George W. Bush, on hearing the results of the Supreme Court ruling re-instating basic habeas rights to prisoners held for years in Guantanomo and elsewhere…
"It was a deeply divided court, and I strongly agree with those who dissented." He said he would consider whether to seek new laws in light of the ruling "so we can safely say to the American people, 'We're doing everything we can to protect you.'" Link
Gotta love the fearmongering-to-the-bitter-end part of Decider's comment, don't ya'?
George W. Bush, like John McCain, agreed with the four dissenting Supreme Justices who would have thrown a 900 year old basic human right into the historical dumpster, like so much garbage. The basic settled human right that a person detained or jailed, in this case for multiple years, has the right to have his charges brought before him in front of a neutral party…..a right as simple and as basic as habeas can no longer be tolerated by the likes of Bush, McCain, Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito.
The four dissenting Justices obviously believe in extra-Constitutional presidential powers….and….have little respect for long held basic human rights.
John McCain agrees with the four dissenters because he's running for president and he thinks appealing to the vengeful and bloodthirsty mindset of the minority, who still support Bush, will help his electoral chances.
But George W. Bush has another reason for siding with the dissenters. It's the same reason he wants immunity for telecommunications companies who conspired with him to violate Constitutional protections against unlawful wiretaps. It's the same reason Bush didn't want a 9-11 Commission, only relenting after his hand picked stooge supervised the behind-the-scenes investigation. It's the same reason Bush's White House went after Joe and Valerie Wilson. It's the same reason why George W. Bush commuted the Scooter's prison sentence, after the Scooter was convicted of four felony obstruction charges in the Plame case.
It's all about trying to save George W. Bush's ass from any humiliating public revelations detailing the part he played in unlawful, and in some cases, outright pre-meditated criminal acts.
It always has been about that.
If Bush can't get Congress to fast track some patchwork response to the Supremes ruling…fat chance of that….then George will have his sins found out by the public through federal court deliberations concerning the detainees held in Guantanomo. It may take a while, but his sins will surface, in part because of the Supremes most recent bitchslapping of Bush in the detainees ruling. The third time, I might add, that the Supremes have bitchslapped Bush down for acting like an American king. And if Bush's sins come out publicly, all of America will see who he really is…..a narcissistic, cynical little man who made everything in his presidency about him and his failed GOP party, not the country.
A little man who ordered torture, illegal kidnapping and renditioning to foreign gulags, the denial of basic human rights, illegal spying on American citizens, conspiring to out a covert CIA agent during a time of war, and propagandizing Congress and the American people to lead the nation into his personal neo-con war and imperialistic occcupation of choice in Iraq.
Silly George is anticipating his very own personal presidential library down in the Loner State of Texas. Naturally it will all be stocked with fiction…unless….because of the Supremes ruling last week….all of Georgie's many criminal sins are revealed in judicial proceedings and Georgie finally has to face up to the music he, himself, created.
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If it wasnt an election year they probably could get something through Congress…..but no way this year
It makes me sad when the Reverend goes 'off the handle' like this.
The rev makes it sooo easy to marginalize the lefty loonies when he posts stuff like this. Why state facts and argue a point when you can just post half-truths and lies then pretend you are being truthful?
It has been difficult for Bush enthusiasts….I realize that.
Bush enthusiasts, I'm sure, would have liked to have kept all the Bush/Cheney crimes under wraps until Codpiece and Darth ended their dynamic duo reign of terror.
Sadly, that's not how it all worked out. The crimes of defrauding the American people, propagandizing them,…..ordering multiple felonies to be committed…..ordering torture…..ordering secret prisons…..shredding Constitutional rights….are…ummmm….out in the open now for all to see.
Even sadder…..is the fact that despite ample and compelling evidence of the multiple crimes of Bush/Cheney…..a small segment of American society still thinks Bush is a great president who has only tried to protect the country….you know, after they didn't.
C'mon Roy, if the Rev had to rely on facts, he wouldn't be able to post anything. His baseless rants are far more amusing anyway.
Bush is a fascist nazi criminal child abuser who kicks little dogs and eats rats !!! Why ? Because the Rev says so, that's why, and if you dare question the Rev's powerful factless logic, then you are a brokeback knee padding faith-based 28 percenter wingnut, or something to that effect.
