{"article":{"id":73198,"heading":"Democrat Eyes Potential Grounds for Bush Impeachment","author":"produced by systemfailure","created":"2003-07-18 23:19:18","modified":"2003-10-05 12:41:43","last_modified":"Sun, 05 Oct 2003 19:41:43","article":"<br>  <br> While Graham did not call for Bush's impeachment, he said if the president lied about the reasons for going to war with Iraq (news - web sites) it would be \"more serious\" than former President Bill Clinton's lie under oath about his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky.  <br><br> \"If in fact we went to war under false pretenses that is a very serious charge,\" Graham, the senior U.S. senator from Florida, told reporters in New Hampshire.  <br><br> \"If the standard of impeachment is the one the House Republicans used against Bill Clinton, this clearly comes within that standard,\" he said.  <br><br> Democrats and some Republicans have raised questions about the unsubstantiated claim Bush made in his January State of the Union speech that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa in its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.  <br><br> Graham's comments came as reporters followed up on his remarks earlier this week that any deception by Bush over Iraq might rise to the standard of an impeachable offense -- as defined by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives when it voted to impeach Clinton.  <br><br> After his appearance in New Hampshire, Graham issued a statement saying he was not calling for Bush's impeachment and saw the issue as a largely academic one, adding that if Bush had misled the American public he would pay the price for it in the 2004 presidential election.  <br><br> In Washington on Thursday, Bush told a news conference that the speech reference was based on \"sound intelligence\" and he was certain that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was trying to reconstitute his nuclear weapons program.  <br><br> \n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&ncid=584&e=1&u=\/nm\/20030717\/pl_nm\/iraq_bush_graham_dc","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bob Graham said on Thursday there were grounds to impeach President Bush  if he was found to have led America to war under false pretenses. ","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/07\/73198.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":73199,"heading":"Finally........","article":"someone wants to do the right thing.\r\nI was worried that our government was going to continue to fuck things up and while the majority of anti-Constitutional &quot;\u00c5mericans&quot; continue to look the other way.","author":"stop the slaughter","parent_id":73198,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-18 23:22:39","modified":"2013-11-11 00:24:02","fileurl":""},{"id":73286,"heading":"I'm despirate!","article":"Hi.  I'm Bob Graham.  I'm running for president.  Someone, anyone, please notice me.  Please?  Pretty please??  Pretty please with sugar on top??  Here I am.  That's me jumping up and down waving my hands.  Notice me.  Please notice me!  Please?  Pretty please??  Pretty please with sugar............","author":"Bob Graham","parent_id":73198,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-19 15:06:17","modified":"2003-10-05 12:34:08","fileurl":""},{"id":86780,"heading":"Hmmmm","article":"Posted by resident fat-ass white supremecist sfailure in July.\r\n\r\nGuess they couldn't find and lies.\r\n\r\nOh well, ","author":"fresca","parent_id":73198,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-05 12:36:42","modified":"2003-10-05 12:36:42","fileurl":""},{"id":86783,"heading":"Soon enough","article":"Kucinich will be the next to go crazy (er).","author":"jukey","parent_id":73198,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-10-05 12:41:43","modified":"2003-10-05 12:41:43","fileurl":""}]}