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Their abuses of the power of the executive branch of the U.S. government should alone be reason for impeachment.
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• To achieve a budget surplus by 2012 while boosting spending on the military, President Bush has proposed curtailing domestic spending, permanently extending his tax cuts and only providing relief from the alternative minimum tax for one more year.1
• Find out how the Bush budget affects your state: State by State Reports Prepared by the Coalition on Human Needs [PDFs of each state's report can be downloaded]2
• Cheney, as chief executive of Halliburton—the world’s largest oil-and-gas-services company, claims that he “severed all my ties with the company,” yet he continues to collect deferred compensation worth approximately a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, and he retains stock options worth more than eighteen million dollars.3
• During the 2000 presidential campaign, Richard B. Cheney acknowledged that the oil-field supply corporation he headed, Halliburton Co., did business with Libya and Iran through foreign subsidiaries. But he insisted that he had imposed a "firm policy" against trading with Iraq. However, according to oil industry executives and confidential United Nations records, Halliburton held stakes in two firms that signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Saddam Hussein's Iraq regime while Cheney was chairman and chief executive officer.4
• Deputy director Nancy Dorn, Cheney's former chief of legislative affairs, without normal staff clearance, according to two Bush administration officials, added a paragraph—just before publication on July 21, 2005—to the OMB's authoritative guidance on the 2006 defense spending bill. "The Administration strongly opposes" any amendment to "regulate the detention, treatment or trial of terrorists captured in the war on terror," the statement said. Before most Bush administration officials even became aware that the subject was under White House review, Addington wrote that "the President's senior advisers would recommend that he veto" any such bill. [Statement of Administration Policy, pages 2–3]5
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