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[Incognito]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050721...h7tVgIb.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday threatened to veto a massive Senate bill for $442 billion in next year's defense programs if it moves to regulate the Pentagon's treatment of detainees or sets up a commission to investigate operations at Guantanamo Bay prison and elsewhere.

The Bush administration, under fire for the indefinite detention of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and questions over whether its policies led to horrendous abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, put lawmakers on notice it did not want them legislating on the matter. [...]

"If legislation is presented that would restrict the president's authority to protect Americans effectively from terrorist attack and bring terrorists to justice," the bill could be vetoed, the statement said.

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, who endured torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, said after meeting at the Capitol with Vice President Dick Cheney that he still intended to offer amendments next week "on the standard of treatment of prisoners."

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was working on legislation defining the legal status of enemy combatants being held in Guantanamo, also said he would offer an amendment.

Regulate and investigate? Clearly, these are words that don't exist in Bush land.

Give us all the money we want, but don't badger us! Gosh!

 

[Incognito]

And hey, whaddya' know, a Dick Cheney sighting! I wonder what the old man has been up to -- oh that's right, more war plans!

http://www.amconmag.com/

Not so bad part. Hey, contingency plans are always needed.

The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option.

Very bad part:

As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing--that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack--but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.

Someone give Cheney an XBOX with Halo, GR2, and Unreal Championship. This guy has the war bug.

 

[xsarien]

Let him dig his own political grave. Bush's approval rating hasn't cracked 50 since January.

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

 

[Umpteen]

Holy. Shit.


What do you mean, bury themselves? This is it, second term, they have FREE REIGN to do whatever the hell they please, and with such a stacked Republican congress they can do it all with very little fear of impeachment or reprisal.

Too bad the midwives of the New American Century were such incompetent and overconfident buffoons.

This is awful. I do not want to be a citizen of a country that would drop nuclear bombs on a sovereign nation unprovoked.

 

[Incognito]

What do you mean, bury themselves? This is it, second term, they have FREE REIGN to do whatever the hell they please, and with such a stacked Republican congress they can do it all with very little fear of impeachment or reprisal.

Pack up and move to Vermont then so you can vote for a GOP candidate who vows to bring impeachment articles against the President!

http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050721/NEWS/507210422/1002/NEWS01

Dennis Morrisseau, 62, of West Pawlet, plans to seek the Republican nomination to run for U.S. House of Representatives. The seat is being vacated by Rep. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., who plans a run for the U.S. Senate.

A central part of his platform, Morrisseau said, will be bringing articles of impeachment against Bush.

Morrisseau said he considers himself more of a Republican than the president, and he thinks a lot of Vermont Republicans agree with him.

"This leadership isn't very Republican and I don't think it's very popular with Vermont Republicans," he said. "Republicans in this state tend to be mind-your-own-business people, keep taxes low and government small."

"If you're an old and decent Republican and politics takes a 180 (turn) in your country, it sometimes takes a while to tell what you ought to do. It took me a while. I've been at this for years."

Morrisseau said he spends six or seven hours a day studying current affairs, reading newspapers, magazines and Web sites from varying places on the political spectrum.

"I voted for Reagan, way back there," he said. "I liked Jerry Ford, but I think I voted for Carter. I voted for Bush in 2000. In 2004, I held my nose and voted for Kerry."

"I'm a Republican," he said. "I'm not a Brown Shirt. I've never, in any contemplation of U.S. history, seen anything like that asserted at any time. I don't think we're going to get much done in the way of standard politics until we clean this neo-con nest out."

Who are we kidding? This guy will get squashed by the handpicked GOP contender in the primaries. :lol

 

[Umpteen]

New England republicans are a different breed. Mostly they just vote Republican because they hate taxes. It is like a backlash, I guess. All the liberal thinking must have elected liberal officials at some point, and you know what liberal officials do : tax people to pay for social programs!

 

[Hitokage]

Seperation of powers? Checks and balances?

That's terrorist talk.

 

[Socreges]

How long before we find that the founding fathers, in fact, hated America?

 

[GaimeGuy]

Seperation of powers? Checks and balances?

That's terrorist talk.

Dictatorships are the way to go.

 

[Incognito]

Dictatorships are the way to go.

Indeed.

"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
December 18, 2000

 

[GaimeGuy]

Indeed.

"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
December 18, 2000

I just noticed your avatar, Incognito, and it scares the crap out of me.

 

[Dan]

I just noticed your avatar, Incognito, and it scares the crap out of me.

Me too, but mostly because there seems to be an inbetween stage where it looks like David Letterman.

 

[GaimeGuy]

Me too, but mostly because there seems to be an inbetween stage where it looks like David Letterman.

bastard.

 

[Zeo]

I don't hate this administration, really, but..

"If legislation is presented that would restrict the president's authority to protect Americans effectively from terrorist attack and bring terrorists to justice," the bill could be vetoed, the statement said.

That is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. This is stupid.

 

[GaimeGuy]

I don't hate this administration, really, but..



That is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. This is stupid.

"Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin.

 

[Almighty_Chocobo]

If only we could have had a competent candidate to run against him...
I really feel bad for the new president in 2008 when they have to wade through all of the bullshit this administration is going to leave behind.

 

[FightyF]

I saw Chevy Chase in Incognito's avatar.

 

[Ollie Pooch]

The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option.

guess this means we can all sit back and await a massive terrorist attack on the US in the near future then - if there isn't one, these iran plans can't go ahead!