Comments on: Bush And Blair Agree On 'New Approach'

Both Say New Iraq Strategy Needed; Blair Tells CBS News He Can See Role For Iran And Syria

[searingtruth]

Mirror

My friends, sometimes the most difficult thing about fighting evil is realizing that it actually exists, and then unambiguously and forcefully calling it what it is.

History shows time and time again that one of evils greatest strengths is its ability to disguise itself as good, or at least a temporary necessity, until that last fatal moment when its revelation becomes clear, indisputable, and inescapable.

So today let us take a clear and unadulterated look into the mirror at ourselves.

Just six years ago we were one of the most respected and admired defenders of democracy and human rights in history. Respected not only by our friends, but even begrudgingly by most of our enemies. In fact, even the fantastic power of our military paled in comparison to the overwhelming might of our moral authority.

Today we are a nation that operates secret prisons occupied by anonymous inmates, illegally abducted and held indefinitely without charge or representation. We are guilty of torture. We are guilty of murder. We are guilty of preemptive war of conquest. We are guilty of the wholesale surveillance of our population, suppressing all hope of privacy and free dissent. And we are guilty of disgracing our nation through the abandonment of even our most basic precepts of morality.

If this is not evil, then nothing we have ever fought against is evil, and nothing we have ever fought for is good.

Excerpt from A Future of the Brave
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[scouser345-2009]

British press stuck it to him yesterday. Lame feeble and pathetic man. He looked so lost up there on the podium without his usual entourage of clapping seals.

[bluestardad]

Bush needs to take his Texas Dicktater self to Jail and let America get out of Iraq. What are we buying with three dead soldiers a day and two billion tax dollars a week?

[long_rider]

he chimp has no remorse for getting this great nation into another no win war. The people who are dieing on a daily basis mean nothing to him, he has demonstrated this on many occasions. What we are seeing is political posturing on a grand scale, posturing for the 08 presidential election. The chimp is conceding his plan failed, and now it is time for congress to give the nation direction (to a no win situation that he has created).

The chimp should be impeached for lying to congress and the American people, in order to get us into this war. The Patriot act should be completely eliminated, and Homeland security should be dissolved.

During WWII the FBI handled national security, why can't they do it now? They did not need no-knock search warrants, and all of the special features of the Patriot act.

We need to have Congress clean up the mess the chimp has created in our country, and eliminate some of the chimps appointees that he has planted in various levels of government.

The chimp has been an abomination, and it will take years to identify, and eliminate the messes that he has created. Let us get this buffoon out of office, as well as the co-president.

[searingtruth]

"In his speech bush said ( I didn't think it would take this long to succeed ) He is still in denial."
rharrin1

Yes, and his denial is death, for so many who deserve to live. Let our American, and human, conscience no longer allow it.
ST

"We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield."
George Orwell

"Death. I saw only death. And a promise from evil that death would soon subside."
SearingTruth

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[rharrin1]

In his speech bush said ( I didn't think it would take this long to succeed ) He is still in denial.

[searingtruth]

"Why anyone thought he would listen to the Iraqi Study Group -- puhleeeeze! ..."
juliehg

Indeed patriot juliehg.
ST

"But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain."
James Madison, Federalist No. 42, January 22, 1788

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[juliehg-2009]

Why anyone thought he would listen to the Iraqi Study Group -- puhleeeeze!

The ISG was created only to appease the naysayers, including the average US citizen. Most of us have been saying the same things the group is advising -- only our input came MONTHS ago.

-Shrub is arrogant.
-Shrub is patronizing.
-Shrub is cocky.
-Shrub has been on a power trip.
-Shrub does not have the character to admit his lack of experience to command such a decision.
-Shrub opened a can of worms which would have been better left closed.

Shrub has been modern day Don Quijote chasing those *** windmills!

What ever happened to "Osama Been Forgotten?"
And...why does Shrub need to win? At all costs?
Sounds like an overzealous youth soccer coach to me.

CBS -- ever thought about forwarding online comments to the White House?

[searingtruth]

The Enemy Within

My friends, the first step on our road to revival is to recognize and defeat the enemy which immediately confronts us.

It is indeed true that America has never before faced such an insidious enemy. An enemy that, as many classic tales of good and evil forewarn, came not from without but from within. An enemy that, like many tyrannies before, simultaneously wields the weapons of both force and intellectual perversion.

