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BUSH ARTICLE I. FAILURE TO ENSURE THE LAWS ARE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED (7) Use of Illegal Weapons In violation of multiple and diverse tenets of international law, George Walker Bush, as President of the United States, has authorized or sanctioned the use of illegal weapons, including but not limited to the following: (a) landmines, deployed by United States forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, which indiscriminately injure and kill combatants and innocent civilians alike, and which are therefore illegal under Geneva Conventions Protocol I, Article 85, which states that it is a war crime to launch “an indiscriminate attack affecting the civilian population in the knowledge that such an attack will cause an excessive loss of life or injury to civilians,” and which are banned under the Protocol II of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which forbids the deployment of any “mine, booby-trap or other device which is designed or of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering;” (b) cluster bombs, including those which upon explosion project lethal plastic fragments not detectable by X-ray, deployed by United States forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, which leave unexploded ordinance known to maim and kill innocent civilians and which are therefore also illegal under Geneva Conventions Protocol I, Article 85, as well as under Protocol I of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which bans “the use of any weapon the primary effect of which is to injure by fragments which in the human body escape detection by X-rays,” and under Annexed Articles 22 and 23 of the Hague Convention IV, which states that “It is especially forbidden to kill treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army;” (c) depleted uranium munitions, being radiological weapons used extensively by United States Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, in violation of Geneva Conventions Protocol I, Articles 35.2, 35.3, 48 and 55.1, which prohibit the use of “projectiles and material and methods of warfare of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering” or weapons “which are intended, or may be expected, to cause widespread, long- term and severe damage to the natural environment” or damage to “the health or survival of the population,” and which have been classified as “weapons of mass destruction” by the United Nations Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities; (d) napalm, a weapon widely used in Vietnam, an upgraded kerosene-based version of which has more recently been used by United States forces in Iraq, being dubbed the “Mark 77 firebomb”, in violation the Chemical Weapons Convention, Article II.1.b, which expressly prohibits “Munitions and devices, specifically designed to cause death or other harm through the toxic properties” of the device when used as a weapon; (e) white phosphorous, which Defense Department spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Barry Venable confirmed on November 15, 2005 was deployed “as an incendiary weapon” in urban areas of Fallujah, Iraq, where there were high concentrations of civilians, during Operation Phantom Fury (November 2004-January 2005), making the said deployment of white phosphorous a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, Article II.1.b; (f) BLU-82B/C-130 “daisy cutter” bombs, being massive incendiary bombs deployed by United States forces in Afghanistan, and which upon detonation create a firestorm the size of five football fields or greater, and a vacuum pressure capable of collapsing internal organs, in violation of Geneva Conventions Protocol I, Articles 35, 48, 51 and 55, which expressly forbid such indiscriminate destruction of civilian life and the environment; the United States of America being a signatory to all the above cited international legislation, as ratified by the Senate and therefore being the supreme law of the land under Article VI of the Constitution, whereby said George Walker Bush, President of the United States, did commit and was guilty of high crimes against the United States of America, as well as war crimes. In all of this, George Walker Bush’s conduct has followed a pattern of not merely failing to uphold the laws he took an oath to defend as President of the United States, but of flouting such laws with the impunity of a dictator. Indeed, on numerous occasions, George Walker Bush has openly expressed his desire to become a dictator, as he did while President-Elect on December 18, 2000, when he stated: “If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier . . . just as long as I'm the dictator . . . ” This arrogant posture has also been typical in foreign affairs where he has made concerted efforts to undermine international law and international treaties, including his termination of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty without the assent of the legislative branch, his decision to rescinded the authorizing signature of the United States from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, his willingness to offend the 152 nations who are signatories to the Ottawa Treaty by refusing to sign and continuing the use of land mines by the world’s most powerful military rather than asserting America’s moral leadership, his willingness to offend the 93 nations who are parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Protocol III by refusing to sign and continuing the use of incendiary weapons against civilian targets, his defiance of the United Nations Security Council by launching a unilateral war of aggression against the government and the people of Iraq, and in general showing little remorse over or regard for the tens of thousands of innocent civilians and American service personnel who have perished as a direct or indirect result of his foreign policy. Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
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