The Honorable Eric Holder
Attorney General of the United States
U. S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20530-0001

Dear Mr. Holder,

As strong supporters of President Obama, my whole family is not pleased by the President’s reluctance to put his support strongly behind you so you may properly discharge your duties with regard to the prosecutions of all officers of the government who violated our constitution, the Convention on Torture, and the Geneva Conventions in permitting the use of torture by agents and military personnel of our government.

We urge the President and you to come out categorically in favor of vigorous investigations and prosecution of all those who acted in violation of our laws and the international laws our country is committed to.

This is more than the right and humanitarian thing to do. We want President Obama’s administration, and the presidency, protected from such assaults in the future. While these criminals are at large, we believe they constitute a clear and present danger to the Obama administration, and to the President himself.

We appreciate the political impulse to “work for the future and not look to the past” in the agenda of the administration. However, as a matter of law — and the protection of our United States — the President and you are compelled to obey our constitution and proceed with comprehensive investigations and prosecutions of all, Democrats as well as Republicans, who violated their oaths of office, violated our constitution through both the authorization of torture and by the acquiescence to torture tactics by their failure to act to stop the criminal violations of law.

Please move aggressively on this torture scandal immediately. When you do, you will have our complete support, and the gratitude of all Americans in the generations to come who look upon your prosecutions around torture as the work that saved and protected our United States.
Very truly yours,

cc: President Obama

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July 2008: Do you believe President Bush’s actions justify impeachment? Yes, between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there’s plenty to put him on trial. 719,626 responses as of 28 December 2008, and 89% — 640,467 people say YES! CLICK the MSNBC Poll
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Scoop Independent News — 29 July 2008 — by Michael Collins [see Part 1] — Part 2 — “When our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence they were not worried about political will, how much time there was, or about any parties' political future, they were just worried they were going to be hanged by the neck. But they did what was right. Now it is your time.” — Elliott Adams, President, Veterans for Peace, testimony July 25, 2008 — WASHINGTON — THE JULY 25th HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HEARINGS FOCUSED ON THE KUCINICH RESOLUTION CALLING FOR THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT BUSH. In his resolution, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) argues that Bush knew that the Iraqis had no weapons of mass destruction, yet claimed that they did in order to justify the March 2003 invasion. The “fraudulent misrepresentations,” as they're referred to in the resolution, cost lives, compromised national security, and represented a clear abuse of constitutional power. The evidence supporting these claims is highly persuasive.

For the most part, the witness statements from House members and the panel of invited witnesses contain specific justifications for impeachment. The Kucinich resolution for impeachment, H. Res 1345, offers a concentrated body of evidence substantiating the charges and demonstrates the main charge in the resolution: the president knew that he was misrepresenting the facts about Iraq at the time he was doing it.

In the resolution, Rep. Kucinich lists corrections for each of the false assertions made by the president to justify the Iraq invasion. In addition, the resolution provides excerpted evidence and sources to support each correction of the president's fabricated rationale.

The statements in single quotes in the Kucinich resolution text below are from the president's justifications for war. From the resolution:

1. Iraq was not ‘continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability.’

2. Iraq was not ‘actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability.’

3. Iraq was not ‘continuing to threaten the national security interests of the United States.’

4. Iraq did not have the ‘willingness to attack, the United States.’

5. Iraq had no connection with the attacks of 9/11 or with al-Qaida's role in 9/11.

6. Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction to transfer to anyone.

7. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and therefore had no capability of launching a surprise attack against the United States or its Armed Forces or to provide them to international terrorists who would do so.

8. There was not a real risk of an ‘extreme magnitude of harm that would result to the United States and its citizens from such an attack’ because Iraq had no capability of attacking the United States.

9. The aforementioned evidence did not 'justify the use of force by the United States to defend itself' because Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, or have the intention or capability of using the nonexistent WMDs against the United States.

10. Since there was no threat posed by Iraq to the United States, the enactment clause of the Senate Joint Resolution 45 was predicated on misstatements to Congress. H. Res. 1345.