For I ask you, who would say that freedom is not free, with the price being freedom itself? Who would submit accusation in permanence of guilt? Who would mute the cry of innocence by cruel withdrawal of voice? And who would declare the rule of law omnipotent executive will?

I will tell you my friends. They are the same who perceive the foundations of tyranny within the Constitution, and declare the basic precepts of free society our greatest weakness.

They are the same who openly proclaim the virtues of torture, secret prisons, extrajudicial abduction, universal surveillance, and dictatorial government.

Yes my friends, they are the same who have declared in both word and action that we must destroy America in order to save it.
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[searingtruth]

So once again, let us be clear and unambiguous in our demands. And today it is your duty as an American citizen to contact your Senators and Representatives and personally voice these demands to them:

President Bush and Vice President Cheney have committed high treason against the United States of America and must be impeached and removed from office according to the rules and laws set forth in our Constitution.

They have claimed that they are no longer subject to the authority of the judicial or legislative branches of our government, and may ignore any law they wish at anytime. They have even claimed that the President may "sign" a law, while simultaneously signing another statement claiming he is free to ignore it. They have established a network of unconstitutional secret prisons, where both foreign and domestic citizens who have been illegally abducted are sent indeterminately, without charge or representation. Some have been tortured, and some have even been murdered. They have single handedly erased our sacred and traditional rights to privacy by claiming they may place anyone they wish under surveillance at any time, even going so far as to specifically claim they may ignore FISA laws. They have started an illegal preemptive war that has needlessly taken the lives of almost 3,000 of our bravest and most noble fighting men and women.

ST, from my latest blog
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[searingtruth]

"Maybe if someone would publish a copy of the Constitution ..."
firststate

Awesome idea patriot firststate. Here is my initial contribution.
ST

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

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[firststate]

Maybe if someone would publish a copy of the Constitution with illustrations and a sing-along DVD, our excuse for a president would be able to get through it. He tried reading it once, but it had so many words and lots of them had too many letters. I understand he made it through "We the" of the preamble.

Bush is a one-line wonder. Eleven of the finest and bravest were killed in Iraq on Wednesday and the best description this petulant brat, the legend in his own mind, can find is %u2018Bad.%u2019 That has a real Lincoln-Douglas quality about it. What a clear word picture his oratory paints.

Even Blair looked embarrassed for him.

[searingtruth]

"... FEAR SELLS. But I'm not Buying."
fascistUSA

Indeed. You are in good company fellow patriot.
ST

"Any who act as if freedom's defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Nevertheless, far from alone, you are in the company of truth, the most faithful of all allies, and tested of all defense."
SearingTruth

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[fascistusa]

Yeah. If you do anything other then our FASCIST agenda...

THE TERRORISTS ARE GONNA GET YOU!!!!

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FEAR SELLS. But I'm not Buying.

[searingtruth]

"If invading Iraq and removing Saddam from power was an unjustified illegal act, against the rule of law, aren't we obliged to return Saddam to power as part of making restitution? ..."
joeshields56

Sure. If we can restore the lives of almost 3000 of our bravest and most noble fighting men and women, restore the body parts and health of the over 20,000 wounded, and restore the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed.

Let's just go back to square one.

Sheesh.

Way to much Rush Limbaugh.

Hint: Never get your talking points from a lying drug addict.
ST


"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Archibald Stewart, Dec 23, 1791

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[joeshields56]

If invading Iraq and removing Saddam from power was an unjustified illegal act, against the rule of law, aren't we obliged to return Saddam to power as part of making restitution?

Returning Saddam to power is making more and more sense to me.

1. We were wrong in doing so, so it is the "right" thing to do.
2. The Iraqi people can't settle their ***** down and take charge of their country in any meaningful way. Maybe they deserve to have Saddam back. He will settle their ***** down.

[searingtruth]

Good night patriot wayfedup. Thank you for your service to our great nation. Sleep well.
ST

"One of the most fundamental precepts of justice is that everyone, under every circumstance, be treated equally."
SearingTruth

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[searingtruth]

"I'm the DECIDER", TRULY DAMNING WORDS TO REGRET."
wayfedup

Indeed. I've heard of putting your foot in your mouth, but your whole body and an entire country all at once?

That has to be the genius of Karl Rove :)
ST

"Tyranny and tyrants do not change, nor does the character of those who defeat them."
SearingTruth

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[wayfedup]

Well, I hate to leave good company, but it's my bedtime, so GOODNIGHT ALL!

[wayfedup]

"I'm the DECIDER", TRULY DAMNING WORDS TO REGRET.