(a) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;

(b) taking of hostages;

(c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment;

(d) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.

(2) The wounded and sick shall be collected and cared for.
An impartial humanitarian body, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, may offer its services to the Parties to the conflict.

Of course Bush, by pursuing a policy of assassination of his political enemies, has managed to break this agreement. There is also evidence that high-ranking military officials, including members of the National Security Council, knew about the torture and abuse of prisoners and allowed it to continue.

A CIA analyst visited Guantanamo in summer 2002 and returned "convinced that we were committing war crimes" and that "more than half the people there didn't belong there. He found people lying in their own feces," a CIA source told Seymour Hersh, a veteran journalist.

The analyst submitted a report to Gen. John Gordon, an aide to Condoleezza Rice, Bush's national security adviser.
Gen. Gordon was troubled, and, one former administration official told Hersh "that if the actions at Guantanamo ever became public, it'd be damaging to the president."

Rice saw the document by autumn of the same year, and called a high-level meeting at which she asked Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, to deal with the problem. Of course it was ignored.

Hersh also reports that a secret document signed by Bush in February 2002 stated: "I determine that none of the provisions of Geneva apply to our conflict with Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan or elsewhere throughout the world."

This, of course, is illegal, since no country or foreign leader is permitted to ignore international human rights laws, regardless of the circumstances.

Violation of the Nuremberg Charter

Principle 6 of the Nuremberg Charter states:

The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under; international law;

a. Crimes against peace:

i. Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements, or assurances;

ii. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).

By invading the sovereign country of Iraq Bush clearly violated the UN convention, and thereby also the Nuremberg Charter. There is also evidence that Bush and fellow Neo-conservatives and ultra-hawks such as Wolfowitz prepared and planned this war long before September 11th, thereby violating Article ii of Principle 6 of the Nuremberg Charter.

As early as September 2000, the think-tank Project for the New American Century, run by Vice-President Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld's deputy, and Jeb Bush wrote a blueprint for regime change. In the Document "Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces, and Resources for a New Century", they stated "The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein." They wrote that fighting and winning multiple wars was a "core mission." The memo also talks about "maintaining US global pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great-power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests."

As early as the first three months of 2001 the Bush administration created memos with such titles as "Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq."

A pre-war Pentagon document entitled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oil Field Contracts" talks about contractors from 40 countries and which ones have interest in Iraq.

According to Journalist Bob Woodward, "As early as September 12th, 2001, Rumsfeld argued that the United States should take advantage of the terrorist attacks to go after Iraq's Saddam Hussein immediately."

In addition to this, the UN resolutions that do permit the use of force cannot be used to justify this war:

Article 39 of the U.N. Charter provides the three circumstances for the use of force:

(1) a threat to peace
(2) a breach of peace
(3) an act of aggression

Article 51 states that:

"Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security."

Saddam had not threatened aggression, and never possessed any weapons of mass destruction that presented a threat to peace. And the premise of self-defence cannot be used to justify this war, since no links between al-Quaeda and Saddam have ever been found. In fact, Bin Laden described Saddam as an "infidel", and the Islamist fundamentalists are mortal enemies of the secular Iraqi Bathists.

George W. Bush also stated that Iraq was in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1154:

"Iraq must cooperate fully with UN and IAEA weapons inspectors and allow immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access, and notes that any violation would have the "severest consequences for Iraq."

As well as Security Council Resolution 707:

"Iraq must allow UN and IAEA inspectors immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access."

However, weapons inspectors stated that Iraqi officials granted completely open access to every site, permitted the questioning of Iraqi scientists, and were otherwise fully in compliance with UN Resolution 1441.

In fact it was the coalition, according to the UN's chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, that had not given the UN weapons inspectors "any prospect of co-operation."

To summarize, George W. Bush has ignored, ridiculed, dismissed, or just plain stepped on a whole host of international rights laws. There are of course many more, but to save time and energy I will just briefly list them:

• The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, which is a Treaty between the United States and other Powers providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy;
  
  
• The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
  
  
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
  
  
• US Code Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 188, Section 2441 on War Crimes;
  
  
• The U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 on the law of land warfare;
  
  
• Vienna Convention on Consular Relations;
  
  
• Posse Comitatus Act of 1878;
  
  
• International Convention against Torture;
  
  
• International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial and Political Discrimination;

And so on. I think this is grounds enough to impeach anybody. Anyone agree?