The Dem. Congress has shuffled the impeachment of Bush and Cheney for political reasons, why and what are they

Question

Travis, Don't you think that breaking the law should be a punishable offense for all Americans?

Answer 1

They could get enough votes to charge him, however they know that they would not get the votes to impeach him, 2/3, just like they didn't get the votes to impeach Clinton. That could change if he still screws the war up, as he has from the start!

Those maybe political, but the reality is that no president has ever been impeached. Nixon would have been if he had not resigned!

The Democrats are giving Bush enough rope to hang himself!

Lack of impeachable offenses? You have got to be kidding. The secret CIA Torture camps set up in other countries are reason enough!

President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:

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. Author unknown

Answer 2

they are realistic. impeachment proceedings would probably take 18-24 months. even if they could get a bill of impeachment, a senate trial would be useless effort. it requires 67 votes to impeach a federal official, whether a judge, or elected official such as bush and cheney. the democrats could only realistically get 51 votes to convict and remove them from office. the republicans in the senate would side with bush and cheney and vote not guilty. the impeachment process would thus fail so why should they even make a useless, and time consuming, effort which they know would fail. instead, they investigate those who have been appointed by bush, and show the public how much the bush/cheney ticket really did which was so damaging to the office and the nation as a whole. the investigations by the various democratically controlled committees is already having a distinct effect on what bush and cheney have continued to try doing. such exposure of the administrations illegal conduct will have a profound effect on the next general election, possibly leading to a larger majority in each house of congress, and the election of a democratic president.

Answer 3

definite, it is genuine. Cheney must be impeached or whilst Bush is impeached, Cheney will rule. an excellent larger impeachment circulation has been going for an exceedingly long term attempting to get Congress to take heed to the persons and Impeach Bush. Many petitions have been despatched to Representatives, resolutions are slowly being handed in cities and states and letters to Senators and different contributors. curious approximately the impeachment of George W. Bush. A smaller quantity is on Cheney precise now, yet he ought to circulate first. there's a rustic huge impeachment circulation occurring at present, April twenty 8th.

Answer 4

Dude, impeachment is a political ploy. It always has been and it always will be. The Republicans tried it with Clinton for political reasons, not because they were offended for what he did. The Democrats know that when your adversary is imploding, the best strategy is to leave them alone. Impeachment might create sympathy and in politics, any move that creates sympathy for your opponent is a bad move. Plain and simple. They are doing what they think will work for the election of 2008. If impeachment is deemed the winning strategy, it will be done, if not, there are other ways to accomplish the same objective from the Democrats point of view, and that is taking the White House in 2008.

Answer 5

There is still alot of disagrement about whether Bush is impeachable, but that aside. From the democrats point of view, it would be pointless. Yes, they house would probably vote for impeachment, but there wouldn't be enought votes in the Senate to remove him from office, causing another situation like with Clinton. The democrats would spend all this money and time for nothing. If America didn't like the fact that the democrats tried for impeachment, it could back fire and hurt them in 2008. You might say America is for impeachment, but we say that now, but 1 year from now when the dust clears will they feel the same way, especially if the accomplished nothing and Bush is still in office? Probably not. So it isn't woth the risk. Let Bush have his 2 more years, and they hope they win in 2008.

Answer 6

The political (and constitutional) reality is that the Dem's can't do it alone. They would need significant support from the republicans (i.e.votes) in order to proceed with impeachment. If convincing evidence comes to light of Bush and or Cheney committing high crimes then the situation could change.

Answer 7

Now that the dems have a majority, they can keep Bush's actions in check. An impeachment would be very costly and time consuming. By the time they got their case together, Bush's term would be almost over. There are many emergency situations that require their attention at this time.

Answer 8

Why

Because neither Bush nor Cheney have done anything
wrong, the political reason.

They don't want to look like the idiots that they are, if
they think that there are impeachable offenses they
should proceed, but just like Iraq they want to cut and run

cantcu:

Sorry to inform you Bill Clinton was impeached
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton

No President ever impeached? how about Andrew Johnson
in 1868
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment

If the CIA torture camps are secret how do you know about them, are you in the CIA? or are you referring to articles
that you have read in liberal newspapers. Exactly WHAT
torture were the prisoners subjected to, I know the the
naked Iraq's with underwear on their heads,

What civil rights were did the American people have taken?
are you referring to the wiretaps? the American Patriot
act authorized those and Diane Feinstein was a co-author

Seizing power, have you ever heard of UN Resolution 697
authorizing the use of force against the Iraq, 697 was
passed while George Sr. was in office, Clinton did nothing
except to say Saddam has done nothing for 10 years
Bill Clinton himself as President gave speeches regarding
the threat of Saddam, but you think that GWB should be
charged wiht this..
Do some research, both parties were making statements
about the threat to Iraq , should we impeach the Democrats
to or just the Republicans?

Just whom did Bush have assinated and who did he kidnap
have you ever heard the term POW, that is when you
capture the enemy not kidnap the enemy
Again, being naked with underwear on your head is
physiological torture, and asking a prisoner who he
prayed for and when the reply Allah they say F Allah and
F you, that's torture? How about decapitating 3 Americans
or killing, burning and dragging their bodies thru the streets
of Bagdad, is that ok for liberals?

Why would enemies of the United States have rights
under our Constitution? and it is OK for Iraq to violate
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and you want
to complain about underware
Forget OHOCHR, the enemy has no rights under that
we won't get them from the enemy, no since in us giving
them to the enemy.

Look I can keep ***** slapping you on this but the truth
of the matter is Bill Clinton was impeached, Andrew Johnson
was impeached so that is Democrats 2 Republicans 0
If there were ANY real charges that could lead to the
impeachment of Bush they would have been filed, even
if they couldn't get the needed votes to get it passed
they would have proceeded just to discredit him
so take your whine azz political BS and peddal it the
the Washington Post.

Answer 9

1. Lack of impeachable offense.
2. Desire to be re-elected.
3. The possibility of a 9-11 inquiry implicating the Clintons.

Answer 10

It hard to impeach one when you allowed another with a felon purjury conviction to continue to serve.

Answer 11

at this point dems just riding out the storm caused by bush and cheney untill 08 so the world knows what happens when republicians become president