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Originally Posted by Ishmael
Abysmal & impeachable.
We have a president who called for a return of integrity to office presiding over the most corrupt administration since the Harding & Grant administrations.
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More corrupt than Nixon? Right...
Look at who was in Nixon & Ford's administrations: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Kissinger. They were all there. A reminder, Grant, Harding & Nixon were Republican administrations. Also the latest development of US Attorneys being fired for no reason. Here's a link to that story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-b...l_b_42591.html
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We have the "business" president who turned budget surpluses into raging deficits financed by a possible future adversary.
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Who? What "future Advesary?"
China, the ones who own our debt and fired a shot across our bows by dropping their stock exchange by 10% and Wall St. drops 400 points in a day.
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We have a "war & security" president who was so focused on regime change in Iraq that he
1. Ignored the warnings on al qaeda and an attack here and failed to prevent the attack that occured on his watch.
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All the information he got was that there was an impending attack by al-queda. It didn't describe in detail exactly how.
Wrong again. We know that Ramzi Yuseff planned using hijacked airplanes back in the mid-90's. We also know about the Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug. 2001 saying bin-laden determined to attack in US.
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2. Failed to finish the job in securing Afghanistan before ginning up his war of choice in Iraq and failed to send enough troops to secure order in either place. So now we have a civil war in Iraq and a resurgent Taliban with safe havens in Pakistan and billions in opium smuggling money to finance their offensives.
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Then why are there not any news reports from Afghanistan of "Attacks on US troops?" All we have there are SOF forces backed by mobilized units of Marines (Using mainly helicopters) and the Air Force. The SOF teams are working with the new Afghani government and ex-northern alliance forces to defeat the A-Q. And what do you suggest we do with Pakistan?
It's wintertime so the Pushtuns are marshalling their forces for the spring offensive. Also the recent carbombing during Cheney's visit and the car bombing in Kabul where film was seized that showed US troops firing indescriminately into crowds and traffic in the aftermath. Re: Pakistan: We're in a real bind there. But if I was going to support an attack on nuclear facilities, Pakistan's would be at the top of my list coinciding with incursions of US & NATO forces into Waziristan to stop the Pushtun threat on both sides of the border.
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3. Ignores the fact that 92% of US casualties in Iraq are from the Sunni insurgency and rattles sabres at Iran while building forces for an attack on that country.
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We are NOT building forces to ATTACK Iran. It is a defensive force, almost exclusively naval forces. Bush is not going to attack anything when he knows he has less than two years left in office.
Give it a few months. Read this interview by a Lt. col. who was in the Pentagon's Ofice of Special Plans:
http://www.truthdig.com/interview/it...war_with_iran/
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4. Has not secured this nation's borders because his corporate friends want cheap labor.
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At least he did SOMETHING about it.
Ahh. Buy he hasn't. Are our borders, ports & chemical plants more secure now? The answer is No. Read this transcript of an interview with Michael Scheur, former head of the now-defunct Bin-Laden unit at CIA:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17240518/
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We have an "oil" president totally in thrall to the Saudi royal family and his oil company friends to the point of allowing them to formulate national energy policy with the VP and blocks any attempt to shine a light of inquiry on those meetings.
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Says who?
Look Here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...111501842.html
and here:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/printer...field-pr.shtml
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We have a "regular guy" president who only cares about tax cuts for his wealthy friends while gutting the social safety net and killing the middle class of this country.
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I've got PLENTY of tax cuts. I'm middle class.
I would remind you that this is the first time in the history of the republic that a taxcut was passed during wartime. What happened to shared sacrifices for victory?
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We have an "ownership" president who has never taken responsibility for any of his myriad of mistakes.
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Such as? And even then, I can say the same for many of presidents.
True, many presidents like Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, Johnson & both Bushes have failed to take responsibility for thier actions & pardoned wrongdoers. the difference is that, in this instance, blood & treasure were lost.
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We have a "freedom" president who has systematically deconstructed the Constitution and Bill of Rights in the pursuit of the so-called "unitary executive" ammassing for himself dictatorial powers.
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Last time I checked, (which happened to be yestarday), That was the ACLU.
I refer not to just the Patriot Act but also to the Military Commissions Act. I also refer to the Attorney General of the United States redefining torture and claiming habeas corpus is not an inalienable right.
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...Now under US law, the president can declare anybody anywhere at any time an "enemy combatant", citizen or not, and confine & torture them with no redress or right of appeal. He can declare martial law at his whim, nationalize National guard troops from any state without permission from that state's governor and send them to other states under federal control without the permission of the destination's governor.
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It was called the "Homeland Security Act." It does NOT allow him to declare any random person a terrorist. He can only do so to take action after enough intercepted communications can be collected that the person can be determined to be a ginuine threat to the US.
No, but the Military Commissions Act does. It & the companion riders passed in the emergency military funding bills allows him to activate the National guard in one state bypassing local authorities and deploy them to other states without permission of local authorities. Besides, who determines who is a genuine threat to the US? The President.
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We have a "defense" president who has systematically run our Army & Marines into the ground and now seems intent on doing the same with the Navy & Air Force in Iran.
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Run the military into the ground? He's trying to INCREASE defense spending by the billion! That's funding for technology for the troops, not against them.
Look at the Pentagon's own estimates of troop strength & readiness if you don't believe me. Or just go to Walter Reed. Why then are we still not getting proper armor for our troops and equipment in Iraq after 5 years? Why is the Bush admin. so dead-set against Murtha's plan to ensure troops deploying receive adequate training in occupation & urban counter-insurgency warfare?
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At the same time, he hires mercenary armies from Blackwater, CACI, SAIC and their ilk to patrol US disaster areas, seizing legally owned firearms from law-abiding citizens.
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The siezing of firearms was ordered by Ray Negan. And what is so wrong with Private Operatives? They allow the troops to focus more on one thing, and not what they PO's are defending. P.S.: The siezing of firearms was conducted by the Police of New Orleans.
I have a problem with private mercenary armies operating under contract to anybody. If you believe in law & order, then officers of the court and law are duly sworn to protect the constitution. Private armies owe their only alleigance to the people that pay them.
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What this president has done is to strengthen, at every opportunity, corporate and executive government power in secret and lie and smear any and all who oppose his efforts. What is acheived with this concentration of corporate/government power?
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What corporate power? You DO know that there is a left run congress right now, right?
How about the aforementioned energy task force meetings? How about a prescription drug plan written by the pharmaceutical corporations? the bankruptcy bill written by credit card corporations? The incredible waste & fraud in Iraqi reconstruction by Halliburton, Parsons, Bechtel et al? Read Seymour Hersh's latest piece in the New Yorker that alleges that reconstruction money is funding Sunni extremist groups like al-qaeda to counter Hezbollah.
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From my readings, that is the classic definition of Fascism.
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That's nice.
