A Key To The Door Of Peace

But no longer the only one needed. For the people now must also find the right keys to those doors for Iraq and the growing violence in Afganistan because of what we have allowed to happen.

The following was posted at the Alternet

Israel-Palestine: Reconciliation Is in Everyone's Interest

A new documentary that looks at the people most affected by the Israeli-Palestinian divide reminds us that lasting peace will come from popular movements, not political leaders.

There is a short video trailer of this documentary at the site, link in title above.

Virtually everyone knows what the end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will look like -- technically, at least. Still, it would take a healthy dose of political courage and a pile of luck for significant progress to occur anytime soon. The official charter of Palestine's elected leadership includes portions of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, while Israeli PM, Ehud Olmert, recently appointed an anti-Arab racist with genocidal fantasies as his deputy prime minister. The Road Map is stalled and, governmentally speaking, the peace process has flatlined. But then little, if any, progress was ever born in government anyway.

Into this apparently hopeless situation comes Encounter Point, an award-winning feature film documenting the movements that bridge the Israeli-Palestinian divide on the ground, among the people most affected. Filmmakers Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha (cowriter and editor of Control Room) have trained a refreshingly sharp eye on the detail and meaning in their surroundings as well as in their subjects -- a regrettably rare trait in a political documentary. But the question of why art and politics have filed for a separation is a different story.

The rest of the Altenet posting is an interesting read and can be found HERE

A visit to the Encounter Point site gives you this quote:
If you lost your loved ones to violence...
If you spent tens years in prison...
If conflict drove you from your home...
Would you seek revenge?
Or struggle for peace?

At About the film it leads off with this:

Encounter Point is an 85-minute feature documentary film that follows a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who risk their lives and public standing to promote a nonviolent end to the conflict. Their journeys lead them to the unlikeliest places to confront hatred within their communities. The film explores what drives them and thousands of other like-minded civilians to overcome anger and grief to work for grassroots solutions. It is a film about the everyday leaders in our midst.

You can view a trailer of the film in two differant lenghts:
Quicktime 4min.
Quicktime 7min.
Windows Media Player 4min.
Windows Media Player 7min.

In the trailer, if you watch it, there's a young palestinian boy who speaks. We hear much about the differant fundamentalists schools, in that whole region of the World, that teach hatred. These kids don't need to be taught, they are growing up learning all about hatred with all the devestation and killings around them, on all sides. In Israel and Palestine it has been going on so long generations have the hatreds engrained in their souls, not just their minds!

That hatred is brought on mostly by the elder generation of extreme fundamentalist Right Wing radicals, that don't want the battles to end, for a veriaty of reasons mostly known only to them, but they most certainly are not of any righteous nature, it's what keeps many of them in Power!

They don't want any of this to end, on either side. It will have to come from the people who finally come together to beat down the hatreds and bring the peace wanted by the majorities!

When you visit the site you will find more about the film and the people involved.
I made the title The Key because what has been going on in the Israelli, Palestinian conflict still holds the opening but it is no longer the possible ending if peace can be brought to these two peoples.

What we have started, in the region, will be long lasting new hatreds, growing out of what already was, and is now possibly out of control.

What will be happening next is anybody's guess, but we can probably be sure something and more will happen, for now retaliations know no borders.

But also think of the little ones of Iraq, in the pictures we've all seen, if they've survived, what their World now looks like as they are growing up within it. Think about their growing hatred, not needed teaching, but coming from what is around their World now. Who will they lay the blame on, who will be the recipient of their hatreds that for some will be out of control!

There are now more keys needed to bring about Peace, to open the doors of, and can only be found within the people, all of us from all the regions, one by one, hopefully leading to Peace for All!

Maybe this film, above, and the other documentary's along with those working together now, around this world, can help us all find the way to beat down the few who yearn to destroy!

Democratic Radio Address-Jim Wallis

Yesterday Jim Wallis, of Sojourners sent out an e-mail letting everyone know that Senator Reid had contacted him requesting he give the Democratic weekly radio address, instead of a politician or for that matter a Democrat.
Below you have the link to what he wrote in his blog and than the link to the radio address given this morning.

