February 20, 2008


IMPEACH BUSH



IMPEACH CHENEY


THE CONSTITUTION BUSH STYLE

I'm not expect in Constitutional law, but I wonder how many Constitutional scholars ever seriously considered the concepts of the "unitary executive," signing statements, or preemptive wars without Declarations of War before George W. Bush slithered into the White House. This is a rewording of the Constitution as it stands under Bush. The article by David Swanson is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

We the people of the Homeland, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, kill the terrorists, lock up the immigrants, and honor our Commander in Chief, do promise to vote, and shop, and watch the television news sometimes, and definitely to vote. Details follow.

Article I

Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Unitary Executive of the United States, attended by a royal court which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the private election corporations hired by the several states. There shall be no election day, but rather an Election Year, thus limiting the work of members to the odd-numbers years of Our Lord.

No person shall be a Representative who shall not profess absolute loyalty to either the Republican or Democrat Party, or both, and God.



BUSH HAS WEAKENED THE MILITARY

If the intent of Bush's adventure in Iraq was to make us more secure, Bush has been a major failure. After years of an unnecessary war in Iraq, our treasury has been depleted and our military has been weakened, much in the way our military suffered from the Vietnam war. We're hearing arguments now similar to the ones we heard about Vietnam. Withdrawal from Iraq would be a calamity, we're told, just as we were told that Southeast Asia would fall to the Communists and represent a dire threat to our security. This article is at theboard.blogs.nytimes.com:

Two Washington-based think tanks, the Center for a New American Security and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, through its Foreign Policy magazine, have done the nation a huge service by surveying more than 3,400 current and former military officers, one of the few comprehensive polls of this segment of the population in the last 50 years.

Here are some results from the survey, which is being released today:

* 60 percent of the officers surveyed say the military is weaker today than five years ago, largely because of Iraq, Afghanistan and the punishing rate of troop deployments.
* More than half say the military is weaker than it was 10 or 15 years ago.
* Some 88 percent say the demands of the Iraq war have stretched the military “dangerously thin.”
* The officers rate their confidence in Mr. Bush — who was hugely popular with the military in the 2000 election — at a mere 5.5 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best.