The Case for Impeaching Obama

"We need to fight back," he said during an interview with Scott Harris on the show "Counterpoint" on WPKN radio. "He's made clear he'll attack, no matter what Congress does."

Boyle thinks the Syrian situation is fraught with danger, given the alliances involved: Russia, China and Iran with Syria, and the U.S., Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia with the Syrian rebels. "We have very little time to head off a regional catastrophe," he said.

Boyle, the author of numerous books, said an impeachment drive is the one thing that will make Obama stop and hold off on military action. The law scholar also maintained, as do many, that the claims that the Syrian government engaged in a chemical weapons attack--only days after a UN team arrived to investigate previous claims of poison gas use--are phony. "This is nothing more than a pretext," he said.

Boyle didn't get into the prospects for actually gaining a successful impeachment vote. So far, only Republicans, particularly Tea Party Republicans, have talked of impeachment, citing things of doubtful merit like the alleged mishandling of the Benghazi embassy attack or administration misuse of the IRS. But there's also been talk of two issues that do have merit--the illegality of drone strikes and the unconstitutional surveillance by the NSA.

I don't know of any liberal or progressive groups, except for Veterans for Peace, who have advocated impeachment. But it's time to start talking about it. This administration has done too much to undermine domestic and international law and our Constitution NOT to talk about it. A brake simply has to be placed on an executive branch that is constantly getting this nation involved in illegal and costly wars abroad, and at the same time restricting constitutionally-guaranteed civil liberties at home.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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