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In reply to the discussion: Should Dubya have been impeached? [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)35. Bush isn't as stupid as people think he is
With his father's experience and advice I expect that Bush's moral misdeeds probably never crossed the line of legal action, he was too smart and had too many lawyers reading everything he signed.
Cheney on the other hand had his fingerprints all over everything including Plame and interfering with specific intelligence procedure.
We should have started low, gotten people to flip and worked our way up. We might have gotten as far as Cheney but I doubt that there was a culpable action that would prove 'high crime'.
Turning intelligence on its head would not have been a crime as long as there was one credible intelligence source that agreed with what he wanted to do.
Interfering and blocking intelligence, which Cheney certainly did, would have been impeachable.
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Cheney should have been tried as a war criminal. Dubya too, but I'd have been content just to
hlthe2b
Mar 2013
#2
Yes, but the Republicans had already salted the earth, making that near impossible.
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2013
#4
Chasing the mystical independents is little more than a rationalization for acting in bad faith.
TheKentuckian
Mar 2013
#25
what kind of question is this? now? well it doesnt matter nancy said impeachment is off the table
leftyohiolib
Mar 2013
#12
Should a, Would a, Could a, but until 2006, it wasn't possible because Republicans controlled the
Agnosticsherbet
Mar 2013
#17
We took the House and Senate in the Nov 2006 election and they took office in 2007
karynnj
Mar 2013
#22
In June of 2008, Kucinich and Wexler took impeachment to the floor of the House with 35 articles
Agnosticsherbet
Mar 2013
#71
How did he "allow" the Court to do anything? He was only a candidate at the time.
brooklynite
Mar 2013
#33
There are laws out there but no one has the cojones to charge him and Cheney with
Cleita
Mar 2013
#54
Just like the Republicans showed "we still have principles" by impeaching Bill Clinton, right?
brooklynite
Mar 2013
#59