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IRAQ

• terminate attempts to "reconstruct" Iraq using military imperialism and occupation
• end all sanctions

Americans should

• impeach any government official who plans an aggressive war
• flood Iraq with needed medical and humanitarian aid, to undo the damage done during the eariler gulf war and the recent destruction
• flood Iraq with high-quality, low-cost goods and services needed by the people of Iraq, as a vivid demonstration of the prosperity that results from "Liberty under God."
• flood Iraq with the ideas of liberty; become once again "a city on a hill."

"The known rule of warfare of the Indian Savages is an indiscriminate butchery of men, women and children."

Not all religions are equal. Any religion which kills innocent people is a "false religion," to use the words of James Madison.

Jefferson and America's Founding Fathers knew how to deal with terrorists from false religions. Jefferson compiled a collection of his favorite teachings of Jesus Christ in order to civilize the Indians. Congress appropriated funds to various missionary agencies to Christianize the heathen. This was good foreign policy.

We should not support coercing taxpayers into funding missionary agencies, but the direction of America's Founding Fathers is a direction we must follow today.

The cost of our war against Iraq is in the neighborhood of $300 Billion. What would Thomas Jefferson and America's Founding Fathers have done with 300 billion dollars (besides return it to taxpayers)?

With 30% less ($200 billion) they could recruit a million Christian Capitalist missionaries. They could spend $10,000 training each of these missionaries in the principles of "Liberty under God": the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and Capitalism. Missionaries would also learn Iraqi culture and language.

Jefferson would recommend paying these missionaries so that they could devote their full efforts to intensive study to gain these essential compentencies.

These missionaries would then be qualified to impart the principles of "Liberty under God" to the people of Iraq, and would be paid for one year of service, and would be expected to raise private support for a second year.

Each missionary would be given $100,000 to "bribe" Iraqi civilians into attending classes on Christianity, capitalism and constitutional government. This "bribe" would represent an extraordinary amount of start-up capital for small Iraqi businesses. Such businesses would be allowed tariff-free trade policies with the U.S. These businesses would raise the standard of living for Iraqis and put a human face on Americans.

Total cost: $200 billion, same as the war. But this program would truly create a New America in Iraq. Millions of Iraqi civilians would learn the principles of "Liberty under God," the principles that made America the greatest and most admired nation in the history of the world. Imagine the effect this would have in the Middle East.

Instead, both Republicans and Democrats approved using $200 Billion dollars of your money to systematically convert one Iraqi neighborhood after another into rubble and dust, killing thousands of innocent Iraqi non-combatants in the process, and angering adherents of false religions around the world.

Saddam Hussein was a dictator, but he was also more secular than Muslim, and Christians had freedom in Iraq, which is now being lost in Bush’s Global War on Christians.

The other Iraq war - The Washington Times: Commentary - March 29, 2005

America missed her opportunity to "reconstruct Iraq."

"Liberty under God" is the only principle that will bring international peace.

Saddam Hussein was put in power by the United States.

• Iraq: Foreign Policy Malpractice

The U.S. Federal Government has had a continued relationship with Saddam Hussein since the 1950's. As we pointed out in our Foreign Affairs page, America's Founding Fathers did not believe in this kind of perpetual foreign intervention:

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible."
— Washington, Farewell Address (1796) [Washington’s emphasis]

I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration,…peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.
— Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801) 

The federal government wants credit for "fixing" the problems in Iraq, when those problems were created by the federal government in the first place. We must get the federal government out of the "entangling alliance" business.

• Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein: The U.S. Tilts toward Iraq, 1980-1984
• The Saddam in Rumsfeld's Closet
• Rumsfeld's Account Book - Who Armed Saddam?
• Exclusive: Saddam key in early CIA plot By Richard Sale United Press Intelligence Correspondent, 4th October 2003
• A history of Iraq, the cradle of Western civilization by Eric Black, Star Tribune February 2, 2003
• Saddam Hussein: Taking Out the CIA's Trash by Kurt Nimmo Dissident Voice August 2, 2003
• Where Did Iraq Get Its Weapons of Mass Destruction?
• War in Iraq, War on the Rule of Law?
• What This War Is Not About
• Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Saddam?
• Rumsfeld Helped Sell Anthrax and Plague to Saddam
• CDC gave Saddam West Nile samples
• Saddam and his old buddy Ronald - Asia Times
• Declassified Papers: Rumsfeld Offered Help to Saddam
• Army gave chem-bio warfare training to Iraqis
• Iraq: U.S. Drillers Eye Huge Petroleum Pool (Washington Post)
• How Saddam Happened [archive]
• There's a Better Target than Iraq
• Issues In Focus - Iraq
• Eight Facts About Iraq by Laurence M. Vance
• Iraq Talking Points
• Iraq: Analysis
• Iraq: Foreign Policy Malpractice
• Disastrous Situation of Children in Iraq
• THE MASS DESTRUCTION OF IRAQ
• FAIRNESS AND ACCURACY IN REPORTING (IRAQ PAGE)
• Who Gave Mankind the Gift of WMD?
• Test Your Astuteness on Current Events!
• Iraq is a trial run - Chomsky interviewed by Frontline
• Ten Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq
• The Bush-Kerry Conundrum

• When War Gets Personal
  An insight into President Bush's motivation may have been provided by the President himself during a fundraising speech. He pointed out that Saddam Hussein "is a guy who tried to kill my dad at one time."

• The Case Against Intervention in Kosovo
  Clinton was wrong about Kosovo. Bush is wrong about Iraq.
  Both are internationalists

Impeachable Offenses

Article II Sec. 4 of the Constitution states that: "The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." International Law Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign says that waging a war of aggression is a crime under the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment and Principles. "It's very clear," he adds, "if you read all the press reports, they are going to devastate Baghdad, a metropolitan area of 5 million people. The Nuremberg Charter clearly says the wanton devastation of a city is a Nuremberg war crime."

"We sentenced Nazi leaders to death for waging a war of aggression."

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Preemptive Impeachment

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