Would you favor impeaching President George Bush?...Vermont has a resolution in progress. Your thoughts.?

Question

Vermont Towns Debate Impeaching Bush
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CALAIS, Vt. (March 7) - Packed into their 140-year-old Town Hall on a clear, frigid morning, the people of Calais -- population 1,552 -- took care of business Tuesday.

In a scene played out at Town Meetings across Vermont, supporters of the measure said Bush and Cheney misled America about the threat posed by Iraq , condoned prisoner torture and approved illegal eavesdropping of citizens, while critics defended them, calling impeachment inappropriate.

Town Meeting is a colonial-era tradition in which voters gather in town halls and gymnasiums to debate issues big and small.

At least 29 towns approved calls for impeachment investigations, according to the Rutland Herald and Times Argus and Dan DeWalt, a Newfane select board member who organized the impeachment resolution drive. Dorset and Stamford rejected the resolution, and moderators in some other towns blocked it from being considered, according to DeWalt, who barnstormed across Vermont with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan last weekend to drum up support for the measures.

At least 16 towns also approved a companion measure calling on Washington to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. It was unclear how many towns had put the resolutions to a vote, and the results of all the Town Meetings in the state of about 609,000 people may not be known for days

Answer 1

No.

Answer 2

Well, I agree that Bushwhacker and Friends are a dastardly bunch and should all be "impeached" I don't agree that it is a good idea to pull out the troops and forget what a nasty life we have given all the innocents in this war. We must change direction and pay for our irresponsible acts and try to save the lives we have put at risk. The damage has been done and is up to us to own up to our mistakes and work for the best we can do to save the lives of those innocents who believe in a peaceful Islam.

I do believe that Bush is an irresponsible man and the other hoodlums should go to jail, not only for conceiving the American people but causing the death of so many innocents.

Answer 3

answer #a million: Bush did not lie. He relied on the intellegence given to him, his cupboard and congress from 17 American intellegence agencies; all of which stated Iraq had WMD. He in no way linked Iraq to 9/11. He particularly stated Iraq became no longer envolved in 9/11, besides the undeniable fact that the country did in truth harbour terrorist that had the potential of yet another attack on united statesa.. The U.N exceeded decision 1441, giving the authorization to apply stress if Saddam did not adjust to guns inspectors. (He did not). He even went again to get yet another one even as France demanded he get yet another one; yet isn't Saddam violating 13 resolutions sufficient? study after study shows that there became no crime commited and Bush did not lie. Liberal study after liberal study coach that he did not lie. No crime became commited in going to conflict with Iraq and hence no grounds for impeachment. answer #2: The interior sight governments of Louisiana knew that Katrina became a type 5 hurricane and the levies were inadequate. They new days in strengthen. yet neither Nagin nor Blanco determined to evacuate the city of latest Orleans. more suitable funds has been given to New Oreleans than the different section hit by technique of Katrina. (Alabama and Mississippi) yet those 2 aspects have managed to rather a lot totally recuperate 2 years later even as NO continues to be a mess. Why? because interior sight governments have not even complete allocating monies for each and each of the aspects. The Katrina disaster is a failure of interior sight authorities. both one among your arguements are wrong and without income.

Answer 4

Cheyney is a Traitor who, along with Libby and Novak, commited a felony which endangered the ability of the CIA to fight the war on Terror. So he has to go first. Then Bush should be impeached and arrested for Waging Aggressive Warfare.

Answer 5

It's a good start to get the wheels of Bush's impeachment moving. I definitely favor an impeachment because of what we all witnessed during his six years in office:
1. Lying for a case to engage into a illegal conflict in Iraq, causing more than 3,000 of our soldiers to be unnecessarily wasted in his needless war (also, more than half a million Iraqi civilians, security forces and police officers are killed in the same mess),
2. Outing a CIA agent (of that got Scooter Libby in trouble recently) after her husband has criticized Bush's plan to invade Iraq,
3. Misusing his Constitutionally-granted powers to punish the opposition, mostly aimed at the anti-war crowd,
4. Mistreating detainees to get information on their suspected al-Qaeda colleagues worldwide (torturing them in other words),
5. Secretly transporting detainees to undisclosed locations in Europe; and,
6. Created numerous covert operations to eavesdrop on ordinary Americans to root out terrorism for the sake of national security. (A cockamamie lie!!!)
Need I say more? I guess not. It shows that we, the American public, want to see Bush and the criminal administration face the music for their high crimes and misdemeanors that I've listed above.

Answer 6

I'd vote no.

Pres. Bush based his decision about Iraq on the reports he was recieving from his intelligence groups. We have already hung plenty of them for making mistakes, going after the president isn't going to change anything.

He did what he was supposed to, he relied on his advisors for information and made the best decision he could based on that information.

Getting wrong/bad information is not a reason to impeach a president.

As for torture. The groups we are fighting did not participate in the Geneva Convention, therefore, rules set forth there do not apply to the. So our military/intelligence can torture them all they want legally.

And to the eavesdropping. The fact is, they only bugged known terrorists and happened to get some citizens on the call. It's not like hey picked random houses to bug. They were following leads on known/suspected terrorists. There is nothing wrong with that.

Answer 7

Well, I think if we can impeach a president for lying about whether or not he had sex with an intern, I think we should be able to start proceedings against a president who started a war against a country on trumped up information that he insisted upon from his advisors.

Answer 8

When will people ever open their eyes to the truth that Bush was going of the same reports the rest of the world had? If Bush lied then so did every other world leader that agreed with the report including the liberal god "Slick Willie Clinton"! Bush has done nothing to be impeached over unlike Clinton who lied under oath. Has Bush been perfect? No far from it, but no other single president ever has.

Answer 9

On what grounds?
George Bush has protected this country and is trying to do the best he can to keep it safe! Clinton did absolutely nothing after the 6 terrorist attacks on the USA and UN. Bush's ultimate goal is for the middle east and the USA to have peace. you cannot achieve that while letting terrorists who want nothing more than to kill us and anyone who disagrees with oppression. Bush had all the evidence he needed to go to war against the terrorists and to take out Saddam. Saddam killed over a million of his own people and a million other people from other countries with weapons of mass destruction, nerve gas, rape rooms and tortured countless others. Saddam threatened to use those weapons many many times. They have found parts of these weapons, plans to make nuclear weapons.
frankly I would be terrified if Clinton was still in power. we probably would have been hit many more times if we did not do anything about the terrorists. The terrorists themselves have said if the US troops left they would be seen as cowards and they would be inboldened to strike again!

Answer 10

While I'm in favor of impeaching Bush, I'm not in favor of Cheney being in charge. Assuming that Bush would subsequently be removed from office. Additionally, the effect on troop moral is potentially devastating. Our soldiers have been shafted enough. So, instead of the House of Representatives starting the impeachment now, they should wait until his last year in office. The moral condemnation would be enough to prove to future generations that we have not completely lost our minds.

Answer 11

This is me: My brother is in Iraq now, and I just found infor on the Islamic Fundamentalists we're supposed to be fighting. You can tell those 16 towns to move to Iraq. They are just as much the enemies of the United States as Al Queida! Oh yes, the video of them shooting 18 people in the head- I have the live version too. You know, Americans want to whine about the whole thing instead of fighting to win. There is no withdraw- they'll just come here and start bombing everything in sight(they've already started, you just havent heard yet).