Following is the text of the radio address I wrote about in yesterday's blog, which was broadcast this morning.
I'm Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It. I was surprised and grateful when Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid called to say his party wanted to set a new tone and invite, for the first time, a non-partisan religious leader to deliver their weekly radio address and speak about the values that could unite Americans at this critical time.
So, I want to be clear that I am not speaking for the Democratic Party, but as a person of faith who feels the hunger in America for a new vision of our life together, and sees the opportunity to apply our best moral values to the urgent problems we face. I am not an elected official or political partisan, but a religious leader who believes that real solutions must transcend partisan politics. For too long, we have had a politics of blame and fear, while America is eager for a politics of solutions and hope. It is time to find common ground by moving to higher ground.

Download audio of the radio address

My hope is that by this reachout first step, before they take control of both houses of Congress, that this is the Tone that both the House and the Senate will be Striving to Achieve, and that they stay that course, no matter what they face.

For I'm sure not many in the opposition, who haven't seen the reality of what they have allowed, will follow this lead. Instead I feel there will be a strong effort on some of them, and their talking heads, think tanks, to find the rovian spin in their attempts to bring down Any and All Partison wants and efforts!

Lets hope more will have seen the light, but following the election the rethoric hasn't shown thus so far!

I will say that Investigations - Hearings MUST take place, in a number of area's. And if those Investigations provide even more than is already known, enough already out here, than the Congress MUST proceed in the Right Direction of the Constitution and Laws of this land, or we can finally Kiss this Ideology and Form of Government Good-Bye!!

And what we leave for those behind us will not Come Close to what our Fathers/Mothers had Left Us to build on!

NPR - Investigation on PTSD - Dec 4th

NPR News Investigates Military Treatment of Soldiers Suffering from PTSD on December 4
Daniel Zwerdling

All Things Considered


Nov 30, 2006



NPR News Investigates Military Treatment of Soldiers Suffering from PTSD and Other Mental Health Problems Associated with War on "All Things Considered" on Monday, December 4

Six Month Investigation by Daniel Swerdling Shows Punishment and Lack of Support for Soldiers Diagnosed with PTSD and Other Emotional Problems

Washington, D.C.; November 30 – Award-winning NPR News journalist Daniel Zwerdling reports on the military’s treatment of soldiers returning from Iraq who suffer from emotional problems, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in a special half hour investigative report on All Things Considered Monday December 4. Soldiers who have come back from war to Fort Carson, Colorado, told Zwerdling that their officers and lower level supervisors have harassed and punished them and in some cases discharged them for seeking help for what they believe to be emotional problems triggered by their service in Iraq.

Zwerdling also interviewed some of the soldiers’ supervisors, most of them sergeants at the base, who admit to the treatment, telling Zwerdling that it’s true, that they are giving these soldiers a hard time, and explain the reasons why. Zwerdling obtained Army documents and talked to witnesses who corroborated the soldiers’ allegations.

While a recent national study from the Government Accountability Office found that most of the soldiers who show potential signs of PTSD were not referred to mental health specialists, the Pentagon claims that providing support to soldiers with emotional issues is a top priority and that resources are being made available to those in need. Interviewed for the report, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs William Winkenwerder tells Zwerdling, “The goal, first and foremost, is to identify who’s having a problem. Secondly is to provide immediate support. And then finally, our goal is to restore good mental health.”

During his five month investigation, Zwerdling closely examined individual experiences of the soldiers he spoke to at the base’s mental health unit. They claim that even when they seek help, the fort’s mental health unit is too overwhelmed to provide the help they need and that when their supervisors learn of their emotional crises, they’re punished. Soldier William Morris explains, “You really don’t want to be that guy going up to mental health when you’re trying to be a career soldier. You don’t want to be that guy, ‘cause as soon as you are, you’re done.”

Former soldier Alex Orum added: “I will continue to encourage any soldier who isn’t sleeping, who is having nightmares, who is having PTSD not to go seek help. Because as soon as they go and seek help, their life is going to get ten times worse.”

Zwerdling also spoke with sergeants at Fort Carson, who supervised the soldiers and corroborate much of the soldiers’ stories. Some say that most of those claiming PTSD are faking as a means of avoiding going back to war. “I think guys are just getting scared. They’re like ‘Yeah, I don’t want to go back and get into all that, you know. So yeah, I got PTSD,’ so whatever. But I mean, it’s a war. You know, it’s a war. It’s not a happy day in Lala Land. People are faced with fears, so they tuck their tail and run,” says Sergeant Gabriel Temples.

