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Medea Benjamin
Elaine Brower
Steering Committee, World Can't Wait, mother of U.S. Marine
Tim Carpenter
Director, Progressive Democrats of America
Noam Chomsky
MIT
Marjorie Cohn
President, National Lawyers Guild
Elizabeth de la Vega
Former federal prosecutor and author of U.S. v. George W. Bush
et. al.
Jane Dugdale
Coordinator, Bryn Mawr Council of MoveOn/Operation Democracy
Bob Fertik
President, Democrats.com and ImpeachPAC.org
Brad Friedman
Creator of the Brad Blog and co-founder
of VelvetRevolution.us
Elizabeth Holtzman
Former Congresswoman, member of House panel that voted to impeach
President Nixon, author of The Impeachment of George W. Bush.
Rob Kall
Editor and Publisher, OpEdNews.com
Jonathan Lethem
Writer
Dave Lindorff
Author of The Case for Impeachment
Dennis Loo
Co-editor of Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and
Cheney
Cynthia McKinney
Former Congresswoman, author of impeachment legislation in the 109th
Congress
Bill Moyer
Executive Director, Backbone Campaign
Brad Newsham
Founder, The Beach Impeach Project
John Nichols
Washington correspondent, The Nation, and author of The
Genius of Impeachment
Jacob Park
A28 National Coordinator
Peter Phillips
Director, Project Censored, Co-editor of Impeach the President:
The Case Against Bush and Cheney
Cindy Sheehan
Director, Camp Casey Peace Institute
David Swanson
Co-founder, AfterDowningStreet.org coalition
Howard Zinn
Author of A People's History of the United States
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To Eli Pariser,
MoveOn.org Executive Director:
With more than 3 million members, MoveOn plays a vital role not
only in shaping public policy, but in educating the American public
about the most important political issues of the day. With this
power comes a responsibility to engage with these issues in as forthright
a manner as possible.
Until now, MoveOn has declined to call for the impeachment of George
W. Bush or Dick Cheney, citing a purported lack of interest among
its membership. But, as many frustrated members have pointed out,
they have not been asked. It has recently come to light that MoveOn
is quietly conducting an online poll on the question among a small
group of its members. We applaud this encouraging first step but
hope that MoveOn will go further by soliciting feedback from its
entire membership. When asked why the poll was not taken of all
members, a MoveOn organizer explained:
Rarely do we send out a survey like this to the whole membership
(we work very hard to send no more than one email to our members
per day; the more they receive the less likely they are to open
any of them, there is also an issue of bandwidth capabilities).
We generally only do that when we have to act immediately or when
we are acting on very specific legislation.
We feel confident that the membership of MoveOn will forgive the
organization a single e-mail about a question of such urgency and
importance. And we would remind MoveOn that specific legislation
on impeachment already exists. H Res 333, introduced by Rep. Dennis
Kucinich (D-OH), and cosponsored by Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO)
and Rep. Janice Schakowsky (D-IL) calls for the impeachment of Vice-President
Cheney on the grounds that he manipulated intelligence "to
deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating
a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use
of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq."
Few will dispute that lying the nation into a disastrous war that
has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 Americans and hundreds
of thousands of Iraqis rises to the level of "high crimes and
misdemeanors" and that these allegations merit serious examination
by Congress. On April 28, 2007, Americans in more than 125 locations
around the country took to the streets to demonstrate their support
for impeachment. That same weekend, delegates to the annual convention
of the California Democratic Party, the largest state chapter of
the Democratic Party, overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling
for the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney. Two days later,
speaking on NPR, leading antiwar Congressman John Murtha (D-PA)
pointedly said that impeachment was "on the table" in
Congress.
The time has come for the Bush administration to be held accountable.
We respectfully urge MoveOn to exercise leadership on the question
of impeachment and to begin an open dialogue with its members about
the issue. As MoveOn likes to say, "Every member has a voice."
