Impeachable offenses

[detroitguy]

Does anybody have a good, running list of impeachable offenses committed by Bush?

[underpants]

1. Short list of 16 here

http://maxspeak.org/mt/archives/000347.html

1. Providing false information to Congress about WMDs in Iraq.

2. Providing false testimony to the effect that Iraq was a threat to the U.S.

3. Withholding information about the cost of the Medicare bill.

4. Blowing the cover of an intelligence operative.

5. Imprisoning suspects for months in Gitmo on flimsy or zero evidence.

6. Outsourcing torture of terror suspects, again with flimsy or zero evidence.

7. Neglecting terrorism in favor of Iraq and missile defense in the first eight months of 2001.

8. Tasking the Secretary of State to go before the UN and lie like a rug.

9. Using resources of the IRS and Treasury Department for political propaganda.

10. Diverting money appropriated by Congress for Afghanistan to planning the Iraq invasion.

11. Withholding information about the cost in terms of money and personnel deployment of the Iraq invasion.

12. Under-provisioning and manning the Iraq invasion out of political considerations.

13. Failing to provide sufficient manpower to establish order in Iraq, post-invasion, leading to widespread misery and casualties all around.

14. Endorsement of the Likud government's land grab on the West Bank, reversing decades of U.S. policy and exposing the American people to the threat of Palestinian terrorism.

15. Sabotage of the U.S. revenue system, generating unsustainable deficits.

16. Destroying rights of public employees in the Department of Defense.

[Pegleg Thd]

2. Even with all of this

you have to remember that rove has his finger so far up hassart's ass that there will be no impeachment. I have been told by a relative living near d.c. that hassart can't fart without rove's consent.

[detroitguy]

4. Yep

I have been wondering what it would take for Bush's own party to really have enough and want him gone. I am guessing that none of them will have the guts to start any real rebellion unless public opinion turns strongly against Bush. And as good as the Bush camp is at manipulating public opinion, it'll take a lot of hard work to make that happen.

A strong and growing anti-war movement would really, really help. My hope is that Dean reaches out to the anti-war crowd as DNC chair like he did as a candidate.

[indepat]

3. Even if all 16 were incontrovertible, none would matter a whit to

religious zealots and other faithful ideologues.

[Ezlivin]

5. That, my friend, is sickeningly true

Because Bush's followers walk by faith, not by sight, they are capable of doing and believing anything.

[detroitguy]

6. Another reason why...

...we live in scary times.

[zann725]

8. He's also nominated Cabinet members who he KNEW were perjuring themselves

under oath (i.e. Condi, and Gonzalez AND Negreponte).

All these people can be removed from office too...due to their rampant lying under oath.

[DemoTex]

7. Just substitute the Nuremberg Indictments

Count One: Conspiracy to Wage Aggressive War

Count Two: Waging Aggressive War, or "Crimes Against Peace"
Including “the planning, preparation, initiation, and waging of wars of aggression, which were also wars in violation of international treaties, agreements, and assurances.”

Count Three: War Crimes
These were the more “traditional” violations of the law of war including treatment of prisoners of war, slave labor, and use of outlaws weapons.

Count Four: Crimes Against Humanity

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/NurembergIndictments.html