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Logan Murphy on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 at 6:17 PM - PST
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On Tuesday’s Hardball, Senator Joe Biden appeared with Chris Matthews and talked about the new NIE report that showed Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. Biden said last week that if the president chose to bypass Congress and invade Iran he would immediately call for his impeachment.
Biden stood behind those comments today, saying they were a warning to President Bush and that he has no constitutional authority to take us to war without congressional approval.
Filed Under: Campaigns/Elections, Election 08, Ethics, George W. Bush, Hardball/Chris Matthews, Iran, Joe Biden, MSNBC, Middle East
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I agree with Kucinich. it would be too late. Could you imagine trying to impeach a president in war time?
Oh yeah,,, I forgot.
Senator Biden sounded very tough.
Why wait for an invasion?
As much as I’d like to see shrub impeached, I’m not the slightest bit interested in him starting a war for this to get the wheels in motion…..and it would be slow motion, believe me.
Why not impeach him already? He lied us into Iraq and at least a million Iraqis are dead as a result. Almost 4000 Americans are dead, thousands maimed, and hundreds of billions have been spent.
Gee thanks, Joe. Like the past six years haven’t been reason enough…
Tweety looked like he was getting a real boner on there :)
Stop with the BS Senator MNBA(Biden),You have grounds right now to impeach the Prez why wait.This is to appease the Dem base as the Senate & house Dems have capitulated on everthing the WH has put forward.
I’ve never trusted Biden, perceived him as a person of great intellect or thought he had any particular acumen in terms of foreign policy. I suspect the he doesn’t think Bush will take military action against Iran, at least until his final moments in office (when it would be too late), otherwise Biden wouldn’t have threatened impeachment. If he thinks there are grounds for impeachment, there is nothing to stop him from advocating it now.
Looks like Israel’s government is unhappy with the NIE report because they so badly wanted us to attack Iran.
What a dishrag full of hot air. Impeach Chainy and bush-Rag now senator-boy. All the rest is just talk…
And if Biden had the power of impeachment, I would be impressed.
Good on yer, Joe, impeach The Dummy if he invades Iran. (Better make it ATTACKS Iran, you know how the republicans are for strict wording)
And just to make it more interesting, tell The Dummy you’re going to impeach him if he DOESN’T attack Iran.
In fact, why not just impeach the SOB if he wakes up tomorrow?
Impeachment must come from Congress, not the Senate. The congress doesn’t have the balls to impeach, so Biden can bluster all he wants, it is just bluster.
I’m really getting cynical. Why did I smile when I read this headline?
Biden would be a much better prez than shrub.
Joe..joe…where were ya when we needed ya?
Senator, why wait to impeach the drunken monkey for doing to Iran what he already did to Iraq.
Still, Sen. Biden, as far as I can tell, is the only Democratic candidate to use the I-word.
(Don’t hold your breath for Hillary, Inc. to do likewise.)
As of this evening, Sen. Biden won my vote.
Impeach now. Why wait?
Biden is a phony.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Dick Cheney is a member of the CFR, in fact was once its President - but he kept that a secret from the public.
Good Cop-Bad Cop. Smoke and Mirrors. Keep the masses befuddled.
fiver @ 19:
and beat the Holiday rush!
That’s just “Bring ‘Em On!” to a dope like Bush.
Sheesh-keep your mouth shut, Biden. You’ll start WWIII with bullshit playground talk like that.
Biden states that the actions of this administration are unconscionable. I’m in total agreement.
If committing an unconscionable act is not grounds for impeachment, what is??? Seriously. I just don’t get it.
baffel them with bullshit huh bidden!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All of the above comments are worth noting. However. I will say it’s about time SOMEBODY in Congress expressed what Biden said. Again,I agree with my fellow commenters,BUT at least He said it.
Impeach Now! Kucinich: Right Then. Right Now. Biden said he will lead the move for Impeachment? This is ridiculous! Kucinich has lead the move for Impeachment even when it was not popular!
Kucinich is the mainstream. Kucinich has my vote!
Read HR 333!
Waiting and giving him an opportunity to attack is bullshit. This country wants them out now, both him and Cheney. He might just as well have told Bush to go ahead and attack, don’t worry about it, we will talk about it later. Tough talk but it is meaningless, talk is cheap, we want action!
Bush could chop off Nancy Pelosi’s head and pee into the stump live on national teevee & the Demo’s would just marvel at what a great leader he is & still refuse to impeach.
It’s slightly interesting that a few of the Dino contenders will from time to time cozy up to what should be the Demo base (Dodd claiming he’d prevent telecom immunity for wiretapping before just today cozying up to Don (”I pay him to write nigger jokes”) Imus). But once they’re elected they’ll spit in the face of ordinary ‘Murikans once more to serve their corporate masters . . .
Dave @ 18:
youd be wrong kucinich wants bush and cheny tried and hung!
“I like you, you’re the real deal” —–NOT
I’m only a piss-poor Christian American patriot from Illinois, America, but I have to say, tonight, God Bless Mike McConnell, Michael Hayden, Robert Mueller or whoever got this $#!+ straightened out re: Iran.
