{"id":1248,"date":"2007-04-13T09:42:31","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2017-06-17T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T20:33:34","slug":"bushs-gravest-impeachable-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/bushs-gravest-impeachable-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush&#8217;s Gravest Impeachable Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/globalwarming_20601.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/globalwarming_2060.thumbnail1.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>DAVE LINDORFF, afterdowningstreet.org<\/p>\n<p>When my co-author Barbara Olshansky and I wrote <em>The Case for Impeachment<\/em> during the waning months of 2005 and early 2006, it seemed clear to us that the biggest impeachable crimes of the Bush regime involved the illegal war against Iraq, and the trashing of the rights and civil liberties enshrined in the Constitution. Almost as an afterthought, we also included a proposed article of impeachment against the president for his insidious efforts to block any regulatory, Congressional or international action on confronting global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the first two UN reports on the causes and magnitude of the threats posed by global warming have come out&#8211;albeit in watered down form, thanks in part to the administration&#8217;s continuing efforts to downplay the crisis&#8211;and now that independent scientific research is suggesting that the disaster facing life on earth, and human life and civilization in particular is of catastrophic proportions, it seems that perhaps we should turn things around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081002071921\/http:\/\/www.afterdowningstreet.org:80\/?q=node\/21200\">(Original Article)<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE LINDORFF, afterdowningstreet.org When my co-author Barbara Olshansky and I wrote The Case for Impeachment during the waning months of 2005 and early 2006, it seemed clear to us that the biggest impeachable crimes of the Bush regime involved the illegal war against Iraq, and the trashing of the rights and civil liberties enshrined in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-evidence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bush&#039;s Gravest Impeachable Crime &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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