Others justify the way they treat soldiers who have emotional problems like PTSD by pointing to their slack and irresponsible behavior and unkempt appearance. Mental health specialists say that soldiers with serious emotional problems triggered by war commonly abuse drugs and alcohol and act irresponsibly. But Sergeant Nathan Towsley, who recently retired from the Army said that such solders simply don’t belong in the Army: “I think some people are just weak. You know, you just have to buck up and be a man and face it.”

Daniel Zwerdling’s half-hour investigation will air on the Monday, December 4 edition of All Things Considered. A preview will air earlier in the day on Morning Edition. To locate local stations/times for both NPR News programs, visit NPR. The investigation will also be available for audio streaming online at approximately 7:30PM (ET) at NPR. Additional Web features, including photographs of the soldiers and extra audio segments from their interviews will be included at NPR

Anne Hawke produced the investigation with Daniel Zwerdling; the editor is Ellen Weiss.
All Things Considered, NPR's signature afternoon news magazine is hosted by Melissa Block Michele Norris, and Robert Siegel and reaches nearly 11 million listeners weekly. To find local stations and broadcast times, visit NPR.

You can find this report HERE

Where have I heard the following before:

“I think guys are just getting scared. They’re like ‘Yeah, I don’t want to go back and get into all that, you know. So yeah, I got PTSD,’ so whatever. But I mean, it’s a war. You know, it’s a war. It’s not a happy day in Lala Land. People are faced with fears, so they tuck their tail and run,”

“I think some people are just weak. You know, you just have to buck up and be a man and face it.”

Not only me but in every conflict before it finally had a name PTSD, many have heard it!
It's also the Easy Out for the Society who want those suffering Out of Sight and Out of Mind!

Severe War Theater PTSD comes about from the Tramatic Experiances, those that suffer from it, have seen or been participants of in War Theaters, and these experiances can come about at anytime in a 24/7 War!

The quotes above come from those who know this and know what happens and I'll bet they suffer their own nightmares in silence. Or they've come to enjoy their experiances of War which brings it's own pyscological extreme problems.

Society once again will want to blow it off as well, not realizing that with the Research and Study needed they themselves, who experiance a Tramatic Event and develope PTSD, would greatly benefit from the results of that Needed Research.

This War, of Choice, is creating the potential to see cases of PTSD that may go well beyond the realm of all the Wars before. With the Mutiple Tours, we are sending already suffers of back into Theaters to sink even further and possibly coming back in worse shape to cause destructive behavior to those around them, and to society itself. We may be creating many human time bombs that could go off at anytime, if they are not given the Help they Need and Require!!

Poets Against War

Nothing Breaks
Catherine Wiley
It is not torture if nothing breaks
if the dog's teeth click without meeting skin
if the bruise is blue but does not turn yellow
if the bile is yellow but does not turn green
if the bone leaves the socket without piercing skin
if eyeballs roll to white but stay inside the sockets
if eyelids close but the tears number less than 20
if electrodes dangle but are not connected
if the noose is never tightened
if pain turns to fear but fear does not turn to pain
if screams do not sound like songs
if we understand they'd do the same or worse to us
if imagination offers something else
if no one takes a picture
if no one writes it down
if no one puts it up online
if no one says no
*****


Mourning a dead Sparrow
Alexandra Kostoulas
The man who sat next to me on the plane
Speaks with a thick Massachusetts accent and orders
Jack and coke at 9 in the morning and talks about how
He’s really into his TV. and his entertainment system
And he has surround sound speakers and many dogs.

He told me: “I don’t have to worry, see I can travel, see
Because I make 50 bucks an hour.”
When I asked him what he did for a living, he told me that he drove a bulldozer
And moved wetlands.
“The tough part of it is,’ he says to me, sweating over his jack and coke,
“is that what most people don’t realize is that when you move wetlands from one area to another in order to make beaches in Rhode Island, when you move beaches, he says, sometimes you gotta kill a lot of animals.
“And I’m sure,” he says, “that most people would not want to support developing and moving wetlands if they knew how many animals and birds we killed with the bulldozer when we went through.
“But it don’t matter because I’m really into my music and when I listen to my i-pod
it all fades away and I can just plow through everything with my bulldozer and nothing can reach me.”

*

Mathew, Mark, Luke and John are four 19-year-old vets coming home
on leave from the marines.
They stand straight up and pierce the sky
They stand strong, erect as people wheel by in the airport.
Nobody pays them attention but they know, somehow in the crowded Southwest Airlines terminal that everyone knows that they were coming home from war.
And they sit in the terminal with their boots stretched out, heels anchored in the middle of the polished floors.

