11/01 TERROIST ATTACKS

Bush and the CIA had plenty of warnings to know that Osama Bin Laden was planning a terrorist attack on American soil. The first warning that Osama was targeting US government installations was when his Al Qaeda organization bombed the Khobar towers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1996. The second warning came in 1998when Osama bombed 2 US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es alaam, Tanzania. The next warning came in 2000, when Osama bombed the US naval ship, the USS Cole.

The Warnings on Bush's Watch

On July 10th 2001, Kenneth Williams an agent with the FBI submitted a memo to his superiors indicating that agents of Osama Bin Laden were attending Arizona and Florida flight schools and that they were not staying long enough to learn how to land. The FBI's Phoenix memo was classified by the Counter terrorism Division as a low threat priority. Two of the suspects in Williams's investigation, Hani Hanjour and Nawaf al Hamzi later crashed flight 77 into the pentagon on 9/11/01.

Excerpt from the memo:

"The purpose of this communication is to advise the Bureau…of the possibility of a coordinated effort by Usama Bin Laden to send students to the United States to attend civil aviation universities...Phoenix has observed an inordinate number of individuals of investigative interest who are attending or who have attended civil aviation colleges in the state of Arizona"

"Phoenix believes that it is more than a coincidence that subjects who are supporters of UBL [Usama Bin Laden] are attending Civil aviation…colleges in the state of Arizona. As receiving offices are aware, Phoenix has had significant UBL associates/operatives living in the state of Arizona conducting activity in support of UBL. Wadih El Hage, a UBL lieutenant recently convicted for his role in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Africa, lived in Tuscon, Arizona for several years in the 1980's."

sources:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0412042phoenix1.html

Kenneth Williams: Man of the Memo Sunday, May. 19, 2002 By DAVID SCHWARTZ, ELAINE SHANNON AND MICHAEL WEISSKOPF

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,238561,00.htmlfix link

The second warning came when Bush was given a memo, entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike US," in which it underlined that Bin Laden was planning to "bring the fighting to America." Bush gave the memo low priority.

Excerpt:

"Clandestine, foreign government and media reports indicate Bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US."

The declassified version of the Memo is available @

http://us.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo

Bush also received warnings from German and Russian intelligence services. Both The German and Russian sources said terrorists were planning to hijack planes and that Al Qaeda was planning to attack US interests.

Excerpts:

"German Intelligence alerted the Central Intelligence agency, Britain's MI-6 intelligence service, Israel's Mossad in June 2001 that Middle Eastern terrorists were training for Hijackings and targeting American and Israeli interests…Russian President Vladimir Putin has said publicly that he ordered his intelligence agencies to alert the United States last summer [2001] that suicide pilots were training for attacks on US Targets."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53065,00.html

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/06/26/8695.html

A total lapse in Judgment: The State Department's Visa Express Program

In June of 2001The US State department instituted a new program for Saudi nationals wanting to visit the US. The Visa Express program did not require a face to face interview. Most applicants only had to send off their applications by mail to gain approval. According to Unger and a US Consular official Jessica Vaughan, the mailing of applications and approval of visas by mail created a likely scenario of identity fraud.

Three people who were approved for Visas by the State Department's Visa Express program in Saudi Arabia, turned out to 9/11 hijackers. Their names were Abdulaziz Alomari, Khalid Almidhar and Salem Alhazmi. Alomari with Muhammed Atta at the controls crashed Flight 11 into the World trade center. Almidhar crashed Flight 77 into the Pentagon. Alhamzi was on the same flight as Al-midhar.

Sources

Unger, Craig. "House of Bush House of Saud," pgs. 231, 247-248, 260

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/terror/articles/visa011212.htm

Collusion with other Intelligence sources:

Just as the two jets slammed into the World Trade Center, 5 Israelis, two of them with ties to Mossad were seen videotaping the terrorist attacks and were seen celebrating the event. A woman saw the melee and called the police. By 4 pm the group was arrested. In the van the police found $4700 dollars, foreign passports and box cutters, the same used by the terrorist hijackers. After a brief incarceration the group was deported in November 2001.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744&contrassID=/has%5C

A shot in the Dark

According to the Jewish Newspaper, Haaretz, in an article entitled "Odigo says workers were warned of attack," by Yuval Dror, two employees of the Odigo received instant messages warning that terrorist attacks were going to occur a full two hours before they happened.

