[GPSCC-chat] Impeach Obama for War Crimes: VfP

[Brian Good]

Resolution 2011-7 was passed at the Veterans for Peace convention last August.  Somehow 
I missed it.

IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA FOR WAR CRIMES

Whereas, Barack H. Obama is Commander In Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces 
and the head 
of the Executive Branch of the United States government, 
and



Whereas, President Obama, on 19 March 2011, committed a criminal act by 
ordering the U.S. 
military to war in Libya without first obtaining the 
consent of the U.S. Congress in a direct 
violation of the U.S. 
Constitution, and 



Whereas, the illegal U.S. invasion, bombing and occupation of Iraq 
initiated by the Bush 
administration continues under the Obama 
administration; and 



Whereas, the U.S. government is currently engaged in illegal wars in 
Iraq, Afghanistan, 
Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya, and President 
Obama pledged to increase the number 
of military personnel and tax 
dollars spent on the these wars, and 



Whereas, the U.S. military used and continues to use depleted uranium 
munitions, cluster 
bombs and white phosphorous in densely populated 
areas in violation of U.S. laws and international laws and treaties 
prohibiting the indiscriminate killing of civilians; and, 



Whereas, the Geneva Conventions specifically prohibit the use of 
especially injurious weapons 
and materials causing unnecessary harm that
 remain active and lethal after battle, and over large areas of land, 
and 




Whereas, large numbers of babies born in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer 
life-long illness and 
deformity like severe disfigurements and brain 
damage, Down’s syndrome, and weak hearts doctors state are caused by the
 U.S. military’s massive and widespread use of toxic and radioactive 
materials, and 



Whereas, millions upon millions of Iraqi, Afghani, Pakistani, Yemeni, 
Somali, and Libyan civilians have been maimed, poisoned, displaced from 
their homes, and killed in a direct 
result of ongoing, illegal acts of 
war by the United States, and 



Whereas, illegal, immoral and counterproductive detainee torture and 
brutalization at the hands of the U.S. military’s Immediate Reaction 
Force continue at Guantanamo under the Obama administration and in 
particular, the torture of Pfc. Bradley Manning at Quantico, 
Virginia, 
and 



Whereas, President Obama is an accessory after the fact in obstructing 
justice by failingto order the Department of Justice to initiate 
investigations into numerous and blatant U.S. 
war crimes committed by 
the Bush administration, for which it is manifestly accountable under 
the law, and 



Whereas, millions of Americans, including Veterans For Peace and 
Prosecute Them Now, supported the impeachment of Bush/Cheney for the 
same war crimes that are being committed now by Obama in violation of 
the U.S. Constitution, U.S. federal laws, the United Nations Charter, 
the Hague Convention, the Geneva Conventions, The United Nations 
Convention Against Torture and the Nuremberg Tribunal Charter, and 



Whereas, Veterans For Peace and Prosecute Them Now are committed to the 
stated mission to restrain our government from intervening overtly and 
covertly in the internal 
affairs of other nations, to seek justice for 
veterans and victims of war, to increase public awareness of the exact 
costs of war, and to abolish war as an instrument of national policy; 



Therefore Be It Resolved that Veterans For Peace call on the U.S. House 
of 
Representatives to immediately begin impeachment proceedings against 
President Barack H. Obama for failure to uphold his sworn oath to 
protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from
 all enemies foreign and domestic, and for his commission of war crimes,
 crimes against humanity, obstruction of justice and the violation of 
numerous national and international laws, treaties and conventions. 

Approved at the 2011 VFP National Convention
 		 	   		  
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