{"id":1805,"date":"2007-05-17T10:47:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T16:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2017-05-21T01:03:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T07:03:27","slug":"can-we-end-the-american-empire-before-it-ends-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/can-we-end-the-american-empire-before-it-ends-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/impeach_bush.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/impeach_bush.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>George W. Bush has, of course, flagrantly violated his oath of office, which requires him &#8220;to protect and defend the constitution,&#8221; and the opposition party has been remarkably reluctant to hold him to account. Among the &#8220;high crimes and misdemeanors&#8221; that, under other political circumstances, would surely constitute the Constitutional grounds for impeachment are these: the President and his top officials pressured the Central Intelligence Agency to put together a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq&#8217;s nuclear weapons that both the administration and the Agency knew to be patently dishonest. They then used this false NIE to justify an American war of aggression. After launching an invasion of Iraq, the administration unilaterally reinterpreted international and domestic law to permit the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110805084048\/http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/andrew05012007.html\">torture of prisoners<\/a> held at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, at Guant\u00c2\u00b7namo Bay, Cuba, and at other secret locations around the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com><\/a>(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com George W. Bush has, of course, flagrantly violated his oath of office, which requires him &#8220;to protect and defend the constitution,&#8221; and the opposition party has been remarkably reluctant to hold him to account. 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