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Mike Aivaz and Nick Juliano



Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who mounted failed bids for the White House in 2000 and 2004, excoriated the Bush administration for its post-9/11 policies that critics say trample on civil liberties and for its pursuit of war in Iraq, which he said distracts from fighting Osama bin Laden.



The onetime Green Party candidate appeared at an anti-war rally in Washington Saturday, where he chastised “spineless, gutless” Democrats in Congress for failing to boot Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from office.



“The impeachable offenses of Bush outnumber any other list of impeachable offenses of any US president,” Nader said. “Not only did he and Cheney violate their oath of office to uphold the constitution and the laws of the land, but they proceeded to impose a practice of torture, to arrest thousands of Americans without charges and throw them in prisons without lawyers…. They spied on millions of Americans randomly without judicial approval. How many more impeachable offenses do those spineless, gutless, hapless Democrats need in the Congress.”

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