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What are the top reasons for impeaching Bush?

Iraq

• Invading Iraq without any threat to the U.S.
• Lying about Iraqi WMD's to Congress and the American people
• Causing the deaths of over 1,600 U.S. troops and the maiming of over 10,000 more
• Failing to provide adequate equipment and armor to U.S. troops
• Allowing illegal torture and murder of prisoners
• Causing the deaths of 100,000 Iraqi civilians
• Spending $300 billion in just two years for an occupation that could last for decades
• Letting Halliburton steal billions through no-bid contracts

September 11

• Ignoring countless warnings of an attack in the U.S.
• Reading "My Pet Goat" during the attack
• Letting Osama Bin Laden escape from Afghanistan
• Holding no bureaucrat accountable for ignoring warnings
• Delaying and obstructing the 911 Commission investigation
• Turning Afghanistan into the world's largest opium producer

Terrorism

 

• Allowing international terrorism incidents to quadruple and trying to cover up the facts
• Failing to secure our borders and ports to prevent terrorism
• Creating a new generation of terrorists through the invasion of Iraq and the killing of 100,000 civilians
• Letting terrorists buy high-powered weapons inside the U.S.
• Letting North Korea build nuclear bombs and missiles that can cross the Pacific Ocean
• Refusing to shut down Pakistan's nuclear weapons exports

Foreign relations

• Turning the world against the United States
• Preparing for another war with Iran
• Signing treaties that cost America jobs and undermine American laws

Economy

• Letting gasoline prices double at devastating cost to the economy while oil companies make record profits
• Letting corrupt companies like Enron steal billions from consumers and employees
• Cutting taxes for the rich and turning a $5 trillion budget surplus into a $5 trillion budget deficit
• Adding trillions to the national debt, which our children and grandchildren will have to pay off with interest
• Letting millions of American jobs go overseas

Freedom

• Letting bureaucrats wiretap Americans without a court order
• Locking up suspects for years without charges or trials
• Arresting nonviolent protesters at Bush events
• Packing the courts with right-wing judges to outlaw abortion
• Ordering federal courts to interfere in the Terri Schiavo tragedy
• Taking away our right to sue corporations through class actions
• Taking away our right to declare bankruptcy under Chapter 7 and forcing middle-class Americans into debt slavery

Democracy

• Stealing the Presidential elections of 2000 and 2004
• Refusing to investigate the disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of voters in Florida and Ohio
• Promoting black-box electronic voting machines without paper trails
• Embracing dictators in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia, and China
• Overthrowing democratically-elected leaders in Haiti and Venezuela

Environment

• Allowing global warming, which will cause massive environmental damage
• Allowing more toxic mercury in the air and water
• Allowing oil drilling in wilderness areas

Scandals

• Illegally "outing" CIA agent Valerie Plame, an important anti-terrorism official
• Letting a gay male prostitute (Jeff Gannon) roam free in the White House
• Paying journalists to give favorable coverage to the administration
• Relying on an earpiece for answers during debates and press conferences
• Going AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard in 1972 and covering it up ever since
• Defending the most corrupt Member of Congress (Tom DeLay)

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