Bush should be impeached for criminal dereliction of duty.

[Octafish]

The crazy monkey keeps the men and women under his command in harm's way when there's no need for them to be there.



What is the reason we keep sending patrols through Baghdad and the other towns?
What is the reason our armed forces have to take and re-take the same territory over and over again?
Why does Bush keep ordering more and more men and women into an unnecessary meat grinder?

None that I can see.
None that anyone has told me they see.
None that the Pentagon or any member of government has stated.
None certainly that indicate a threat to the security of the United States.

And all that this four-year war has accomplished is the ruin of the Army, Marines and Reserves.

When a readiness 'crisis' is a real crisis

By David Isenberg

Curiously enough, defining military readiness, or the lack thereof, is more difficult than one might think. For example, during the US administration of president Bill Clinton, Republican opponents tried very hard to convince the public that the military was in the midst of a grave "readiness crisis". In reality, the charges were as dubious and politically motivated as were the Cold War-era bomber and missile "gaps".

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One of the newest and unreported signs of unreadiness involves something called C-ratings. Historically, readiness of US military forces at the unit level has been measured using the Status of Resources and Training System. Under SORTS, units report their overall readiness status as well as the status of four resource areas (personnel, equipment and supplies on hand, equipment condition, and training). These are readiness indicators based on the comparison of the resources that units have with the levels prescribed for wartime. The lower the number, the higher the state of readiness.

The readiness status of a unit is reported by assigning capability, or "C", ratings as follows:

C-1 Unit can undertake the full wartime missions for which it is organized or designed.
C-2 Unit can undertake the bulk of its wartime missions.
C-3 Unit can undertake major portions of its wartime missions.
C-4 Unit requires additional resources and/or training to undertake its wartime missions, but if the situation dictates, it may be required to undertake portions of the missions with resources on hand.
C-5 Unit is undergoing a service-directed resource change and is not prepared to undertake its wartime missions.

It has not been widely publicized that US units being deployed to Iraq that are rated at C-3/4 levels are being elevated to C-1/2 after only a couple of weeks in Kuwait, the functional equivalent of a military miracle.

Last December, CQ Weekly reported that US Army planning assumes that 37 of its 70 combat brigades are ready for deployment under its C-1-to-C-5 rating system. But the article noted, "A recent army document showed that all combat brigades in the United States, even those next to deploy, are unready."

According to a briefing chart, 19 brigades that were next to be deployed were assumed to be at a C-1 or C-2 level, when they were actually C-3 or C-4.

It should take several months for a low-readiness unit to become ready for any combat. According to Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information in Washington, "The entire CONUS Army is in the crapper."

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For his refusal to do what is best for the safety of the men and women under his command,
For his refusal to maintain the national security of the United States as commander-in-chief,
Bush should be found guilty of criminal dereliction of duty.
Bush should, thus, be relieved of command immediately.

All that commander-in-chief Smriko McCokespoon Bush has accomplished is get Americans killed.

10 U.S. troops die in Iraq; 6 on Sunday

By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD - The powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his militiamen on Sunday to redouble their battle to oust American forces and argued that Iraq's army and police should join him in defeating "your archenemy." The U.S. military announced the weekend deaths of 10 American soldiers, including six killed on Sunday.

Security remained so tenuous in the capital on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the U.S. capture of Baghdad that Iraq's military declared a 24-hour ban on all vehicles in the capital from 5 a.m. Monday. The government quickly reinstated Monday as a holiday, just a day after it had decreed that April 9 no longer would be a day off.

Among the 10 U.S. deaths announced Sunday were three soldiers killed by a roadside bomb while patrolling south of Baghdad; one killed in an attack south of the capital; and two who died of combat wounds sustained north of the capital, in Diyala and Salahuddin provinces. On Saturday, the military said, four U.S. soldiers were killed in an explosion near their vehicle in Diyala.

At least 3,280 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians.

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At least 47 people were killed or found dead in violence Sunday, including 17 execution victims dumped in the capital.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070408/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AhvTNGFrUq6kKB_xgSq7jc.s0NUE

A couple more questions and observations:

Bush also is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
Why are they sent into combat without the equipment they need?
Why are the returning wounded treated like dirt?
Because the Treasury has been looted by Karl Rove, Jack Abramoff and Grover Norquist's buddies, it seems.

To top it off, Bush and his cronies LIED AMERICA INTO WAR!

C'mon Congress! IMPEACH THE TRAITORS!

[Old and In the Way]

1. If the systematic actions of this administration over the past 6 years

do not rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors, I'd like someone to explain to me what would be grounds for impeachment....other than lying about consensual xex.

