Reply #125: we're just struggling to understand you here

[imenja]

You insist your goal is impeachment, then insist legal solutions are a waste of time. Legal responses are worthless, yet you seek to apply international law that the US does not recognize and has never submitted to. Yet you haven't specified which that law is, or how you hope to apply it to Bush. When posters point out an electoral landslide for Dem's in 2006 is a prerequisite for impeachment, you say the system is too corrupt to allow that. How do you imagine you'll achieve impeachment and conviction if you don't follow the guidelines of the US Constitution? Impeachment is a political response, not a criminal one. In fact, the constitution specifies that removal from office will be the extent of sanctions against the president. International Courts do not enforce internal political matters. They try international war crimes. The fact the US is not a signatory to the International Court and has never submitted to such jurisdiction seems to have no bearing on your analysis. (Do you actually imagine this is the first administration to commit war crimes? American history is full of them. Kissinger, for example,
walks free, despite his role in supporting torture and dictatorship.)
When queried about who you imagine would replace Bush, you ignore the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 and the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and instead posit the notion that the Republicans will somehow cooperate with Democrats in choosing a successor. You imagine all the Republicans will be impeached, even though there is no legal precedent for impeaching house members. They are up for election every two years. Reelection is when they are turned out, yet you say elections are a waste of time.
This is why people are are frustrated here. It simply doesn't make sense.
Getting rid of Bush is a wonderful idea, but there has to be a thoughtful legal or political strategy for doing so. It has to follow the structures of American law, unless of course you plan a military coup.