If you have to write a paper about government for school then shake them up with a paper on impeachment! Here are some suggested thesis questions:
1. Compare the impeachment charges against Bill Clinton, Andrew Johnson, and Richard Nixon with the potential charges against George Bush.
2. Should the US Government continue torturing prisoners and holding them without formal charges? Is it legal? Is it an effective means of obtaining information? What did Bush mean when he said "We do not torture."? Who is Maher Arar?
3. Is it worth giving up our privacy by allowing the NSA to scan telephone calls and other communications in order to detect threats to our security? What is the potential for abuse of this system by a President who considers dissent unpatriotic? What is Echelon? What is the difference between the terms "detect" and "monitor" as used by President Bush?
4. Was Bush misled by faulty intelligence into thinking Iraq was a threat, or did he shape the intelligence in order to mislead Congress and the public?
5. Does a US President have to comply with International Laws like the UN Charter, the Nuremberg Charter and the Geneva Convention? Did Bush violate those laws?
Finally, it has started. People have begun to speak of impeaching President George W. Bush--not in hushed whispers but openly, in newspapers, on the Internet, in ordinary conversations and even in Congress.
Over 1100 coalition soldiers and over 14000 Iraqi civilians have been killed so far in this war. Because of the accuracy of modern weapons one can assume that the Iraqi military death toll is far higher than the civilian death toll. Many of those Iraqi soldiers were conscripts forced into battle. The death toll would have been far higher if Saddam had posessed and used weapons of mass destruction.
Attacking Iraq will make us less secure by inflaming anti-American sentiment, which could cause more terrorism, and could destabilize Egypt, Pakistan and other Muslim nations.
After seeing how quickly the US military defeated the Iraqi military, one has to wonder how much of a danger they were to the homeland of the United States. Our military was vastly superior.
Attacking Iraq will encourage Saddam Hussein to use his weapons of mass destruction before he loses them.
Saddam never used any weapons of mass destruction. US troops have been searching Iraq and cannot find any weapons of mass destruction. Now it appears Saddam never had any. I made the mistake of believing Bush.
Government-run utilities that overcharged California during the state's energy crisis will not have to pay refunds the state estimates at nearly $1 billion, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The court said the language of the Federal Power Act was clear in excluding governmental agencies from FERC's refund authority. That language was changed in the massive energy bill signed by President Bush in August, FERC spokesman Bryan Lee said.
Bush deliberately misled Congress and the American public about Iraq in order to justify an illegal war. Over 2302 American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians have died as a result. This and other "high crimes and misdemeanors" are grounds for impeachment.
