Comments on: Surge & Dictatorship

By: Insight

Insight — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:58:49 +0000

Jim:

Just came across your site. Was interested in your perspective of Jim Wallis’ Sojourners group and its political alliances with progressive democrats.
They seem to be getting more attention these days.
Your thoughts, please.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:33:16 +0000

Dunno. But if a handful of officers and higher-ups speak out publicly - this horror could be avoided.

By: lawhobbit

lawhobbit — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:25:52 +0000

Seeing as how the war with Iran will start as an air war, how could the bomber pilots and missile launch crews even think about saying “no?”

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:25:02 +0000

Great quote and great points!

Richard II also said, “I wasted time, now time doth waste me” - as the revolt against his abuses was closing in.

We’ll see if Congress, the courts, or the American people permit Bush to reset the clock.

By: Adam S.

Adam S. — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:16:22 +0000

I believe that Bush should not lose heart. He can always do what Richard the Second was reported to do at the Privy Council meetings. Richard would dance around his councilors and sing “The law is in mine heart and my head, and no one can make me change it.” No one could tell him what to do and look what a fine leader he turned out to be.
In Shakespeare’s play he gives peerless advice. Bush should really take heed:”I had forgot myself: am I not king? Awake thou sluggard majesty! thou sleep’st. Is not the king’s name forty thouand names? Arm, arm my great name” I bet that if we just put on a bigger show for the Iraqis, the terrorism will just stop. The only real trouble we have had is that Bush isn’t powerful enough. Until there is a smiling portrait of G.W. Bush on every street corner, we won’t be awesome enough to cow our critics.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:40:27 +0000

There’s a pipedream if ever there was one.

The vast majority of the US military has obeyed whatever orders Bush has given.

We’ll see if this continues if Bush starts a new war with Iran.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:57:28 +0000

Bush is indeed a traitor and I think it not out-of-line for the army to surround the WH and arrest him. He needs a trip to the World Court.

By: William

William — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:04:39 +0000

I seem to remember an oath I undertook to join the armed forces many years ago. I raised my right hand and swore to “DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM ENIMIES BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.” This brings me to the quite rational conclusion that the President of the United States is a traitor, and should be dealt with in an appropriate manner. If the American people do not they become complicent in this treason.. With the degredation of Habeus Corpus and Posse Comintatus any soul residing in the 50 states is no longer safe from encroching fascism and a “police state”. Act now or you will perish….

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:38:17 +0000

Maybe it is possible to arrange some testicle transplants so that Congress can revoke this Authorization to Use Military Force which supposedly made Bush czar in perpetuity.

By: Original Steve

Original Steve — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:23:49 +0000

Larry, then, you believe Congress should rescind the resolution???

By: Larry Chudd

Larry Chudd — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:38:01 +0000

Congress got us into this mess, and contrary to what most of us (both in and out of Congress) may think, Congress DOES have the power to get us out.

The resolution that gave George W. the “power to use force” was obtained through skilful trickery and deception
(motivated by NeoCon ideology and arrogance).

Those who have the power to authorize the “Use of Force” also have the power to RECIND that authority. The sooner our Congress awakens to this facet of THEIR power, the sooner this National Nightmare will end. And it better end soon… before he starts wars with Iran and Syria. The George W. is a “Rogue Executive”. He needs to be corralled.

By: Adrian Angeldonis

Adrian Angeldonis — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:55:47 +0000

Remember the decoy ! Gates is Sec. Defense, a bulldog without a leash.
This administration is up to something that we’ll all wake up to one morning, probably a border war with Syria and Iran. This will get’em more funding!

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:45:17 +0000

I reckon the current arrangement may not be ideally suited to produce humility in commanders-in-chiefs….

By: Orville H. Larson

Orville H. Larson — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:38:44 +0000

Mr. Bush is a neofascist, Constitution-flouting, civil liberties-destroying sonofa—–. (Those are his better qualities, by the way. I’m afraid to know what his worst ones are.)

Remember when Senator-elect James Webb of Virginia had the verbal dust-up with Bush at the White House? More power to Webb. We need more people to get “up close and personal” with the President.

There’s nobody more out of touch than the President. He’s surrounded 24-7-365 by fawning, sycophantic aides. It’s “Yes, Mr. President” this and “Yes, Mr. President” that all day long. No one in the White House–from the most senior staffer to the lowliest employee–gives the President their honest, unvarnished views. (Why are you on the White House staff in the first place? Because you like power. How do you STAY on the White House staff? By being the perfect courtier.)

And, of course, let’s not forget the President’s lifestyle, one which only a billionaire could afford in private life. He’s got a fleet of military aircraft (including its “flagship,” a Boeing 747) at his disposal. He travels whenever and wherever he likes, and hang the cost.
He’s waited on hand and foot in the White House itself. He’s got medical care whenever he needs it, access to the best hospitals and specialists, all on the taxpayers’ dime.

A royal lifestyle begets the
“I Am the State” outlook.

By: Original Steve

Original Steve — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:58:26 +0000

I think you are right about Biden. He is not very good at grandstanding by the way.

I am wondering if Leahy will have the temerity to call in Cheney. Ceheney has already said he will refuse to testify. There need, desperately, to be hearings. I have been waiting on them.