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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 4. november 2004 / Timeline November 4, 2004
Version 3.53. November 2004, 5. November 2004
11/04/2004
Impeachment: Now More Than Ever!
By Francis A. Boyle
Removal of George W. Bush through the electoral process has failed.
Despite exposure of systematic lying concerning Iraqi WMD and
connection to al-Qaeda, George W. Bush has been returned to the US
presidency by a majority of voters convinced of his moral and
leadership qualities.
But the legal case for impeachment remains, and offers clarity and
recourse.
In October 2002, following speeches by Vice President Cheney
calling for a preventive war against Iraq, Professor Francis A.
Boyle, a leading US expert in international law, set up a national
campaign to impeach Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft. On March
11, 2003, Congressman John Conyers, ranking member of the House
judiciary committee that has jurisdiction over any bill of
impeachment, called for a meeting in Washington, DC to discuss
introducing a draft bill of impeachment. Forty to fifty of his top
legal advisors met with Boyle and former Attorney General Ramsey
Clark, and weighed and reviewed the case for impeachment.
The case was argued on its merits: violations of the Constitution,
the Bill of Rights, Human Rights, the UN Charter, international
law, etc. There is, today, a second, revised draft bill of
impeachment sitting on Capitol Hill, ready to go.
With an expanded military campaign imminent and the prospect of
World War III looming on the horizon, a powerful nationwide
movement to impeach George W. Bush is only a matter of time.
What are the historical, legal and policy issues which are
inexorably moving the US towards such a crux?
11/04/2004
Ungarn vil trække sine
tropper ud af Irak inden udgangen af marts 2005, noterer
Ritzaus Bureau. Også
Holland har meddelt, at landets tropper i Irak trækkes ud
samtidigt med de ungarnske.
Kilde: Two more states to quit Iraq coalition
By Stefan Wagstyl in London and Charles Clover in Baghdad, The
Financial Times
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/4d233d40-2ddc-11d9-a86b-00000e2511c8,stream=FTSynd,s01=2.html
11/04/2004
Georgian Troop Deployment to Iraq
Richard Boucher, Spokesman
The United States warmly welcomes Georgia's decision to deploy
additional troops to Iraq to provide security for the United
Nations presence in Iraq.
This latest deployment by Georgia will increase the total number of
its troops in Iraq from 159 to 850. It underscores Georgia's
commitment to partnership with the people of Iraq and their friends
around the world in pursuit of peace, prosperity and democracy in
Iraq. The U.S. will offer additional training to help Georgia
sustain this deployment following an assessment by the U.S.
European Command.
11/04/2004
Lebanese American security firm leaving Iraq
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=11784
Head of Al Safar Group says all foreigners will be potential
targets for guerilla warfare in violence-torn Iraq.
ROME - Iraq is becoming impossible to live in and all foreigners
will be potential targets for "terrorists", the Lebanese American
head of a security company said Thursday in an interview with an
Italian newspaper.
"In the short term Iraq will become impossible, ungovernable," said
George Haddad in remarks quoted in Italian by the newspaper
Corriere della Sera, coinciding with a visit here by Iraqi Prime
Minister Iyad Allawi.
Haddad said he was winding up his company, Al Safar Group.
"Every foreigner will be a potential hostage and guerilla warfare
will make towns impossible to live in," he predicted: "The
elections will be chaos and I want to be far away from here to
enjoy my earnings."
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