Bush's Foes Hint at Impeachment

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"Any president who says, 'I don't care,' or 'I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else,' or 'I don't care what the Congress does; I am going to proceed' -- if a president really believes that, then... there are ways to deal with that," said [Chuck Hagel], who is considering a 2008 presidential run.

In the April edition of Esquire magazine, Hagel described [George W. Bush] as someone who doesn't believe he's accountable to anyone. "He's not accountable anymore, which isn't totally true. You can impeach him, and before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment. I don't know. It depends on how this goes," Hagel told the magazine.

"There are members in the Senate in both parties that are not comfortable with how things have gone in Iraq," [Trent Lott] said. "But they understand that artificial timetables, even as goals, are a problem...We will try to take out the arbitrary dates."

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Bush's Foes Hint at Impeachment

Senate to consider setting pullout date

By Hope Yen

WASHINGTON -- With his go-it-alone approach on Iraq, U.S. President George W. Bush is flouting Congress and the public, so angering...

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