Glad to see someone is working on the appropriate statuary.
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2005/...-monument.html

On 21 Dec 2005 20:04:43 GMT, Oklahoma Joe wrote:


Congressman John Conyers

Today, I am releasing a staff report entitled, "The
Constitution
in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and
Deception,
Manipulation, Torture, Retribution and Coverups in
the Iraq
War.

In sum, the report examines the Bush
Administration?s actions
in taking us to war from A to Z. The report finds
there is
substantial evidence the President, the
Vice-President and other
high ranking members of the Bush Administration
misled
Congress and the American people regarding the
decision to go
to war in Iraq; misstated and manipulated
intelligence
information regarding the justification for such
war;
countenanced torture and cruel, inhuman and
degrading
treatment in Iraq; and permitted inappropriate
retaliation against
critics of their Administration.

The Report concludes that a number of these actions
amount to
prima facie evidence (evidence sufficiently strong
to presume
the allegations are true) that federal criminal
laws have been
violated. Legal violations span from false
statements to
Congress to whistleblower laws.

The Report also concludes that these charges
clearly rise to the
level of impeachable conduct. However, because the
Administration has failed to respond to requests
for information
about these charges, it is not yet possible to
conclude that an
impeachment inquiry or articles of impeachment are
warranted.



In response to the Report, I have already taken a
number of
actions. First, I have introduced a resolution (H.
Res. 635)
creating a Select Committee with subpoena authority
to
investigate the misconduct of the Bush
Administration with
regard to the Iraq war and report on possible
impeachable
offenses. In Watergate, for example, the Congress
did not
begin matters as an impeachment inquiry, but
investigated
matters ? through the Ervin Committee ? and
referred
impeachable evidence to the Judiciary Committee.

Second, I have introduced Resolutions regarding
both
President Bush (H. Res. 636) and Vice-President
Cheney (H.
Res. 637) proposing that they be censured by
Congress based
on the uncontroverted evidence already on the
record and their
failure to respond to Congressional and public
inquiries about
these matters and have never accounted for their
many specific
misstatements in the run up to War.

As you know, taking these steps means that I am
likely to be
criticized by the political and media
establishments in
Washington and attacked by the right wing noise
machine.
There is a school of thought among Washington
political
consultants that criticizing the President about
Iraq will make
Democrats appear to be weak on national security.
There is a
media establishment that marginalizes politicians
for espousing
beliefs held by the majority of Americans. The
right wing noise
machine in turn retaliates against the President's
critics.

Be that as it may, I just could not be silent any
longer. The title
of the report is exactly right: the Constitution is
in Crisis. There
are serious and well-substantiated allegations that
the Executive
Branch has usurped the sole power of the Congress
to declare
war by deceiving the Congress about the evidence
for war.
There are serious and well-substantiated
allegations that the
Executive Branch has deceived the American people
to
manufacture the people's consent for war.

If you agree with me, I am going to need your help
like never
before. Please go to my website,
www.johnconyers.com,
where you will find an action center, including a
copy of the
Report via Raw Story, and ways you can help. Also
visit
www.censurebush.org to join with other activists
who want to
move this issue forward.


End.

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