Mark your calendars--July 23rd is the 3 year annivarsary of the Downing Street minutes, and the After Downing Street coalition is marking the date with rallies and a
radio campaign to garner the media attention the memo deserves
The new Zogby poll shows a rising groundswell for impeachment. The DSM is definitive evidence of Bush's deception, and given proof, 42% of American's would back impeachment. Here's a DSM toolkit, after the jump...
Downing Street simplified:
The Downing Street Minutes and related documents provide new and compelling evidence that President Bush had, by the summer of 2002:
*secretly decided to go to war;
*decided to deceive and mislead the Congress and the American people with false claims about both weapons of mass destruction and ties between Saddam Hussein and 9-11;
*agreed to go to the UN in an attempt to legalize a predetermined war that went ahead despite the failure to achieve UN sanction;
*already secretly begun a war through massive bombing of Southern Iraq.
If the second point above is true, then the President's submission of his March 18, 2003 letter and report to the United States Congress would violate federal criminal law, including: the federal anti-conspiracy statute, 18 U.S.C. § 371, which makes it a felony "to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose..."; and The False Statements Accountability Act of 1996, 18 U.S.C. § 1001, which makes it a felony to issue knowingly and willfully false statements to the United States Congress. Such conduct constitutes a High Crime under Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution: "The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."
A June 23-26, 2005, ABC/Washington Post poll found 52 percent of Americans believe the Bush administration "deliberately misled the public before the war," a nine-point increase in three months. And 57 percent say the Bush administration "intentionally exaggerated its evidence that pre-war Iraq possessed nuclear, chemical or biological weapons." http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/549
A June 27-29, 2005, Zogby poll found 42 percent of Americans say that "if it is found that President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should hold him accountable through impeachment." According to Zogby, in Eastern and Western states supporters of impeachment outnumber opponents. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/592
The 42 percent above is significantly higher than the percentage of Americans who favored impeachment of President Clinton. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/610
FOR CONGRESS MEMBERS:
*Please introduce or support a Resolution of Inquiry into possible grounds for impeachment of the President in relation to justifications for the war.
*Please co-sponsor the Resolution of Inquiry being drafted by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, which calls on the Bush administration to provide information about to the Downing Street memo and other discussions related to intelligence and pre-war planning.
*Please contact Congressman John Conyers' office and support his work on this issue.
FOR SENATORS:
*Please urge the House of Representatives to introduce and pass a Resolution of Inquiry into possible grounds for impeachment of the President in relation to justifications for the war.
*Please support the 10 Senators who on June 22 wrote to the Intelligence Committee asking it to resume its examination of pre-war intelligence. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/515