Is It Time to Put Impeachment on the Table?

Town meeting on "Impeachment, Peace & Action"

Monday, May 21, 2007, 5:30 to 7:45 pm
UW Memorial Union, Great Hall, 800 Langdon St, Madison

From Buzz Davis, the chair of the WI Impeachment / Bring Our Troops Home Coalition, and a member of Veterans for Peace:

We said in the November elections, "Get our troops out of Iraq!" Did Congress listen? No! They've spent four months talking about spending $100 billion MORE for MORE troops. ...

Under the United Nations Charter and the U.S. Constitution, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are illegal. They're wars of aggression. Rep. Conyers introduced his House resolution to impeach Mr. Bush in December 2005. Thirty-six House members signed on. The Republicans buried the bill.

Then came November, we voters gave Democrats Congressional control and what does Speaker Pelosi say? "Impeachment is off the table because Democrats will be too busy doing the public's business."

Huh? Ms. Pelosi, impeachment to protect and defend the Constitution is the MOST important public business!

Rep. Kucinich now has introduced his House resolution to impeach Mr. Cheney. Are House members rushing to cosponsor? No, House members are taking orders from Pelosi.

State Rep. Frank Boyle has introduced his Assembly joint resolution to impeach Mr. Bush. No rush by Assembly members to cosign either. That's a federal issue, they rationalize.

Thousands of WI National Guard and Reserve members have been called up to serve in illegal wars and it is not a WI issue? When tornadoes next rip through WI, we will not be able to properly react because the Guard members and equipment are in Iraq. Our governor remains silent on allowing WI citizens to be called to serve in illegal wars. And this is not a WI issue?

The solution is simple: Impeach Bush and Cheney for massive high crimes - illegal wars, illegal torture and illegal wiretapping of Americans. Impeach and remove the crooks from office because the wars are illegal and our troops will be brought home. Why? Because the next president will NOT be dumb enough to say, "Well the first thing I must do is continue the Iraq war."