Impeachment Watch

This is a letter I sent my federal government representatives today:

Dear XXXXX:

This letter is to formally ask that you publicly support impeachment of President Bush. Obviously, impeachment is a serious and even drastic step to take against a sitting president. However, I believe that President Bush has more than earned the right to be impeached. Specifically, the following high crimes and misdemeanors qualify him for impeachment:

- Exaggerating, misdirecting, and fabricating evidence to pressure the Senate to give him authorization to use military force against Iraq;

- Disastrous execution of the war, resulting in the ruin of an entire country and the deaths of more than 100,000 Iraqis and more than 3,000 US soldiers;

- Refusal to recognize that Iraq has descended into civil war, ignoring the will of the American people, ignoring the advice of military commanders, firing or replacing military commanders who disagree with him, ignoring the advice of the Iraq Study Group, and proposing further escalation against all reason, placing more Americans in harm’s way;

-Lying about, authorizing, ordering, and then defending illegal and unconstitutional warrantless wiretapping of Americans;

-Authorizing and ordering illegal and unconstitutional data mining of confidential phone records of Americans;

-Authorizing and ordering illegal and unconstitutional spying on American’s email and mail;

-Authorizing, ordering, and defending use of torture;

-Authorizing, ordering, and defending use of extraordinary renditions;

-Authorizing, ordering, and defending indefinite imprisonment of “enemy combatants”, holding them without charges and without access to a lawyer; and

-Promoting the destruction of the environment in the face of incontrovertible scientific evidence of global warming as a result of human activities.

The harm done by President Bush over the last six years is truly incalculable. It is time for you to take a stand and do what needs to be done; please support the impeachment of President Bush.

Sincerely,

John Locke