America, please this is so important for our country's future. Please sit down, relax for once. Take 5 minutes to read the Declaration of Independence. We all take for granted why this country is so strong. Every citizen should know what this document says. Every citizen will be outraged when they realize how George Bush has ripped it apart.

What I have done is put the declaration in BLACK.

Also in Blue without italics will be links to articles to back it all up.

Thomas Jefferson was the Author.....

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Basically, Thomas Jefferson is telling King George why they are leaving. What George did "W"rong. As you read this you will be amazed at how much of it George Bush is doing today. The exact same reasons that people fled England and started America in 1600-1700s are what "W" is doing today. This country came to be to get away from the George Bush kind of thinking.

"My attitude is that the oil companies need to be mindful that the American people expect them to reinvest their cash flows in such a way that it enhances our energy security," George Bush said. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/28/congress.oil/index.html

The "American people" need to be mindful that George Bush is full of crap. Did we mention the Saudi's gave Billions to George senior's organization? Not millions, but Billions. Bet that buys a lot of cowboy hats..... How long are we going to fall for this "values voters" crap? W's "values" are all about the cash. The "American People" trusted him and got burned.

"And what did the USA want Iraq to do with Iraq's oil? The answer will surprise many of you: and it is uglier, more twisted, devilish and devious than anything imagined by the most conspiracy-addicted blogger. The answer can be found in a 323-page plan for Iraq's oil secretly drafted by the State Department. Our team got a hold of a copy; how, doesn't matter. The key thing is what's inside this thick Bush diktat: a directive to Iraqis to maintain a state oil company that will "enhance its relationship with OPEC." Enhance its relationship with OPEC??? How strange: the government of the United States ordering Iraq to support the very OPEC oil cartel which is strangling our nation with outrageously high prices for crude. Specifically, the system ordered up by the Bush cabal would keep a lid on Iraq's oil production -- limiting Iraq's oil pumping to the tight quota set by Saudi Arabia and the OPEC cartel."

"There you have it. Yes, Bush went in for the oil -- not to get more of Iraq's oil, but to prevent Iraq producing too much of it. You must keep in mind who paid for George's ranch and Dick's bunker: Big Oil. And Big Oil -- and their buck-buddies, the Saudis -- don't make money from pumping more oil, but from pumping less of it. The lower the supply, the higher the price. It's Economics 101. The oil industry is run by a cartel, OPEC, and what economists call an "oligopoly" -- a tiny handful of operators who make more money when there's less oil, not more of it. So, every time the "insurgents" blow up a pipeline in Basra, every time Mad Mahmoud in Tehran threatens to cut supply, the price of oil leaps. And Dick and George just love it."

"As a presidential candidate in 2000, then-Gov. George W. Bush promised that, if elected, he would use the full weight of the White House to pressure oil-producing countries to increase production if there was a gas-price crisis. "The president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price" and promised that as president he would "convince them to open up the spigot to increase the supply." Yet, when Saudi Arabia led the fight within OPEC last month to cut production and raise prices, the president "refused to lean on the oil cartel" and refused to even "personally lobby OPEC leaders to change their minds." http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=99415#1

Whats that about?

"In other words, on the third anniversary of invasion, we can say the attack and occupation is, indeed, a Mission Accomplished. However, it wasn't America's mission, nor the Iraqis'. It was a Mission" Accomplished for OPEC and Big Oil. http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=48

Whats that about?

"BUSH'S PERSONAL FINANCIAL TIES TO SAUDIS RUN DEEP: According to various sources, Bush has been awash in Saudi money for years. Journalist/author Craig Unger in his new book "House of Bush, House of Saud" traced millions "in investments and contracts that went from the Saudis over the past 20 years to companies in which the Bushes and their allies have had prominent positions - Harken Energy, Halliburton, and the Carlyle Group among them." According to the Boston Herald, that includes a $1 million gift from Prince Bandar to the Bush Presidential Library in Texas." http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=99415#1

Though the name origin of most chess pieces is obvious, the pawn's etymology is fairly obscure. Since chess became prevalent in mainstream society, many new uses have derived from the word. "Pawn" is often taken to mean "one who is sacrificed for a larger purpose." Because the pawn is the weakest piece, it is often used metaphorically to indicate "unimportance or outright disposability", for example, "George "W" Bush thinks nothing of using American citizens, that happen to be gay, as "political pawns" in order to get votes from the lesser evolved religious right.

Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_(chess)

Under the Constitution's so-called "Recess Appointments Clause" (Article II, Section 2), the president has the power to temporarily fill any official "vacancy" without approval of the Senate when Congress is not in session. Anyone so appointed sits in office until the Senate votes on their confirmation?or until the Senate's next session expires. This "provision" was originally created to fill vacancies that actually occurred during a recess, it has since morphed into an all-purpose executive tool to counter Senate intransigence.

January 2001: Bush appoints Joe Allbaugh, a crony from Texas, as head of FEMA. While the whole administration has been either on vacation or campaigning. Allbaugh has no previous experience in disaster management. December 2002: After less than two years at FEMA, Allbaugh announces he is leaving to start up a consulting firm that advises companies seeking to do business in Iraq. He is succeeded by his deputy and former college friend, Michael Brown, who has no previous experience in disaster management and was fired from his previous job for mismanagement http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_09/007023.php

1.  Patriot ACT http://www.bordc.org/threats/ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=patriot+act+civil+rights+bush&btnG=Search

3.  Discrimination Amendment The proposed legislation removes from same-gender couples certain civil rights available to opposite-gender couples. It does nothing either theologically or sociologically to defend heterosexual marriage. It simply negates certain rights for same-gender relationships. It is civil law that is not just or fair."

"There's nothing activist about courts interpreting state constitutions to protect the civil rights of individuals and families. In fact, that's the reason we have a Constitutional system in the first place," said Alan Van Capelle.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without and convulsions within. He puts unqualified people in high positions i.e. "Brownie of FEMA, no disaster experience, the buffoon that screwed up Katrina response.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_09/007023.php

http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline

Anyone important in CIA, FBI. Heads of huge agencies have left great jobs with huge salaries and the best benefits because Bush is so Wrong.

No problem here, they are all his buddies.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

Not sure what "eat out their substance" is referring too but definitely some new offices have been erected. (Department of Homeland Security...FEMA Disaster appoints his buddy "Brownie" a complete buffoon with no experience whatsoever with disaster management.)

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.

What time of peace? There just happen to be a huge war with no one who attacked us one year into his term. He tricked us into the "W"orst "W"aste of a "W"ar this country will ever see. Cost $300,000,000,000 and counting. Deaths: 150,000 innocent civilians. People being raped and murdered in front of their loved ones. You don't think they will want revenge? 3000 American solders.

We can say the attack and occupation is, indeed, a Mission Accomplished. However, it wasn't America's mission, nor the Iraqis'. It was a Mission Accomplished for OPEC and Big Oil.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=483

well have been president.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?m9kode=PF

MARCH 30, 2003: Donald Rumsfeld: "We know where the weapons of mass destruction are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat." [ABC This Week, 3/30/03]

"Think what's happened in our cities when we've had riots, and problems, and looting. Stuff happens! . Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things, and that's what's going to happen here." [DoD briefing, 4/11/03] http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

"In those regions where pockets of dead-enders are trying to reconstitute, Gen. Franks and his team are rooting them out. In short, the coalition is making good progress." [USA Today, 6/18/03]

JUNE 27, 2005: Rumsfeld: "Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years." [Fox News Sunday, 6/27/05] http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

Architects of the Iraq War and where are they now? http://thinkprogress.org/the-architects-where-are-they-now/

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution.

PATRIOT ACT, using the constitution to take away rights from the citizens, Domestic Spying, invasion of privacy..

Unless of course you are the top 1% of wealth in the nation. Cause we all know they need to be taken care of.

"The Bush administration is trying to stifle scientific evidence of the dangers of global warming in an effort to keep the public uninformed", a NASA scientist said Tuesday night.