Their feet are in combat boots and they’re wearing camo fatigues.
They each have spiky military haircuts that are starting to grow out
that they’ve jelled artfully in strategic spikes.

Mark wonders if his girlfriend will be home when he gets there.
Luke hopes his mother has stopped using crack.
Paul wonders when his GI bill will kick in so that he can go to nursing school and
John remembers his words, echoing, searing like explosions in the minds of the women and children that have had to leave their homes and follow his command.

John and the blood, blooming out of his best friend’s arm hopes nobody will find out
about the young boy have sodomized and beaten and left to bleed to death on the side of the road.
That night, John dreams he is a corpse and that the young Iraqi boy is alive, and putting hot pebbles one by one over his eyes, sending him down the Euphrates River.
Little black magpies are pecking at the crumbs in the green grass around him on the raft.
John wishes that he could sing like the little birds that are chirping and yet every time he closes his eyes he can feel his life slipping out of his warm throat.

“I’m really into my music”, says Luke. “Sometimes when I’m listening to my music, I can just drive a tank through a whole village and nothing phases me. I’m in the zone, and it’s great.”

*

A little sparrow once dropped in front of my feet and died when I was walking.
It’s neck snapped but it was still alive for several minutes afterwards.
When I brought it into the office to try to get someone to give me some help
To rescue it, the secretaries tapped their acrylic nails screaming:
get-that-thing-out-of-here in Morse code on the Formica counter.
I answered the tapping with wet eyes and a dry mouth. What language could I use to tell them, that this little beaten creature too, needs to be loved, that this hunk of flesh and beak and bone too,
deserves to live?

Honoring The Fallen

Those who Support Wars of Choice, Especially based on Lies, don't want to confront the Real Cost Of that support, but seem to find it Patriotic to put Magnetic Ribbons, on their cars, or voice the words, 'We Support The Troops'!!!
One does not serve for a Political Party, nor Political Ideology, nor just for parents, friends, relatives, they serve Country, and while Country wants No Sacrifice, those who serve Deserve The Country's Recognition Of Their Service and Especially Their Deaths, Maimings and Pyschological Traumas!!!

Iraq Memorial Stirs Bad Blood in Town

By MICHELLE LOCKE, AP

LAFAYETTE, Calif. (Nov. 29) - The hundreds of white wooden crosses planted on a quiet suburban hillside honor the memory of troops killed in Iraq - or, depending on your leanings, exploit personal grief for politics.

Hundreds of crosses representing U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq, along with a banner keeping count, line a hillside in Lafayette, Calif.


Jeff Heaton, one of the memorial's creators, said the effort is a tribute meant as "a touching way to make people aware of the true costs of the war."


Some people have objected to the display, saying it exploits personal grief for a political statement and calling it "painful" and a "travesty."


The memorial sits on private property, but the city council plans to vote in about a month on whether the banner violates city law.


A memorial Heaton tried to erect here in 2003 was vandalized. This one has fared better, although a driver did get out of her car and take down the sign. Source: AP


The memorial and sign sit opposite a commuter train station and are visible from a heavily traveled highway to San Francisco.

Jeff Heaton, who along with peace group members started putting up the crosses in early November in relatively conservative Lafayette, sees the effort as a simple tribute.

"It seemed like it would be a touching way to make people aware of the true costs of the war," he said.

And that it is, a Sad Reminder to All!

"I do not consider this a memorial," Lisa Disbrow, a resident of nearby Moraga who has a son preparing to serve in Iraq, said at a public hearing Monday night. Although many spoke in favor of the exhibit, others called it "painful" and a "travesty."

Painful it is to really view what these Wars Cost, the loss of many that just keeps being added to, as the Arrogant Civilian Leadership take little notice and orry only about their power and the wealth that comes as a result of Wars of Choice or any War!

A 'Travesty', You Damn Right It Is, and even more so for the Innocents of the Countries the Arrogant send Militaries to Invade!

The hearing, which drew a crowd of more than 200, was technically not about the memorial itself, but about an accompanying sign: "In Memory of 2867 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq."

The sign is too big, to Damn Bad, it's Reality!

The council is asking city attorneys for advice on whether the sign ordinance conflicts with freedom of expression and expects to vote in about a month on whether to demand the sign be downsized or removed, said Mayor Ivor Samson.