The facts from that time don’t come close to justifying the use of force. As demonstrated in the resolution, the president’s case for war was based on “fraudulent representations made to Congress,” the military, and the citizens of the United States. — Click the pics to read the rest! —

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Associated Press — 15 July 2008 — by Laurie Kellman — Pelosi didn’t stop Kucinich from introducing 35 articles of impeachment, spending four hours in June reading them on the House floor and demanding hearings. — WASHINGTON — REP. DENNIS KUCINICH’S SINGLE IMPEACHMENT ARTICLE WILL GET A COMMITTEE HEARING — but not on removing President Bush from office.

The House on Tuesday voted 238-180 to send his article of impeachment — for Bush’s reasoning for taking the country to war in Iraq — to the Judiciary Committee, which buried Kucinich’s previous effort.

This time, the panel will open hearings. But House Democratic leaders emphatically said the proceedings will not be about Bush's impeachment, a first step in the Constitution’s process of a removing a president from office.

Instead, the panel will conduct an election-year review — possibly televised — of anything Democrats consider to be Bush’s abuse of power. Kucinich, D-Ohio, is likely to testify. But so will several scholars and administration critics, Democrats said.

The hearing is a modest gesture by House Democratic leaders to members like Kucinich who insist that Bush’s reasons for going to war meet the standard for impeachment. Kucinich said that if his impeachment article is tabled he would just propose another one. — Click the pics to read the rest! —

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Digital Journal — 20 June 2008 — by Mary Ellen Marino, Rosemary Parish, Joanne O’Neill, Cheryl Biren-Wright, Stuart Hutchison of New Jersey Impeach Groups — ImpeachThem.com — We must demand that our Congress act and that the Constitution is upheld. We have 2½ months to hold hearings before Labor Day. If we fail, we are doomed to have these actions repeated by future Presidents. — NEW JERSEY — CALMLY BUT IN GREAT DETAIL, REPRESENTATIVE DENNIS J. KUCINICH STOOD ALONE ON THE HOUSE FLOOR FOR ALMOST FIVE HOURS, Monday June 9th, reading on C-Span a precisely documented indictment for the impeachment of George W. Bush in 35 separate articles. Yet none of our newspapers or TV stations even acknowledged this happened with the single exception of Keith Olbermann’s Countdown on MSNBC. A House clerk read it all again into the night on C-Span with no publicity in order to allow a quiet burial into the Judiciary Committee as occurred with Kucinich’s resolution to impeach Cheney in November of 2007.

The reasons the Democrats, like Republicans, who have sworn to support and defend the Constitution, are ignoring all of the lies, crimes and brazen illegal acts committed is almost exclusively pure politics.

The media does not want to disturb its endless repetition of the election horse race through which they can claim immunity to partisanship. But burying the evils of the Bush administration from the people is not just convenience or politics. It is complicity in these crimes.

Members of the House and Senate knew or have known of the acts committed in their name: the torture, surveillance, thousands of deaths, unbridled no bid cost plus contracts, mercenaries under no legal controls. Saying there was no time three years in a row no longer cuts it as an excuse as more and more proof is revealed, in published memoirs or whistleblower accounts.

Representative Robert Wexler, Florida Democrat, who publicly called for impeachment hearings this spring, immediately co-sponsored Kucinich’s resolution June 10th. Representatives Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Sam Farr (D-CA), and Jim McDermott (D-WA) also signed on to the resolution. More co-sponsors are expected. — Click the pics to read the rest! —

89% — 640,467 people — vote FOR IMPEACHMENT out of 719,626 votes cast as of 5:30 p.m. New Jersey time, 28 December 2008. Only 8.9% — just 64,047 people — say Bush should not be impeached, with the rest unsure. 95% of the American people do not trust Bush to end the Iraq war successfully. And a recent Gallup Poll shows Opposition to Iraq War is at a New High — 63% of Americans Say the United States Made a Mistake in Sending Troops to Iraq.

