| Betreff: [globenet] FW: IMPEACHMENT:NOW MORE THAN EVER! |
| Von: "Boyle, Francis" |
| Datum: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:20:37 -0600 |
| An: "Globenet (globenet@yahoogroups.com)" |
Removal of George W. Bush through the electoral process has failed. Despite exposure of systematic
lying concerning Iraqi WMD and connection to al-Qaeda-George W. Bush has been returned to the
US presidency by a majority of voters convinced of his moral and leadership qualities.
But the legal case for impeachment remains -and offers clarity and recourse.
In October 2002, following speeches by Vice President Cheney calling for a preventive war against Iraq,
Professor Francis A. Boyle, a leading US expert in international law, set up a national campaign to impeach
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft . On March 11, 2003, Congressman John Conyers, ranking member of
the House judiciary committee that has jurisdiction over any bill of impeachment, called for a meeting in
Washington, DC to discuss introducing a draft bill of impeachment. Forty to fifty of his top legal advisors
met with Boyle and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and weighed and reviewed the case for impeachment.
The case was argued on its merits: violations of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Human Rights, the
UN Charter, international law, etc.
There is, today, a second, revised draft bill of impeachment sitting on Capitol Hill, ready to go.
With an expanded military campaign imminent and the prospect of World War III looming on the horizon, a
powerful nationwide movement to impeach George W. Bush is only a matter of time.
What are the historical, legal and policy issues which are inexorably moving the US towards such a crux?
DESTROYING WORLD ORDER:
US Imperialism in the Middle East Before and After September 11
by Francis A. Boyle
Boyle's hard-hitting analysis reveals a history of American intervention which has led to havoc in the region and
destabilization of the international system as a whole. He examines U.S. assistance to Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war,
U.S. conduct of the 1990 Persian Gulf War and the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in relation to their violation
of the of the laws of neutrality, humanitarian law, the laws of war-and the law of the U.S. Constitution. By the
presidency of George W. Bush, U.S. policy had evolved to a public assertion of the right to preemptive strike, and
its actual implementation. The concluding chapter provides a guide to impeaching President George W. Bush for
lying in leading the nation to war.
"In international legal terms, the Bush Jr. administration should be viewed as
constituting an ongoing criminal conspiracy under international criminal law in
violation of the Nuremberg Charter, the Nuremberg Judgment, and the
Nuremberg Principles, due to its formulation and undertaking of war policies
which are legally akin to those perpetrated by the Nazi regime in pre-World War
II Germany." Francis A. Boyle, from Destroying World Order
Francis A. Boyle is a leading American professor, practitioner and advocate of international law. He was
responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing
legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. He served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty
International (1988-1992), and represented Bosnia-Herzegovina at the World Court. Professor Boyle teaches
international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign and is author of, inter alia, The Criminality of Nuclear
Deterrence, Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law, The Future of International Law and American
Foreign Policy, Foundations of World Order: The Legalist Approach to International Relations 1898-1921. Francis
A. Boyle holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from Harvard
University.
ISBN: 0-932863-40-X * $14.95 * 192 pp. * paper * 2004
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