Benderman Defense Trust

Al-qaeda in Iraq is the worn out phrase this administration keeps dragging out every time more and more people see through the lies and deception used to start this invasion of a sovereign country that has been shown time and time again to have had nothing to do with the September 11th 2001 attacks on our country.

On a NPR program the guest mentioned there were 1,300 active AQII members known to be in Iraq and we have 157,000 American service members there. Which leads me to ask, “Why haven’t we caught them yet?” It seems to me that if we know the exact number then we should know who and where they are if we are able to get that accurate of a count of them. Why aren’t the commanders on the ground making a concerted effort to trakc these people down?

I will give you my opinion of why, this administration has no intention of ever leaving Iraq and all of the actions being taken prove this. The second leading general there says we have to wait until November before there can be an accurate assessment of the “surge”. The administration says there will be troops in Iraq until 2009.

In light of the very apparent facts this administration has no intent of listening to the American people and congress does not have the fortitude to force him to listen, I wonder how much longer we the people are going to set by and watch this happen to our nation, our service members, and the idea of constitutional government. This administration has come up with some of the most outlandish tales to convince us they are doing the right thing and we bought it hook, line, and sinker.

The American way of life where there is responsible citizens and elected representatives who follow the constitution is over and it has been replaced by the new world order and we are now protecting the “homeland” (read fatherland, just like nazi Germany) I mourn the loss of the way of life that is going into the dustbin of history and I am afraid of the new one taking its place.

We could still do something about it America but it will require much hard work and personal sacrifice as there will be no quick fix to this problem. We cannot expect to rectify a situation that has been growing for at least twenty-five years, if not longer, but we can and we must start accepting the responsibility that is ours. We also must stop expecting everyone and everything else to solve our problems for us. 

This administration keeps saying congress has no business being generals that control the commanders on the ground. In the next breath it says the generals on the ground should be the determining factor in making governmental policy. This is a dangerous precedent to set for America in the sense that, our constitution has clearly laid out that it is to be the civilian sector of our government that has control over the military.

 Section 2 - Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;

Section 8 - Powers of Congress

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union , suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Imagine what would happen to America if the generals were to be allowed to set policy when it comes to declaring war and undertaking other military actions. Just today on NPR, I listened to a report that LTG Raymond Ordierno wants to let the “surge” go until November before he can offer a comprehensive report on the effectiveness of it.

Make no mistake about it, I know we have some of the best people in uniform and they are very good at what they do, but it would be a very large mistake to let them become the policy makers for America as they serve in their role as soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines.

I found this to be very interesting in the fact that this individual is in the highest office of the land and these are the statements coming from him and it is apparent in what he says and does. Actions speak louder than words but in this case these words are very clear and displays this individual’s contempt of all America stands for.

I wonder what each and every service member would think if they knew the current person holding the office of president holds the document they swore their lives to, holds their sacrifice in so much contempt?

Each president recites the following oath, in accordance with Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

 

 

 

                               “Goddamn Piece of Paper”

 

Washington, DC . Dec 14th, 2005 —- There are multiple reports flying round DC that if true need to be addressed by both Houses of Congress in an Impeachment hearing. President Bush, who many believe is becoming more unstable every day is reported to have had the following exchanges during a meeting with Congressional leaders according to Doug Thompson, reporting in Capitol Hill Blue:

“GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”

 

“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”

 

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

 

Doug Thompson wrote that he had talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”

 

Let’s make clear that I did not write the preceding statement but I wanted to share this with some of you who may have forgotten it was even said.

 

 

Bush keeps saying when the Iraqis want us to leave their country we will leave. Well, we are waiting George, when are you going to do the right thing? And if you won’t, when will congress get the backbone to impeach you? And Dick? And anyone else who had anything to do with this misguided invasion of a sovereign country that had nothing to do with the September 11th 2001 attacks on America .

For all the people who continue to support Bush, I hope you are reading the news about the Iraqi PM telling us to leave his country alone as he has the right to do. We are not the world’s police department no matter how many times people like this administration and PNAC say so. 

If you (the people in congress) won’t stand up for our constitutional rights and responsibilities then move out of the way so someone who will does what needs to be done. The time for impeachment is now, before one more service member dies in a war that does nothing for the protection of the  United States .

Iraqi prime minister says U.S. troops can go ‘anytime they want’

Story Highlights

Nouri al-Maliki: Iraqi forces are capable, nation has made progress

Top aide: U.S. violates human rights, treats his country like “experiment”

2 U.S. soldiers killed Saturday in bombings in Baghdad area

Alleged high-level al Qaeda in Iraq cell leader nabbed at Baghdad airport

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shrugged off U.S. doubts of his government’s military and political progress Saturday, saying Iraqi forces are capable and American troops can leave “anytime they want.”