Btw posters, are ANY of you "Bush enthusiasts" ?
Please, oh great wells of wisdom….
Tell me Bush/Cheney did not out covert CIA agent Valerie Plame and then obstruct the federal investigation into it?
Tell me that Bush/Cheney did not then commute the sentence of the only person convicted in the caper that both Bush and Cheney orchestrated.
Show me where the Senate Committee DIDN'T conclude that Bush/Cheney propagandized and lied to Congress and the American people in order to attack a non-threatening country.
Tell me again how torture is, somehow, now okay…..and that habeas corpus isn't.
Prove to me that spying on Americans isn't a violation of the the 4th amendment and that FISA, in 2001, wasn't the exclusive means of spying, legally, on Americans.
Explain to me once more how the Supreme Court DIDN'T slap Bush/Cheney down over declaring American citizens "enemy combatants".
Neo-conservatives believe that all the Bush/Cheney crimes I just mentioned are not really crimes at all, but instead, brave, bold and strong examples of how to keep the nation safe.
I rest my case.
GUILTY AS CHARGED-
OFF TO GETMO WITH THEM
Yo…the wiseman speaks….everybody listen.
I don't hold much stock in the words of a guy who can't even spell G-I-T-M-O correctly.
Okay, Rev. Whatever you like.
Bush/Cheney did not out covert CIA agent Valerie Plame and then obstruct the federal investigation. Bob Novak outed her based on a leak from Richard Armitage. Even you should be able to figure this one out Rev. NOBODY WAS CHARGED WITH OUTING PLAME after a two year investigation.
Bush DID commute Libby's sentence. I would have too had I been the president. No, let me amend that. I would have pardoned Libby completely. The Plame investigation was a witchhunt from the start, based upon nothing.
The Senate Committee shut out Republicans from it's latest 9/11 report, which was a partisan piece of bullsh*t that contradicted the Dems own prior words and opinions, and even contradicted the pre-war NIE.
Go find someone else to cry for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed being waterboarded. You'll be waiting until the end of time for me to do it. If I had been the president following 9/11, I would have done whatever it took to find out what KSM knew. I would have put american lives above KSM's rights in a heartbeat. Less than a hearbeat.
Eavesdropping on phone calls coming from suspected Al Qaeda members into the USA following 9/11 not only isn't a crime, it is the duty of the POTUS, who is sworn to protect america.
The Supreme Court Boumediene ruling was a joke that overturned all existing legal precedent.
You don't have a case, at least not from that list.
We've been hearing this song and dance from the Reverend for quite a while now.
Thanks once again for restoring my faith in my own judgment.
You guys ARE lawless.
You know, when I point out the problem that conservatives and Republicans have been experiencing in this area of lawlessness….I don't expect all you guys to jump into the lawless pool with them.
But there it is.
You fellows are willing to throw out the very foundation of America for the faux-feeling of security or the bloodthirsty feeling of vengeance.
It sure ain't pretty.
And the irony of it all….you guys think you're being patriotic.
Bizarro-world.
Whatever you say, Rev. Whatever you say.
Maybe you're right. Let's do it your way. Let's expose all our intelligence programs to the world, as the NY Times and liberals do. Let's hamstring the NSA so they can't eavesdrop on phone calls coming from Al Qaeda into this country. Let's drag all the telcoms into court so they will rue the day they ever cooperated with the government in the fight against terrorism, so they will never do it again. Let's grant Al Qaeda the full rights of american citizenship. Let's release the Gitmo prisoners. Let's treat KSM will all the respect in the world to show him what nice people we are. Let's throw Bush into jail because he believed the intel about Saddam that was coming from the CIA, the previous administration, Russia, England, and France. Let's pull the hell out of Iraq right now and open the door for Iran to step in and take over.
Let's do ALL that, but, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, don't ever tell me that you are doing it for the rule of law or that you are being patriotic, because you aren't. Doing all those things makes you virtually indistinguishable from the enemy for all practical purposes.
You really don't know who's pulling your strings, do you puppet Rev ?
So sad.
I used to have strings…..but they're worn out now.
No one can pull them anymore.