The Best War Ever

[9 Ball Girl]

“Lies got us into this war. Only the truth will get us out.”

<font color="blue">Lies, Damned Lies, and The Mess in Iraq</font color> (http://www.prwatch.org/tbwe/index.html)

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Will the Democrats become part of the problem?
Paul Craig Roberts

If the Democrats are to make a real difference, their first task is to repeal the Orwellian-named “Patriot Acts,” the torture legislation, the detention without court evidence legislation, and the right-to-spy and invade privacy without court warrant legislation. The White House tyrant needs to be quickly told that one more “signing statement” and he will be impeached, convicted, and turned over to the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague.

<font color="blue">http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15548.htm (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15548.htm)</font color>

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Like Cornered Rats, GOP Losers More Dangerous Than Ever
By Ted Rall

As ugly secrets surface, Bushists will turn desperate. Democracy has failed their grand schemes; token resignations like Rumsfeld's come too little, too late. Only tyranny can save their skins. Will the beleaguered neocons led by Cheney and Bush, cornered like rats, unleash their brand-new police state on their political opponents? Or will they tough it out and suck up the fines and prison sentences to come? The next year or two could go either way.

<font color="blue">Our Long National Nightmare Has Just Begun</font color> (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15549.htm)

[Qtec]

Why didn't Fox news- or any of the networks report this? Must be the Liberal bias.

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About a week ago some left-wing bloggers began circulating rumors that Bush had secretly signed something called the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" that "allows the president to declare a 'public emergency' and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to 'suppress public disorder.'" I couldn't find the text of the law at the time, formerly H.R. 5122, or a reliable media account, so I decided not to report on it.

I can now confirm the bloggers' account. Bush signed the JWDAA hours after the MCA, in a furtive closed-door White House ceremony. There is, buried deep down in Title V, Subtitle B, Part II, Section 525(a) of the JWDAA, a coup. The Bush Administration has quietly stolen the National Guard away from the states.

Here's the relevant section of Public Law 109-364:

"The [military] Secretary [of the Army, Navy or Air Force] concerned may order a member of a reserve component under the Secretary's jurisdiction to active duty...The training or duty ordered to be performed...may include...support of operations or missions undertaken by the member's unit at the request of the President or Secretary of Defense."

The National Guard, used to maintain order during natural disasters and civil disturbances and the sole vehicle available under U.S. law to enforce a declaration of martial law, has previously been controlled by state governors. They have now been stripped of that control. Thanks to the JWDAA, Bush or Rumsfeld can now deploy National Guardsmen in American cities without obtaining permission from state governors.
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Add this to the list of basic rights that Americans have lost under GW.
eg,
The Govt now has the right to listen to your phone calls and read your e-mail.
They can search your house without you being there.

Today eg8r could be arrested and declared by GW an Enemy of the State, insurgent, insurgent sympathyzer, etc and his US citezenship would be meaningless. He would have no Rights.
He could be waterboarded into a confession, be tried and convicted by a Military tribunal and then sentenced to life in Gitmo - no appeal!


Q...saw that 'path to 9/11'film last night. What a joke! Most of it is pure seculation or just made up.