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Originally Posted by roachboy
except on one point: i am not sure i buy the idea that lying to the public about war is or should be part of the presidents "freedom" to exercize power. i am not sure of the precedent. but the bottom line is that i would consider torture to be the issue around which a cogent argument for impeachment could be elaborated.
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I didn't exactly mean it like that.
I meant that if Bush is impeached for invading a country, with the support of Congress and key Democratic party members, and it turns out later that the invasion was wrong and/or based upon faulty intelligence, then later Presidents are less likely to engage in interventionist engagements.
Perhaps that's a good thing.
Mr Mephisto