Posted on 12/19/2005 6:48:51 PM PST by stocksthatgoup
The Democrats are two years way from 2008. They would be incredibly stupid to impeach Bush. He can not run. But we are talking about Democrats. Stupid is their middle name.
Impeach Bush Now
by Barbra Streisand
December 19, 2005
“If there was ever a time in history to impeach a President of the United States, it would be now. In my opinion, it is two years too late … Shouldn't war be an absolute last resort? We went to war because we were misled. And we should be angry because of the 2,000 American soldiers and the 200 armed coalition forces that have died. We should be livid because of the 15,000 American soldiers that have been horribly maimed and wounded. We should be disgusted because of the 30,000 innocent Iraqi civilians that have been killed and the 20,000 that are wounded after administration officials claimed that the US was going to liberate the Iraqi people. When does it stop? It stops with the indictment and impeachment of this corrupt, power-hungry, greedy group of incompetent leaders. How many more have to die before this happens?” - Barbra Streisand
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Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has become the first in the Senate to raise consideration of impeachment of President George W. Bush for authorizing spying on Americans without warrants, RAW STORY has learned. In a release issued this evening, Boxer said she's asked "four presidential scholars" for their opinion on impeachment after former White Housel counsel John Dean -- made famous by his role in revealing the Watergate tapes -- asserted that President Bush had 'admitted' to an 'impeachable offense.'
Georgia Congressman John Lewis wins the prize for the lower chamber:
U.S. Rep. John Lewis said Monday in a radio interview that President Bush should be impeached if he broke the law in authorizing spying on Americans. The Democratic senator from Georgia told WAOK-AM he would sign a bill of impeachment if one was drawn up and that the House of Representatives should consider such a move.
Lewis is among several Democrats who have voiced discontent with Sunday night's television speech, where Bush asked Americans to continue to support the Iraq War. Lewis is the first major House figure to suggest impeaching Bush.
Senator Robert Byrd is on the bandwagon, too, although he has stopped just short of using the "I" word:
Americans have been stunned at the recent news of the abuses of power by an overzealous President. It has become apparent that this Administration has engaged in a consistent and unrelenting pattern of abuse against our Country's law-abiding citizens, and against our Constitution.
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I continue to be shocked and astounded by the breadth with which the Administration undermines the constitutional protections afforded to the people, and the arrogance with which it rebukes the powers held by the Legislative and Judicial Branches. The President has cast off federal law, enacted by Congress, often bearing his own signature, as mere formality. He has rebuffed the rule of law, and he has trivialized and trampled upon the prohibitions against unreasonable search and seizures guaranteed to Americans by the United States Constitution.
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Oversight hearings need to be conducted. Judicial action may be in order.
Of course, both are late to the game--John Kerry was talking about impeachment before the story even broke.
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Clinton NSA Eavesdropped on U.S. Calls
No it is not, and they are two totally different acts.
We can now monitor a message before we even intercept it, and vice versa. It's no longer a physical limitation ~ it's an "intention".
Monitoring and intercepting as bush explained we are doing are two totally different things.
When you are "intercepting" nearly 100% of every transmission, the use of the word "monitoring" tends to become exactly the same as "intercepting".
When you add in the time dilation factor, it's all over.
"W" will need to go back to school on this one. He was just chasing terrorists and has obviously not kept up on electronic communications capabilities.
Your definitions and ideas of the terms "intercept" and "monitor" do not match the terminology as it is used in National Security situations.
As you and many others say "Bush can be wrong", yet you fail to see that the President sees it from the inside and has the terms as they are defined by their usage, and I seriously doubt you either are, or have been, there.
The terms are now antiquated.
Absolutely. To have nebulous info floating around in the ether is one thing, it is entirely another to have a MSM "newspaper" printing this stuff on the front page. (Note: I use the term "newspaper" loosely in this instance.)
Clinton and his Commerce Secretary, Brown, were, allegedly, using the info gleaned from spying to bribe American companies for their support. It is a very serious charge, but far more nefarious than Bush using the system to protect us.
Im not even angry anymore at this stuff. Why? They are marching the democrat party off a cliff with this moonbat nonsense.
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