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(BlueMcdowell makes a great point. I added the link to Olbermann's comments. The video of Olbermann can be seen in comments. - promoted by wvblueguy)
I ask all WV Democrats to check them out whenever they get the chance.
Could I have your permission Clem and Carnacki to put that link on here if you all don't mind?
And guess what Bush did this morning? He talked about not being able to "worship the Almighty like we want to if the terrorists get their way."
Bush is pandering to his evangelical and Pentecostal base once again using our troops while doing it......
Sadly my fellow evangelicals and Pentecostals are probably buying this crap big time again. I hope they are intelligent enough this time to see what's going on....
That also tells me that Bush ignored Mr. Olbermann completely. Not that I'm terribly surprised.....
Update by wvblueguy... here the link to the Olberman comment! Click here. I hope you don't mind bluemcdowell.
Earlier in the Washington Post series on Dick Cheney we learned of how extensive his role was in pushing for torture and trying to legally justify crimes against humanity. In today's story, we learn he pretty much runs the show -- just like many of us on the left have long suspected.
Air Force Two touched down at the Greenbrier Valley Airport in West Virginia on Feb. 6, 2003, carrying Vice President Cheney to the annual retreat of Republican House and Senate leaders. He had come to sell them on the economic centerpiece of President Bush's first term: a $674 billion tax cut.
The president had accepted Cheney's diagnosis that the sluggish economy needed a jolt, overruling senior economic advisers who forecast dangerous budget deficits. But Bush rejected one of Cheney's remedies: deep reductions in the capital gains tax on investments.
The vice president "was just hot on that," said Cesar Conda, then Cheney's domestic policy adviser. "It goes to show you: He wins and he loses, and he lost on that one."
Not for long.
As the Republican lawmakers debated in a closed-door session at the Greenbrier resort, the vice president revived the argument, touting his idea as a way to energize a stock market battered by scandals such as Enron. House allies inserted Cheney's cut into their package. But that came at the expense of one of Bush's priorities: abolishing the tax on stock dividends. [Emphais mine.]
The recent claim by Dick Cheney to have both executive privilege and not to be part of the executive branch of government seems to amount to a claim that Cheney is simply above the rule of law.
It appears that both Bush and Cheney think they rule by divine right like the absolute monarchs of medieval Europe or the dictators of the old Soviet Bloc. Both need to be impeached. Until they are removed from office, the media, Congress and the courts should be aggressively investigating, exposing and opposing their abuses of power.
Bush has ignored the rule of law repeatedly. He has wiretapped American citizens without court orders in clear violation of the law by claiming nonexistent Presidential authority. Both Bush and Cheney lied to the American public and Congress to take America into an illegal war in Iraq.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Matthew 25:40: King James Version
It is time for Congress to take a real look at what happened at Abu Ghraib.
While West Virginia's Lynndie England and other low ranking Maryland National Guard soldiers sit in prison, the culprits behind the deeds remain free.
What England and others did was deplorable. But the sadism and cruelty that occurred in Abu Ghraib was not the work of just "bad apples" as administration officials claimed.
Though the people in power would like us to think it was an isolated case involving just low-level soldiers, the evidence at England's court martial and from the Army's Taguba report proved otherwise.
The atmosphere of depravity that the then-20-year-old private worked in was not created by England. It was an atmosphere shaped by a White House that viewed the Geneva Convention as a "quaint document" and where the then White House counsel Alberto Gonzalez wrote memos how to legally protect the President and Vice President from their own authorization orders.
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