One of his top aides, meanwhile, accused the United States of embarrassing the Iraqi government by violating human rights and treating his country like an “experiment in a U.S. lab.”

Al-Maliki sought to display confidence at a time when pressure is mounting in Congress for a speedy withdrawal of U.S. forces. On Thursday, the House passed a measure calling for the United States to withdraw its troops by spring, hours after the White House reported mixed progress by the Iraqi government toward meeting 18 benchmarks.

During a news conference, al-Maliki shrugged off the progress report, saying that difficulty in enacting the reforms was “natural” given Iraq ’s turmoil. “We are not talking about a government in a stable political environment, but one in the shadow of huge challenges,” al-Maliki said. “So when we talk about the presence of some negative points in the political process, that’s fairly natural.”

Al-Maliki said his government needs “time and effort” to enact the political reforms that Washington seeks — “particularly since the political process is facing security, economic and services pressures, as well as regional and international interference.”

But he said that if necessary, Iraqi police and soldiers could fill the void left by the departure of coalition forces. “We say in full confidence that we are able, God willing, to take the responsibility completely in running the security file if the international forces withdraw at anytime they want,” he said.

One of al-Maliki’s close advisers, Shiite lawmaker Hassan al-Suneid, bristled over the American pressure, telling The Associated Press that “the situation looks as if it is an experiment in an American laboratory [judging] whether we succeed or fail.”

He sharply criticized the U.S. military, saying it was committing human rights violations and embarrassing the Iraqi government through such tactics as building a wall around Baghdad’s Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah and launching repeated raids on suspected Shiite militiamen in the capital’s slum of Sadr City.

He also criticized U.S. overtures to Sunni groups in Anbar and Diyala provinces, encouraging former insurgents to join the fight against al Qaeda in Iraq. “These are gangs of killers,” he said.

In addition, he said that al-Maliki has problems with the top U.S. commander, Gen. David Petraeus, who he said works along a “purely American vision.” “There are disagreements that the strategy that Petraeus is following might succeed in confronting al Qaeda in the early period but it will leave Iraq an armed nation, an armed society and militias,” al-Suneid said.

Al-Suneid’s comments were a rare show of frustration toward the Americans from within al-Maliki’s inner circle as the prime minister struggles to overcome deep divisions among Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish members of his coalition and enact the U.S.-drawn list of benchmarks.

But the U.S. focus on the benchmarks has rankled the deep sense of Iraqi pride, even among those who share the goals set forth by the Americans. U.S. forces have been waging intensified security crackdowns in Baghdad and areas to the north and south for nearly a month. The goal is to bring calm to the capital while al-Maliki enacts the political reforms, intended to give Sunni Arabs a greater role in the government and political process, lessening support for the insurgency.

But the benchmarks have been blocked by divisions among Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders. In August, the parliament is taking a one-month vacation — a shorter break than the usual two months, but still enough to anger some in Congress who say lawmakers should push through reforms while American soldiers are dying.

Two more American soldiers were killed Saturday in bombings in the Baghdad area, the U.S. military reported. One of the bombs used was an explosively formed penetrator — high-tech devices that the U.S. military believes are smuggled from Iran . The Iranians deny the charge.

In other violence, a car bomb leveled a two-story apartment building, and a suicide bomber plowed his explosives-packed vehicle into a line of cars at a gas station. The two attacks killed at least eight people, police said.

Also Saturday, the U.S. military said it captured an alleged high-level al Qaeda in Iraq cell leader at Baghdad ’s international airport. The suspect, believed to have organized mortar and roadside bomb attacks in the capital and nearby area, surrendered “without a struggle,” the military said in a statement. It did not give details on the suspect or say whether he was traveling in or out of the country when seized.

The Reuters news agency said one of its Iraqi translators was shot to death in Baghdad on Wednesday along with two of his brothers, apparent victims of sectarian death squads. He was the third employee of the news agency killed in Baghdad this week.

An Iraqi reporter for The New York Times, Khalid W. Hassan, was killed by gunmen Friday as he drove to work in southern Baghdad .

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

 

 

I am going to quote Theodore Roosevelt and I can’t add anything else because this says it all.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American Public.”

                                                                                                                       Theodore Roosevelt

Democrats Won’t Try To Impeach President

By Charles BabingtonWashington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 12, 2006; Page A06 Seeking to choke off a Republican rallying cry, the House’s top Democrat has told colleagues that the party will not seek to impeach President Bush even if it gains control of the House in November’s elections, her office said last night.