The game of playing politics on the KIA's of this Country, War Is Not A Game!

"Clearly, if this had happened in San Francisco or Berkeley or Oakland this would be a dog-bites-man story," said Samson, a three-term mayor retiring in December. "When it happens in a quiet suburban community that is generally more conservative, then it's more like man bites dog."

We are finding out More and More about what being a 'Conservative' today Means! And it isn't about Country, the United States, but about a sick form of what has risen before, Fascism, no other word for it, and a controll of the freedoms we once had!

Besides crosses, the memorial contains other religious symbols, and organizers plan for it to grow.

Stress Wounds - PTSD

Stress Wounds

The face of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is changing.
Far from the misguided stereotype of a wheelchair-bound, unemployed, middle-aged man, today's veteran with PTSD looks more like Spc. Christopher Clayton of Hagerstown, like your next-door neighbor.

Soldier faces new battle with PTSD

He spent 18 months in Iraq, constantly wound up and never letting his guard down. When the veteran returned home to his family, the stress didn't disappear as easily as changing into civilian clothes.

The strength to find help:

A Vietnam veteran takes steps toward healing
Curtis Callender served in Vietnam. He went on to serve in the Army for an additional 25 years, retiring 15 years ago. It wasn't until less than a year ago, however, that he was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Bobby Muller on BBC:

Bush Visit to Vietnam


Bobby Muller, VFA [Veterans For America] President, comments on the President's recent trip to Vietnam in this interview with BBC News

First oral history of the Iraq war lets voices of duty and pain emerge

REVIEW

First oral history of the Iraq war lets voices of duty and pain emerge

Austin Considine



Wednesday, November 22, 2006


"What Was Asked of Us
An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It"

By Trish Wood
LITTLE, BROWN; 309 PAGES; $25.99

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Near the opening of the film "All Quiet on the Western Front," the camera shows us a noisy military parade in the streets of a small German town, before backing up through the window of a classroom, where a lecture is being delivered by an impassioned professor. His voice, at first, is drowned out by the blare of the marching band and the cheers from the crowd.
It is a clever critique of war's allure and its ability to mute the ostensibly peaceful pursuits of the intellect. But soon the din subsides and the professor's voice emerges, employing the language of educated antiquity -- not in support of the quiet pursuit of knowledge, but for the casus belli:
"I believe it will be a quick war, that there will be few losses," he exhorts: "But if losses there must be, let us remember the phrase ... 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori': 'Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland.' "
The lust for war, the film asserts, does not exist in opposition to education -- it is a part of our education, outside and in the classroom (the Latin, after all, is from Horace).
It's little surprise, then, that we still don't know any better, finding ourselves today in Iraq -- once again at a point of seeming intractability, once again in a veritable no man's land where irony and tragedy collide.
We lack the benefit of hindsight to give proper shape to this new and abiding tragedy. What we do have, now, is perhaps something better: a series of decidedly non-pompous narratives in "What Was Asked of Us," the first oral history of the Iraq war, as told by 29 of its American veterans.
Amid the glut of policy debates, and amid the flurry of news reports that add names each day to the lists of the dead, Trish Wood, an award-winning Canadian journalist, has produced what is perhaps, to date, the only text about Iraq that matters.
"What Was Asked of Us" gives voice to the survivor, to the individual, to the proud hero and the repentant killer among the teeming hordes of the war's dead and disenfranchised. As a vehicle for awareness, and as a human voice pitched against the deafening grind of war's machinery, its accomplishment is nothing short of monumental.
The candid accounts by these soldiers are myriad and complex -- each gritty, colloquial and unfiltered -- as horrifying as they are humbling. Wood shows herself an expert interviewer, and her work is deftly edited, letting each soldier guide the reader through the streets of Baghdad, Fallujah and Najaf via his or her unique voice.
One reads as Iraqi goodwill crumbles along with promises of adequate water, sewers and electricity, and as the insurgency gains momentum. Attempts at reconciling reality with sense fall short when the narrators realize there is no sense to be made. "It's hard to put into words," one soldier says. "That's the thing about going there and doing it and coming back is that there's no way to put into words what actually happened. That's why war stories are stories, because there's no way for them to be true.
"But of course it was."
Death, and its arbitrariness, are confronted daily. When a soldier discovers a group of Marines blown apart by a roadside bomb, he muses, "It's just a matter of luck that you are not that guy. No one wants to be that guy, so you beat around in your head how lucky you are."
The soldiers' backgrounds vary: One is a born-again Christian who is appalled by the prison abuses at Abu Ghraib, asking, "America, what always makes us right?" Another is an ex-drug addict who calls the war "a meaningless conflict," yet admits, "I loved every firefight I was in because for those few brief seconds nothing else matters."
Given the horrors the book recounts, its ascendant message is one of courage amid war's incomprehensible absurdities. Despite disparate reasons for joining the war effort, and divided feelings about its purpose, what unifies most of the book's contributors is duty to one another. And though regrets and circumspection abound, self-pity is nonexistent. "It doesn't matter if there's a reason or not ... it has to be done," one soldier puts it. "There is no moral to this story or anything. There rarely ever is."
Perhaps that is what makes the book so moving: Such unwavering sense of duty, right or wrong, is humbling and inspiring. Like the young, myopic students in "All Quiet," we, too, discern something in these soldiers' stories, in their spirit of self-sacrifice, that we aspire to achieve ourselves. Only later do the soldiers, like those students, learn what is truly asked of them -- nothing short of the forfeiture of their peace of mind.
"I am changed," one of the soldiers says, succinctly and poetically. From the home front, we can only imagine.

