The recent oil deal between the U.S.-based Hunt Oil Company and the Kurdistan Regional Government raises questions, since Hunt Oil, a privately held oil company based in Texas and its founder, Ray Hunt, have close ties to Vice President Cheney and are large donors to President Bush. The deal also appears to undercut the goal of oil revenue sharing but is predictably consistent with the Administration's attempt to privatize Iraqi oil assets. Both Hunt Oil Company and Kurdistan are strong allies with the Bush Administration.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/63036/
2007-09-23 06:12:03 · 17 answers · asked by justgoodfolk 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Enough to overcome the apathy of the public -- and for a conviction, enough to overcome the partisan bickering that prevents people from addressing the underlying issues.
We're nowhere close to either of those thresholds yet.
2007-09-23 06:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by coragryph 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
The problem is time... for some unknown reason, it always seems to take years and years and years to prove corruption.
Sure we all know it and sure the evidence is right in our faces; but, for it to trickle through the process.... takes forever. Of course this is on purpose. IE, Reagan's Iran Contra investigation conveniently ended in 1989; 1 yr after he had left office. Bush Sr's World Bank scandal involvement was buried until he left office.
Ppl think Clinton was impeached quickly.. think again. Kenneth Star had been leading an investigation since 1994.
The same will happen here but it's even worse now in that Congress hasn't even started an investigation yet. This tells me two things:
1. The USA will be in Iraq for at least another decade because if corruption starts getting proved, the American ppl will demand withdrawal.
2. The corruption is also in Congress.
2007-09-26 06:42:24 · answer #2 · answered by BeachBum 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Impeachment is a in fact essentially a political process and not a legal one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States
Although Impeachment is a House generated "indictment" ,the Senate does conduct a "trial" but the rules and regulations etc are NOT that followed in the normal judicial system at all.
Bill Clinton was Impeached for lying about having oral sex in the Oval Office and the House Republicans deemed that to be a "high crime and misdemeanor" while Bush's waging of an ILLEGAL war of choice that was based totally on a pack of filthy lies that has so far seen the slaughter of nearly 3800 US soldiers and over 400,000 innocent Iraqi civilians has not reached the level of a "high crime and misdemaenor level" of the monumentally hypocritical and essentially IMMORAL Congress or for that matter the US public.
Except for it's "titilating " aspects,the US public has generally seldom concerned itself with corruption and certainly NOT international corruption where the US is persuing it's "NATIONAL INTERESTS " (READ PROFITS).
All that the majority of immoral Americans care about on the issue of oil or anything else is what is the impact on ME.
Everytime the price of gas goes up in the gas guzzling US ,the public is outraged and demands that their politicians do something.(They of course do not give a damn about 400,000 innocent Iraqi civilians being slaughtered for it doesn't effect these good little stinking CHRISTIANS ) .
The politicians and their government then of course do something about oil prices and that something is usually the US committing another of it's filthy atrocities.A perfect example of this of course is the US OVERTHROW of the DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED IRANIAN GOVERNMENT IN 1953 (AND YOU IDIOTS WONDER WHY THEY HATE ) when Iran wanted to control it's own oil resourses just like the stinking monumentally IMMORAL and HYPOCRITICAL Americans demand they they control their own resourses) .
The plutocratic obscenities being perpetrated today are the same as they have always been perpetrated by WE ,THE PEOPLE'S elected representatives working on a QUID PRO QUO with wealthy individuals and corporations to meet the plutocrats needs/wants and NOT WE THE PEOPLE.
The heart of the problem of course is that WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE (IN fact THEY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ) do not give a damn what atrocities,corruptions their government has to perpetrate AS LONG AS GAS PRICES ARE KEPT LOW .
As Greenspan and all the honest moral people of the world aver on this subject ,IRAQ IS ALL ABOUT OIL AND KEEPING A STABLE RELATIVELY LOW PRICE OF OIL TO SHUT UP THE IMMORAL AMERICANS CRYING CONSTANTLY ABOUT GAS PRICES.
The IMMORAL Americans do not give a damn if over 400.000 INNOCENT Iraqis have been slaughtered all because these IMMORAL CHRISTIANS demand cheap oil prices .
These monumentally hypocritical and IMMORAL Americans then spew their pure crap that Iraq is all about democracy,liberty and freedom.PURE CRAP.It makes them feel ennobled and doing the "right thing " .Stinking hypocrites.
What is happening in Kurdistan and other places is just MORE IRAQS with just different factors,different situations .
This QUID PRO QUO plutocratic filthy corruption could end tomorrow if Congress en-acted appropriate legislation that would prevent the "wink and a nod" corrupt but they of course will NOT WE THE PEOPLE do not want them to because it could mean HIGHER GAS PRICES and THAT is just NOT ON .
2007-09-23 09:27:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It didn't take much to impeach Bill Clinton, but then he was a Democrat.
We can't doubt, let alone impeach President Bush or Cheney regardless of any of their many impeachable offenses. Karl Rove has convinced too many Americans that to question President Bush or VP Cheney is UnAmerican, unpatriotic, and even puts one in league with the terrorists.
Of course it doesn't help when so many administration officials, like Gonzo, have selective amnesia, or perhaps alzheimers.
2007-09-23 09:43:43 · answer #4 · answered by Don P 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the place in the form does it say that we impeach presidents which you, individually, do unlike? What you describe is a reason to not get meditated (yet he became into!) yet not a severe crime or misdemeanor as required by using the form. handle the reality which you're in a minority opinion and which you an vote lower back for president in 4 years.
2016-12-17 08:23:37 · answer #5 · answered by maiale 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Impeachment? Hell, no.
The lies of Bush and Cheney amount to High Treason -- they're directly responsible for the deaths of American citizens.
And I think they could be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity, for all the needless suffering and death the Iraqis have endured.
2007-09-23 20:08:17 · answer #6 · answered by The Snappy Miss Pippi Von Trapp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bringing of charges depends on being able to present evidence that a crime has been committed.
Loyal Bushies sit in every office, shredding away and telling investigators "I don't remember".
The lack of impeachment charges for know crimes signifies a lack of presentable evidence.
2007-09-23 06:18:14 · answer #7 · answered by oohhbother 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
As long as the corruption is overseas, they get away with everything, if Bush was in a stall and did a widestance on America soil he would get canned.
2007-09-23 06:19:10 · answer #8 · answered by Edge Caliber 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think you need something that can be proved as illegal. I have to believe that if there has been a true impeachable act that the left would have pursued it instead of just making accusations.
2007-09-23 06:19:32 · answer #9 · answered by froghugger 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Obviously a woman with a blue dress helps
2007-09-23 06:16:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