Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Republicans Betray Our Military: It is a National Disgrace and a Peril to America

Today, 34 House Democrats voted FOR torture and AGAINST habeas corpus by helping pass HR 6166, a bill so bad that even 7 Republicans voted against it.

On the Senate side, S 3930, the AP reports: "senators of the two parties agreed to limit debate on their own nearly identical measure, all but ensuring its passage on Thursday."

How bravely the opposition party is fighting for basic human rights. Surely the authoritarians will break and run away screaming. Any minute now....

-- Raven

The "retireds" and the "formers" don't have enough clout. When are the "currents" going to speak out? The Slime Masters require face-to-face confrontation with their immediate peers, peers with backbone who do not fear career suicide, NOW, while the NIE and the torture bill irons are hot. John Murtha and Dennis Kucinich as lone individuals fall prey to ridicule and marginalization, but would not if they are joined by equally outraged, credible multitudes. Swiftboat tactics could not succeed if they are drowned out.
The other part of the problem is "the dawning of comprehension of the unimaginable" among the Middle Classes. It has spawned the Centrist class of fence sitters who fail to grasp the sheer magnitude of these issues because they bear personal responsibility for these same issues. They are perfectly comparable to the public relations-coined phrase "moderate Taliban", an oxymoron. And we see how the moderate Taliban are faring lately, don't we.
Between the centrists, the "retireds" and "formers" there is plenty of pre-election alarm, but its alarm that can't compete with the GOP hysteria machine.

Iraq did not attack us, we attacked Iraq. Radical Christians attacked Iraq. People like Ann Coulter said we should invade Muslim countries kill their leaders and convert the people to Christianity. That might make some Muslims concerned about our real agenda, don't you think? Radical Christians , like Pat Roberson said we should assasinate Hugo Chavez. Is Hugo Chavez a Muslim? Is North Korea a Muslim country? Bush has made enemies out of most the world by invading Iraq and Afghanistan, and occupying them. 75% of the people in Iraq want us out, why are we there?
What is the government's plan in Iraq? We will bomb , torture and kill them until they love us? Negroponte, James Steele and Caseel , the group that gave us the Salvadoran Option (Look it up) were sent to Iraq to train death squads there. No sooner did they set up shop there than sectarian violence began and people began showing up dead with electric drill holes in them. Our government wants Iraq split into small separarate states and is creating horrible violence there to insure it. We have become a terrorist state who attacks other countries at will. I don't think radical Muslims are our problem.
As for you Christians out there who want torture and maim other, I will leave you with a quote from Jesus. "As you do the the least of these , so you do unto me"

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Who Needs the Devil When We Have Bush?

Anyway, the Devil is Supernatural.

To see what is happening on the Supernatural side of the equation, go here:

The Enchanted Realms

Your name is "Destiny", the only Human on a Team of Supernatural Beings.

It's plainly obvious...All is well in one's own little world...plenty of shitty chinese crap to buy at Wal-Mart...plenty of brain melting, morality molding programming on the idiot box...enough right wing extreme religion to make your head spin, literally! What we have here is the equivalent to trading our freedom's, our humanity, our country, our decency toward's our fellow man for a hand full of meaningless comfort's that don't amount to a pile of used comdoms! I keep telling you people...week after week...fuck asking these goddamn people for shit!!!! We need to demand change...They work for us..I pay these damn idiot's! You pay these damn idiot's! I'm tired of paying for some bunch of assholes to continually fuck up my country and run it in the ground like a rental car or something! All the talk in the world isn't going to accomplish shit! Wake up America!!! Above all else, buy more ammo...your gonna need it!

Isn't there someone out there who has reached the point of frustfration where they could fufill the strong national desire to see both Bush and Cheney eliminated from our USA democracy. Surely there are other powerful forces in our country competing for power, maybe they could do whatever they see fit, no one will care what happens to them. There must be plenty of ways to accomplish this goal. We could simply start a petition to banish them from the land. We could change the locks at the White House and don't give them a key. By the way, is it possible to make a citizen's arrest and send them to Guatanamo.

