Can president Bush be impeached for the war on Iraq?

Question

Some of my classmates have said that Congress could impeach him, since he started a useless war in Iraq, and still continues to do so killing thousands of soldiers everyday. Is this a good reason to impeach him?? Any sort of help would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Being impeached means being found guilty of a criminal act. It would have to be demonstrated that the President was directly involved in some type of fraud regarding making the case for the war. Congress empowered him to take military action if Saddam did not comply with U.N. sanctions, and the bill was rather broad and open-ended.

There is an argument to be made that Bush may have created some false impressions with his presentation methods, but that is hardly illegal. As it sits right now, he acted based on the information that was available to him, and no criminal mis-representation or altering of that information has been demonstrated. There is no legal grounds to impeach him regarding the war today.

Answer 2

There are no 'good reasons' or 'excuses' to impeach an official. Impeachment is the process of charging an official with a crime. When the official commits a crime, they are eligible for impeachment. Starting a war is not a crime, especially when the legislature approved it.

The soldiers in Iraq volunteered, they are not being forcibly killed.

If you can impeach Bush for "starting a war in Iraq", then you must impeach everyone who voted yes to approve the war. This includes many democrats, including Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.

Answer 3

No. No law was broken and congress supported him by passing a declaration of war. Some people like to say he lied when he said Iraq was looking to buy plutonium from Nigeria. This is not what he said, he said that the British have reported that Iraq was trying to acquire plutonium from Nigeria. A claim, by the way, the British still stand by. As do the governments of Russia, France, and Italy. Even if he did lie, he was not under oath (unlike Clinton). As far as killing “thousands of soldiers everyday.” That is just absurd. Around 3200 soldiers have been killed in four years of war. Now, every life is precious and I morn the loss of every one of them, but let’s get some perspective. The anti-war crowd stated we would lose 10,000 soldiers in the first month of war. We have seen less than a third of that in four years. Also take a historical view. We lost more than 1,000 in a train exercise in WWII. In one day, not even in battle. If you would like to look that up, it was called “Operation Tiger.” Take a look at Normandy, Okinawa, or any of the other major military engagements of WWII and you will see thousands of soldiers dying every day. Also speak to some people who have actually been to Iraq. I live at the foot of the largest army base in the free world. Let me tell you, those soldiers believe in what they are fighting for. If this war is lost, it will not be Bush’s fault or the brave soldiers, but the media and the Democrats in congress who have decided that consolidation political power is more important than supporting our troops and freeing nearly 20 million people. How many people died for your freedoms? I guaranty that it was more than 3200…

Answer 4

There are two answers.

Constitutionally, the answer is no. It is neither a high crime nor a misdemeanor for the President to carry out his office, even if he generates a low popularity in the polls by how he does it.

Realistically, the answer is yes, because there's really no reason to believe that the current Congress will let the Constitution stand in the way of politics.

Answer 5

No, impeaching Bush received't end the warfare in Iraq because we've disturbed that united states's infrastructure a lot that we won't be able to in sturdy judgment of proper and incorrect go away them contained in the fix we've created. taking flight our troops on the instant must be even extra risky, a lot as lets favor to finish that. to boot impeachment ought to take too lengthy and he will be out of workplace formerly it might nicely be performed and our authorities has too many stuff to center its interest on in basic terms now. i ought to favor to have seen him impeached about 4 years in the past.

Answer 6

Nope. Under the Constitution, technically, he did nothing wrong. As for Nixon he did do something wrong by tapping. If I am correct, Congress wanted to impeach Clinton as well, but like Bush, he hasn't done anything.

Answer 7

Impeachment of a President is the action if the President has committed a crime. Starting a war, no matter how immoral it may be, is not breaking the law

Answer 8

Nope, there is no war in Iraq. Congress NEVER declared war so there isn't a war. It's all in the minds of the idiot lieberals who only know about half of the story.

Answer 9

Your classmates are just 'parroting' what they're being told...by leftist sources...

the President is completely within his Constitutional powers with what he's doing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Believe me, if Harry Benedict Arnold Reid and Nancy I-Give-Up Pelosi could have even the slightest chance of damaging the President, they would have already done it.

you need to learn form other sources than just your friends...and NPR, CBS, NBC, CNN are all the same, and only give one side of the story--the leftist, liberal side.

Answer 10

yes he could be impeached, but he won't be since he only has a year left.