Doesn't it seems like Bush is TRYING to get impeached?
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An amusing thought but I think the truth is far more sinister. This is GOP hubris at its zenith. They think they're literally above the law and can do as they please. The vile bush administration is beyond corrupt; they're evil, arrogant and mad with power. Notwithstanding an almost nonexistent brain, bush thinks himself a god who can do no wrong and who needn't follow his own bloody rules (this leak issue being the latest such example). It's a disgrace, just as it was a national disgrace that these hateful people were ever put in power in the first place. The damage they've inflicted upon this country will endure for more years than I care to count. Impeachment would be the very least punishment he and his criminal cohorts warrant. I'd be satisfied with nothing short of long-term imprisonment, which of course means I'll not be satisfied at all. None of these scoundrels will ever be properly punished, bush least of all. It's a joke.
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It is something that needs to be done and if we leave it to the repuglicans it will never get done. Impeachment is probably not going to happen do to the control of the House but at least it will get in front of the American people and that is real important with the election coming up in November. The repuglicans are to corrupt to do it but just the publicity alone is worth the trouble. I wonder how they will spin this movement around to make their hero look good.
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We are all sorry, but G.W. Bush has not lost his authority.\n\nHe is celebrating the fact that he WAS NOT elected President either time, and he still hasn't got impeached yet.\n \nHe will not his authority until Kenneth Starr or whoever has his job now gets him impeached,\nthere’s still time.\n\nIf they held him to the same standard as past Presidents,\nthey would have done it already.\n\nI mean Clinton only had sex.\n\nBush has committed many impeachable acts.\nSuch as starting a war without the UN.
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What would 'timing' have to do with this process?\nEither he is practicing impeachable behaviors, or not. . .\nThis action is not brought about, like a personality contest (voting)!!!
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Simply put, enough people (myself included) don't feel that he has broken the law. If enough members of congress feel that the president has committed "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" they can begin impeachment proceedings.\n\nA lot of people talk about this, but my opinion is that even among the president's most ardent opponents in the congress, I don't think there are many that wish to see an impeachment proceeding based upon the actions the president has taken with regards to anti-terrorism measures and/or the war in Iraq.
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if you mean impeached, then no he should not be.\n\nhe hasn't really been a good leader for the US, but that isn't something that causes an impeachment.
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Too late kids. It amazes me how so many people are clueless to how impeachment works. There's not enough time to impeach Bush plus he hasn't done anything you can impeach him for.\n\nDon't give me some whiney hack rhetoric about "starting an illegal war". The Gulf War that started in 1991 legally speaking never ended. Saddam signed a cease fire agreement UNSCR 657 and in short order violated it. Under cease fire terms the nations are still at war they just aren't fighting. Saddam also violated UN Charter 51 by authorizing assassination attempts on US diplomats and on former President Bush. You'd have a hard time making a case based on that because by right the US could have invaded Iraq at anytime. Saddam has only himself to blame.\n\nCongress gave Bush approval for war even if the evidence had been tainted Bush could just invoke UN Charters and security council resolutions plus the fact we were already at war with Iraq. Bush is not as stupid as you would like him to be the only thing they can get him for would be falsefying a document submitted to Congress.\n\nWiretapping?? So? There were already wiretap laws in effect approved in the 70's the new laws approved by congress just shortened the time frame and remember these were not domestic calls they were international. A call from Syria to the US is not a domestic call. \n\nIt took Kenneth Starr 5 years to impeach Clinton for perjury...let me repeat that. Clinton was NOT impeached for having oral sex he was impeached for perjury and even though he was impeached he was not evicted. \n\nThe numbers aren't there. You need 2/3rd majority to impeach Bush and remove him from office and the numbers just aren't there. The democrats have a tiny majority and not all of them are willing to impeach.\n\nBush will not be impeached so put it out of your mind hippies have been calling for it since he won back in 2000 and 6 years later he's still here until 2008 when his term ends and John McCain becomes the next president.
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Haven't heard it yet, but I think Bush needs to be impeached and called to account for all the lies he's been caught in as well as his unwillingness to secure our borders after 9/11.  And now it looks like he's planning on nuking Iran.  What a war mongering, greedy idiot we have for president.  All I can say is I didn't vote for him.
914811
Why haven't we impeached the man yet?  I thought that's what we did to lying presidents...
319462
God I hope not, I see some answers here that is absolutly unbelieveable. But the truth of the matter is he should be impeached and gotten out of there before he can do any more dammage.
