Should we retroactively impeach FDR, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson?
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Actually, all of these Presidents were drawn into wars because the countries we fought were agressive against either the USA or one of our allies, and each had attempted to resolve the crisis with the UN (or the League of Nations for FDR).\n\nWe should, however, retroactively impeach Reagan and Bush I for starting wars just to draw our attention from other things rather than from legitimate national security concerns. Reagan invaded Grenada a few days after the Marine barracks at Beirut was destroyed, and Bush I invaded Panama the same day that Oliver North was indicted.\n\nSomehow I don't think I'm getting the ten points, but somehow I don't think you were looking for legitimate answers either.\n\nI guess I was right, you were not looking for legitimate answers.
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Instead of impeaching them, I'd get more satisfaction at throwing peaches at them. But, I don't see how we can try to impeach Clinton because he lied about his personal life (something the press should've never gotten into), but impeachment is impossible for a man who is ruining the country. What a place!
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I'm all for impeaching Bush. Get him and his entourage out of there before they either a) finally succeed in bankrupting the country, or b) touch off WWIII. This administration is answerable under the Constitution of the United States, as previous administrations were, and November, I feel, will prove that for all and sundry to see.\nWe need reforms, good, honest reforms, and these guys to rid off into the sunset or whatever...
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Impeachment is reserved for 'high crimes and misdemeanors'. Incompetence doesn't qualify - if it did, half of the government would be gone.
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I believe Bush should be impeached immediately. You want to know why I think that? Watch this film on 9-11:\n\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848\n\n\nAnd then write your congressman and tell him you want Bush impeached! Everyone must do this or it will never happen and he will get away with god-only-knows how many other crimes.\n\n\nPeace
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YES!!!  I agree with you that it should be a priority, but it wont happen--it would've happened already.  If we let him stay after the Florida debacle and the Ohio debacle, they arent going to remove the administration any time soon.  Doesnt matter who gets elected.  I agree that it could restore confidence around the world, but they already hate us and our arrogance, I dont think much will change that.  Will never happen.
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So far, yes.  Setting the precedent for the future.\n\n*In 50 years people will look at their crappy President and say, "Well, he might be bad, but he's no Dubbya."
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The House does, and in the case of Clinton, did impeach him. Johnson came up for impeachment but won by one vote and was not impeached. Clinton still holds the record for being the only president in the history of the country to have been formally impeached. The Senate split 50/50 on removing him from office and Gore cast the tie breaking vote to end the vote. It would have taken a 2/3rds majority to have removed him from office. Which doesn't change the fact that he was found guilty of bribery, wittiness tampering, abuse of power, obstruction of justice and perjury, for which he was not only impeached, but was found guilty of perjury and contempt of court, for which he was dually fined as well as being disbarred from practicing law in civil court as well as federal court.
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Well we kinda do every November.  It's called an election and that's how we decided to structure our electoral process.  There are mechanisms to impeach members of the administration but you'd need to do it in the order of succession.  At this point, it would take too long to get this administration out.  Remember how long the Clinton impeachment took?\n\nPeople here seem to forget that there were actual criminal proceedings against the Clintons.  Bush really hasnt done anything that's illegal.  You might not like his foreign policy, but that dislike probably doesn't extend too far beyond Iraq since that's ALL that's covered by the mainstream media.\n\nHow about what the Bush administration did for the Pakistan refugees after the earthquake?  The approval ratings of Americans skyrocketed after that.
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No, in time of war and when national security is threatened, it is lawful to take such action. 9/11 changed alot of things.\n\nBTW-Should John F. Kennedy have been impeached for spying on Martin Luther King?
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If he hasnt commited any crimes we cant impeach him. So, no, it wouldnt help. All it would do is make the democrats happy. That doesnt solve anything.
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To those that write in that the Kennedy clan IS the curse for the american people.  I say Get a Life!\n\nTed Kennedy keeps getting voted in by his constituents.\nThat means THEY like him.  Nobody else matters.\nJust the same as bush was reelected.  I think he is an illiterate hillbilly and not worthy to stand next to Mt. Rushmore, let alone the praise I have seen posted by some neo-con who hasn't voted in more than 2 elections.\n\nIn reply to your question, I have read on it, and believe that yes there is a curse.\n\nIt goes back to a trial and conviction of a witch, and a curse at the burning.  \nI have also read of a first hand report of someone who was at Pres. Kennedy's funeral.  There was evidence of the Kennedy's coming to claim one of their own.\n\nIf pres bush wishes to be counted as a real president, he should emulate President Kennedy!
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A petition wouldn't do crap.  It's up to congress/senate to impeach any president.
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It would restore some of our credibility with the rest of the world to impeach him.  Then they would know America truely repents for being an invading, murdering nation.
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Bottom line:\n\nThere are politicians out there that are more concerned in getting re-elected to office then in providing for the safety of our great land.\n\nTed Kennedy, John Kerry and the likes should be tried for treason.
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This is what we need to do....    Make sure you get out in Vote for a better Change this November~! Go Democrats~!\nArticles of Impeachment\n\nof\n\nPresident George W. Bush\n\nand\n\nVice President Richard B. Cheney,\nSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice,\nSecretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and\nAttorney General Alberto Gonzales\n\nThe 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. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\n\nPresident George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:\n\n1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the  rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of over one hundred thousand Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.\n\n2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.\n\n3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable. \n\n4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.\n\n5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.\n\n6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.\n\n7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.\n\n8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate th
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Just to correct an answer--Nixon was NOT impeached, but certainly would have been.  He resigned first.\n\nIt'd be nice of some of these responses would reach beyond the last 10 years.  We've had presidents around for close to 250 years now, and some of them were pretty awful compared to any recent ones.\n\nI understand Ulysses S. Grant was nothing more than a sentimental war hero choice and spent his term pretty much drunk.  Herbert Hoover presided over the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression, without being able to do anything to impact either.