[Mme. Defarge]

2. Depraved indifference

to human life.

[Disturbed]

3. Busholini is more Impeachable that Richard Nixon was.

GW Bush- High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

1. "A Crime Against Peace." Initiating a war of aggression against a nation that posed no immediate threat to the U.S.--a war that has needlessly killed 2550 Americans and maimed and damaged over 20,000 more, while killing over 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women and children, is the number one war crime according to the Nuremberg Charter, a document which was largely drawn up by American lawyers after World War II.

2. Lying and organizing a conspiracy to trick the American people and the U.S. Congress into approving an unnecessary and illegal war. This is defined as "A Conspiracy to Commit a Crime Against Peace" in the Nuremberg Charter, to which the U.S. is a signatory.

3. Approving and encouraging, in violation of U.S. and international law, the use of torture, kidnapping and rendering of prisoners of war captured in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the course of the so-called War on Terror. Note that the Hamdan decision actually declares Bush to have violated the Third Geneva Convention on Treatment of Prisoners of War, which means the justices are in effect calling the president a war criminal. Under U.S. and international law, if prisoners have died because of such a violation--and many have died in illegal US captivity because of torture authorized by this president--the penalty is death (a point made to the president in a warning memo written by his then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, the text of which is published in full in the appendix of our book).

4. Illegally stripping the right of citizenship and the protections of the Constitution from American citizens, denying them the fundamental right to have their cases heard in a court, to hear the charges against them, to be judged in a public court by a jury of their peers, and to have access to a lawyer.

5. Authorizing the spying on American citizens and their communications by the National Security Agency and other U.S. police and intelligence agencies, in violation of the First and Fourth Amendments and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

6. Obstructing investigation into and covering up knowledge of the deliberate exposing of the identity of a U.S. CIA undercover operative, and possibly conspiring in that initial outing itself.

7. Obstructing the investigation into the 9-11 attacks and lying to investigators from the Congress and the bi-partisan 9-11 Commission--actions that come perilously close to treason. (Former Florida Senator Bob Graham, who headed the Senate Intelligence Committee until his retirement at the end of 2002, has called this the president's most impeachable crime.)

8. Violating the due process and other constitutional rights of thousands of citizens and legal residents by rounding them up and disappearing or deporting them without hearings.

9. Abuse of power, undermining of the Constitution and violating the presidential oath of office by deliberately refusing to administer over 750 acts duly passed into law by the Congress--actions with if left unchallenged would make the Congress a vestigial body, and the president a dictator.

10. Criminal negligence in failing to provide American troops with adequate armor before sending them into a war of choice, criminal negligence in going to war against a weak, third-world nation without any planning for post war occupation and reconstruction, criminal negligence in failing to respond to a known and growing crisis in the storm-blasted city of New Orleans, and criminal negligence in failing to act, and in fact in actively obstructing efforts by other countries and American state governments, to deal with the looming crisis of global warming.





The Democrats’ Impeachment Road Map

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjVjM2M2N2U3ZjJlNTRiZmYzZjJkYzJiN2RlZGQyYjY=

[Swamp Rat]

4. Then he should be tried for treason and war crimes

[grannylib]

5. Impeachment is TOO GOOD for him. HELL is too good for him.

What is it going to take before sheeple in this country wake up and realize what corrupt criminals we have illegally occupying the highest offices in the nation???

[Ghost in the Machine]

6. MAN! I thought those were teletubbies saluting him when I first started scrolling

down. I smell a "photoshop moment" coming on here.

Seriously though, NOT ONE MORE OF OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS NEEDS TO DIE BECAUSE OF A LIE! This insanity has gone on farrrrrrrr too long now. What more is it going to take to wake up the rest of the sleeping sheeple?

Granted, we ARE seeing a lot of them waking up now, but not nearly as many as should be. Anyone who can clearly see what a bunch of criminals this gang is, and STILL SUPPORT THEIR POLICIES & ACTIONS, needs to be found complicit and held accountable right along with the BFEE.

[City Lights]

9. Me too! First thing I *thought* I saw was Tinky Winky! eom

[ljm2002]

7. Couldn't agree more...

...thing is, that should have been the charge on 9/12/2001, after his abysmal display reading "The Pet Goat" while the twin towers burned and yet more jets laden with hijackers and passengers roamed the skies. Clearly, there was a breakdown in the chain of command, as well as dereliction of duty. Yet they spun it to his advantage. :wtf:

[Cha]

8. Yes bush should and the USA media

right along with him.

[lonestarnot]

10. hmmmf.