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If I remember my history correct, didn't Reagan/Bush office do this too? Just to Iraq, in which those guns killed US soliders? Killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq too right?Little different situation. We sent arms to Iran in exchange for the release of the US hostages. We also sent arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war; both operations were not pretty but were a logical extension of US foreign policy.
Did Reagan get impeached? Originally Posted by MsElena
I don't think Ollie went to prison, but I might be wrong. There are never enough politicians in prison. They should release some of the drug users who need treatment and use those beds for members of Congress. Democrats to the left, Republicans to the right. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuyCOG you are correct he did not go to prison, he was given a suspended sentence and probation, but then with the help of the ACLU he got his sentences vacated.
Ok, we sold guns knowing they would end up in the hands of drug terrorists, and these same guns are used to kill our law enforcement officers. If President Bush had pulled anything like this (and I don't care for President Bush) he would have been hanged. This is outrageous!The federal government didn't sell guns to anyone. The ATF, used a common investigative technique (let the "buy" happen and follow the guns back to the money man, in this case, the Mexican distributor) and that went wrong (which is entirely understandable due to the rampant amounts of corruption in Mexican LE)...
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Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
The federal government didn't sell guns to anyone. The ATF, used a common investigative technique (let the "buy" happen and follow the guns back to the money man, in this case, the Mexican distributor) and that went wrong (which is entirely understandable due to the rampant amounts of corruption in Mexican LE)...As usual, you see the world through your rose-Dem-colored glasses. Nixon was almost impeached because he lied and tried to cover up Watergate; Clinton was impeached because he lied, under oath, during an investigation and tried to cover it up. Same thing here - Holder's trying to cover up a failed operation that happened domestically. The Bamster won't be impeached for this. And the excuse "...well other Presidents have done this and they didn't get impeached for it..." doesn't fly - each fuck-up is evaluated by the circumstances of the fuck-up, who was affected/damaged by the action and what the political circumstances are at the time. He may be impeached, because the House majority is of the opposite party, but he won't be convicted in the Senate because his own party controls that chamber - and neither party will bring down one of their own.
I'm sure, for your sake that President Obama was the first line supervisor, and was watching it all go down in the "war room" in the same manner as the Bin Laden operation, and just made a bad call. You say that you're not partisan, then why attempt to justify your call for impeachment by saying, "if bush had done this". You only get impeached for getting a blowjob, in this country, not for causing the deaths of other people.... Originally Posted by thorough9