Obama: “Impeachment is Not Acceptable”

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has joined the likes of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dick Durbin in rejecting calls for the impeachment of President George Bush.

America , we are in grave danger of completely losing any and or all of our constitutional rights under any one of these people who are currently holding political office at this time. What I would like to know from these people is, “Just who do you think you are when you think you have the authority to ignore the American people and the United States Constitution in this manner?”

These people took an oath in which they swore to uphold the laws of the United States Constitution and it clearly calls for impeachment when a president and vice president commits acts such as the ones this pair we now have in the White House committed. As a former United States soldier, I took the oath to protect and defend the United States Constitution and I am now demanding the congress follow the laws of our nation.

Are they telling us they do not have to follow the constitution? Do they think we are not informed enough to know what is going in our country? Are they above the law? The way I read the constitution, these requirements are not optional, and they must be done when it is required. If these people will not follow the constitution then the American people must hold a recall election and fire these individual who will not do the will of the American people and who are so blatantly ignoring the law of the land.

The only way we are going to get our country back on track is if we force the politicians to meet the standard that we and the United States Constitution sets for them, if they do not, it is time for the American people to force them to do the right thing or face removal from office themselves.

I am including the Declaration of Independence, I think you should pay close attention to the passages I have high lighted in red and contemplate them. Below the Declaration are the comments from Pelosi and Obama about impeachment. Americans, I hope we get together on this and unify ourselves before it is too late.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

 He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:  

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.

A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. —

 John Hancock  

New Hampshire :Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts :John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island :Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut :Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York :William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey :Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware :Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton 

Virginia:George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina :William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina :Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia :Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Democrats Won’t Try To Impeach President By Charles BabingtonWashington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 12, 2006; Page A06 Seeking to choke off a Republican rallying cry, the House’s top Democrat has told colleagues that the party will not seek to impeach President Bush even if it gains control of the House in November’s elections, her office said last night.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi ( Calif. ) told her caucus members during their weekly closed meeting Wednesday “that impeachment is off the table; she is not interested in pursuing it,” spokesman Brendan Daly said.

Obama: “Impeachment is Not Acceptable” Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has joined the likes of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dick Durbin in rejecting calls for the impeachment of President George Bush. In comments made to USA Today, Obama said he would not back such a move, although he has been distressed by the “loose ethical standards, the secrecy and incompetence” of a “variety of characters” in the administration. “I think you reserve impeachment for grave, grave breeches, and intentional breeches of the president’s authority,” he said. “I believe if we began impeachment proceedings we will be engulfed in more of the politics that has made Washington dysfunction,” he added. “We would once again, rather than attending to the people’s business, be engaged in a tit-for-tat, back-and-forth, non-stop circus.” In his zeal to become the next president, Sen. Obama has decided it’s in the best interest of his campaign to ignore the criminality and the abuses of presidential power carried out by the current administration. How can Sen. Obama disregard the following? 1. Bush lied about the threat from  Iraq to justify a war
2. Bush started an illegal wiretapping program of American citizens
3. Bush failed to help victims of Hurricane Katrina
4. Bush politicized the Department of Justice
5. Bush built foreign prisons where prisoners could be tortured out of view of Congress
6. Bush obstructed an investigation into the outing of a CIA undercover agent If these crimes don’t meet Obama’s standard of “grave and intentional breeches of the president’s authority,” then perhaps the Illinois senator needs to revisit the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. President George Bush has systematically abused the powers of the presidency and by doing so, threatened the rule of law. Bush has committed numerous impeachable offenses and he should be removed from office. From the Left was an early and enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama’s bid to become the 44th president of the United States . But Obama’s willingness to ignore the abuses of presidential power carried out by George Bush in order to ‘get along’ and get elected, is reason to give pause and reconsider his judgment. There is no more serious abuse of presidential authority than lying to the Congress and the American people to get them to support a war. President George Bush must be held accountable.

So, it’s with great sadness than I am pulling my support for Sen. Barack Obama’s bid for president. Barack Obama is a smart, charismatic man, able to inspire followers and lift their hearts. But as ugly and as tortuous the impeachment process can be, as Americans, nothing is more important than protecting our Constitutional system and preserving our democracy. Even if Mr. Obama doesn’t think so.

Here,s hoping everyone haves a safe and happy Independence Day. As we celebrate our independence let us not forget all of the American service members around the world who cannot be here with us today. 

