Do what is fair, and right. The president must be held accountable.

The following is my letter that I have sent to members of the media, senators, and representatives of Congress. I urge you to do the same. Feel free to "borrow" the text below. Here is a link to contact your representative.

I am writing to you as a married, 29 year old small business owner, living in New Jersey on behalf on not only myself but on behalf of the majority of Americans in the Unites States, and those living abroad. I represent a large group of concerned citizens, and we believe the president must be held accountable for the crimes he has committed. It is now well known that both current President George W. Bush, and Vice President Richard Cheney lied to the American public about the intelligence that was known to the White House in the weeks and months that followed after 9/11.

A recently released Senate Select Intelligence Committee (SIC) report has accused President Bush and Vice President Cheney of knowingly making untrue statements leading up to the invasion of Iraq. The report concluded:

• President Bush said that Iraq and al Qaida had a partnership that was not substantiated by the intelligence.
• Both Bush & Cheney misrepresented what was known about Iraq’s chemical weapons capabilities.
• Former Donald Rumsfeld misrepresented what the intelligence community knew when he said Iraq’s weapons productions facilities were buried deeply underground.
• Cheney's claim that the intelligence community had confirmed that lead Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta had met an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in 2001 was simply not true.
  

In addition to the SIC report there is a wealth of other information that is general knowledge yet has not yet been portrayed as the real truth about the Iraq War. Here are some of those facts:

• Prior to the Iraqi occupation UN nuclear inspectors have repeatedly contradicted claims made by the White House. They concluded the notorious aluminum tubes former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said were for uranium-enrichment centrifuges were actually conventional 122-mm rocket artillery casings. According to UN Resolution 687 after the Gulf war, Iraq is permitted missiles with a range of 150 km. The U.S. charges Iraq is testing missiles that have flown 14-20 km farther.

• On September 8, 2002 Scott Ritter, the UN's former chief weapons inspector in Iraq, told the Sunday Herald that between 90% and 95% of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were destroyed by the UN. He believes the remainder were probably used or destroyed during 'the ravages of the Gulf War'. Ritter has described himself as a 'card-carrying Republican' who voted for George W Bush. Nevertheless, he has called the president a 'liar' over his claims that Saddam Hussein is a threat to America. Ritter has also alleged that the manufacture of chemical and biological weapons emits certain gases, which would have been detected by satellite.

• There was no immediate nuclear weapons threat from Iraq. In April of 1992, the International Atomic Energy Agency concluded Iraq was "at least three years away from making one crude atomic weapon.", yet Bush is quoted stating: "Every day that passes brings Saddam one step closer to realizing his goal of a nuclear weapons arsenal."

• The White House claimed that Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium from Niger and that this was evidence of a renewed nuclear weapons program, however President Bush had been informed by intelligence officials months before his speech that the sale never took place and that the documentary evidence had been forged.

• President Bush was informed on September 21, 2001 in a secret President's Daily Brief that there was no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda. Congress did not even learn of the existence of this PDB until summer 2004. The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the White House for the CIA assessment, the PDB of September 21, 2001, and dozens of other PDBs as part of the committee's ongoing investigation into whether the Bush administration misrepresented intelligence information in the run-up to war with Iraq. The Bush administration has refused to turn over these documents. Despite secretly knowing there was no connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda, days before a congressional vote authorizing the war, Bush said "Al Qaeda hides, Saddam doesn't, but the danger is, is that they work in concert." And he added "you can't distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror."

• Vice President Cheney said that a September 11 hijacker, Mohammed Atta, the pilot of the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center, had met in Prague, in the Czech Republic, with a senior Iraqi intelligence agent, Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, five months before the attacks. On December 9, 2001, Cheney said on NBC's Meet the Press: It's pretty well confirmed that [Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in [the Czech Republic] last April, several months before the attack." Cheney continued to make the charge, even after he was briefed, according to government records and officials, that both the CIA and the FBI discounted the possibility of such a meeting.

• Eye Witness reports such as former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan who wrote that President Bush, Karl Rove, and other top administration officials were "involved" in misleading the White House press corps about the outing of ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame. He also stated that while he was lied to by Vice President Cheney and Karl Rove, President Bush admitted his role in the leak during a candid conversation.

The U.S. Constitution provides for impeachment of any President or Vice President who commits “high crimes and misdemeanors.” This applies to any serious abuses of power. President Bush and Vice President Cheney have clearly committed numerous specific federal crimes while in office, especially a Conspiracy to Defraud the United States. Conspiracy to Defraud the United States is a specific federal crime prohibited by Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. It is an agreement to use deceit and misrepresentation to “obstruct or impair” the normal functioning of government. It has been charged numerous times, including against defendants in the Watergate case and the Iran/contra scandal.

I believe that it is clear to see that the President and the Vice President are definitely guilty of committing of misrepresenting the truths of not only when it came to big issues like Iraq, but during the entire administration. Whether you are Republican, or a Democrat it is inconceivable that your conscious would allow this to be done to our Constitution, our Country, and our People without holding the people responsible for these crimes responsible for their actions.

It is time to do what is fair, and right.
We must not set a precedent of allowing our President to deceive the people, and to disregard the Constitution of the United States.

Thank you for your time,

Vinod Tonangi