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To: TimF who wrote (4791)	11/1/2005 9:08:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541530

there is no legal support in the constitution or our laws to call the lie perjury or treason. It is a deriliction of duty. The President has a clear and explicit duty to present an accurate state of the union to congress. TP

To: TimF who wrote (4791)	11/1/2005 10:55:26 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541530

I agree that the State of the Union Address is not made under oath -- but perjury isn't the only high crime that is impeachable. Lying to Congress is probably impeachable, especially if the lies were intended to fool Congress into authorizing war. After all, the Constitution mandates that the President give the State of the Union Address, and the Constitution mandates that Congress declare war. Defalcation, misappropriation of government funds. Not that a Republican controlled Congress would allow it. We really don't know anything about the status of the intelligence, since the Republican controlled Congress won't authorize any hearings. We just have to take the Administration's word that everything is on the up-and-up. Depending on your trust in the veracity of the various members of the Administration, taking their word may not be an easy thing to do. Makes the 2006 elections more interesting. They haven't managed to do much to forward anything that I thought was part of the Conservative agenda, except various forms of corporate welfare, but they certainly managed to start a war against a country that wasn't any imminent threat for the first time in American history.