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"Lautenberg said, "It is unseemly for the Vice President to continue to benefit from this company at the same time his Administration funnels billions of dollars to it.”

Cheney’s war profiteering requires redress and justice."

During Cheney’s tenure as CEO from 1995 to 2000, Halliburton Products and Services set up shop in Iran. The Halliburton subsidiary does approximately $40 million a year worth of oil field service work for the Iranian government. 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl visited the subsidiary in the Cayman Islands and found that it had no office and no employees. The mailing address was a local bank with which the subsidiary is registered. Stahl was met there by the bank’s manager who informed her that all mail to the subsidiary is forwarded to Halliburton headquarters in Houston. Halliburton had created the subsidiary to allow itself to do illegal business with a rogue state and to skip out on its taxes in the process.

With Iran’s president vowing to destroy Israel and being accused by the Bush administration of harboring and aiding al-Qaeda operatives, Cheney’s company is doing business with Iran through a subsidiary and dodging its tax obligations to the U.S.

Halliburton has been more closely associated with the invasion of Iraq than any other corporation. Before the Iraq War began, it was 19th on the U.S. Army's list of top contractors and zoomed to number 1 in 2003. In 2003 Halliburton made $4.2 billion from the U.S. government. Cheney stated he had , "severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interest."

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) recently asserted that Cheney's stock options which were worth $241,498 a year ago, are now valued at more than $8 million-- for an increase of 3,281% . Cheney has pledged to give the proceeds to charity. Cheney continues to received a deferred salary from the company. He was paid $205,298 in 2001; $162,392 in 2002; $178,437 in 2003; and $194,852 in 2004.

The Congressional Research Service has concluded that holding stock options while in elective office does constitute a “financial interest” whether or not the holder of the options donates the proceeds to charities, and deferred compensation is also a financial interest.

Calling on Cheney to sever his financial ties to Halliburton, Lautenberg points out that the company has already raked in more than $10 billion for work in Iraq, and was handed some of the first Katrina contracts. The company has been criticized by auditors for its handling of no-bid contacts in Iraq, and there have been numerous allegations of over charging for services. Auditors found the firm marked up meal prices for troops and inflated gas prices in a deal with a Kuwaiti supplier. The company also built the American prison at Guantanamo Bay. Lautenberg said, "It is unseemly for the Vice President to continue to benefit from this company at the same time his Administration funnels billions of dollars to it.”

Cheney’s war profiteering requires redress and justice.

Tom Turnipseed is an attorney, writer and political activist in Columbia, South Carolina. www.turnipseed.net

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Rules Committee Recommends Impeachment of Bush and Cheney
Beyond Chron - San Francisco,CA,USA 

 
"In the quagmire in which the U.S. now finds itself in Iraq, our country is confronted with an embarrassment more significant than a dalliance with an intern; it is a politically charged event more significant than a "third rate break-in" of an opposing party's offices; it is serious business that has resulted in thousands of lost lives and tens of thousands of lives permanently altered. Our country's prior use of this Constitutional remedy demands that the people's representatives initiate that difficult process now. It is high time to launch a formal inquiry to find out whether this second term president is to be recalled."  
Letter: It's time to consider impeachment
     Acton-The Beacon - Concord,MA,USA

Bush-Cheney traitors deserve prison, impeachment     By Ted Rall

URBANA, Illinois — To weigh the outing of C.I.A. agent Valerie Plame against historical standards, consider that no leader of the Soviet Union — including that master of ruthlessness, Josef Stalin — ever arranged for the name of a K.G.B. operative to appear in a newspaper. Adolf Hitler had countless millions murdered, yet getting at a political enemy by endangering agents of the Sicherheitsdienst, the Nazi intelligence service, didn’t cross his mind. In this respect, not even the worst tyrants have stooped to the level of George W. Bush.
                               — Don’t let the Republicans distract you. Treasongate isn’t just about deposed vice presidential chief of staff Scooter Libby, who has been charged with five felony counts and faces 30 years in prison, or even deputy presidential chief of staff Karl Rove, who may soon be charged as well. The Libby charges clearly point to the real culprit: Dick Cheney, who told Libby about Plame’s covert status in the first place. Cheney abused his security clearance to find out. “Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the C.I.A.,” reads Page 5 of the indictment.

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On September 24th, The People Spoke!   More Impeachment Resources!
Now Tell Congress: Impeach Bush Now!

We were hoping that 100,000 people would surround the White House on September 24 for the big demonstration. But more than three times that number came out in a march that was so big that it lasted over five hours. The marchers went directly on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House with thousands upon thousands chanting Impeach Bush! The turn-out from the impeachment campaign from all around the country in Washington, D.C. was fantastic. Tens of thousands of people from the impeachment movement also joined the anti-war demonstrations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and elsewhere making the call to Impeach Bush heard across the U.S.

When Ramsey Clark called for impeachment, it resonated as perhaps the most popular chant of the day. The chorus of 300,000 people chanting, “Impeach Bush, Impeach Bush” directly in front of the White House was heard all over downtown Washington D.C. This was a peace demonstration but it was also an Impeach Bush demonstration perhaps the largest demonstration calling for impeachment in U.S. history. The strong sentiment for impeachment was reported in much of the media coverage.

 

Everyone in the ImpeachBush.org movement thanks the hundreds of volunteers who helped this happen. The big ImpeachBush.org/VoteToImpeach.org Tent on the Ellipse was a gigantic success. Thousands of people stopped by to pick up leaflets, placards, signs and Impeachment petitions.  The beautiful bright yellow impeachment signs could be seen everywhere. Volunteers collected many thousands of new names from people who wanted to join this grassroots referendum.

With the names collected Saturday we are now over the 600,000 mark of people who have called on Congress to take actions against Bush and other high officials for their criminal conduct. The most important thing now is to keep the pressure on Congress. Although more than 300,000 people personally participated in the September 24 demonstration they actually speak for the sentiment of  many millions of people who would have joined the demonstration if they could have made it to Washington D.C.

On Monday we launched the "Tell Congress to Impeach Bush Now" mass email campaign. We have created an on-line communications instrument called “Tell Congress.” It is for the millions of people who may not have be able to come  to Washington D.C. but who support the goal of the demonstration. It allows everyone to join the demonstration from home and work by sending a message directly to their elected officials that they, like the marchers in Washington on September 24, insist that Bush should be impeached now! It is becoming so successful that we are extending the campaign - so if you haven't voted DO IT NOW! Ask you friends and family to participate if they also want to see Bush impeached.

 

By clicking here, you will can get to the Impeach Bush Now email campaign where an easy to use mechanism will let you quickly send your customized message directly to the politicians. There is sample language provided which you can edit, and there is also a "tell-a-friend" page which lets you easily send a message to several friends urging them to participate.

The impeachment movement wants to thank every person who made a donation to help the September 24 demonstration become such an historic event. Because the price of bus tickets was kept low many people were able to come to Washington D.C. Without the continued contributions from people who believe in impeachment the signs and leaflets and other publicity materials could not have been printed.

The September 24 mass demonstration is not really over. We can keep it going with your help. The “Tell Congress” campaign can spread all over the internet by impeachment members forwarding and circulating the call to join the campaign so that their friends, family members, co-workers and fellow students can also send a message directly to their elected officials calling for impeachment. We are also preparing to launch the next round of newspaper ads around the country and begin doing radio spots. In the past we have placed full page ads in the New York Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle and in other newspapers.

Let's build on the momentum of September 24th! 

 

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