Contact: MoveOnToImpeachment@gmail.com
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| 2101 | Karen | Engel | Oakland | CA | The entire Bush administration reeks of corruption. It is time to take out the trash. |
| 2102 | Gayle | Stalker | Hubert | NC | Bush,Cheney, Rice, Rove,Rumsfeld & Gonzalez should not only be impeached, they should tried for high crimes and sent to prison. |
| 2103 | John | Thoma | Sarasota | FL | |
| 2104 | Anonymous | Anonymous | antioch | CA | |
| 2105 | Nicola | Bourne | Berkeley | CA | I wonder if you dreamt of the powerful influence that MoveOn would become? I'm writing not only to congratulate you on your success but to urge you to use that power to help individuals like me speak truth to power and demand impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney for documented violations of their oaths of office. This country and the world can't risk them doing even more damage if they are allowed to finish our their terms without their actions being thoroughly investigated. There's also the matter of precedent -- no future president/vice president should think they can run roughshod over the Constitution or the people as the current Administration has done.
For what you do, I THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. |
| 2106 | Therese Ballet | Lynn | Huntington Beach | CA | |
| 2107 | j.d. | tulloch | Kansas City | MO | |
| 2108 | Anita | Owen | | GA | Time to save Democracy..NOW |
| 2109 | Margaret | Howden | New Glarus | WI | Former member of MoveOn who got sick of its triangulating, middle-of-the road attitudes. Seems more like the DLC than an activist group most of the time! |
| 2110 | Alexandra | Pohanka | | MA | |
| 2111 | Lynda | Appell | Philadelphia | PA | I agree with the Center for Constitional Rights that Bush is danger to our rights.(USPATRIOT Act-elimination of Habeas Corpus, Domestic spying, Plus imho he's dangerous for our environment, putting business people in environmental positions urging environmental laws friendly to business but unfriendly to our enviromentl, social needs. By slashing funding for needy people, the poor are essentially paying for this illegal war in Iraq. Only Congress can declare war. Without rights noone is safe. Our country was founded on rights for all Americans. Bush is doing his best to make certain the US is NOT the nation our forefathers and foremothers wanted to create. |
| 2112 | Susan | Skaer | San Antonio | TX | We must show the world that the U.S. is NOT what they have seen the last six years. |
| 2113 | Anonymous | Anonymous | Belfair | WA | |
| 2114 | Robert | Douglas | Southgate | MI | Get serious, there are lives at stake! |
| 2115 | becky | mcspadden | | | Impeach the criminals! |
| 2116 | edrie | blackwelder | montery | CA | it is time to restore honor, truth and dignity to this nation! please impeach george w. bush and richard cheney for their illegal actions that have pushed america into an illegal war, for violating the united states constitution and for acts that equate to high crimes and misdemeanors! |
| 2117 | Stuart and Barbara | Danforth | Tolland | CT | How can we not impeach Bush and Cheney. The lies have been proven and the voters want out of Iraq! Do it!! |
| 2118 | Anonymous | Anonymous | New York | NY | The U.S. Constitution, the Geneva conventions, and international law (all violated by Bush &co) ought to mean something. Many people worked carefully for many years to put those things there. Likewise for the International Criminal Court. It's there for a reason, and if the U.S. doesn't prosecute them, the ICC is likely to indict the administration itself; but, you will never hear it in America's media. They will give you foreign news only if its convenient for them; and they will manufacture convenient news if they want it but don't have it naturally. |
| 2119 | Shannon | Markley | Seattle | WA | |
| 2120 | Anonymous | Anonymous | Napa | CA | |
| 2121 | Anonymous | Anonymous | Prescott | WI | It's about time!!The Democratic party should have done this last winter.Now let's see if they go forward? |
| 2122 | david | toelaer | Independence | OR | Treasonous pillaging murdering torturers must be held accountable NOW!!! |
| 2123 | Den Mark | Wichar | Vancouver | WA | Impeachment is in governmental process for a reason. WE HAVE MANY REASONs, RIGHT NOW! |
| 2124 | Mary | Barrett | Westchester | IL | How many young men will die before this mess ends??? |
| 2125 | Drew | Daniels | ruston | LA | |
| 2126 | John | Orcutt | Chula Vista | CA | |
| 2127 | Joanne | Hoemberg | Fremont | CA | I think impeachment proceedings should have been started a long time ago. |
