Will the President be impeached?

Question

Would you support the impeachment of our President, were he to be found guilty of war crimes?

Answer 1

He should, I would. He won't, he has done things to be impeached.
For failing his oath of office with respect to illegal immigration:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.”

Here is a list of just a "few" of the crimes President Bush has committed....

1) 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 hundereds of thousands of Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.

2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.

3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.

4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.

5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.

6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnaping, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions on 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.

7) 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.

8) 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 the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.

9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."

10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.

11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.

12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.

13) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.

14) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.

15) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime.

16) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."

17) Engaging in criminal neglect in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, depriving thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and other Gulf States of urgently needed support, causing mass suffering and unnecessary loss of life.

18) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity.

19) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions.

20) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court

Ooooo........4 thumbs down and counting. Some people just hate the truth...............

Answer 2

In order, no and depends. To the former, I believe it's quite late for an impeachment, unless he's charged with some kind of crime. To the latter, I'd support an investigation, but up to this point, not too much he's done could really be tried in court.

Answer 3

first of all there is no impeachment. i work for the government and there is going to be no impeachment. second even if the president was found guilty of war crimes do u really think he deserves to be impeached. look at iraq, its actually doing some good now. what you see on the news is bullshit. you have to actually either be in the government/military and overseas to find out for yourself. let there be war crimes. the axis have comitted war crimes against us so why get offended of our country if we do the same.

Answer 4

No, Nixon replaced into no longer impeached. He resigned before he replaced into impeached. in the background of u.s., in basic terms 2 Presidents (Andrew Johnson and bill Clinton) have been impeached. the two have been acquitted. there have been additionally one cupboard member (Secretary of conflict William Belknap - acquitted), one Senator (Tennessee Senator William Blount - expenditures handed over), and 13 federal judges (collectively with one U.S. perfect court docket Justice - Samuel Chase) that have been impeached. Impeachment isn't comparable to convicting somebody of a criminal offense. this is greater like a Grand Jury indictment. It in basic terms says that there is adequate evidence for the guy to stand trial. At a federal point, impeachment happens in the U.S. domicile, and the trial happens in the U.S. Senate.

Answer 5

If any world leader is guilty of war crimes then surely they MUST be held accountable (as with Iraq), as per 'The Geneva Convention', and the laws against genocide which came about after the 'Nuremberg Trials'.
If memory serves me correctly, there has only ever been one 'American' executed for war crimes, and He was the Commandant of the Prisoner of War camp at Andersonville during the Civil War, and even then He was refered to as a being a "Swiss Immigrant".

Answer 6

heck no. He has committed no crime. Why does everyone assume Bush makes alllll the decisions? There's a huge croud of people around him telling him what to do. He only has the last word. If you want to turn your back on your goverment and country, fine, but dont point your finger at one man, point it at all the people who helped make him do things hes done.

Bush has done what he thought would help america. he wanted to ensure that our kids can go to school and not worry about nuclear bombs and terrorist threats. He cannot see the future...do you really think he knew all this would have happened? Youre foolish and stubborn if you do. Terrorism is like superglue, once youre in, your stuck. We have been stuck since way before Bush.

Answer 7

Most certainly, war crimes are most certainly high crimes and misdemeanors. However, by the time any of these crimes are brought to light, he will more than likely have left office. At that point, it won't be impeachment. I'm not sure what formal process he would undergo as a citizen/former President. Probably some international tribunal. Not sure.

For failing his oath of office with respect to illegal immigration:

There is no respect for illegal immigration, that is why it is referred to as "ILLEGAL". Why don't people realize supporting illegal immigrants is undermining millions of legal immigrants who sat in waiting lines for hours, studied nightly dilligently to pass their naturalization exams. They deserve no speicla priviledges. They should subject themselves to the same formal processes as millions of other legal immigrants. Granting clemency to illegal immigrant is essentially supporting illegal activites, the undermining and subversion of the American government. It is not justice, it is favrotism. Justice implies the law is to be applied equally. Supporting illegal immigrants is not justice to legal immigrants. They are illegal for a reason, the American law has dictated so. You are supporting people simply because they share the same skin color, that is not justice, it is favortism.

Answer 8

YES with out a doubt he needs to be impeached, as most of the level headed republicans would also agree!

Answer 9

No because the impeachment equation will not be support by the current bicameral body.

Answer 10

He will not be found guilty of war crimes you sick twisted freak.
War crimes.
Many others signed on for what you consider impeachable offenses.
SO. Let's get rid of all of 'em, not just our President.

Answer 11

He'll be out of office soon enough, and he can't run again. I doubt he'll be making any more rash decisions any time soon. He did exactly what the Republicans wanted him to do. Since then, the Democrats have decided to finally step in and put up the red flag. In my state, the Democrats demolished the Republicans in the last election. I hope to see some major changes.
Maybe Miss Shiver-Britches Clinton will win.