Impeaching Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors [pdf]

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Oh we're doing this again.

Can we do this before he literally nukes Iran?

I'm all in favor of the impeachment but I worry that it makes it more likely that he wants to nuke Iran. If he's going down he'll take everyone with him. Hopefully the people around him are enough afraid of Nuremberg 2 that they stop him.

It is Israel pushing for this.

"we’re hearing from strategists in Netanyahu’s party, talking about the use of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki models. We’re hearing from the PM and from his defence minister about crushing Iran, about decisively decimating the country, about having a hit list of the power grid in Iran that is just waiting for the go-ahead from the US president."

I really hope that they are not taking Hiroshima and Nagasaki as models. Those were part of a very different conflict at a very different time. A similar approach would produce very different results.

If they simply mean "nuclear bombs" they'll have to come up with a very different justification and strategy than the US used 80 years ago. If it's just "it worked then so it'll work now", then things are going to go very, very, very badly.

Doesn't even have to be nukes per se or occur in a single, focal event. Look what Netanyahu's IDF did over months to Gaza's cities and its children with American taxpayer-funded conventional dumb and smart bombs via indiscriminate destruction of the majority of buildings. Weaponizing WWII- and Vietnam-era de facto carpet bombing by lobbing large quantities of bombs haphazardly with a pretense of right to self-defense and surgical application of force is yet another neocolonial, imperialist crime against humanity no matter which country does it.

This was created before he threatened that. Keep up.

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