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Hater Depot
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 Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject: Bush's Battle Endangers the War |
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http://nationaljournal.com/rauch.htm
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On September 18, 2001, when Congress passed a joint resolution authorizing President Bush to use "all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001," it thought it was approving a military attack on Al Qaeda and the Taliban. It should have known better.
Warrantless domestic surveillance seems fine for four days, four weeks, or even four months. But for four years, with no end in sight?
Congress should have understood that presidents, given war-making authority, take it and run. According to Bush, what Congress was in fact giving him was the power to pursue the enemy on the battlefield as he sees fit. And it was giving him the power to decide, unilaterally, who the enemy is. And to define the battlefield -- again, unilaterally.
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And so Bush has claimed power, as commander-in-chief, to redefine limits on the detention and interrogation of prisoners. He claims the power to seize U.S. citizens on U.S. soil and to hold them without formal charge in a military brig for as long as he wants, without meaningful access to courts or lawyers. And now it emerges that he also claims the power to eavesdrop without warrants on Americans in the United States, in seeming violation of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA.
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I still wonder why so many allegedly small-government conservatives still refuse to raise any sustained criticism of Bush's overreaching on security and utter disregard for fiscal sanity on budgetary matters. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject: Re: Bush's Battle Endangers the War |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
http://nationaljournal.com/rauch.htm
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On September 18, 2001, when Congress passed a joint resolution authorizing President Bush to use "all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001," it thought it was approving a military attack on Al Qaeda and the Taliban. It should have known better.
Warrantless domestic surveillance seems fine for four days, four weeks, or even four months. But for four years, with no end in sight?
Congress should have understood that presidents, given war-making authority, take it and run. According to Bush, what Congress was in fact giving him was the power to pursue the enemy on the battlefield as he sees fit. And it was giving him the power to decide, unilaterally, who the enemy is. And to define the battlefield -- again, unilaterally.
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And so Bush has claimed power, as commander-in-chief, to redefine limits on the detention and interrogation of prisoners. He claims the power to seize U.S. citizens on U.S. soil and to hold them without formal charge in a military brig for as long as he wants, without meaningful access to courts or lawyers. And now it emerges that he also claims the power to eavesdrop without warrants on Americans in the United States, in seeming violation of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA.
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I still wonder why so many allegedly small-government conservatives still refuse to raise any sustained criticism of Bush's overreaching on security and utter disregard for fiscal sanity on budgetary matters. |
Fear. Of what, they have no real clue, but fear it is. |
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