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Here at Imprison Bush, we often make a great number of comments about what is not being done in response to President Bush’s apparent crimes. Today, I want to talk instead about something that is being done to bring President Bush to justice under the law.

Today, Congressman John Conyers is holding hearings into the new evidence brought to light through leaked British government memos that George W. Bush and Tony Blair began an invasion of Iraq knowing that it was illegal, and purposefully set about distorting intelligence information in order to convince American and British citizens to support the invasion. As one of the memos, the Downing Street Memo, states, “intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”

The Republicans in Congress told John Conyers that he wouldn’t be allowed to hold any hearings into the matter. They said it wasn’t the American people’s business to ask questions about why their government has gone to war. To his credit, John Conyers decided to defy the Republican order to remain quiet, and held his hearings anyway. Because of his courageous stand, over 100 members of Congress have joined in the Conyers Hearings on the Iraq War memos, and have signed a petition along with over half a million other Americans, demanding that President Bush answer five easy questions about the way in which he took America into an unprovoked and illlegal war.

President Bush has scoffed and said that he will not answer answer the questions. Bush says, in justifying his silence, that he does not have to answer to the Congress. According to the United States Constitution, of course, Congress has been given the power of overseeing the activities of the White House, including decisions about war. By refusing to address the questions raised by the Conyers hearings, the Bush Administration may well be setting the foundation of impeachment hearings to come.