Makes me proud as all get-go to fly my raggedy-@$$ stars and stripes tonight.
Yeah, let’s wait until after Bush starts WWIII.
Then Bush can finish his term of office, relaxing in Dubai, getting drunk.
Bravo Senator Joe Biden!!! finally our guys are getting the airtime to call Bushco on their lies!
Here’s the smoking gun Tweaty, that proves Bushco KNEW and lied about Iraq WMD …
“It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it’s an intelligence failure. It’s an intelligence failure. This was a policy failure,” Drumheller tells Bradley.
Drumheller was the CIA’s top man in Europe, the head of covert operations there, until he retired a year ago. He says he saw firsthand how the White House promoted intelligence it liked and ignored intelligence it didn’t:
“The idea of going after Iraq was U.S. policy. It was going to happen one way or the other,” says Drumheller. ”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories.....7749.shtml
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Bravo Senator Joe Biden!!! finally our guys are getting the airtime to call Bushco on their lies!
Here’s the smoking gun Tweaty, that proves Bushco KNEW and lied about Iraq WMD …
“It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it’s an intelligence failure. It’s an intelligence failure. This was a policy failure,” Drumheller tells Bradley.
Drumheller was the CIA’s top man in Europe, the head of covert operations there, until he retired a year ago. He says he saw firsthand how the White House promoted intelligence it liked and ignored intelligence it didn’t:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories.....7749.shtml
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big deal, it’s about 2,000 American lives late wouldn’t you say? not to mention the Iraqis. doesn’t anyone else see the studied, judicial posturing of this guy? he tries to play the down home but he’s arrogant.
Dave @ 18:
You have forgotten Kucinich’s advocacy of impeachment.
Just by threatening to invade a country, Bush has committed an IMPEACHABLE offense.
Toss it on the pile, with the rest of his crimes.
I agree, impeachment wouldn’t stop him. In fact, it would actually give him an excuse to be a saited martyr in his own mind.
(And boy, looks like Tweetie had got himself a new BFF, and told Tom DeLay he’s not going to play with him anymore.)
Danielle @ 26:
Impeach Cheney with HR 333 and impeach Bush with HR 666. A befitting number for the devil of all presidents.
I agree, Kucinich laid it all out in HR 333.
Mayor McFlight Suit should have been run out of town on a rail long ago. Yet like the good little ventriloquist dummy that he is he just repeats what ever “The Shooter” feeds into his little wooden head. “I just learned about the Iran NIE last week.”
but, but, but…….Bush has signing statements. he don’t need
any approval to invade, he’s the decider-er.
abarts @ 21:
The truth is that Bush doesn’t DESERVE to be impeached for starting wars all over the place like a dog that hasn’t been paper-trained. He should be impeached for one of his more petty-minded little dirty tricks, like telling them to make sure there weren’t enough voting machines in the poor neighborhoods in Ohio. That would be appropriate. Measure the censure to the man. Nixon should have been impeached for bombing Cambodia, but Bush….he deserves to be impeached for stealing pencils from The Situation Room.
If you impeach yourself bush, we’ll let you invade disneyland…deal?
Pericles @ 42:
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fiver @ 19:
why wait ? ‘caz GW told him already that he is not going to get in Iran..Ha !
after reading posts here it seems that majority on this board knows that both these are doing their own job.
One is trying keep his TV show rating up, other one is scoring point for election by punching “GW Punch Bag”.
biden can make all the noise he wants, but as long as Bush has his loyal and true allies Pelosi, Hoyer and Reid covering his back, he’ll be ableto get away with mass murder. as many times as he pleases.
And Bush is quaking in his boots over the Democrats’ idle threats. Why does he have to start another illegal war to get impeached? IMPEACH!
Too bad we don’t have strong Dems like Morse and Fulbright anymore.
Oh, and decent and honest Repubs, too, like Dirksen and Baker. The ones who told Tricky Dick that the jig was up.
Note to Joe:
Why in the hell are you not calling for Bush’s impeachment NOW (or last week, month, year…) for the crimes and treasons he has already committed?
Truth Be Told @ 20:
That’s right- you get it. They won’t have a real impeacher on there. Biden is one of the enemies of America that’s tearing this places to pieces with lies and deceptions. Until he gives me a reason to think otherwise, that’s my opinion.
All the evidence to impeach is there. Darth is sitting on it. Just declassify it, or make it a good long jail term to destroy evidence if that what he’s been doing with it.
“I was on the big Hoohah Committee for umpteen years!” Really, who gives a shit?
So you want to impeach? Then quit flapping your cheeks in the wind and do something, senator.
“Blah, blah, blah, impeach, blah, blah…”
WHERE’S THE BEEF, SENATOR?
ohhh now all the Sudden Biden has balls, yea, sure you will Senator, are’nt u running for something??
ROM Spaceknight @ 31:
God bless a bunch of republicans? Please.
wisedup @ 43:
Hey, leave the Disney properties out of this. They’re the only utopias left in the world.
kaT @ 52: