Impeachment is not ALWAYS about politics

Let's say, hypothetically, that the US president were to walk out on the street and kill someone -- shoot some citizen in the head and murder them. If that president were to then be impeached and charged with murder and sent to prison, I do not think one could call that an impeachment motivated by politics. No, that would be an impeachment and an imprisonment based on someone committing a serious crime, and then needing to be held accountable.

OK, now, look at Mr Bush and Mr Cheney. Our Congress is lied to about the reasons for invading Iraq. It is a crime to lie to Congress. There have been over 3600 US military men and women killed in Iraq. This does not count the contractors killed. This does not count the tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands?) of Iraqis killed. With thousands of people killed ...KILLED!!! ...due to the LIES of Bush, Cheney, et al, how can one say that to impeach them is political?!?

Hello? Is anyone paying attention? Is anyone thinking anymore?

No, this is not about politics. This is about holding senior officials accountable for the incredibly ghastly effects of their illegal activity.

Comments

[Shirley]

Not to mention that war is not "pro-life" - a term used most hypocritically by many.

[madmarine]

Talk to your elected officials in the House and Senate. The decision is in their hands. They apparently think it is too political to risk. Read thrown out of office the next election. If it were all that popular and obvious winner, they would be on it in a heartbeat. That's real politics!

BTW, the purported lies were based on intelligence confirmed by other intelligence agencies in other countries. The Senate and the House looked at it and came to the same conclusion. Where is the evidence that the President knew, at the time, that the intel was erroneous. Hindsight is always 20/20 and your armchair conclusions are based on information gleaned way after the fact. How many times have any of you acted on imperfect information? That is the nature of things. You never, ever know everything when you need to know it.

Mad