09-29-2006, 04:38 AM
Quote:Partially, because I blame Washington, not just Bush.
Yes I blame Washington too. The Senate was so completeley spineless that they would not (with a few notable exceptions) stand up against the Bush administration's push for war; not that the US "liberal" media, or --- most importantly --- the majority of the US electorate did either.
That said, the war is 100% Bush responsibility. The fact that any and all checks on his insane adminstration failed does not alter his culpability one bit.
And now for something completely different...
...the senate has passed the Detainee Interogation Bill, which includes among other things (as summarized by Patrick Leahy)
Quote:It would permit the president to detain indefinitelyâeven for lifeâany alien, whether in the United States or abroad, whether a foreign resident or a lawful permanent resident, without any meaningful opportunity for the alien to challenge his detention. The administration would not even need to assert, much less prove, that the alien was an enemy combatant; it would suffice that the alien was "awaiting [a] determination" on that issue. In other words, the bill would tell the millions of legal immigrants living in America, participating in American families, working for American businesses, and paying American taxes, that our government may at any minute pick them up and detain them indefinitely without charge, and without any access to the courts or even to military tribunals, unless and until the government determines that they are not enemy combatants.
I am disgusted beyond words by the state of the US right now.