1. Waging a War of Aggression against the sovereignty of

Iraq and the rights of its people, resulting in tens of

thousands of deaths and injuries among U.S. service people and the

people of Iraq, mostly civilians. War of aggression is defined as "the

Supreme international crime" in the Nuremberg Judgment.

2. Authorizing, encouraging and condoning the use of excessive force,

including terror tactics called "Shock and Awe", targeting defenseless

civilians and civilian facilities and indiscriminate bombing and

assaults.

3. Authorizing and ordering the use of illegal weapons including super

bombs, cluster bombs, depleted uranium enhanced bombs, missiles, shells

and bullets and threatening the use of nuclear weapons.

4. Authorizing, ordering, concealing and condoning assassinations,

summary executions, murders, disappearances, kidnappings and torture.

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Tribunal on Iraq.

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INDICTMENT

This Criminal Indictment Charges George W. Bush, Richard

B. Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John D.

Ashcroft, Tommy Franks, and his successors as Commander of

U.S. Forces in Iraq, George J. Tenet, L. Paul Bremer, III,

John Negroponte and others to be named with Crimes Against

Peace, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and other

criminal acts in violation of the Charter of the United

Nations, International Law, the Constitution of the United

States and Laws Made in Pursuance Thereof.

The Crimes Charged are:

1. Waging a War of Aggression against the sovereignty of

Iraq and the rights of its people, resulting in tens of

thousands of deaths and injuries among the people of Iraq,

most civilians, from military violence and thousands of

U.S. G.I's. War of aggression is defined as "the Supreme

international crime" in the Nuremberg Judgment.

2. Authorizing, encouraging and condoning the use of

excessive force, in terrorem, tactics called "Shock and

Awe", targeting defenseless civilians and, civilians

facilities and indiscriminate bombing and assaults.

3. Authorizing and ordering the use of illegal weapons

including super bombs, cluster bombs, depleted uranium

enhanced bombs, missiles, shells and bullets and

threatening the use of nuclear weapons.

4. Authorizing, ordering, concealing and condoning

assassinations, summary executions, murders,

disappearances, kidnappings and torture.

5. Authorizing, financing, utilizing and condoning illegal

violence, use of force and torture by highly paid

paramilitary civilian forces operating anonymously and not

accountable to U.S. supervisors for their acts, who kill,

coerce, control and contain the Iraqi population.

6. Authorizing, ordering and condoning the systematic

destruction of economic, social, cultural, medical,

educational, governmental and diplomatic resources,

properties and facilities throughout Iraq.

7. Authorizing, ordering and condoning acts designed to

divide the Iraqi population to cause internal conflict and

violence among major segments of the society, ethnic,

religious, political and economic, in order to weaken and

exhaust the population and bring all segments under the

control of a new surrogate government submissive to U.S.

command. .

8. Authorizing, imposing and maintaining a violent,

criminal military occupation over Iraq which kills

defenseless Iraqi's daily and fans the flames of anti-U.S.

anger worldwide.

9. Defying and incapacitating the peace making capacity

and role of the United Nations by unilateral actions to

undermine its potential effectiveness while continuing to

coerce and use the U.N. to pursue U.S. policies in Iraq

and elsewhere, and coercing and enticing other nations to

support U.S. policies and actions in violation of

international law in the U.N. Security Council and against

Iraq and other nations.

10. Engaging in systematic acts to undermine and destroy

international laws and treaties designed to prevent and

control war, weapons of mass and indiscriminate

destruction; limit participants in military service;

protect the environment; prevent the economic exploitation

of poor nations; and engaging systematic acts to obstruct

justice by the evisceration of the International Criminal

Court and manipulation or defiance of other international

judicial and regulatory bodies that might seek to hold the

U.S. accountable to international law and the will of the

majority of the people of the international community.

11. Manifesting their continuing commitment to world

domination by ordering, directing and condoning violent

regime change in Haiti in March 2004 to replace the

independent, elected democratic President Jean Bertrand

Aristide with a U.S. selected and controlled neo

Duvalierist surrogate causing growing violence, hundreds

of deaths and further impoverishment of the Haitian

people.

12. Threatening the sovereignty and independence of

nations, and acting to change regimes that refuse to yield

to U.S. demands for economic subservience and political

control for U.S. corporate and government interests,

including most prominently Cuba, Iran, a divided Korea,

the Philippines, Syria, Sudan and Venezuela; and

supporting Israel's illegal occupation, brutalization and

expanding settlement of Palestine in defiance of the

United Nations, international law and world opinion; all

of which adds to international anger and violence against

the United States and its citizens.

13. Destroying the sovereignty, right to self

determination, cultural integrity and control of its own

resources of Iraq and its peoples by imposing an interim

government headed by a long time C.I.A. asset who directed

violence against Iraqi civilians for the U.S. in the

1990's; and manipulating procedures for the imposition of

a new Constitution drafted by and installation of a new

government chosen through controlled electoral processes

and subservient to the will and command of the U.S.

government.

14. Usurping the war powers delegated in the constitution

to the Congress to pursue wars of aggression and other

unlawful military actions; and attempting to pack the

federal courts with judges committed to ideologies in

conflict with the Constitution of the United States to

achieve judicial decisions supporting those ideologies.

15. Systematically weakening fundamental human rights

globally and the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution

within the U.S. enabling U.S. forces to unlawfully seize

individuals in 100 countries, including U.S. citizens and

arrest thousands of aliens in the U.S. and hold them,

transport them, torture many, deny all access to courts to

determine the legality of such seizures, arrest and

treatment.

16. Making Guantanamo [U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay?]

a symbol of U.S. power to imprison and abuse persons on

the soil of a foreign sovereign nation, Cuba, against its

will and to publicize U.S. contempt for human rights by

displaying its power to arbitrarily seize, confine and

abuse persons without revealing who they are, any charges

against them, or what their future may be, placing U.S.

power above all laws, international and national, and

beyond the reach of all courts, including those of the

U.S.

17. Giving economic preferences to favored corporations

and business interests to extract enormous profits in both

war and peace sectors of the economy from impoverished

Iraq and U.S. taxpayers.

18. Systematically utilizing, controlling, directing,

manipulating, misinforming and restricting press and media

coverage and deliberately presenting false and misleading

reports to obtain support for U.S. military and political

and actions; and to deprive the American people of

knowledge essential to develop an informed opinion , which

is essential to democratic processes and elections.

19. All for the purpose of dominating, controlling, and

exploiting Iraq and other non compliant nations by

military force and economic coercion.

In addition to full accountability for the foregoing

crimes and full reparation to victims, the offenses

constitute "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" under Article

II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States

requiring the removal from office of all the participating

civil Officers of the United States upon impeachment for

and conviction for their acts.

Dated: August 5, 2004

Ramsey Clark