According to eyewitnesses and local officials interviewed over the past 10 weeks, the civilians who died in Haditha on Nov. 19 were killed not by a roadside bomb but by the Marines themselves, who went on a rampage and killed women and children. [Time, 3/19/06] http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

The truth is that, for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason [to go to war]. [Wolfowitz, 5/9/03] http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence. And the speeches I have given were backed by good intelligence. [Bush, 7/14/03]

It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing. [Kay, 1/28/04] http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

Saddam Hussein did not possess stockpiles of illicit weapons at the time of the U.S. invasion in March 2003 and had not begun any program to produce them, a CIA report concludes. [CNN, 10/7/04]

http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. [Downing Street Memo, 7/23/02] http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

APRIL 23, 2006: A former top CIA official, Tyler Drumheller, reveals evidence that Bush was told before the war by a high-level Iraqi informant that Iraq did not possess WMD [CBS News, 4/23/06]

MAY 18, 2006: CIA Director Michael Hayden: "I wasn't comfortable" with Bush administration approach to prewar intelligence [CNN, 5/18/06] http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

MAY 29, 2003 "We found the weapons of mass destruction." [Bush, 5/29/03]

March 24, 2004 "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere." [Bush, 3/24/04]

APRIL 1, 2003: Pfc. Jessica Lynch recovered by U.S. forces. What the Pentagon framed as a "heroic rescue" was later revealed to have been staged. [Guardian, 5/15/03] (And they bad mouth Hollywood...)

The former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has declared that the war in Iraq was illegal, dealing another devastating blow to Tony Blair. [Independent, 3/5/04]

SEPTEMBER 16, 2004: U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan declares "Iraq war illegal". When pressed on whether he viewed the invasion of Iraq as illegal, he said: "Yes. I have indicated it was not in conformity with the UN charter from our point of view, from the charter point of view, it was illegal." [BBC, 9/16/04] http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

A secret report for the Joint Chiefs of Staff lays the blame for setbacks in Iraq on a flawed and rushed war-planning process that ?limited the focus' for preparing for post-Saddam Hussein operations. [Washington Times, 9/3/03] http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

A yearlong State Department study predicted many of the problems that have plagued the American-led occupation of Iraq, according to internal State Department documents and interviews with administration and Congressional officials. [NYT, 10/19/03]

AUGUST 27, 2004: Bush acknowledged for the first time that he made a "miscalculation of what the conditions would be" in postwar Iraq [Reuters, 8/27/04]

SEPTEMBER 28, 2004: Another report showing Bush was warned about conditions in post-war Iraq. The same intelligence unit that produced a gloomy report in July about the prospect of growing instability in Iraq warned the Bush administration about the potential costly consequences of an American-led invasion two months before the war began, government officials said Monday. [NYT, 9/28/04] http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

Powell: "I made the case to General Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president though that it was not sure we had enough troops. [They] believed they had the appropriate troop level." [ITV, 4/30/06] http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency. [CNN Larry King Live, 5/30/05]

CHENEY: "No, I would disagree. If you look at what the dictionary says about throes, it can still be a violent period ? the throes of a revolution." [CNN, 6/20/05]  http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline (Talk about Spin.Rove must have had a word with him.)

NOVEMBER 8, 2005: Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus (banned chemical weapon) on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in November 2004 [Independent, 11/8/05] http://www.thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4440664.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus

"More than 14,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq in the first half of this year," a U.N. report says. Civilian deaths are on "an upward trend," reflecting the fact that "killings, kidnappings, and torture remain widespread" in the war-torn country. http://thinkprogress.org/

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF

Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.

We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Signed by the founders of the United States of America.

http://thinkprogress.org/ great website

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF

Our founders said that if our leaders do what "W" has done, then: 

"The citizens have the power to abolish the government".

"It is the right of the people to institute new government."

"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

"It is the right of the people to institute new government."

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

"The history of the present King George is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states."

We, therefore, 71% of the citizens of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these United States of America solemnly publish and declare, That we as United States citizens are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT from this tyranny masked as compassion.

That they are absolved from all allegiance to this president and that all political connection between them and the entire Bush administration is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent citizens, they have full power to dissent, start an impeachment process, and do all other acts and things which independent citizens may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Signed: the "American People" that are tired of being conned.

We might not be able to start a new country but we sure can vote to replace the mess in there right now:

Make our founders proud. Vote for your Democratic Senators and Representatives. We can either go from bad to "W"orse. Or we can start the healing process. It's time to put the "Unite" back into United States. No more politics of division. No more unchecked abuse of power by the Caveman Rubblecan party. When will the American People wake up and realize we have turned the clock of progress back 50 years?

More quotes from our founding fathers.... http://www.valueallfamilies.com/interesting_quotes  

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