Source: full URL? http://www.haartzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744

Irony or Prophesy

According to statement posted on former Congressman Christopher Cox's website on the day of the terrorist attacks, Cox describes that he is with Paul Wolfowitz and Don Rumsfeld discussing how they could win enough votes for Bush's defense plan. Cox then says, Donald Rumsfeld blurted out: "And let me tell you, I've been around the block a few times. There will be another event." He repeated it with emphasis""There will be another event." "Within minutes of that utterance, Rumsfeld's words proved tragically prophetic." Christopher Cox was the former republican chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence. In 2005 he was appointed by Bush to be the chairman of the SEC.

http://web.archive.org/20011125004259/http://cox.house.gov/press/releases/2001/091101terroristattack.htm

The Bush-Bin Laden Connection

According to Judicial Watch a public interst law firm in Washington D.C. Bush's father worked for the Bin Laden family when he was on the board of directors of the Carlyle group. The article goes on to suggest that due to GHW Bush's financial dealings with the Bin Laden group and the Saudi Arabian government, "..it raises, in the least a conflict of interest problem." The article goes on to suggest that Bush gave the Saudis the 'kid gloves' treatment after 9/11/01 despite the fact that the majority of the hijakkers were Saudis. Unger himself supports this assertion by stating, "Over time the Bin Laden's did business with such icons of western culture as Disney, the Hard Rock cafe, Snapple, and Porrsche. In the mid-nineties they joined various members of the House of Saud in becoming business associates with former Secetary of state James Baker and former President George H.W. Bush by investing in the Caryle group..."(Unger, 6)

The Judicial Watch article suggests that is possible that the US's deferential treatment shown to Saudi Arabia could be derived in part to Bush's father's close relationship with the Saudi regime. Bush II also had indiect ties to the Saudis in the 1980's. The Saudi's did so because they were desirous of gaining the Attention of Bush's father when he was Vice President and later President, by investing in his son's failing companies, Arbusto and Harken energy. Bush was in Business with James Bath who was in business with Osama Bin Laden's elder brother, Salem Bin Laden. As Unger States:"…The Bin Laden's had only indirect connections to Bush family and its allies. James Bath the american business representitive of Salem Bin Laden, knew both George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush. Khalid Bin Mafouz who was close to the Bin Ladens and the royal family, had helped finance the Houston Skyscraper for the Texas Commerce Bank, in which James Baker had a significant stake. He also had ties to Bath." (Unger, 101)

http://www.judicialwatch.org/printer_1685.shtml

Unger, Craig. "House of Bush House of Saud," Scribner, 2004

The Great Escape

The US government allowed the Bin Laden family to fly out of the country without being interrogated while all Air traffic had been grounded in the days after the terrorist attacks. Certaintly this was a sign of special treatment being accorded to the Bin Laden family by Bush. Unger states; "On Tuesday, september 18th, at Logan Airport, a specially reconfigured Boeng 727...had been chartered by the Bin Ladens and flew 5 passengers, all of them members of the Bin Laden family, out of the country from Boston."(11) The Bin Laden family was allowed to leave the country without interrogation and was allowed to fly when the FAA declared a ban on all privately chartered flights. "The Commission's report omits the fact that the passenger Learjet flew from Tampa to Lexington when restrictions on private plans were still operative. " (Unger, 291)

In conclusion I hope this paper establishes some reasonable doubt in the minds of Americans concerning the benign qualities of our president. Consider the fact that Al gore won the popular vote and Bush had to use the republican dominated Supreme Court to legitimise his presidency. The fact is that the Bush re election campaign committed fraud and disenfranchised thousands of african americans. Also Bush was counting on the Pearl Harbor Syndrome to give him unlimited power after 9/11. His approval ratings before 9/11 were 40-50% and right after 9/11 they skyrocketed. Now his ratings have nose dived again and so he searchs for a way to use foreign policy and terrorist blackmail to make him a leader who circumvents the democratic process in the name of patriotism.


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