"Unfortunately, we're having this discussion," he said of the debate over wiretapping. "It's too bad, because guess who listens to the discussion: the enemy."First of all, the man is a hypocrite. This comment was made well after his administration started to retroactively attempt to get authorization for the secret wiretap program. (Not the retroactive authorization for the individual taps themselves, which is different).
But the worst thing is the real message: don't disagree with Bush, because that's aiding and abetting the Enemy! And you know what that is, don't you? Treason. Prosecutable or not, our President is implying that if you question his progam of secretly recording the private conversations of American citizens, then you are helping the Enemy.
I believe that Al Qaeda is an enemy of ours. But I also believe that by sacrificing core American principles of freedom... or more clearly, by crapping on the Bill of Rights, President Bush is doing more to help the cause of the Enemy he can possibly imagine.
Love to all. Even you, the folks who would shut down this blog.
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Sadly, this is nothing new. In every war (although I think this is less a war than a fiasco) presidents have sought to take away more and more of our rights and freedoms in the name of "national security". Who stops them? We do. Just by raising our voices and saying "no". Or, you know, by blogging about it.
Cheers sweetie. You are a patriot.
I am married to an American, my father-in-law is an American and we have American friends and STILL I can't figure out how this guy got re-elected let-alone puts on his underwear every morning.
Don't use "big words" like "totalitarian," "obviating," and "hypocrite" or try to "confuse [him] with the facts."
It's moments like this where I love my husband but wish he were a Swede or at the very least French!
I see al Qaeda as an occassional enemy of America, popping up once in a while when we aren't looking, and had the administration done its job and protected the country by paying attention, 9/11 never would have happened (assuming of course that the conspiracy theorists' often compelling case is wrong and 9/11 did happen as the administration says).
Now "President" Bush on the other hand is a danger to America every single day, in every piece of legislation he signs, in every idiotic comment, in every disastrous appointee. Who should we be declaring war on, I ask you?
9/11 never happened? I'm assuming you mean that it happened for different reasons (controlled demolition, government conspiracy, LiHoP theory, etc.). Because if you ARE being literal, then I can tell you first hand that it happened. On September 11th, 2001, I was in New York City, and I saw the second plane fly in and hit with my own eyes, while on the phone with Maggie.
I look at all the things going on with this administration and wonder why Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about a bj and yet nothing is being done to stop these self serving bastards?
The best way to end the war on terror is not to vote Bush back in.
Or have a vote of no confidence. He single handily has turned the world against America.
Anonymous: easy enough. There's a two-term limit here in the states.
:-)
best way to end Bush's reign of terror would be for someone to give him a blow job. :D
if someone is phoning Al Qaeda or whoever, and slipping them some details, then wtf does it matter if we talk about them in Congress or on CNN?? oh, right...they might stop...
my message to Mr. Shrub: so sorry that we the American people keep getting in your f***ing way!!
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