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Bush isn't the sharpest nail in the nail-gun is he. You know what gets me is, Bush has been doing it all in every bodies faces. So he and his crew need to be extra punished don't you think. I really think maybe executed, to stop all of this madness, and to take the American Presidency more seriously. That what I personally think with George Bush disgracing the Presidency before the World. The best the Republican dirty tricks squad could get on Clinton was a headjob (WHICH THE WORLD VIEWS CLINTON AS A MAN). Nobody in the World cares,but the Republicans 30% pathetic sociopaths.
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yes & also O.B.L.   if bush can ever find him... haha lol\nHelp spread the word..... (IMPEACH)
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We havent impeached him yet.  Fear not, for the mighty 20 year curse will decend upon Bush, and sometime in 2007, According to the curses pattern, He should begone from this world, never to be heard from again.  Patiece, my friend.
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Bush is fighting to protect this country.\n\nClinton was fighting to protect his reputation.\n\nThese posters below me...wow. Clinton was impeached over perjury, not over a 'personal' matter. Bush obviously doesn't act like he runs this place or we'd be in Iran and North Korea.
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Yes and serious action has already been taken.\n\nReasons for impeachment:\n\nBush lied to Congress and the American public about the reasons for invading Iraq, conducted illegal wiretaps of American citizens, violated International Law by invading a sovereign country for illegal purposes, violated the Geneva Convention by torturing prisoners of war, held prisoners without formal charges and without legal representation, used government funds for domestic political propaganda, the Bush team used uniformed military personnel for Republican party political purposes, was negligent in his slow response to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, and shows contempt towards our Constitution and our democratic ideals.\n\nI do believe in proceeding with the impeachment process.  Congressman John Conyers and 29 cosponsors have already introduced a bill to form an impeachment panel.  After the November elections and the sweep of Democratic victories in recent special elections, support for impeachment will grow ever stronger.\n\nTrue, impeaching Bush would allow his brain, Cheney, to become president, but by that time the damage to the Republican Party would be irreversible. \n\nFor those who aren’t clear on the grounds for impeachment, please go to the link posted
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First, a member of the House of Representatives has to introduce a bill to form an impeachment panel.   This has already been done; the bill has been presented by Democratic Congressman John Conyers and has 29 co-sponsors. \n\nIf there’s enough support to form the panel, the panel conducts an investigation to see if there is grounds for impeachment.\n\nThose grounds for impeachment are, "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."\n\nClarification continues, ". . . those offences which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself." \n\nThis would include going to war for political gain and the disenfranchisement of voters, both of which I believe President Bush has done and can be proven.\n\nContinuing, "[I]f the President be connected, in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds to believe he will shelter him, the House of Representatives can impeach him; they can remove him if found guilty; . . ."\n\nHis connection with Ken Lay and Tom DeLay could be considered suspicious and I believe by defending them as he has done, Bush would be inclined to protect them.\n\nHere’s the main foundation for advancing with impeachment procedures against President Bush, "...must certainly be punishable for giving false information to the Senate. He is to regulate all intercourse with foreign powers, and it is his duty to impart to the Senate every material intelligence he receives. If it should appear that he has not given them full information, but has concealed important intelligence which he ought to have communicated, and by that means induced them to enter into measures injurious to their country, and which they would not have consented to had the true state of things been disclosed to them, -- in this case, I ask whether, upon an impeachment for a misdemeanor upon such an account, the Senate would probably favor him."\n\nThere in no doubt, by his own admission, President Bush gave false information to the Senate about Iraq.\n\nHere’s a complete list of grounds for impeachment which President Bush can most likely be proven to have committed:\n\nBush lied to Congress and the American public about the reasons for invading Iraq. \nBush conducted illegal wiretaps of American citizens. \nBush violated International Law by invading a sovereign country for illegal purposes. \nBush violated the Geneva Convention by torturing prisoners of war. \nBush held prisoners without formal charges and without legal representation. \nBush used government funds for domestic political propaganda.\nThe Bush team used uniformed military personnel for Republican party political purposes.\nBush was negligent in his slow response to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. \nBush shows contempt towards our Constitution and our democratic ideals. \n\nThen after the panel concludes their investigation, the results will be presented to the House of Representative for a vote.
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No, just because it is not logistically sound. Only the U.S. House can impeach a President, and there are enough votes there for it. But that does not remove him from office. He would then stand trial in the Senate, where a 2/3 majority vote would be needed to remove Bush from office. There are not enough votes in the Senate for that. Therefore, it would just be a waste of time for the Congress, and a waste of taxpayer money.