Tom Hanks, Bob Dole Endorse Marcy Kaptur Over Dennis Kucinich In Ohio Primary
Friday, March 2, 2012
Where do you get that idea?
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Tom Hanks, Bob Dole Endorse Marcy Kaptur Over Dennis Kucinich In Ohio Primary
I seriously doubt that.
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Barack Obama Waives Rule Allowing Indefinite Military Detention Of Americans
No, it hasn't, but it's interesting that an anonymous campaign to debunk it was attempted.
Not only did I see and hear Carl Levin say it on the Senate floor, but here is the transcript and video of it at CSpan (Levin speaks at 4:43:38).
And then there's the transcript in the Congressional Record.
SEN. CARL LEVIN: I'm wondering whether the Senator is familiar with the fact that the language which precluded the application of Section 1031 to American citizens was in the bill that we originally approved in the Armed Services Committee and the Administration asked us to remove the language which says that US citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section.
Is the Senator familiar with the fact that it was the Administration that asked us to remove the very language which we had in the bill which passed the committee - and that we removed it at the request of the Administration - that would have said that this determination would not apply to US citizens and lawful residents?
Wouldn't it be spiffy if people actually researched the facts before they spread falsehoods? If you'd followed the actual proceedings, you'd know that Obama had threatened to veto this bill, but it was never about substantive objections to the detention powers vested by this bill -- Obama's objections had nothing to do with civil liberties, or due process or the Constitution. It had everything to do with Executive power. Obama's not an opponent of indefinite detention; he’s a vigorous proponent of it, as evidenced by his continuous, multi-faceted embrace of that policy.
His complaint was that Congress had no business tying the hands of the President when deciding who should go into military detention, who should be denied a trial, which agencies should interrogate suspects (the FBI or the CIA). Such decisions, Obama insists, are for the President, not Congress, to make. In other words, his veto threat was not grounded in the premise that indefinite military detention is wrong; it was grounded in the premise that it should be the President who decides who goes into military detention and why, not Congress.
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Tell President Obama: Don't Capitulate to the War-Makers
Retired General Wesley Clark on Democracy Now, March 2, 2007, about the US plans to invade 7 countries over 5 years -
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, "Sir, you’ve got to come in and talk to me a second." I said, "Well, you’re too busy." He said, "No, no." He says, "We’ve made the decision we’re going to war with Iraq." This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, "We’re going to war with Iraq? Why?" He said, "I don’t know." He said, "I guess they don’t know what else to do." So I said, "Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?" He said, "No, no." He says, "There’s nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq." He said, "I guess it’s like we don’t know what to do about terrorists, but we’ve got a good military and we can take down governments." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail."
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it’s worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" — meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office — "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran."
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Poverty Moves To The Suburbs (MAPS)
And your answer is what? Republicans?==============================
How do you get there from all that i've written? Is this your first or second or even third election? I'm trying to understand the 'sport fan'-mentality that has invaded our political process, of voters who can't see past the spin of the day or the next election.
Read this thread, and then we'll talk some more.
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Tom Hanks, Bob Dole Endorse Marcy Kaptur Over Dennis Kucinich In Ohio Primary
So you're against reproductive choice and gays marrying and adopting?
About Elections 2012
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