Why should America continue to prop up Israel after all these years?  What I mean by this is; we forced the Palestinian people to let the Israelites into their lands after they had been away for hundreds of years. We did this because the European Jews claimed this area as their God given land and they wanted to displace the people who have been living there for hundreds if not thousands of years. What right did they have to demand this land they had migrated away from over a long period of time?

These people had not been living there until after the Holocaust and then decided to leave Europe . We had no right to tell the Palestinian people they had to move away from the land they had settled for centuries, if not millennia. I believe one of our biggest problems we have with the Arab people who live in the Mideast is our continued and irrational support of Israel .

 

If Israel is God’s chosen, why then, do they need guns and tanks to express God’s message to their neighbors? What does it benefit America to keep doing this for Israel ? To my knowledge we get no natural resources from them to drive our oil based economy, to my knowledge we get nothing from them other than a lot of grief from our support of them.

 

What sense does it make for us to continue to support an imaginary nation that did not exist until 1948 anyway? What sense does it make for us to continue to antagonize the people we do business with in order to support a nation that does nothing for us? It seems a little crazy to me for us to do this. Maybe I am just ignorant, if so I would like someone to set me straight on the facts. Do we get any natural resources from the “nation of Israel ”?

 

It seems to me that if those people had tried to negotiate with the people who had been living in that region for a place to live instead of bulling their way in they may have been a little better accepted. I believe we made a mistake in assisting in this land grab and we continue to make one by pursuing this path of assisting Israel commit genocide against the Palestinian people.

 

It makes no sense for us to do this, look at this way, say you do business with a corporation and have been for a while and then one of your friends is losing his home and needs a place to live. With this unfortunate situation you take him to the place where you do business and take a portion of the building to set your friend up to live there. You do this without asking if you can and when the corporation objects you file in court to keep your friend there. Some of you may say this is oversimplifying the issue but this is what happened in 1948 in a nutshell. Except we give the Israelis military equipment to keep what is not rightfully theirs instead of filing a court motion.

 

I say it is time for us to start using some common sense in our dealings with the Mideast and Israel because it is costing us way too many lives to continue this path we have set for ourselves. It is costing us entirely too much money and it is costing us entirely too much of our standing in the world. We cannot keep trying to bully everyone else in the world to do our bidding and then expect them to just take it. We have to use our brains and leave some of the “might makes right” mentality behind if we expect to be “the beacon on the hill” for the rest of the world.

I think I may have gotten it all wrong, I mean, why shouldn’t I just join the Project for the New American Century?  I will ask Dick to let me into the National Archives, we can take the constitution out of the protective case and burn it right there on the floor. Better yet we can go the Rose Garden at the White House and have a formal ceremony and invite the rest of PNAC over to watch. We can have it aired on the most unbiased news organization ever; the Fox News Channel with Bill O’Reilly.

With that pesky little document that gave us a representative form of government that was based on laws out of the way we can proceed to invade and occupy any country we want with impunity. Who cares how many service members we get killed in the process? They are here just for us to use however we see fit anyway.

Then we can fire every American worker and send their jobs overseas to places like India and China and then we can call the American workers slobs and bums for not having a job. We can kick everyone out of their homes and give the houses to the millions of illegal immigrants we want to bring here to have them work for our large corporations for $1.50 an hour.

We can close the rest of the manufacturing base down in America and let the oil companies continue to make millions in profit off the gas they get from the Mideast for pennies. And when it comes to the rest of the jobs we send off, I say good riddance.

We can also burn any copies of that annoying little thing called the Geneva Convention and we can then water board the hell out of any one we like. If you complain we can even do it to you while the Supreme Court and the Dept. of Justice shout and cheer while you scream in agony as your bones are being broken and we refuse you any medical treatment. What the hell? It was just a stress position anyway, stop your whining.

 

I will have to co-ordinate this with Dick because George is too stupid to know what is really going around him anyway. We will have Mr. Alberto “I can’t recall” Gonzales made the Grand High Inquisitor and he can put all kinds of listening devices into your phones and homes. He can secretly tap into your computer and read all of your emails and personal info and if he doesn’t find anything illegal he can just make up false charges to press against you, whereupon you will be convicted and then tortured. This will be because you are now an unlawful enemy combatant.

 If I have forgotten anything, don’t worry we will make it up as we go along. And remember; fool me once, shame on you-fool me fool me we won’t get fooled again.

