Should G W Bush be impeached

[kimiko]

Back up a minute here. What was fully laid out to the voters last year was confusion, misinformation, innuendo, 1/4 truths, 1/2 truths, 0.87 truths, spin, waffles, illogic, and distraction. The voters were given an opportunity to vote for the lesser of two evils with no clear idea which evil was lesser. The conclusions reached by the voters, whichever way they voted, are suspect at best. Voter ability to filter through fluff is what the vote last year documented. History may eventually evaluate the quality of that filtering.

According to exit polls, only 15% of voters picked Iraq as "the ONE issue that mattered most in deciding how you voted for president." So the election isn't a good measure on how Americans feel about the war anyway.

 

[SlippyToad]

Whereas the members of this forum sometimes find it useful to actually have at ready click the references and history pertaining to matters on which they are voting and,

Whereas a polling thread requires the occasional bump in order to bring it to the attention of the aforementioned members of the forum and,

Nothwithstanding that an expression of my personal opinion within this thread will in no way influence the entrenched opinion of the aforementioned members of the forum, the following informational links are hearby submitted

Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002
Full text of resolution

Roll no. 455 House vote: 296 yeas to 133 nays
Vote no. 237 Senate vote: 77 yeas to 23 nays

Iraq Liberation Act of 1998
Full text of act

Roll no. 482 House votes: 360 yeas to 38 nays
Vote no. ??? Senate vote: 98 yeas to 0 nays (no link so sue me)

Relevance to current debate: 0%.

The intelligence was cooked, and the planning was a disaster, and the expectations of the occupation were unrealistically rosy. None of those items came before the voters or their representatives in their truthful, unadulterated, unmarketed form.

This is why people are talking impeachment. Because we were lied to.