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Audio: Entire Session Bill Goodman & Daniel Ellsberg on impeachment July 19, 2006 [mp3] (includes Q&A, 1 Hr 52 Min)

Audio: Daniel Elsberg speaking on Bush's Impeachment: [ Just Daniel Elseberg segment MP3 - 36:20 ]

See also:

• http://www.constitutionsummer.org
• http://www.articlesofimpeachment.net

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See Also:

• Iraq Veterans Against the War (http://www.ivaw.net)
• Veterans for Peace (http://www.vetsforpeace.org)
• Thank You Lt. Ehren Watada (http://www.thankyoult.org)

Iraquagmire

Via DemocracyNow!:

US Sees Growing Iraq Insurgency
Meanwhile the New York Times is reporting of a growing consensus inside the US military the Iraq insurgency is getting stronger. According to the Pentagon, July saw the highest monthly total of roadside bombs since the start of the war. The number of daily strikes against US and Iraqi security forces has doubled since the start of this year. A senior Defense Department official said the insurgency "has gotten worse by almost all measures, with insurgent attacks at historically high levels." The official added the insurgency has more public support and more available fighters than at any point. The attacks are increasingly targeting US troops. Five hundred and eighteen soldiers were wounded in attacks last month, up from less than three hundred in January. And of more than sixteen hundred bombs that exploded in July,more than two-thirds were directed at the US-led occupation force. One military consultant with ties to the White House said the Bush administration is considering plans for the possibility Iraq's elected government might not survive. The expert said the plans include alternatives other than democracy.

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Video: Lt. Ehren Watada's Speech: "Soldiers Can Choose to Stop Fighting" Veterans for Peace Convention - August 12, 2006

In Seattle at the Veterans for Peace Convention, Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to Iraq, spoke about what he calls a "change of strategy" for the peace movement. Watada said: "Today, I speak with you about a radical idea.... The idea is this: that to stop an illegal and unjust war, the soldiers can choose to stop fighting it." He received overwhelming support from the crowd, and members of Iraq Veterans Against the War lined the stage in solidarity. His speech came five days before his August 17 pre-trial hearing for refusing deployment to Iraq.

"To stop an illegal and unjust war, the soldiers and service members can choose to stop fighting it."

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Video: Dahr Jamail on Iraq and Lebanon

Independent reporter Dahr Jamail speaks with Geoffrey Millard in Seattle at the Veterans for Peace Convention, where he was invited to speak about his time in Iraq and, because of recent events, in Lebanon. Jamail went to Iraq because he said the coverage by corporate news was insufficient. Jamail presents his take on Iraq's civil war and politics, Lebanon's humanitarian crisis, Hezbollah's increased popularity, US/Iran relations, and the peace movement in America.

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But...my daddy ran the C.I.A....

"In the first federal challenge ever argued against the Bush administration's NSA spying program, U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor rules that the program to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of millions of Americans without warrants is unconstitutional. Calling for a halt to this abuse of presidential power, Judge Taylor states that "[t]here are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution," so all the president's "inherent powers" must derive from the Constitution." - link

(via insomnia's post here.)

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"If the President be connected in any suspicious manner with any person and there be grounds to believe that he will shelter him, he may be impeached." - James Madison, from the Virginia ratification convention.

"If the President be connected in any suspicious manner with any person and there be grounds to believe that he will shelter him, he may be impeached." - James Madison, from the Virginia ratification convention.

"A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution." - James Madison at the Constitutional Convention

"If the impeachment provision in the Constitution of the United States will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that 18th-century Constitution should be abandoned to a 20th-century paper shredder" - Barbara Jordan: Statement on the Articles of Impeachment

Patti Smith "Qana"

Patti Smith has recorded a new song: "Qana (mp3)" 

The Israeli practice of collective punishment is a war crime under the Geneva Convention. Why are they allowed to do this? Because they have our permission?

We send over four billion dollars in aid and weapons to Israel every year. We are paying for this devastation. The slaughter of children. The country in ruins.We are paying for this. George Bush willfully rejected a truce and now we have the Qana massacre on our head. Thirty seven of the dead were children.

Qana is considered by some as the location of the first miracle of Christ. Turning water into wine. There is no wine flowing in Qana today. Only blood. Only blood. - PATTI on THE QANA MASSACRE - July 21, 2006

G'night all...