Austin Considine is a writer in New York.
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URL: SF Gate.com

The United States v. George Bush

What would the case against George Bush for intelligence fraud in the leadup to the war in Iraq look like? A former federal prosecutor lays out her case to an imaginary grand jury, and all she needs is the evidence available in the public record to make her case.

Visit HERE to find out!

U.S. Government Reports on Spying on American Peace Activists

Talon PDF File

Do-It-Yourself Impeachment. Seriously

The subject title came from This Writing

Before the House Judiciary Committee can put together the Articles of Impeachment, someone must initiate the impeachment procedure. Most often, this occurs when members of the House pass a resolution. Another method outlined in the manual, however, is for individual citizens to submit a memorial for impeachment.

According to Rudolph, "Impeachment would lead to the ouster of Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and many others, as they are all equally guilty of war crimes. In an open impeachment trial, the evidence would come out. It isn't the only way we’ll succeed in impeaching Bush and restoring democracy, but it is an important avenue. Let's get it done."

And than there was also this The do-it-yourself impeachment tool for John Q. Citizen

The establishment corporate media, totally at odds with their behavior in 1998 when they ranted from the housetops for the head of Bill Clinton, have to be characterized in terms of psychopathology:
Catatonia: An abnormal condition variously characterized by stupor, stereotypy, mania, and either rigidity or extreme flexibility of the limbs. It is most often associated with schizophrenia.
Stereotypy: Excessive repetition or lack of variation in movements, ideas, or patterns of speech, especially when viewed as a symptom of certain developmental or psychiatric disorders.

I believe the failure to differentiate between criminal and political offenses contributes in a major way to the apparent inability of Congressional leaders to make the case against the regime and raise righteous indignation at the grassroots level. This said, there are crimes and constitutional violations that even Republicans should agree call for Bush's impeachment (and in some cases, Cheney's), including:
Visit Here to read what he has written.

Below I grabbed from the Impeach for Peace website, adding a couple of links, though they have the information there as well, for further research. I certainly couldn't put it together better.



Impeach for Peace, a Minnesota-based impeachment group, has researched a method for impeaching the president using a little known and rarely used part of the Rules of the House of Representatives ("Jefferson’s Manual"). This document actually empowers individual citizens to initiate the impeachment process themselves.
"Jefferson's Manual" is an interpretive guide to parliamentary procedure, and is included (along with the Constitution) in the bound volumes of the Rules of the House of Representatives. It is ratified by each congress (including the current one), and has been updated continuously through the history of our democracy. The section covering impeachment lists the acceptable vehicles for bringing impeachment motions to the floor of the House.

Before the House Judiciary Committee can put together the Articles of Impeachment, someone must initiate the impeachment procedure. Most often, this occurs when members of the House pass a resolution. Another method outlined in the manual, however, is for individual citizens to submit a memorial for impeachment.

After learning this information, Minnesotan and Impeach for Peace member (Jodin Morey) found precedent in an 1826 memorial by Luke Edward Lawless which had been successful in initiating the impeachment of Federal Judge James H. Peck. Impeach for Peace then used this as a template for their "Do-It-Yourself Impeachment."

