Honestly, should Bush be impeached?

Question

He is really being, and has been, arrogant, and NOT listening to the public, and now not listening to the house. The world hates us now, and Vietnam II rages on. I truly believe if not stopped, we will be in Iran next!

Have you seen this article?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070325/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq

So, what do YOU think? Should Bush be impeached? What other reasons would qualify him?

I think invading another country for no reason alone qualifies him for impeachment, perhaps illegal detention of foreign nationals is another? There are detailed reference notes and links here if you want to read further:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeach_Bush

Answer 1

NO, and I hate the current President’s policies.

The Constitution provides checks and balances to keep the President in line, and if he breaks the law then like any politician he can be replaced. Many states have the power to hold recall elections, as does the English government with its Prime Minister. The fact that the US can’t do it is because the founding fathers didn’t provide that power.

The founding fathers gave the President a lot of power and the freedom to use it for a very good reason. It allows him to continue policies that a fickle public may not want him to do. Elections are when he is held to be accountable, and to prevent him from becoming a monarch Congress put a two-term limit on the office.

A politician can be impeached only if he commits and act that is illegal by federal or Constitutional law. If he hasn’t committed an illegal act then he can’t be impeached. The founding fathers didn’t trust the fickle public so they used the Electoral College to make sure that the public didn’t elect the wrong person. The also left out the idea of a recall election so the President could have the ability to continue unpopular policies; if he didn’t have this power then the US could only commit to a war for a year or two. The Constitution has proven to be a very good form of Government because it is flexible and can be amended. Maybe it is time for Congress to amend the Constitution so there is a method to recall a President who is acting foolishly.

Like it or not the President was given the freedom to do as he is doing for some very sound reasons. It makes him a very formidable man and countries will take him seriously because of that power. If he could be impeached because people didn’t like his policies then the US would not be seen as the strongest nation in the world. A lot of that image is because the President can yield a lot of power very quickly. He needs this power.

The Constitution provides a lot of freedoms and powers and you can’t pick and chose those powers and freedom. I think the Theory of Evolution is a cold hard fact that needs more support as far as humans are concerned. However, I have to give the Creationists the freedom to speak their minds so that I have the freedom to speak mine. That’s the basic idea to our freedoms. We cannot pick and chose what our public officials do we have to give them the freedom to act within the limit of their office. The solution is to either curtail the President’s powers in some way or to provide another legal method to handle the problem.

George W. Bush will probably go down in history as a very powerful and stubborn President, who ran a mistaken and unpopular war. Nixon was seen the same way. But, if he hadn’t had the power to conduct the Vietnam War then the threat of Communism would have become an even more dangerous power. The War he fought failed in its goal, but it set back the Soviet’s idea of world conquest long enough for the problems in their political and economic systems to form a change. Because the Soviet system couldn’t handle that change the system almost failed. Our Constitution gives us the flexibility to adapt our government clearly it is time to exercise that flexibility. But, impeachment is not meant to do that a recall election is.

Answer 2

Before 2004, I would have said yes. But at this point, I think the problem is the American public. We need to wise up. He started the war in Iraq before 2004. In defiance of the vast majority of the world. Denied that global warming exists, and repeatedly violated separation of church and state. Nothing he's done in the last 3 years has been any worse than what he did over his first four years in office, it's basically just continuing what's been going on. And he was re-elected. Given that he hasn't really done anything that we didn't re-elect him for, no, I don't think it would be fair to impeach him. We knew what we were in for, and we were stupid enough to keep him in office. We'll have to ride it out for about a year and a half, and then try to fix the damage...hopefully.

Kevin B - Are you insanely stupid? I agree that we can't impeach him, but to spout that mindless "have you forgotten" bullshit...and do you live in the year 19-thirty f*cking five?! Knowing about a hurricane is different from planning it. Planning it isn't possible...but we do have this thing called doppler radar...you can know about it beforehand.

Answer 3

You're speaking the truth. He does need to impeached. If not impeached then seriously limit his power. He doesn't deserve to run our nation anymore. He's run our country so deep into the ground, I'm not sure we'll see the light of day again.

Answer 4

President Bush has done nothing illegal that would warrant his impeachment. Because the Democrats don't agree with nis approach is not a constitutional basis for impeachment. They act more like children everyday. President Bush won't give them what they want, a bill named for the war in Iraq, that has provisions in it to give 75 million dollars for peanut storage, and 25 million dollars for spinach growers that infected their crops with ecoli. He should have asked for a cleaned up bill.With their cowardous cut and run policy, and their voting on policy that will ensure their jobs, the entire democrat aprty should be impeached. The democrats have complained for so long about the coourse we are taking in Iraq but have not come up with a single plan for victory. SHAMEFUL.

Answer 5

The system is so corrupted that I think Bush is going to bask in the delight of his last year in presidency. He's going to do some unmoral things that are going to make people angry and the brutal part of it all: No one is going to think of impeachment because it's his last year they're going to think it's too much work and think that the damage has been done.

Answer 6

yea, i do.
but, Congress has "impeached" two presidents already (Clinton and Andrew Johnson), and it hasn't been so much as a slap on the wrist. what's to say they wouldnt try again?
however, with a Democrat controlled Congress, if they felt strongly enough - they just might actually do it. but Bush only has less than two years left. would kinda seem pointless.

Answer 7

Just because you don't like him doesn't mean he can be impeached. DOn't get me wrong, I think the guy is turning out to be one of worst presidents of all time, but he is not guilty of any impeachable offenses (at least that we know of).

Answer 8

Yea I think because he might have know about katrina and lots of other things I could go on for about 4 hours about how I hate him and things like that but then I'll just get upset

Answer 9

Yes, im half Vietnamese and I hate Bush, I wish he was never born so is his two blone-wannabe the next Paris & Nicky Hilton daughter too! I feel bad for his wife.

Answer 10

No. I do have my complaints, such as not enforcing border security and not prosecuting the war aggressively enough, but I don't believe this rises to a high crime or misdemeanor (it's more of a policy issue IMO).