Would you support the impeachment of Barack Obama if he intervenes militarily in Syria?

[DireStrike]

1. Impeachment is for crimes. It isn't for getting rid of presidents you don't like. *Edit: It isn't?*

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Joshcryer points out below that impeachment doesn't have specific legal requirements. In fact it does have several specific requirements, and one very general one.

From wikipedia:

"In the United States, impeachment can occur both at the federal and state level. The Constitution defines impeachment at the federal level and limits impeachment to "The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States" who may be impeached and removed only for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors".[9] Several commentators have suggested that Congress alone may decide for itself what constitutes a "high crime or misdemeanor" especially since Nixon v. United States stated that the Supreme Court did not have the authority to determine whether the Senate properly "tried" a defendant.[citation needed] In 1970, then-House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford defined the criterion as he saw it: "An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history."[10] Four years later, Gerald Ford would become president when President Richard Nixon resigned under the threat of impeachment."