Bush's rationale for spying...? "It's a myth."

in an editorial entitled, "the fog of false choices," the nyt takes almost as unsparing a stand as the pittsburgh post gazette (see previous post)...

After five years, we're used to President Bush throwing up false choices to defend his policies. Americans were told, after all, that there was a choice between invading Iraq and risking a terrorist nuclear attack.

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But none of these phony choices were as absurd as the one Mr. Bush posed to justify his secret program of spying on Americans: save lives or follow the law.

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[W]e can reach a conclusion about Mr. Bush's assertion that obeying a 27-year-old law prevents swift and decisive action in a high-tech era. It's a myth.

speaking of false choices, you don't help your case one iota when you try to shove the blame for illegal spying off on congress... i can only imagine how congressman are feeling about being victims of a "bait and switch..."

Most bizarre was the assertion that Congress authorized the surveillance of American citizens when it approved the use of "all necessary and appropriate force" by the United States military to punish those responsible for the 9/11 attacks or who aided or harbored the terrorists. This came as a surprise to lawmakers, who thought they were voting for the invasion of Afghanistan and the capture of Osama bin Laden.

accumulation of power by any means is and always has been the foremost goal of the bush administration... it's time to dust off the ending to my posts on bush that i used so frequently during the katrina disaster... i thought it had currency then but more so now...

BUSH, CHENEY AND THE ENTIRE CABINET MUST SUBMIT THEIR RESIGNATIONS...

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