[Iowa-dx] GP RELEASE Greens support Rep. McKinney's impeachment motion

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:14:14 -0600

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Monday, December 11, 2006

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

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"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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