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Rumsfeld et al knew that a comprehensive post invasion plan would contradict what they were selling to the public. To avoid such "smoking gun" evidence that a internecine maelstrom was likely to erupt, Rummy forbade a Phase 4 plan.
Less American sons and daughters would now be dead and maimed if the State Department and the Military had been allowed to fully plan the Iraq invasion.
That some of the blood of our dead youth is directly attributable to depraved indifference by George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld is a sad and fearsome fact.
New leadership, with an open agenda to protect America and our troops, is now critical.

"Some User On The Web" is the perfect example of a BUSH supporter who is mighty scared.
I'll even bet he thinks they "hate us because of our freedom". Instead of because we support the Saudi regime . . . which is just another filty rich terrorist camp. Perhaps if we didn't "need" their oil at all, and our "interests" were in creating new energy sources which didn't require the USA having military bases on their Holy Land . . . maybe they wouldn't hate us so much and "Some User On The Web" could sleep at night.
This guy is UBERscared . . . just the way Rove likes 'em. They're quite pliable that way.
I suggest he re-reads "1984", "Mien Kampf" "Brave New World" and get a taste of what this
corporation/administration has in mind. Nothing to fear but fear itself, buddy.

There are plenty of great ideas out there. John Murtha has a great take on the situation. Wesley Clark, too. If you want to see some alternative plans to invading a country that had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks on us google those two, for starters, and see what they propose.
They are not traitors . . . as the current bunch of criminals have tried to make you believe.

Chill, fella . . . you have more chance of having a piano falling on you from a thirty story building than being the victim of an Islamic Fanatic's evil plans for you.

Batiste said it best. Also and to add to the disgust we all do and should feel toward Bush and his administration: Bush accepts the word and pictures of the enemy instead of the word of our soldiers and is keeping our men in prison and in worse conditions than the damm Gitmo terrorists are held!
And PLUS- Bush is conspiring with Mexico and Canada to eliminate our independent national status to be replaced by a North American government and currency.

Who else is acting every day against the will of the citizens and to eliminate our USA national security and independence? With very, very few exceptions- the entire Congress. This includes the darlings- Kennedy, Clinton, Kerry. Skip the liberal-demo-rep fight... concentrate of the existence of our country. WE ARE IN MORTAL DANGER!

Is it coincidence that George W. Bush is the first American president in the nation's history who is neither a veteran (Andrews Jackson, Dwight Eisenhower), farmer (George Washington), educator (Woodrow Wilson) or lawyer(just about all the rest)? And is it any coincidence that the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, USMC General Peter Pace and his immediate predecessor USAF General Richard Myers both are "masters of business administration?"

For many years now I've heard folks ask,"Why can't the government be run more like a business?" Well, now that question has been answered. Our government and country are being run like a business that the board of directors are intent on driving into bankruptcy court.

The business model is anything but democratic. The Bush administration sees itself as a corporation, cabinet the board of directors, the Republican-controlled US House and Senate compliant shareholders and the rest of us are the easily duped, mislead and gullible comsumers of their slipshod produce.

This does not let the Democrats off the hook either. Here's what former Virginia governor and '08 preidential hopeful mark Warner said at a luncheon appearance in Des Moines, IA last week:"Even though the Bush tax cuts only applied to the top 2 percent of Americans, what I think the Kerry campaign missed was that the other 98 percent of Americans still aspired to get to the point in their life where they could qualify for the tax cuts."The Des Moines Register.com Adherents of Warner, and Democrats like him, spout the same failed rhetoric of supply side economics that lead this nation into the Reagan recession, which, of course, was blamed on Jimmy Carter, and the myth that everyone can become a millionaire with enough hard work. Gov. Warner's hard work is best summed up in his Wikipedia entry:In the early 1980s, Warner served as a Senate staff member to Senator Christopher Dodd. He used his knowledge of federal telecommunications policies as a broker of cellular phone franchise licenses, making a large fortune(emphasis added my me). But I've digressed.

