Al Gore against any attempt to impeach Bush
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 20:43 IST



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WASHINGTON: Former US vice president Al Gore, a staunch critic of George W Bush, has said he doesn't agree with calls for impeaching the president due to lack of "time" and "consensus."

Many democrats feel that Bush should be impeached for allegedly misleading the country deliberately in the lead up to the war in Iraq.

"With a year and a half to go in his term and with no consensus in the nation as a whole to support such a proposition, any realistic analysis of that as a policy option would lead one to question the allocation of time and resources," Gore said during an interview with PBS.

Pressed on whether he believed that impeachment is a good use of time, Gore replied, "I don't think it is. I don't think it would be successful."

From http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1100316

From Madison Wisconsin:

"Dear Editor: Please support Rep. Frank Boyle's effort to get Wisconsin to join other states in calling for the impeachment of George Bush. Torture? Pre-emptive war? Secret CIA prisons? Wiretapping? What has our country come to?

I am also a conscientious objector and am using civil disobedience to withhold a portion of my federal tax obligation. I was a student in Germany in the '50s, and what I heard from German citizens is what I now see in the U.S.

Daniel J. Guilfoil

Monona"

And from Fox News:

"Congressman Conyers Supports Movement to Impeach Bush, Cheney
Wednesday, May 30, 2007

DETROIT — U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., said he supports a national effort calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, but stopped short of pledging to take action to back it.

"I've been supportive of that movement," said Conyers, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee that would lead impeachment hearings. "I encourage that nationwide."

But Conyers, who left a Detroit church before a town-hall meeting attended by a standing-room-only crowd of about 250 people, remained noncommittal about lending his official backing for impeachment proceedings. Conyers had also convened a separate town-hall meeting in Detroit on Tuesday evening to discuss high gas prices.

"The goal is whether to impeach or follow up on the defects and disabilities of an administration" that has shut out Congress, he said Tuesday."