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Sharpton: Impeach Bush if He Lied!
NewsMax.com ^
| 7/09/03
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 07/09/2003 8:36:20 PM PDT by kattracks
Rev. Al Sharpton became the first Democratic Party presidential candidate to call for President Bush's impeachment on Wednesday, saying that if Bush "knowingly lied" about Iraq's nuclear weapons program he "absolutely should be impeached."
"If they knowingly told information that was not true, there certainly should impeachment hearings," Sharpton told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."
The outspoken Democrat continued, "If [Bush] had knowledge, or the vice president had knowledge, and knowingly brought America to war on false or flawed knowledge and they knew it, they absolutely should be impeached."
Sharpton called for Bush's impeachment after "H & C" cohost Alan Colmes raised the issue, but the radical reverend took the ball and ran with it.
"When you look at what they wanted to impeach Clinton on, there is no comparison," he complained.
With his call for Bush's impeachment, Sharpton has gone further than any other Democrat since a new round of questions about U.S. intelligence exploded on Sunday, when former Clinton administration diplomat Joseph Wilson contended in the New York Times that he had debunked a Bush adminsitration claim that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from Niger.
On Tuesday, the Bush administration said that the Iraq-Niger nuke connection, which President Bush invoked in his State of the Union address based on a British intelligence report, was false.
In Britain, however, Prime Minister Tony Blair staunchly defended his intelligence agency's Iraq-Niger finding, saying it was based on wholly different intelligence than the information investigated by Wilson.
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Sharpton must be reading CHB.
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07/09/2003 8:36:20 PM PDT
by
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posted on
07/09/2003 8:37:30 PM PDT
by
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To: kattracks
Man I love Sharpton.He is the Dimocrat party.
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posted on
07/09/2003 8:38:29 PM PDT
by
noutopia
To: kattracks
Excuse my 'mood', but Sharpton used to be somewhat amusing as the entertaining village idiot in the election discussions. But now, he just needs to get real, shut up, and pursue the vocation most suited to him. McDonald's is hiring.
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posted on
07/09/2003 8:38:53 PM PDT
by
ysoitanly
To: kattracks
That a boy Al, you just keep talking!!!!
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posted on
07/09/2003 8:39:45 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("Crashed and Burned, eh gungrabbers?")
To: kattracks
Actually, Sharpton was more reasonable than the article portrays him.
If they knowingly told information that was not true, there certainly should impeachment hearings," Sharpton told Fox
I agree... but it's hardly a controversial statement. Remove the "if" and he'd be a fruitcake. Okay, he IS a fruitcake, but not because of this statement. Al is goofy enough in reality without NewsMax blowing things out of proportion.
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posted on
07/09/2003 8:40:32 PM PDT
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: kattracks
C'mon, is Sharpton the only one who's gonna step in this before word gets out that it's a hoax? I want to see Kerry and Gephardt in the pot with him. "What did Bush know, and when did he know it!" We can count on Gephardt to toss that one out.
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posted on
07/09/2003 8:40:59 PM PDT
by
Nick Danger
(The liberals are slaughtering themselves at the gates of the newsroom)
To: ysoitanly
Hey we were newbies on the same date.
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posted on
07/09/2003 8:42:12 PM PDT
by
noutopia
To: kattracks
My Hispanic non political co worker today asked me if it was true that Sharpton was running for President. I responded, yes he is. And right in front of my Black coworker stated, you're kidding... I'd never vote for him, he's a racist. Can you believe it...
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posted on
07/09/2003 8:42:59 PM PDT
by
marajade
To: marajade; kattracks
Sharpton a racist? I am shocked,
shocked.
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posted on
07/09/2003 9:01:34 PM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: kattracks
When is a Reverand not?
A. Sharpton
B. Jackson
C. All of the Above
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posted on
07/09/2003 9:11:14 PM PDT
by
Jumper
To: Dan from Michigan
That's it I am changing to the Democrap party and voting for Al in the primaries! (then I'll vote for Bush again heh heh heh).
To: kattracks
The Clintoon lies under oath commiting purgery. Bush (at best) makes a mistake (at worst) lies in a political speach.
At worst case Bush only decended to the Clintoon's daily life.
To: kattracks
Hannity and Colmes is my favorite show by far, but I am beginning to wonder why they keep bringing these goofballs onto their show. Come on! Al Sharpton, a guy who may get 5% of the vote in the Dem primary, a man who is totally meaningless outside of Harlem. Malik Shabazz, the racist leader of a hate group who defines bigoted ignorance. What is the point of debating these people? Heck, no one outside of the black nationalist movement would even know who Shabazz is if he hadn't been on H&C.
Oh well, just a thought.
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posted on
07/09/2003 9:26:20 PM PDT
by
GunRunner
(New and Improved!)
Did anyone see him on H&C? Hannity, on his radio show, said he was going to tear Fat Albert a new Sharpton. I hope he did, but something tells me the "Jabba da Race Hustler" fillibustered the whole interview.
To: Dan from Michigan
"If they knowingly told information that was not true, there certainly should impeachment hearings," Sharpton told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." The outspoken Democrat continued, "If [Bush] had knowledge, or the vice president had knowledge, and knowingly brought America to war on false or flawed knowledge and they knew it, they absolutely should be impeached."
I don't find what is so funny about this statement? I agree 100% with Sharpton on this. Do Freepers think a President should not be impeached for knowingly telling lies that lead us to war?
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posted on
07/09/2003 9:29:05 PM PDT
by
Burkeman1
(If you see ten troubles comin down the road, Nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.)
To: PhilDragoo
In the immortal worlds of Tawana Brawly "No one manispnays me or my family"
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posted on
07/09/2003 9:31:18 PM PDT
by
Destro
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To: Burkeman1
You think Bush lied?Did you not see what Blair said to Parliment today?
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posted on
07/09/2003 9:39:34 PM PDT
by
noutopia
To: gorebegone
I need to get a new license tomorrow..think I might swith parties while I'm their as well..just to have some fun..
To: noutopia
Whats this country coming to when we have the likes of Al in the political spot light. Whata joke
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posted on
07/09/2003 9:46:14 PM PDT
by
zoen
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