Tina Brown: Bush would have been impeached by now over Obama drone policy, page 1

BILL MAHER, HOST OF “REAL TIME” ON HBO: The Obama administration has been heavily targeting whistleblowers — true — and information activists. What can we do to hold the government accountable for this harsh crackdown?

TINA BROWN, NEWSWEEK: I mean, he’d be impeached by now for drones, if he was George W. Bush.

MAHER: Impeached? No.

BROWN: Yeah, don’t you think?

MAHER: Impeached, by who? Who would –

BROWN: I think if this was a Republican president, the outcry about drones would be far greater.

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Bush would have impeached by now over Benghazi, Fast and Furious, or the economy, or a million other things Obama has done. But because the media refuses to attack Obama for the ILLEGAL things he is doing (because they are bought and paid for by the White House like CNN), no one will even take the idea of impeachment seriously.

The media is manufacturing consent. Nothing will ever be done to hold Obama accountable. Ever.

reply to post by planefixer

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Did you know Bush passed executive orders? many don't because(well i don;t want to get into this issue) but sadly, its is not a important issue when he does it.

reply to post by cetaphobic

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I don't know about impeached... I suppose it is possible, but there certainly would have been a more virulent public and possibly media outcry over these policies. Obama does enjoy a certain cult of personality that gives him a pass on gross breaches of constitutional and even human rights. It's creepy.

Originally posted by redhorse
reply to post by cetaphobic

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I don't know about impeached... I suppose it is possible, but there certainly would have been a more virulent public and possibly media outcry over these policies. Obama does enjoy a certain cult of personality that gives him a pass on gross breaches of constitutional and even human rights. It's creepy.

Creepy it is. Almost like he has the media in his pocket.......wait, oh yeah my bad.

reply to post by Evil_Santa

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Exactly, what the different if they search "potential terrorist" from an attack helicopter or a drone? its just a searching tool, probably cost effective.

Its mainly due to bad reputation drones have... lol its a whole different ball games when its flying over their country, but it was all cool when it was flying over children's school in middle east.

reply to post by luciddream

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He pretty much destroyed 2 countries and over 100,000 lives on both sides and nothing happens.

Your statement assumes that there was a lot to destroy in those two countries. There wasn't!

Concerning the death toll that you stated:
1) Saddam Hussein is believed to have been responsible for approx. two million Muslim deaths.

2) According to the United Nations, the Taliban, and their allies, are responsible for 76% of the civilian death toll in Afghanistan.

Obama does something 1/10 of the scale, all of a sudden, "Hang him!"

You are the only one that said "Hang him!", but I'm sure that is only an exaggeration based on the same emotional nonsense that "Obama does something 1/10 of the scale" is.

I have no doubt that you were, and most likely you still are, screaming "Hang him!" in regard to Mr. Bush, so that certainly lends credence to the assertion:

Bush would have been impeached by now over Obama drone policy

See ya,
Milt

reply to post by kozmo

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I agree, any president who uses drones to kill innocent civilians, wether US citizens or not, should be impeached.
As a libertarian, I don't pull any punches when dealing with either major party. They are the reason we are in such a mess!

reply to post by cetaphobic

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LOL, she is high as hell. Bush wouldn't have been impeached. What an r-tard.

reply to post by kozmo

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Kudos for your bipartisan attack!
Yeah, it's hard to believe that the Dems and Repugs aren't in bed with each other when their "bi-partisan" bills are like the NDAA.

As long as you didn't say you were a Libertarian and "above it all". Crooks on the right and left are just crooks -- and they throw out Abortion or Gun Control so that 50% can be angry at the other 50%. But we are in a morass of Corporate control of our elections and our government's policies. There isn't any way 300 million people can work together WITHOUT a government -- so the debate needs to be; "how do we clean this mess up?" It starts with election reform -- no solution that says; "put them in jail" will work because the people crooks hired run our judicial system. The best you can get is a "look the other way and sound busy" Eric Holder.

The only thing that would make things worse is "less government oversight". Big Banks and Big Energy can do what they want -- but it wouldn't help a thing if your Auto Mechanic started dumping the refuse from an oil change down the sewer.

I just don't see anything improving until the system breaks. And there are so many bad ways things can go from there. If the super wealthy just decided to make a fair system again - they could do it overnight. However, they've been getting away with everything for decades -- they don't think anything bad can happen to them.

Until "Anonymous" hacks a drone and uses it against the Oligarchs, or the "way up the ladder" becomes kidnapping rich kids like it has in many Latin American countries -- the corruption that is our system will continue.

Obama isn't the problem -- he's merely implementing the policies that are already there. Better drones than invasions of our troops -- but Better would be not to invade at all. It's not our business nor about protecting us. That's just the excuse. There was more "al Qaeda" in South Florida than Afghanistan.

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