This corporationist tend will mean the end of democracy as we know it and less national security. And in keeping with the corporate mentality, the actions or inactions by the Bush administration in confronting Al Qaeda, the real plan to fight and win the "war on terror" is to sell the gullible comsumer, the American people, the sizzle and not the steak; more fancy, and unnecessary and prohibitively expensive military doodads than treating terrorism as a police problem. CEO Bush and his board of directors could really care less about the safety of the American public from attack just as long as the scared comsumer keeps the shareholds, ie. the US Senate and House Republicans, in office and happy. That which does not fit in with the business model the White House board of directors sees to it that it will not reach the public;what the consumer does not know will not hurt him until the ladder breaks from under him, then just let him try to sue. Moreover, that which the CEO does not want to hear will not reach his ears.

This is the greatest threat to democracy this republic has faced in its 217 year history. We must bring our own house
to order by returning to "...government of the people, by the people, for the people..." over that of corporate interests.

The first thing we need to do is pray that enough people show up at the polls to vote that not even the rigged E-voting can scew the results. IF, and that's still a big "if", the House gets in the Dems hands, John Conyers, one of the few decent politicians in Washington would decome the head of the Judiciary, than we'll see some serious investigations into this corrupt administration. (Which scares me to death, becuse bush&co know this and being what they are are capable of anything to stop this - look for an attack near you or Iran here we come?)

If the Dems get in in 06, 08, we should get on our knees and beg forgivness from the world for the crimes this nation has committed under bush and offer him and his minions up to the World Court for the crimes against humanity they've committed.

As far as solutions to most everything - all we have to do is exact opposite of everything bush has done and that should pretty much take care of that.

While I respect the opinions and the beliefs of men like Batiste, I sure hope he's right that he can do more out of uniform to save the situation.

I've always suspected that departures of principled men like Batiste just make it easier for people like Rummy to replace him with someone who drinks the Kool-Aid - and that doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

Allen Voivod
Editor, DeadBrain.com and
Co-creator of "The Rumsfeld Diaries Political Action Pak"
www.RumsfeldDiaries.com

I disagree with the first comment. Finding a solution for
the Iraq fiasco must begin with awareness of the gravity of
the situation. Hence the appropriateness of this editorial.

Americans are now coping with the "slow dawning"
that the man they elected to office at least once via re-election
is not competent to run the country. A solution will not come overnight.

It took billions of dollars and dozens of blunders by the white
house to get us here. Remember - they were planning this war for a
very long time before 9-11. The evidence for that is overwhelming.

We begin by voting these fools out and making the very best choices
we can to get new people into the white house who can begin to do actually do the will of the American people and address the extrication
process. That is to say, begin the process of extricating our troops
out of a miserable no win scenario.

Ranting about the editorial is no solution either. Raise awareness first. Tell friends and family who never vote that they must now vote
with all their heart or face suicide bombers on us soil in less than 4 years. A sea change in Washington must take place in 2008.

The very future of the nation is at stake. I genuinely hope that
independent political parties are scouring their men and women for
alternative candidates to the democratic or republican puppets.
We now need a legitimate new political party. That would be the next
step after raising awareness at a grass roots level.

Beginning a solution:
1) Riase awareness in your local circles of family and friends
2) Look to alternative candidates as options
3) If you find none, shut up and start a new political party.

I propose the New American Unity Party as the name for this
unifying third party option.

There - that should keep the first commenter busy for awhile.

Goldenheart

You, like so many others, have anted up and shown what your perception of the "problem" is. That's fine. So now, show us your cards. Show the world what is your comprehensive, detailed plan to reduce our military presence, reduce the number of lives lost, reduce the hatred against the U.S.A., reduce our dependence on foreign countries for energy and other goods, reduce the number of illegal immigrants, reduce the acts of terrorism, stabilize our economy, and improve the overall morality of our country.

Not one single person who opposes the current administration has yet to do this effectively. Simply advocating a change of administration is no plan. It may be a start, but no one as of yet has provided any detailed plan to viably accomplish these goals.

Or will providing such a plan tip you hand in your upcoming elections? If the stability of this country is so important to you, instead of bickering and complaining along party lines, why not present a doable, executable, viable plan that ANY administration should be able to follow?