The Petraeus Report is an Impeachable Offense
From the very beginning, the Iraq War was been based on lies.Before the war, the Bush-Cheney administration repeatedly claimed Iraq had WMD's and ties to Al Qaeda. Both of those claims were fraudulent but were deliberately promoted by George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and other top officials. We know these lies were deliberate thanks to the Downing Street Memo, which revealed that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" of invasion three full months before George Bush asked Congress to authorize the invasion.
It is a federal crime to lie to Congress. It is also a federal crime to engage in a conspiracy to defraud the United States (Title 18, United States Code, Section 371). George Bush and Dick Cheney violated these laws and deserve impeachment.
Yet for some mysterious reason, many Democrats in Congress do not believe Bush and Cheney either lied or conspired to defraud the United States. Some believe the CIA gave them bad information, despite overwhelming evidence that Dick Cheney and his staff repeatedly manipulated the CIA to produce deliberately deceptive information. For that reason, some Congressional Democrats do not want to impeach Bush and Cheney for their pre-war lies.
But after over 4 years of a disastrous occupation, Bush and Cheney are lying again. The current lie is that Iraq is making "progress" towards the benchmarks that George Bush himself set in January 2007. These lies will be delivered to Congress in highly-publicized testimony by Gen. David Petraeus. That testimony will be approved personally by George Bush, who must sign it according to the law that mandated the report.
A published preview of the Petraeus Report was full of lies, as documented by the General Accounting Office (see below).
If Gen. Petraeus lies to Congress in his final report, Congress must begin impeachment proceedings for George Bush and Dick Cheney.
(Click on the source link below to sign the petition and send it to Congress)
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