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As of now, the U.S. War On Iraq Costs over $584,000,000,000, give or take a billion here and there. OUR WAR COST IS NOW OVER ONE-HALF TRILLION DOLLARS, on the way to a total cost of OVER THREE TRILLION DOLLARS! See also National Priorities

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Bush Lies, Thousands Die: On March 19th, 2003, BUSH INVADED IRAQ. As of 28 December 2008, according to the reliable Iraq Coalition Casualties web site: 4,218 U.S. military people DEAD, includes 76 from New Jersey with 453 casualties — We mourn the death of Major John P. Pryor, M.D., 42, of Moorestown, N.J., killed by a mortar round December 25th in Mosul, Iraq. See Highest troop levels EVER. And let's face it. With 160,000 U.S. military troops plus an additional 180,000 private troops in Iraq from Blackwater and other corporations, the real death toll of Americans is many more than reported. Private corporations don't have to report the deaths of their employees.

*132,199 WOUNDED and medical evacuated as of August 28th, 2008. Includes 208 who died from self-inflicted wounds as of August 2008. Check for yourself at Iraq War U.S. Death/Wounded Count. Now we confirm more tragic news: 18 Vets kill themselves every day. There are now over one million Iraqis dead due to our war. As of now, the U.S. War On Iraq Costs over $584,000,000,000, give or take a billion. OUR WAR COST IS OVER ONE-HALF TRILLION DOLLARS, on the way to a total cost of OVER THREE TRILLION DOLLARS! See also National Priorities.

— Now the latest tragic truth comes out: — New York Times — 9 November 2008 — by Associated Press — Army Will Investigate Recruiters’ Suicides — SAN ANTONIO — SEVENTEEN ARMY RECRUITERS NATIONWIDE HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE SINCE 2001... There are 38 recruiting battalions nationwide, with 8,400 soldiers. The Army’s suicide rate has been climbing as the war in Iraq has increased deployments. Read New York Times — Suicide Rate for Soldiers Rose in ’07 — 30 May 2008 — by Associated Press —The 208 confirmed suicides among active-duty soldiers and National Guard and Reserve troops who had been activated amounted to a rate of 18.8 per 100,000 troops — the highest since the Army began keeping records in 1980. — WASHINGTON DC — At least 208 soldiers killed themselves in 2007-08 [and the rate of suicide among soldiers is rising], up from 102 the previous year, the Army said Thursday. Nearly one-third of them died at the battlefront, 32 in Iraq and 4 in Afghanistan. But 26 percent had never been sent to either conflict.

Read WASHINGTON — 28 May 2008 — New York Times — Nearly 40,000 military personnel have been given diagnoses of post-tramatic stress disorder since 2003.

Read 126 War Vets Commit Suicide Every Week.
Read Suicide rate among soldiers in '06 was a record — Baltimore Sun.

And Veterans for Common Sense — CBS News — 13 November 2007 — by Laura Strickler, Sarah Fitzpatrick, Armen Keteyian and Katie Couric — Between 1995 and 2007, there were almost 2,200 suicides. That’s 188 last year alone. But these numbers included only “active duty” soldiers. One age group stood out. Veterans aged 20 through 24, those who have served during the war on terror. They had the highest suicide rate among all veterans, estimated between two and four times higher than civilians the same age. The suicide rate for non-veterans is 8.3 per 100,000, while the rate for veterans was found to be between 22.9 and 31.9 per 100,000. — Veterans for Common Sense was featured on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. On November 13, Armen Keteyian, the top CBS investigative reporter, reveals an enormous epidemic of suicides among our returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.

CBS News has three excellent videos: The CBS Evening News Broadcast, An Interview with Common Sense Vet Paul Sullivan, and Interviews with Veterans' Families. The Veteran Suicide Epidemic NEW YORK — CBS News — THEY ARE THE CASUALTIES OF WAR YOU DON'T OFTEN HEAR ABOUT — SOLDIERS WHO DIE OF SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS. Little is known about the true scope of suicides among those who have served in the military. A five-month CBS News investigation discovered data that shows a startling rate of suicide, what some call a hidden epidemic, Chief Investigative Reporter Armen Keteyian reports exclusively. “I just felt like this silent scream inside of me,” said Jessica Harrell, the sister of a soldier who took his own life. — Click the beach to see the people and read the rest!