Truthout: Scott Ritter Calls For Impeachment ("It's Criminal")

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http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/33788

It's criminal
By Scott Ritter
Posted on March 20, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/ritter/33788/

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Criminal governance is violating every principle of the laws of war in the conduct of the occupation of Iraq, manipulating the economic and political direction of Iraq, suppressing its population, and engaging in wanton acts of widespread murder, torture and abuse of the Iraqi people.
The fact is the war in Iraq has degenerated into one giant hate crime.

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What are the American people doing in response? There is a huge difference between becoming aware and taking action. While poll numbers on Iraq reflect a growing unease about the war, this unease has not manifested itself into any discernable reaction of consequence. The Democratic Party has remained largely mute, largely because of the culpability on the part of much of its membership in facilitating and sustaining the Iraqi war and its underlining doctrine of global domination by the United States.

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The Iraq War, if anything, is a reflection of the total abrogation of constitutional responsibility and process by the Congress of the United States. As a result, the President has led a nationdown the path of illegal war of aggression which has damaged America's reputation abroad, and its very fabric here at home. The Republican-controlled Congress has done little to stop this collective march towards national self-destruction, rubber-stamping the president's illegal actions with little regard to either the rule of law or Congress's status as a second but equal branch of government.

This must end.

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In short, the rallying cry of the Democratic Party must become impeachment. Given the magnitude of the crimes committed by the United States in Iraq under the direction and leadership of President Bush and his administration, there is simply no other recourse that can bring a halt to the madness in Iraq, and the insanity being planned in Iran and elsewhere.

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Scott Ritter served as chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 until his resignation in 1998. He is the author of, most recently, Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the U.N. and Overthrow Saddam Hussein (Nation Books, 2005).

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1. total abrogation of constitutional responsibility & process by Congress-nt

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4. I wonder if we can get this renamed "The Pathetic Age"

of American history. It's all quite pathetic what has happened over the past several years.

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2. Mark Crispin Miller outlines Ritter's media smearing

Quite well in his book, "Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order." Ritter was a weapons inspector and knew what was going on with Iraq during the media blitz build up to justify Bushco's desire for pre-emptive invasion. Ritter, whose knowledge was critical/crucial, was consistently smeared and dismissed in the mainline press.

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3. Thank you for that! I was unaware that that was in

Miller's book. I witnessed the smear campaign as it happened, aware of what was going on, but I haven't heard Miller's take on it.

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5. I want every Democrat in Congress to read this....

especially Harry Reid. Will folks join me in calling and emailing them about Scott's truthful words?

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6. Probably will, after everyone gets over their reactions to Chimp's press

conference. I will keep kicking this thread, which is kind of getting lost in the static of it all.

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7. self-kick

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8. kick - kind of lost in all the noise today n/t

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9. Scott tells it like it is.

What are Americans doing about it?