Shold Bush be Indicted or Impeached?

It'd be a petty victory for the Democrats at the expense of winning future elections.

No matter the appeal in the idea, there is still a significant portion of Americans who don't trust the Dems.

 

Indict him for what??

 

Re: impeachment.

I think he should, but I also think it is logistically impossible.

The 2008 race is already underway. Dems have only had 100 days to delve into the administration. And while I suspect that the popular will moves toward impeachment after a summer of hearings and newly discovered badness and further FUBARness in Iraq, I don't think Congress can lay the groundwork for impeachment any sooner than late fall/early winter. If you're in December, you're 2 months away from NH and Iowa. I just don't see impeachment happening close to, much less in the middle of, presidential primaries.

Not to mention the Cheney problem. If you're going to impeach Bush, you need to get rid of Cheney first, which further skews the timeline against impeachment.

The best thing Congress can do is investigate and bring everything possible to light and let the chips fall where they may. We need to know everything about this administration so we never get in this predicament again.

 

A bit more specific, perhaps? I could be wrong, but I don't think there is a law against "conspiracy to deceive the American public and Congress into supporting a war."

 

Indict. Convict. Send his sorry *ss to jail and let him finish out his term behind bars.

Felony? Ordering illegal NSA spying for a start.

 

There is nothing that can be proven illegal about the intelligence failures and war. "Your honor, my defendent is a moron." I've read many articles trying to make those claims and I'm pretty sure that most of the people writing them are delusional.

The warrantless wiretaps are definitely illegal and definitely impeachable. I doubt seriously that anything will happen. If Bush were impeached, who would the Democrats point fingers at.

 

Particularly with 5 million emails missing from the WH servers.

 

Both could be legally done. In fact to indict GW Bush as a sitting President would likely lead to impeachment. Like Rimrocker though I highly doubt it and don't think it is in the interest of the country at the time to do it. GW Bush will be out of office relatively soon and there still is a lot of things that need to be addressed. I don't support Bush but an impeachment proceeding will largely paralyze the government.

 

If indicted 100% of the Republicans would vote to impeach. The money play for the Democrats is to not impeach, and let him move his oval office to a prison.

 

Should we resurrect the same thread thats been posted over a dozen times or start a complete new thread (by the same person) and beat a dead horse?

 

elected officials have been strung up for far less than what these criminals have done.

illegal wiretaps and spying on american citizens

torturing people - violations of federal torture act and geneva convention

$2.6 billion spent of fake news stories and propaganda - there are hundreds, if not thousands of instances of the bush administration engaging in this stuff, and if im not mistaken, each instance is a felony.

the enabling act...i mean the military commissions act of 2006 - taking away the right to due process and habeas corpus.

iraq - the lies to go to war and the gross war profiteering that is going on now. hundreds of thousands of innocent iraqis dead over a lie.

the north american union

"free speech zones"

valerie plame

9/11

 

I think a dangerous precendent will be set if the Bush Administration is allowed to leave office without having to answer to criminal charges.

 

If you are rooting for an impeachment, you are rooting against your country. Not because Bush is doing a good job, that is irrelevant actually. This country is sharply divided and Bush is a major centerpiece of the divide for better or worse. (depending on your party of choice) His term is nearly complete and then he will return to his ranch in Crawford to be heard from only briefly for the remainder of his days. If you impeach him however, you will spark another party war that could further deepen the rift in the United States. You wouldn't get the votes to remove him from office, but you would waste tons of tax dollars and polarize the American people, damage the stock market, weaken our international position, etc.

There is no virtue in impeaching Bush, no matter your views of him as a President, this close to the end of his run as president. It's in the best interest of the country that he be allowed to just ride off on his horse.

 

LOL

You are joking right? We've had presidents who've authorized fire bombings of Japanese towns, internment of American citizens based solely on race, drop the atomic bomb, allow the execution of American citizens living in South America during coups, overthrow elected governments, and possibly even allow American military bases to be attacked in order to drum up support for a war. The precedent was set a LONG time ago.

 

I think that precedent was set a long time ago.

 

It seems some people here lack a fundamental understanding of the law.

 

No they wouldn't. You don't much about party politics if you honestly believe that.

 

First off, that's a lie. Second, it still blows my mind how people get angry about spying on terrorists. You realize the end goal is to protect everyone, right? Unbelievable.

glynch, did you get into the liquor cabinet? Seems like this thread is just a representation of your erotic desires.