Our illustrious president says that using taxpayers dollars to destroy human life is immoral and we should not engage in activities that do so. He said this in reference to stem cell research that would destroy human embryos that are slated to be destroyed anyway.  I have to ask this, “What does he think is doing in his invasion and occupation of Iraq ?” If he is not using taxpayers dollars to destroy human life I would like to know just what he calls it. What is the loss of over 3500 American service members? What is the loss of over 25000 wounded American service members? What is the loss of over 100000 innocent Iraqi civilians, if not the destruction of human life?

“Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical, and it is not the only option before us,” said Bush. 

But did he not say the reason he wanted to invade Iraq was to save the innocent Iraqis from the brutal dictator, Saddam Hussein?  I wish he had said this before he listened to the minions of the Project for the New American Century and invaded a country that has been shown time and time again to have nothing to do with the September the 11^th attacks on our country. I want to know, just who is in charge of America anyway? George or Dick, look at the following and you decide.

 

 Cheney Power Grab: Says White House Rules Don’t Apply to Him
    By Justin Rood
    ABC News Thursday 21 June 2007

Vice President Dick Cheney has asserted his office is not a part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, and therefore not bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information by government agencies, according to a new letter from Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., to Cheney.

 Bill Leonard, head of the government’s Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), told Waxman’s staff that Cheney’s office has refused to provide his staff with details regarding classified documents or submit to a routine inspection as required by presidential order, according to Waxman.

In pointed letters released today by Waxman, ISOO’s Leonard twice questioned Cheney’s office on its assertion it was exempt from the rules. He received no reply, but the vice president later tried to get rid of Leonard’s office entirely, according to Waxman.

 Leonard did not immediately respond to requests for comment.  In a statement e-mailed to the Blotter on ABCNews.com, Cheney spokeswoman Megan McGinn said, “We are confident that we are conducting the office properly under the law.” As director of the tiny, 25-person Information Security Oversight Office, Leonard is responsible for keeping track of the nation’s secrets and making sure they are properly protected.

For the first two years of the George W. Bush administration, Cheney’s office complied with a presidential order that requires officials to report statistics on the number of documents it classifies and declassifies. Since 2003, however, Cheney’s office has refused to submit the data to ISOO. And when ISOO inspectors tried in 2004 to schedule a routine inspection of the vice president’s offices, they were rebuffed, Waxman’s letter claims. Other White House offices, including the National Security Council, did not object to similar inspections, according to Waxman.

 ”Serious questions can be raised about both the legality and advisability of exempting your office from the rules that apply to all other executive branch officials,” Waxman said in his letter to the vice president, and asked him to explain why he felt the rules didn’t apply to him and his staff and how he was protecting classified information in his office.

Former Cheney aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was recently convicted on several counts of perjury and obstruction of justice stemming from the leak of the identity of former covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, Waxman noted, and in 2006, former Cheney aide Leandro Aragoncillo pleaded guilty to sharing classified U.S. documents with foreign nationals. Aragoncillo also worked under former Democratic Vice President Al Gore, who complied with ISOO’s requests.

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Vice President Exempts His Office From the Requirements for Protecting Classified Information 

 US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

 Thursday 21 June 2007

The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”

As described in a letter from Chairman Waxman to the Vice President, the National Archives protested the Vice President’s position in letters written in June 2006 and August 2006. When these letters were ignored, the National Archives wrote to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in January 2007 to seek a resolution of the impasse. The Vice President’s staff responded by seeking to abolish the agency within the Archives that is responsible for implementing the President’s executive order.

In his letter to the Vice President, Chairman Waxman writes: “I question both the legality and wisdom of your actions…. [I]t would appear particularly irresponsible to give an office with your history of security breaches an exemption from the safeguards that apply to all other executive branch officials.”

    A fact sheet prepared by Chairman Waxman describes other instances in which the Vice President’s office has sought to avoid oversight and accountability.

Download the PDF to read the letter …

 

When the vice president of the United States says that a presidential order does not apply to him then there are no other conclusions to be drawn that it is Dick Cheney who is ruling America and it is not George and it is not the congress and it is most assuredly not the American people. No, we gave up that right long ago when we starting demanding the government provide everything for us. We gave up that right when Bill Clinton sent tanks to kill innocent women and children in Texas and he sent f.b.i marksmen to shoot women and 14 year old kids in Idaho and we did not do anything about it.

 

I remember talking to people I knew at the time of those events and I was told they got what they deserved even if they were only kids and did not have anything to do with the alleged crimes of David Koresh or Randy Weaver. America we are getting what we deserve because we have set back and let this happen in America and it is a sad day. But the reaction we are seeing now is too little, too late, and this is price we pay for becoming lax in our responsibility of being in control of the people we hire to do the work of maintaining our constitutional rights.