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To: GST who wrote (105423)	7/15/2003 12:24:12 AM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

" we have convinced everyone that they must have nukes." Absolutely GST. Something I warned here of nearly a year ago or more. However,with regard to NK,why do you think they thought they needed a nuke program in the first place,long before this latest stupidity by Bush? TIA

To: GST who wrote (105423)	7/15/2003 7:41:16 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

What do you think we should do about NK? Here's a chance to do more than criticize but step up to the plate and offer a course of action.

To: GST who wrote (105423)	7/15/2003 8:44:24 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense? By JOHN W. DEAN* writ.news.findlaw.com <<...As I remarked in an earlier column, this Administration may be due for a scandal. While Bush narrowly escaped being dragged into Enron, it was not, in any event, his doing. But the war in Iraq is all Bush's doing, and it is appropriate that he be held accountable. To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be "a high crime" under the Constitution's impeachment clause. It would also be a violation of federal criminal law, including the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders it a felony "to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose." It's important to recall that when Richard Nixon resigned, he was about to be impeached by the House of Representatives for misusing the CIA and FBI. After Watergate, all presidents are on notice that manipulating or misusing any agency of the executive branch improperly is a serious abuse of presidential power. Nixon claimed that his misuses of the federal agencies for his political purposes were in the interest of national security. The same kind of thinking might lead a President to manipulate and misuse national security agencies or their intelligence to create a phony reason to lead the nation into a politically desirable war. Let us hope that is not the case...>> *John Dean, a FindLaw columnist, is a former Counsel to the President of the United States.