| 2128 | Francis | Moulton | Cheney | WA | |
| 2129 | Georgette | Gafford | | | |
| 2130 | Elizabeth | Sheppard | Longview | WA | |
| 2131 | Che | Waterman | Burlingame | CA | |
| 2132 | Terra | Freedman | Santa Rosa | CA | We must impeach now, and not wait another moment! |
| 2133 | john | devalcourt | santa cruz | CA | Impeach both Bush and Cheney. |
| 2134 | Anonymous | Anonymous | Seattle | WA | This should have been the first order of business after the last mid-terms. |
| 2135 | Matt | Wrbican | Pittsburgh | PA | I'm tired of hearing the lame excuses NOT to impeach this administration. |
| 2136 | Carl | Mariz | Irvine | CA | i wrote to my congress members when W invited Iraq in 2003 that he should be impeached. Now more than ever! |
| 2137 | p. | Schreiber | Holualoa | HI | Ok...The Supreme Court gave him the FIRST election; DIEBOLD handed W. the second in Ohio: Now is thetime we need a special prosecuter appointed(Not by the RNC!)to find out the TRUTH behind the veil of secrecy which has be erected between What is the TRUTH and what has PASSED as the truth. Impeachment shall be the rallying cry from the balconeys from D.C to Barrow!!!!!!!!! Time to set the course back to what the founding Fathers wrought when they hammered out the Constitution. let those who have trampeled that sacred document, be brouhgt to Justice( And not before those who were appointed by George W. have been Righteously unseated due to his unpresidential*( meaning=if he was never Legally elected) He was not Legally able to appoint or put foward their names for ratification by Congress for their seats on the Supreme Court of the United States of the Americas) |
| 2138 | Kari | Olsen | | OR | I cannot understand the reluctance to bring these people to justice. Impeach Bush, Cheney, Rove, Gonzales, and indict them before they attack Iran and destroy the rest of the evidence of their crimes. |
| 2139 | Alan & Bonnie | Bannister | San Clemente | CA | We originally agreed w/Pelosi to keep Impeachment off the table. Now, w/Bush as stubborn as ever, it's become apparent that Impeachment is the only course Democrats have to bow the President to the wishes of the American People. The same American People that voted in a Democratic House & Senate. |
| 2140 | Deirdre | Monahan | Rapid City | SD | Impeach. Remove. Jail. |
| 2141 | Linda | Kolosowski | Chicago | IL | |
| 2142 | Anonymous | Anonymous | Tulsa | OK | Please --- it is way past time. |
| 2143 | Diane H | Fabian | Fort Atkinson | WI | |
| 2144 | Jeff | Haley | Fort Dodge | IA | This administration has continuously violated multiple domestic and international laws, international treaties, and redacted large portions of our former U.S. constitution! If impeachment is not "on the table", then our system is broken beyond repair. |
| 2145 | Eleanor Leigh | McKeirnan | Kelso | WA | It's overdue. America has lost credibility in the world and impeaching Bush will indicate to the world we still have some caring people and that we can still do something about it. When the dollar broke down to the 80 barrier years ago, everyone in the world came to our aid. Now we are looked on with apathy. Cheney is calling for a war with Iran, probably to save the economy. We are doing too little too late. It is imperative we impeach immediately. Also Bush is guilty of prior knowledge of 911. Many (15-16)countries warned us. Michael Ruppert's book: Crossing the Rubicon has impeachment grounds already documented. |
| 2146 | CA | Rock | Pittsfield | MA | |
| 2147 | Edward | Smith | Chester | AR | I am tired of being "We the sheeple", because in this flock the shepherd is as vile as a human can be. Please, for my family, restore my faith in America and give me a country to be proud of again. Ed Smith |
| 2148 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | FL | |
| 2149 | Alix | Schwartz | Berkeley | CA | Let's poll the whole membership, and then we will know for sure what the members want. |
| 2150 | Anonymous | Anonymous | Margate | FL | I am in favor of impeaching both Prez G. W. Bush and VP Cheney -- but, with the following thoughts in mind.
Timing (i.e. choosing the best time to do it).
GWB is essentially a lame-duck, now.
Begin the impeachment process at a time, when the country's legislative agenda can have the LEAST distraction (not now, but at a later date) and negative impact; e.g. many facets of GWB's admin. have to be investigated/countered/neutralized -- NOW. This work needs some degree of completion(?).
Marlene Norman
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