US Democrats raise prospect of Bush's impeachment over Iraq(Murtha)

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Source: AFP

US Democrats raise prospect of Bush's impeachment over Iraq by Maxim Kniazkov
15 minutes ago



WASHINGTON (AFP) - A top US congressional Democrat has raised the possibility of George W. Bush's impeachment in a bid to force the president to accept a compromise that would place conditions on continued US military involvement in Iraq.

Representative John Murtha (news, bio, voting record), who chairs the House Subcommittee on Defense and is close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record), made the comment Sunday in response to repeated threats by the president to veto legislation that calls for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by the end of next March.

"There's three ways or four ways to influence a president," Murtha said on CBS's "Face the Nation" program. "One is popular opinion, the election, third is impeachment and fourth is the purse."

Asked specifically if Democrats, who now control the US Congress, were seriously contemplating the impeachment option, the congressman responded: "What I'm saying, there's four ways to influence a president ... And one of them's impeachment."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070430/ts_alt_afp/usiraqpolitics_070430072129

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pdf of transcript here: http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/face_042907.pdf

video of interview here: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2739216n