Posted on 12/28/2019 9:05:18 AM PST by bitt
Abuse of power?
What a joke.
Impeachment over a Ukrainian phone call the transcript of which everyone can read?
Bigger joke. On us, unfortunately.
If you want an example of real presidential abuse of power — and not the fake Democratic version — you need to look at Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson and the questionable Tonkin Gulf Resolution that he used in 1964 to get us into the miserable Vietnam War. He lied; American boys died, 58,120 of them.
No Americans were killed in the Ukraine, although a few got rich. Donald Trump was not one of them. Nobody was even wounded, except for Hunter Biden.
Johnson was not impeached for his lies, obfuscation and abuse of power, however. That is because the Congress was a party to the deadly hoax when it approved the Tonkin Gulf Resolution that got us into that war.
It was a resolution based on a hazy and unverifiable incident that allegedly took place in August 1964 when North Vietnamese patrol boats allegedly attacked two U.S. destroyers patrolling the Vietnamese coast.
There was no proof that the incident happened. Neither destroyer was hit. There were no casualties. There was serious doubt that there was an attack in the first place.
Critics charged that the incident was fake, and that Johnson knew it. The “attack” had been fabricated to get the U.S. involved militarily to save South Vietnam from a Communist takeover by the North Vietnamese.
It worked. We got in the war but did not save the country. We thrashed it instead, and in the process thrashed ourselves.
The U.S. had no army in Vietnam at the time, only a handful of military trainers with the South Vietnamese Army.
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USS Liberty wasn’t an accident.
If it was at some point it became ABUNDANTLY CLEAR during the attack that they were Americans and still the men were machine gunned to death.
“seems to suggest” is BS.
It happened. It’s over. Israel gives us lot of intel and is at the forefront of missile defense.
But they did kill Americans that day, knowing they were Americans.
Also, there were American fighter jets only TEN minutes away that johnson refused to use.
that’s just great.
No, impeaching Obama would grant him a legitimacy that he does not have. Let us simply prosecute him for fraud, spying, and whatever else he is guilty of.
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