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2. Impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney

WHEREAS section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature; and

WHEREAS president Bush has publicly admitted to ordering the National Security Agency to violate provisions of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a felony, specifically authorizing the Agency to spy on American citizens without warrant; and

WHEREAS evidence suggests that President Bush and Vice President Cheney authorized violation of the Torture Convention of the Geneva Conventions, a treaty regarded a supreme law by the United States Constitution; and

WHEREAS the Bush Administration has held American citizens and citizens of other nations as prisoners of war without charge or trial; and

WHEREAS evidence suggests that the Bush Administration has manipulated intelligence for the purpose of initiating a war against the sovereign nation of Iraq, resulting in the deaths of large numbers of Iraqi civilians and causing the United States to incur loss of life, diminished security and billions of dollars in unnecessary expenses; and

WHEREAS the Bush Administration leaked classified national secrets to further a political agenda, exposing an unknown number of covert U. S. intelligence agents to potential harm and retribution while simultaneously refusing to investigate the matter; and

WHEREAS the Republican-controlled Congress has declined to fully investigate these charges to date; therefore, be it

RESOLVED  that the legislature for the State of Hawai`i has good cause to submit charges to the U. S. House of Representatives under Section 603 that the President and Vice President of the United States have willfully violated their Oath of Office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that George W. Bush and Richard Cheney, if found guilty of the charges contained herein, should be removed from office and disqualified to hold any other office in the United States.