So, Senator Fristfuk, our President gets carte blanche to do as He pleases without ANY Constitutional constraint, and ANY dissent consitutes aid and comfort to the enemy? What tripe. You are a total embarrassment.

A few post-speech Q&A session gems from Bush in Cleveland today:

- “History has proven that democracies can change societies. The classic case I like to cite is Japan. Prime Minister Koizumi is one of my best buddies in the international arena. And when we sit down, we talk the peace.”

- “I knew we were at war. I knew that the enemy obviously had to be sophisticated and lethal to fly hijacked airplanes into facilities that would be killing thousands of people, innocent people, doing nothing, just sitting there, going to work.”

- “Foreign policy used to be dictated by the fact we had two oceans protecting us. If we saw a threat, we could deal with it if you needed to you think, or not, but we'd be safe.”

- “9/11 affected the way I think. I know these are like totalitarian fascists. They have an ideology. They have a desire to spread that ideology. And they're willing to use tactics to achieve their strategy.”

- “I, obviously, had a trip recently to India and Pakistan and Afghanistan and was able to see in India and in Pakistan both -- it is a positive development to be a friend of Pakistan. It's a positive development for India for America to be a friend of Pakistan. And it's a positive development for Pakistan for America to be a friend of India.”

- “The problem is our employers don't know whether they're hiring people, because there's a whole forgery industry around people being smuggled into the United States. There's a smuggling industry and a forgery industry. And it's hard to ask our employers, the onion guy out there, whether or not the documents he's being shown which look real are real.”

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The most powerful man on the planet is a complete reeeetard!

For those of you who missed President Bush's March 21st press conference, here is a comprehensive six word summary:

"Invading Iraq was justified by 9/11."

Some people (a rapidly dwindling number, mercifully) will no doubt continue to agree. For the vast (and increasing) majority of rational, increasingly informed people, however, the assertion could not be more preposterous, and Mr. Flight Suit's sophomoric and shrill false dilemma pushback taunts aimed at us do nothing more than provide aid and comfort to our true enemies, those thrilled to see our nation continue to bleed all over the shoes of this pathetic, messianic Legend In His Own Mind.

It should be beyond clear by now that this man is not up to the job. It's Hard Work. Too hard for the likes of George W. Bush.

being the Dilettante in Chief.

The only Game He Got is a toxic, lexically and syntactically mangled roster of equal parts Straw Man, Red Herring, False Dilemma, ad Hominem attack, and Wishful Thinking fallacies.

The man is pathetic.

Ben, I got a new address for ya right HERE:

http://www.goarmy.com/

Go help your coward-assed President fight what you characterized as his "coherent and just response to 9/11" so we make damn sure those Iraqis NEVER attack NYC again.

No? Gotta stay home in the 101st Keyboard Commando GUI Reserve Battalion?

Hoooo-ah!

March, 2001, Cheney Energy Task Force examines Iraqi oil assets and the various prospective foreign suitors:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/iraqi-oil-maps.shtml

Bush came into office looking for a way to do Iraq. To continue to claim otherwise is severe clinical Denial.

The moral core of American Constitutional government is one explicitly disavowing an Ends-Justify-the-Means ethos. Our Constitution in fact clearly embodies the opposite cardinal value, i.e., that good ends cannot, in the aggregate, accrue from bad means, hence the Framers' focus on assiduous due process and checks-and-balances processes for the restraint of the reckless exercise of power. Sadly (and dangerously), we are now governed by a group of men for whom They-Know-Better Ends-Justify-the-Means thinking drives their every action, men who would condescendingly pat us on our heads to keep reminding us that their Noble End of “Protecting the American People” warrants and justifies an unlimited range of authority, including authority for:

- secret warrantless spying on whomever they deem necessary (and, of course, the details simply must be kept classified for The Protection of the American People);

- torture, abuse, and indefinite detention of anyone they deem a terror suspect;

- selective leaking of the nation’s most closely held intelligence secrets when convenient, while at the same time, of course, railing angrily against (and hunting down) others who leak inconvenient secrets the Administration wants kept under wraps;

- selectively disavowing by executive fiat inconvenient provisions of signed legislation;

- selectively disavowing the necessity of adhering to inconvenient international laws, conventions, and treaties (all while lecturing other nations about their responsibility to observe the rule of law as expressed through democratic process and structure).

Nothing good can, nothing good will ever come of this self-defeating Messianic Executive Delusion. These people must be reined in and brought to account. Nothing less than the survival of our free nation is at stake. The ends do not justify these means. Neither in a moral nor in a utilitarian sense. These men have not and will not make us “safer.” What they are doing is nothing more than horribly soiling the American ideal before the eyes of the world.

Let us not succumb to endless red herring nit-picking over definition-of-IS'ness irrelevancies regarding Presidential de-classification authority. This man swore an Oath to preserve and defend our Constitution, not to mock it at every turn by ignoring its very moral basis in pursuit of his expedient political ends.