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Yarbrough Calls for
Impeachment of President Bush
SPRINGFIELD, IL –
On Thursday, April 20, 2006,
Rep. Karen
Yarbrough introduced into the Illinois
General Assembly
House Joint Resolution 125, which calls
for the impeachment of President George W. Bush.
The resolution reads as follows:
WHEREAS,
Section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of the Rules
of the United States House of Representatives
allows federal impeachment proceedings to be
initiated by joint resolution of a state
legislature; and
WHEREAS, President Bush has publicly admitted to
ordering the National Security Agency to violate
provisions of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act, a felony, specifically
authorizing the Agency to spy on American
citizens without warrant; and
WHEREAS, Evidence suggests that President Bush
authorized violation of the Torture Convention
of the Geneva Conventions, a treaty regarded a
supreme law by the United States Constitution;
and
WHEREAS, The Bush Administration has held
American citizens and citizens of other nations
as prisoners of war without charge or trial; and
WHEREAS, Evidence suggests that the Bush
Administration has manipulated intelligence for
the purpose of initiating a war against the
sovereign nation of Iraq, resulting in the
deaths of large numbers of Iraqi civilians and
causing the United States to incur loss of life,
diminished security and billions of dollars in
unnecessary expenses; and
WHEREAS, The Bush Administration leaked
classified national secrets to further a
political agenda, exposing an unknown number of
covert U. S. intelligence agents to potential
harm and retribution while simultaneously
refusing to investigate the matter; and
WHEREAS, the Republican-controlled Congress has
decline to fully investigate these charges to
date; therefore be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF
ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the
General Assembly of the State of Illinois has
good cause to submit charges to the U. S. House
of Representatives under Section 603 that the
President of the United States has willfully
violated his Oath of Office to preserve, protect
and defend the Constitution of the United
States; and be it further
RESOLVED, That George W. Bush, if found guilty
of the charges contained herein, should be
removed from office and disqualified to hold any
other office in the United States.
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