[Sosfbay-discuss] Green Party supports Rep. McKinney's motion to impeach President Bush

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http://gp.org/press/pr_2006_12_11.shtml

Press Release
	
Green Party Supports Rep. McKinney's Motion to Impeach President Bush

Green Party of the United States
www.gp.org

Monday, December 11, 2006

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty at greens.org 
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at greens.org 

Greens express support for Rep. McKinney's motion to impeach President
Bush

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders expressed support for Rep.
Cynthia McKinney's (D-Ga.) motion for impeachment of President George
W. Bush, noting that the Green Party of the United States endorsed
impeachment of the President in 2003. 

"No President is above the law, and we thank Rep. McKinney for standing
up for justice while the rest of her party retreats from holding
President Bush accountable for a litany of high crimes and
misdemeanors," said Nan Garrett, co-chair of the Georgia Green Party
and one of McKinney's constituents from the state's 4th Congressional
District. "Unless Democrats revive the bill in January, it will expire
along with the 109th Congress, and the Bush Administration's
criminality and abuses of power will go unpunished." 

Rep. McKinney, in her floor statement on Friday, December 8, listed
deceptions that the Bush Administration used to justify launching an
invasion of Iraq in 2003, including claims that Iraq possessed WMDs and
represented a threat to America and its own neighbors, and noted that
Mr. Bush authorized unlawful spying on American citizens, circumvented
the courts, violated the separation of powers provided by the
Constitution, and attempting to cover up by making false statements to
the public. 

The Green Party has offered similar lists of reasons to impeach
President Bush since 2003 <http://www.gp.org/press/pr_07_21_03.html>.
On December 18, 2005, Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) introduced into a
resolution calling for the U.S. House to form "a select committee to
investigate the Administration's intent to go to war before
congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence,
encouraging and countenancing torture, retaliating against critics, and
to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment." 

Greens expressed disappointment that Rep. Conyers and other Democrats
have decided to not to act on the mountain of evidence that Mr. Conyers
himself has compiled that President Bush has broken the law (see "The
Constitution in Crisis; The Downing Street Minutes and Deception,
Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War"
<http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/iraqrept.html>). 

Greens also thanked Rep. McKinney for introducing living wage
legislation last week; the Green Party has made a guaranteed living
wage a major goal <http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2006_11_27.shtml>. 

"Ms. McKinney was labeled a 9/11 conspiracy theorist in the media a few
years ago, but the same media refused to recognize that the 9/11
Commission confirmed her allegations that the Bush Administration knew
a lot more about the impending attacks than it admitted," said Katey
Culver, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. "The media
and the two established parties are similarly dismissing Ms. McKinney's
bill for impeachment. The lesson is that a President can be impeached
for lying about sex, but not for lying about national security and
shredding the U.S. Constitution." 

MORE INFORMATION 

Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org 
1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
Washington, DC 20009.
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193

"Greens Call for Impeachment of Bush, Withdrawal
of Troops by the Winter Holidays"
Green Party press release, July 21, 2003
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_07_21_03.html 

"Downing St. Memo is Evidence for Bush Impeachment"
Green Party press release, June 9, 2005 
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_06_09.shtml 

"Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!"
Green Party press release, January 3, 2006 
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2006_01_03.shtml 

"The Case for Impeachment: Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush" 
By Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's Magazine, March 2006 Online excerpt: 
http://harpers.org/TheCaseForImpeachment.html 

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