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"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely
with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of
opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of
our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. . . Certain
American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing
fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They
extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they
are helping to keep it there."-William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador
to Germany, 1937

How to Impeach a President:

1. The House Judiciary Committee deliberates over whether to initiate an impeachment inquiry.
2. The Judiciary Committee adopts a resolution seeking authority from the entire House of Representatives to conduct an inquiry. Before voting, the House debates and considers the resolution. Approval requires a majority vote.
3. The Judiciary Committee conducts an impeachment inquiry, possibly through public hearings. At the conclusion of the inquiry, articles of impeachment are prepared. They must be approved by a majority of the Committee.
4. The House of Representatives considers and debates the articles of impeachment. A majority vote of the entire House is required to pass each article. Once an article is approved, the President is, technically speaking, "impeached" -- that is subject to trial in the Senate.
5. The Senate holds trial on the articles of impeachment approved by the House. The Senate sits as a jury while the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides over the trial.
6. At the conclusion of the trial, the Senate votes on whether to remove the President from office. A two-thirds vote by the Members present in the Senate is required for removal.
7. If the President is removed, the Vice-President assumes the Presidency under a chain of succession.

Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the U.S. faced impeachment in 1868 by attempting to oust Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. His actions were considered a violation of the Tenure of Office Act (1867), which prohibited the president from dismissing office holders without the Senate's approval. The Senate was one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict, and therefore, Johnson was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, but acquitted by the Senate on May 26, 1868.

In 1926 the Supreme Court ruled all Tenure of Office Acts unconstitutional.

In 1974, President Richard Milhous Nixon (the 37th President of the U.S.) faced impeachment after some men hired, by Nixon's reelection committee were caught burglarizing Democratic party headquarters at the Watergate Complex on June 17, 1972. The House Judiciary Committee issued three articles of impeachment on July 30, 1974. With impeachment appearing inevitable, Nixon resigned on Aug. 9, 1974.

In 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton faced impeachment over some suspect real estate dealings in which Clinton was involved prior to his presidency. The investigation failed to turn up any implicating evidence for anything, except for a number of allegations relating to marital infidelity and sexual misconduct. By January of 1998, pretrial depositions were underway and a firestorm of media speculation regarding Clinton and
White House intern, Monica Lewinsky swept the airwaves and the Internet.

By September 1998, investigator Ken Starr delivered his 453-page report and 36 boxes of evidence to the House of Representatives, citing 11 impeachable offenses allegedly committed by the President.

The House of Representatives had been scheduled to convene on Thursday, December 17, to begin considering the four articles of impeachment. However, on Wednesday, President Clinton ordered a series of military air strikes against Iraq, following the failure of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to comply with U.N. weapons inspectors.

On Friday, December 18, 1998, the full House of Representatives gathered for the first time in 130 years to consider the impeachment of a President.

Article 1: Perjury before Independent Counsel Ken Starr's grand jury.
(Approved 21-16 by the House Judiciary Committee on Friday, December 11, 1998)
(Passed 228-206 in the House of Representatives at 1:25 p.m. on Saturday, December 19, 1998)

Article 2: Perjury in the Paula Jones civil case.
(Approved 20-17 by the House Judiciary Committee on Friday, December 11, 1998)
(Failed 229-205 in the House of Representatives at 1:42 p.m. on Saturday, December 19, 1998)

Article 3: Obstruction of Justice related to the Jones case
(Approved 21-16 by the House Judiciary Committee on Friday, December 11, 1998)
(Passed 221-212 in the House of Representatives at 1:59 p.m. on Saturday, December 19, 1998)

Article 4: Abuse of Power by making perjurious statements to Congress in his answers to the 81 questions posed by the Judiciary Committee.
(Approved 21-16 by the House Judiciary Committee on Saturday, December 12, 1998)
(Failed 285-148 in the House of Representatives at 2:15 p.m. on Saturday, December 19, 1998)

Particularly titillating to the media and public were stories that during their affair, the President and Ms. Lewinsky had ten sexual encounters in the Oval Office suite. The public was shocked to learn that during one encounter, the President, while engaged in sex, spoke to a Republican member of Congress on the telephone regarding sending U.S. troops to Bosnia.

There were months of headlines and political satire, surrounding Miss Lewinsky’s semen-stained blue dress that proved to be the “smoking gun based on DNA evidence that could prove the relationship despite Clinton's official denials. Clinton later stated that he believed the agreed-upon definition of sexual relations excluded his receiving oral sex.

