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[yawarakaijin]

Is it an impeachable offence to mislead the congress, senate, the people into a war?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f3_1177864532


Screw all the Bush is Hitler crap, it's tiresome. Screw all the "America is controlled by Jews" it says more about your level of education than anything else.

Here is a senator clearly stating that the administration clearly mislead the people. Is this, or is this not grounds for impeachment?( are there hearings held to determine if impeachment can even be considered?) I am the first to admit that I am somewhat lacking in knowledge of American constitutional law. Can anyone answer this question honestly and without rhetoric?

[Join Me]

The Supreme Court just ruled tonight that those held at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp have a right to challenge their imprisonment in a US court. Who would have guessed you can't just snatch people off the street and hold them indefinitely without allowing them to challenge you on it? Bush needs to be brought before a court on for his war crimes. Bush does not stand for the same values that America represents. Bush is going to make Nixon look like a true American patriot.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_guantanamo

[Gopher]

Ours is a presidential system (as opposed to a parliamentarian system), where the president dominates the executive branch and its various agencies through appointees -- particularly since Andrew Jackson's presidency.

This means that, among other things, the president and those civilians under his authority, decide how they will or will not respond to advice and information the professional bureaucracy, including the military, offers it, and not the other way around. Bureaucratic tensions have existed for decades, the CIA's intelligence directorate's frustration that LBJ escalated the Vietnam War against their advice that America could not win that war no matter how much it escalated its involvement representing only one dramatic example.

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[yawarakaijin]

A lot of very good points. Thank you for the time you took to answer the post. I for one, do not have all the answers to the questions you pose, and they are very valid ones at that.

I think the congress does have a lot to answer for. I guess it comes down to your definition of a lie. If one can be impeached for lying about sexual relations, can one be impeached for lying about the need to go to war? Is there a difference between lying and misleading or cherry picking?

I'm not as anti-bush as you might believe. Simply put though, from what I have seen from this presidency, I am merely unable to entertain the notion that this administration was simply "mistaken" about many of it's assumptions in the run up to war.

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