Gitmo Before We Have To Close The Place
I can't say I'm totally unsympathetic with Bush's try to treat terrorists in a way different from a common lawbreaker or a prisoner of war. But the Gitmo ruling is a reflection of how radically he has tried to arrogate power to the executive branch based on a self-proclaimed "War on Terror".
He's tried to have it both ways since we invaded Afghanistan. He's wanted the enhanced powers of a war-time president without any formal declaration of war by Congress.
Like LBJ did in Vietnam, he's tried to use a general congressional resolution on Iraq to allow him to do anything he wants without regard for the other two branches of government. How absurd. Talk about making it up as he goes along.
Bush says we are engaged in a 'war' of infinite length, and, therefore he has wartime powers for an infinite time. The Supreme Court reminded him today that no one branch of government can run the country as it arbitrarily wishes just because it calls whatever it is doing a 'war.'
Nixon declared a 'war on drugs'. That didn't give him the right to hold military tribunals for drug dealers.
The Court finally stopped the biggest grab for power by one branch of government ever seen.
He's tried to have it both ways since we invaded Afghanistan. He's wanted the enhanced powers of a war-time president without any formal declaration of war by Congress.
Like LBJ did in Vietnam, he's tried to use a general congressional resolution on Iraq to allow him to do anything he wants without regard for the other two branches of government. How absurd. Talk about making it up as he goes along.
Bush says we are engaged in a 'war' of infinite length, and, therefore he has wartime powers for an infinite time. The Supreme Court reminded him today that no one branch of government can run the country as it arbitrarily wishes just because it calls whatever it is doing a 'war.'
Nixon declared a 'war on drugs'. That didn't give him the right to hold military tribunals for drug dealers.
The Court finally stopped the biggest grab for power by one branch of government ever seen.
posted by Marshall Darts at
1:15 PM
2 Comments:
He has no mandate from the UN for a war on terror. We don't consider those binding anyway. We don't allow them to run our foreign policy.
As for a war on terror mandate from Congress, he wasn't given a blank check to act without the other branches of government.
That's what the Supreme Court decision was all about.
Regards.
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Marshall Darts, at 6/30/2006 9:17 PM
There's not much more to say. I'll let that argument collapse from its own lack of logic.
Regards.
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Marshall Darts, at 6/30/2006 10:13 PM
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