The Impeachment Trial (proceeding with articles one and three) in the Senate commenced on January 7, 1999. The Senate voted on the Articles of Impeachment on February 12, with a two-thirds majority, or 67 Senators, required to convict. The President was found not guilty with 45 Senators voting for the President's removal from office and 55 against. President Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, but acquitted by the Senate- of all charges. He remained in office, and his only penalty was the censure of the House of Representatives, serving the remainder of his term of office through to January 20, 2001.

Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, but acquitted by the Senate. Richard Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.

On January 20, 2001, George Walker Bush (The oldest son of former United States President George H. W. Bush and now the 43rd President of the United States) made his inaugural address. You can read it, in its glorious entirety at:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/inaugural-address.html

After the alleged “terrorist attacks” of September 11, 2001- Bush declared a global War on Terrorism and ordered an invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, destroy Al-Qaeda and to capture Osama bin Laden in October 2001.

A frustrated, Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien, warned that the country was in for some very tough years dealing with George Bush. Chrétien vowed he would play hardball with the new U.S. president on trade issues.

In March 2003, Bush ordered an invasion of Iraq, asserting that Iraq was in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1441

Bush won re-election in 2004 after a heated general election campaign against Senator John Kerry, in which Bush's prosecution of the Iraq War and his handling of the economy became central issues.

With the January 2006 federal election in Canada, Steven Harper (of the Conservative Party) became the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada and leader of a minority government. Steve, as Mr. Bush calls him, soon showed himself to be the ideological soul mate of George Bush Jr. (or shrub as he is sometimes affectionately known).

Steve is the guy that in 2003(as leader of the opposition) was all for Canada joining the Bush and Blair administrations in the invasion of Iraq. Steve is the same guy who went at Prime Minister Jean Chrétien for his decision to stand by the UN’s recommendations, keeping Canada out of this illegal war.

Steve is the same guy that suggested that by not joining in the fun, Canada’s trade with the US would suffer. He told us that we were abandoning our American friends in their hour of need.
Make no mistake, if Steve had been Prime Minister in 2003 we would have joined in the invasion of Iraq.

There are unconfirmed reports of as many as 600,000 Iraqi civilians wounded or dead. Some surveys state that 55 percent of casualties have been women and children under the age of 12.

The US reports 34000 injured military personnel. Fatalities of over 3400 US soldiers, 148 UK soldiers, 126 “Other” soldiers killed, Iraqi streets once again made dangerous for women (hell, they’re dangerous for everybody), the growth of huge, well armed terrorist networks operating in a relatively lawless country with a whole new bunch of reasons for hating the West, literally billions and billions of dollars diverted from the public coffers in the US to the military campaign, etc., etc., etc.

Thousands of civilians have been made homeless and thousands upon thousands have been permanently maimed and disfigured.

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/05/04/02
http://lite.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09493088.htm
www.iraqbodycount.net
http://icasualties.org/oif/

This war has been brought to you by a number of innocent people… including but not limited to:

Journalists killed in the conflict:

( Note: This may not be a complete list.)

