{"id":47,"date":"2007-01-26T16:14:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T16:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2017-06-06T01:40:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T07:40:31","slug":"impeachment-the-case-in-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/impeachment-the-case-in-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment: The Case in Favor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/logo_doc1.gif\" alt=\"logo_doc.gif\" align=\"left\"\/>February 12, 2007 issue<br \/>\nby: ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN<br \/>\n<br \/>\nApproximately a year ago, I wrote in this magazine that President George W. Bush had committed high crimes and misdemeanors and should be impeached and removed from office. His impeachable offenses include using lies and deceptions to drive the country into war in Iraq, deliberately and repeatedly violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on wiretapping in the United States, and facilitating the mistreatment of US detainees in violation of the Geneva Conventions and the War Crimes Act of 1996. <ahref =http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20070212\/holtzman>(More)<\/ahref><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 12, 2007 issue by: ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN Approximately a year ago, I wrote in this magazine that President George W. Bush had committed high crimes and misdemeanors and should be impeached and removed from office. 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