<div dir='auto'><div dir="auto">Ron Paul the day before Clinton's impeachment proceedings:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"I have a prepared statement for tomorrow and in that statement I talk about a much more serious act that the president has committed than anything that we've generally talked about and that was the illegal bombing in Afghanistan and Sudan. <span class="money">$200</span> Million dollars were spent for that without congressional approval. Not only is it annoying, I think its illegal, unconstitutional and an act of war. I think its much worse than anything we have considered under the impeachment.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">.... I'll be voting for impeachment, un-enthusiastically because I think the charges are way too mild and not touching the issues I would like to touch. I wish congress would address the un-constitutionality of waging war, that to me is a lot more serious than Monica Lewinsky"</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">THAT is how you use impeachment proceedings to give voice to the libertarian perspective, not regurgitating the ridiculous reasons given, even if you agree and would vote for it regardless.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I agree with Richard. Whether or not the impeachment is a good thing, the message as an official statement on behalf of leadership without so much as a convo on it was very bad. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks,</div><div dir="auto">Joshua </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 14, 2019 9:19 AM, Susan Hogarth via Lnc-business <lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">
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Imagine calls for impeachment of a sitting president by the chair of the libertarian party being ‘divisive’ within the party 🙄
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