05/09/07 4 Unknown

05/06/07 Dmitry Chebotayev

04/12/07 Iman Youssef Abdullah

04/05/07 Khamail Muhsin

03/07/07 Youssef Sabri

03/03/07 Mohan al-Zaher

03/03/07 Jamal al-Zubaidi

02/20/07 Abdel Razeq Hashim al-Khaqani

01/12/07 Khudr Younis al-Obaidi

01/06/07 Ahmed Hadi Naji

12/12/06 Aswan Ahmed Lutfallah

12/03/06 Nabil al Dulaimi

11/15/06 Fadia Mohammed Ali

11/13/06 Mohammed al-Ban

11/03/06 Ahmed Rasheed

11/03/06 Abdul Majeed Ismael Khalil

10/14/06 Raed Qais al-Shammari

10/10/06 Azad Mohammed Hassan

09/18/06 Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli

09/12/06 Safaa Ismail Inad

09/12/06 Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri

08/29/06 Iyad Nassif al-Mousawai

08/07/06 Mohammed Abbas Hamad

08/07/06 Ismail Amin Ali

07/31/06 Riyad Muhammad Ali

07/31/06 Abdul Wahab Abdul Razeq Ahmad Al Qaisie

07/05/06 Alaa Hassan

05/29/06 Paul Douglas

05/29/06 James Brolan

05/11/06 Muzahim al-Hadithi

05/08/06 Muazaz Ahmed

05/08/06 Laith al-Dulaimi

03/14/06 Mohsen Khudair

03/11/06 Amjad Hamee

03/07/06 Munsuf Abdallah al-Khaldi

02/23/06 Khalid Mahmoud

02/23/06 Atwar Bahjat

02/23/06 Adnan Khairullah

01/26/06 Mahmoud Zaal

11/28/05 Muqdad Muhsin

11/28/05 Aqeel Abdul Ridha

11/07/05 Ahmed Hussein Al-Maliki

10/19/05 Mohammad Harun Hassan

09/21/05 Bassem al-Fadli

09/21/05 Ahlam Youssef

09/20/05 Firas Maadidi

09/19/05 Fakher Haider

08/28/05 Waleed Khaled

08/27/05 Rafed Mahmoud Said al-Anbagy

08/10/05 Unknown Iraqi journalist

08/02/05 Steven Vincent

07/23/05 Adnan al-Bayati

07/17/05 Hind Ismail

07/01/05 Khalid al-Attar

06/30/05 Yasser Salihee

06/28/05 Ahmed Wael Bakri

06/26/05 Maha Ibrahim

06/22/05 Jassim Al Qais

05/31/05 Jerges Mohammed Sultan

05/15/05 Najem Abd Khudair

05/15/05 Ali Jassem Al Rumi

05/15/05 Ahmad Adam

04/23/05 Saleh Ibrahim

04/15/05 Shamal Abd Allah Assad

04/15/05 Ahmed al-Rubai'i

04/14/05 Fadhil Hazem Fadhil

04/14/05 Ali Ibrahim Issa

03/14/05 Hussam Sarsam

03/10/05 Laik Ibrahim

02/25/05 Raeda Wazzan

02/09/05 Abdul-Hussein Khazal

11/01/04 Wadallah Sarhan

11/01/04 Dhia Najim

10/30/04 Nasrallah al-Dawoodi

10/27/04 Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq

10/14/04 Karam Hussein

10/14/04 Dina Mohammed Hassan

09/12/04 Mazen Tomeizi

08/26/04 Enzo Baldoni

08/15/04 Mahmoud Hamid Abbas

06/03/04 Sahar Saad Eddin Nuami

05/27/04 Shinsuke Hashida

05/27/04 Kotaro Ogawa

05/21/04 Rashid Hamid Wali

05/07/04 Waldemar Milewicz

05/07/04 Mounir Abdallach Bouamrane

04/19/04 Assad Kadhim

03/26/04 Burhan Mohamed Mazhour

03/19/04 Ali al-Khatib

03/18/04 Nadia Nasrat

03/18/04 Ali Abdel Aziz

02/01/04 Semko Karim Mohyideen

02/01/04 Safir Nader

02/01/04 Haymin Mohamed Salih

02/01/04 Gharib Mohamed Salih

02/01/04 Ayoub Mohamed

02/01/04 Abdel Sattar Abdel Karim

01/27/04 Duraid Isa Mohammed

10/28/03 Ahmed Shawkat

08/25/03 Ahmad Kareem

08/17/03 Mazen Dana

08/17/03 Jeremy Little

07/05/03 Richard Wild

05/08/03 Elizabeth Neuffer

04/14/03 Mario Podesta

04/08/03 Veronica Cabrera

04/08/03 Tareq Ayyoub

04/08/03 Taras Protsyuk

04/08/03 Jose Couso

04/07/03 Julio Anguita Parrado

04/07/03 Christian Liebig

04/06/03 Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed

04/06/03 David Bloom

04/03/03 Michael Kelly

04/02/03 Kaveh Golestan

03/30/03 Gaby Rado

03/22/03 Terry Lloyd

03/22/03 Paul Moran

03/20/03 Frederic Nerac

Missing or Captured:
(note: this might not be a complete list)

US Staff Sergeant Keith M. Maupin 23-Apr-2004
US Ahmed Qusai al-Taei: Status - missing-captured 23-Oct-2006
US Sgt. Anthony J. Schober - DUSTWUN 12-May-2007
US Spc. Alex R. Jimenez: Status - DUSTWUN 12-May-2007
US Pfc. Joseph J. Anzack Jr: Status - DUSTWUN 12-May-2007
US Pvt. Byron W. Fouty: Status - DUSTWUN 12-May-2007

As of May 3rd:
Deaths: Self-Inflicted (note: this may not be a complete list)
Self Inflicted Army Navy Marines Air Force Total
Died of Self-Inflicted wounds 91 3 19 0 107

According to:
http://www.unknownnews.net/casualties.html

At least 799,896 people have been killed, and
1,529,439 seriously injured in Afghanistan and Iraq
(note: I don't think there are complete lists for any statistics related to this conflict)... although....

I’m pretty sure that there’s a lot more DNA evidence out there for this than you could get on any one dark blue dress.