Bush tried and failed to gain authorization to wage war on U.S. soil
this fits perfectly with all i've thought, suspected, said and written over the past years of bush's black reign... at the very top of the agenda of bush and his cronies has been the accumulation of total and unobstructed power... they've gotten plenty already but it's a relief to see there has been at least some token resistance along the way...
as long as we're officially "at war," and as long as george can hold on to that coveted title, "commander-in-chief," he is going to claim the right to do whatever he damn well pleases... that is precisely why his aim is to keep the country in a permanent state of war and why the announcement was made (if we can remember back that far) that the war on terror might last for decades... how very, very convenient... Submit To Propeller
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The Bush administration requested, and Congress rejected, war-making authority "in the United States" in negotiations over the joint resolution passed days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to an opinion article by former Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) in today's Washington Post.
Daschle's disclosure challenges a central legal argument offered by the White House in defense of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens and permanent residents. It suggests that Congress refused explicitly to grant authority that the Bush administration now asserts is implicit in the resolution.
as long as we're officially "at war," and as long as george can hold on to that coveted title, "commander-in-chief," he is going to claim the right to do whatever he damn well pleases... that is precisely why his aim is to keep the country in a permanent state of war and why the announcement was made (if we can remember back that far) that the war on terror might last for decades... how very, very convenient... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
12/23/2005
