Articles of Impeachment:

Bush Index

I. Upholding the Law

Domestic Law:

• Spying
• Self-Exemption from Laws
• Suspending Due Process
• Promoting War

International Law:

• Torture
• Renditions
• Illegal Weapons

II. Abuse of Office

• Obstructing Inquiry
• Signing Statements
• Failure of Accountability
  • Cheney
  • Gonzalez
  • Rice
  • Rumsfeld

III. Constitution

• Manipulating Intelligence
• Initiating War
• Suspending Due Process
• Unlawful Search & Seizure
• Corrupting FISA Courts
• Non-Cooperation
• Parallel Legal System
• Sources

Cheney Index

I. International Law

• Promoting War
• Threatening War
• Promoting Torture

II. Lying

• Manipulating Intelligence
• False Evidence

III. Abuse of Office

• Exposing Identity
• Violating the Public Trust
• Unethical Business Interest

IV. Evasion

New Grounds

CHENEY
ARTICLE I. VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

(2) Threatening to Conduct an Illegal War,
Including Illegal Acts of War

He has violated customary international law and treaty by threatening the use of force against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and making preparations to launch a war of aggression against its territorial integrity, in that:

(A) In threatening Iran, he has invoked the doctrine of a “pre-emptive,” “preventive” or “anticipatory” war of self-defense by the United States and its allies based on unsubstantiated claims that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program and that Iran therefore poses an immediate threat.

(B) He has repeatedly stated, as he did on February 24, 2007, that “all options are still on the table” with regard to the United States taking military action against Iran.

(C) He has backed such statements with the threat of real force by ordering the Department of Defense US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) to develop plans for such an attack as part of Global Response and COMPLAN 8022, which involves the selection of hundred of bombing targets inside Iran;

(i) said targets including but not exclusive to Iran’s nuclear fuel processing and nuclear power production facilities, in violation of Article 15 of Geneva Conventions Protocol I, which prohibits attacks on “dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations… if such attack may cause the release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses among the civilian population;”

(ii) said plans including the threat of attacks using tactical thermonuclear weapons with a payload of up to 400 kilotons, or 33.5 times the yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima on April 6, 1945, being therefore capable of killing millions of innocent civilians and putting tens of millions at risk at risk of illness and death from exposure to radiation from fallout, in violation of Geneva Conventions Protocol I, Articles 35 and 55.5.b which prohibit indiscriminate destruction of civilian life and the environment and a July 8, 1996 Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, which stated that “States must never make civilians the object of attack” and “do not have unlimited freedom of choice of means in the weapons they use.”

Said threats of the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Iran are in violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter.

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