Congress 2002 Issues
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
IRAQ

• reject calls for first-strikes against Iraq
• end the sanctions
• impeach any government official who plans an aggressive war

Americans should

• flood Iraq with needed medical and humanitarian aid, to undo the damage done during the gulf war
• flood Iraq with high-quality, low-cost goods and services needed by the people of Iraq, as a vivid demonstration of the prosperity that results from "Liberty under God."
• flood Iraq with the ideas of liberty; become once again "a city on a hill."

• War in Iraq, War on the Rule of Law?
• What This War Is Not About
• Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Saddam?
• Rumsfeld Helped Sell Anthrax and Plague to Saddam
• Declassified Papers: Rumsfeld Offered Help to Saddam
• Army gave chem-bio warfare training to Iraqis
• Iraq: U.S. Drillers Eye Huge Petroleum Pool (Washington Post)
• How Saddam Happened
• There's a Better Target than Iraq
• Issues In Focus - Iraq
• Iraq Talking Points
• Iraq: Foreign Policy Malpractice
• Disastrous Situation of Children in Iraq
• THE MASS DESTRUCTION OF IRAQ
• FAIRNESS AND ACCURACY IN REPORTING (IRAQ PAGE)
• Who Gave Mankind the Gift of WMD?
• Test Your Astuteness on Current Events!
• Iraq is a trial run - Chomsky interviewed by Frontline

• When War Gets Personal
  An insight into President Bush's motivation may have been provided by the President himself during a fundraising speech. He pointed out that Saddam Hussein "is a guy who tried to kill my dad at one time."

Impeachable Offenses

Article II Sec. 4 of the Constitution states that: "The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." International Law Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign says that waging a war of aggression is a crime under the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment and Principles. "It's very clear," he adds, "if you read all the press reports, they are going to devastate Baghdad, a metropolitan area of 5 million people. The Nuremberg Charter clearly says the wanton devastation of a city is a Nuremberg war crime."

"We sentenced Nazi leaders to death for waging a war of aggression."

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Preemptive Impeachment

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