Now any citizen can download the DIY Impeachment Memorial and submit it, making it possible for Americans to do what our representatives have been unwilling to do. The idea is for so many people to submit the Memorial that it cannot be ignored.
Feel free to download it, print out TWO copies, fill in your relevant information in the blanks (name, State, notary is optional), and send in a letter today. There's also extra credit for sending a DIY Impeachment to your own representative.

Hold on to the other copy of the letter until Jan. 15th (after the new congress) when we're having everyone send them in.

That's right — to make a big impact, we're having everyone send it in on the same date (Over 300,000 downloads so far representing over 1 million mailings). We hope to flood the congress with sacks of mail and cause a newsworthy event to further pressure them to act on the memorials. Although, it's important to keep in mind that in the 1830 precedent, impeachment resulted as a result of a single memorial. Yours might be the one.

Get the PDF to send in, and DIRECTLY initiate the impeachment of Bush:

•Regular Version [pdf]• (html version)

•Extra Credit (your representative) [pdf]• (html version)

•For folks in District of Columbia [pdf]• (html version)

•District of Columbia Extra Credit!! [pdf]• (html version)

Suggested voluntary donation to help with organization's expenses (web hosting/protests/printing of flyers/etc.): $5. We are not-for-profit. 100% of funds go directly to efforts to Impeach Bush!

Frequently asked Questions and Answers

Concerns over the strategy of pushing for impeachment in this way?
See the 'Arguments Against Impeachment' at the bottom of the main page.

EMAIL ALL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THIS!!

We would especially like to thank ImpeachBush.tv for their support, and whose charges related to impeachment we used in the creation of this document.

Also, if you're interested:
Information regarding Impeachment procedure

Precedent: Judge Peck's Impeachment supplied by the U.S. House of Representatives and policyreview.org.

House rules that allow for the submission of the memorial

Source: U.S. Government Printing Office

You may want to view a recent video Impeachment in 2007 - Our Constitutional Duty, as David at AfterDowningStreet puts it "There coming out fast and furious"!

And by all means visit After Downing Street if you haven't, or haven't recently, to find ALL that has been collected over these Long Years of Corruption of our Government, Constitution, and Democracy!!

You may also want to visit the Long Standing Call, by Veterans For Peace, for the Impeachment of Both Bush and Cheney, below.
CITIZEN’S IMPEACHMENT:

The Veterans for Peace has two missions. One is Peace and the other is working for Justice. If we don't have Justice; Peace may never have a chance. Therefore, the Veterans for Peace is working to impeach George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney. We hope to impeach them for sake of Peace. I hope you will work with us for all our sake. Welcome to the VFP Impeachment Project. Now, Gung ho - pull together.

Semper pacificus,
Daniel I. Fearn
Co-chair, VFP Impeachment Project
CITIZEN'S IMPEACHMENT
All the nessary links can be found at the link above, the call, the charges, etc. etc.

U.S. In Distress Flag

Investigate,Indict then Impeach All Involved

I want to see wide open Investigations, by this coming Congress that should Already have been done by the Previous as the Proof was coming into the Publics Eyes and Hands. Screw this Bullshit about 'Super Secret Intelligence', we all know how the Intelligence went down!

I want to know what went on behind close doors, at the White House and Congress, and anywhere else the Investigations lead.

I want to see the Names of All involved, from the Administration through Congess, into the so called Think Tanks, and into the Offices of the so call Corporate Leaders of whatever businesses Profitted off of the Many Corrupt Actions coming out of Washington's Power Elite!

I want to know what happened to the Peoples Treasury and in whose hands it ended up in. The lost Billions, the OverPricing of War Profiteering!

I want to know how much is being paid for the Mercenaries, We Have Hired, and how much these so called companies have Ripped us off for, while running free reign causing this countries name and standing to be even more tarnished and putting our Military Troops into even more Danger, by their actions!

I want to know How Much We Paid Nation States to join the so called 'Coalition of the Willing' and the promises made by the lyers and crooks!
There is So Much More, over 6 Long Years, of Corruption of power by the Administration and Congress!

What type of Country and World are 'WE going to leave for those following us? Call me old fashion but I grew up in a Country, and served in it's Military in another Quagmire, who's parents strived to improve their lot for their children, as their parents did before. Not just in wealth but in better living conditions and a much more accountible Government, made up of those we hire to lead us forward, in all area's, not backward for their own wants!

Remember, The World Is Watching also!!!