Posted on 07/26/2008 9:40:42 PM PDT by Red Steel
Former Democratic candidate Mike Gravel says President George W. Bush should be taken to The Hague for war crimes rather than being impeached.
In a Monday video conference with Press TV, the former Alaska senator said President Bush does not 'deserve' to be impeached for invading Afghanistan and Iraq, which has resulted in the loss of 'millions of lives'.
"An Impeachment just means you would only take away his (Bush's) presidency. Well, he is almost done (with) his presidency. What really needs to happen is that these people have to be held accountable for the crimes they have committed," the 78-year-old Democrat said referring to the US president and Vice President Dick Cheney.
"If you impeach president and vice president, Nancy Pelosi is going to become president; that is not going happen," Gravel added.
Gravel is an outspoken advocate of impeaching Bush and Cheney over the disinformation campaign they have led in support of their go-to-war policies.
"There is a lot of very good news that makes me tremendously hopeful that we as a nation are starting to wake up and insist our congressional representatives act to make impeachment happen now," he had said in a statement in January after congressman Dennis Kucinich announced plans to introduce articles of impeachment against President Bush.
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Mike Gravel should be tried at The Hague for torturing us with this cr*p.
These people are completely deranged.
> Mike Gravel should be tried at The Hague for torturing us with this cr*p. <
And waste taxpayer’s money on the trip? WTH do we have Gitmo for? I want full WATERBOARDING for this POS.
I guess this guy is like George Constanza: it’s not a lie if you believe it.
Delusions of grandeur are not a pretty sight.
Have him speak at the DNC convention. Recreate ‘68 baby.
Who would be worse?
Obama or Pelousie?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Kucinich started up on that impeachment circle jerk again the other day.
When will these idiots give it up?
They waste time on impeachment hearings when the man only has a few months to go and steroid hearings, like it’s a matter of life and death whether or not athletes are on steroids.
I don’t give a damn and I’m sure many other Americans don’t give a damn about all this stuff they waste so much time & money on.
The things these people waste time on instead of actually trying to solve any real problems is too much for me to wrap my mind around.
And take Gravel to the nearest nut house.
What a shame he didn’t get the nomination. Think of the speeches he’d be giving about now.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
To think Bush had to reach across the aisle to nuts like this.
Gravel is obviously frustrated and trying to get attention. Remember that Zen-like commercial he did where he dropped a large rock in a lake?... symbolized his political career.
Potted Plant: “To the Hague!”
Mental illness is a terrible thing.
“These people are completely deranged.”
Yes, they ARE - and completely blinded by the most vicious hatred I’ve ever seen. At the expense of the American people who elected them to get constructive things done in congress. I’ve often said that while most of us greatly disliked and totally disrespected Bill Clinton (with good reason), we didn’t hate him to the point of wishing him bodily harm or worse (which GW’s haters DO, literally).
I’ve never seen anything like this, and so undeserved, to the degree that it pervasively and obsessively is.
Impy: Gravel to gitmo for being a pinko Senator back in the day.
Excuse me, but WTF is wrong with the Dim Dhims? Are they completely detached from reality?
When did the world become like this?
This(the detachment from reality, total lack of common sense) is the big or major issue of our time when your fellow countrymen are incapable or desirious of defending their own country and survival.
I’m sorry, I just don’t get it. Again, WTF is wrong with these people?
They are totally insane, suicidal.
Gravel,like all of his fellow Democrat traitors, belongs in Dante’s ninth circle of hell.
Take Gravel to the loony bin!
Kucinich started up on that impeachment circle jerk again the other day.”
Saw it, made me physically ill. And John Conyers, presiding over it, is beyond belief. Major barf.
Not only another GW-hate-motivated, obscene waste of taxpayers’ money, but it’s once again cheating them out of addressing serious issues on voters’ minds such as ENERGY plans (much like they stubbornly refused to deal with FISA for months, and still ignore the Columbia Free Trade Agreement).
And now they’re getting ready to go on a LONG summer break. This is beyond disgraceful, the rogues in this congress (Pelosi leading), along with those in the senate, specifically Harry Reid, are the ones who should be put through proceedings to remove THEM from office - this persistent, hateful, stubborn misbehavior of putting personal politics ahead of the good of their constituents and the country, is treasonous, in my opinion.
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