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24 Nov 2007 02:35:39 PM |
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Another With God on his side |
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Published on Tuesday, April 20,, 2004 by the Los Angeles Times
With God on His Side ...
By Invoking a Higher Power, Bush Sidesteps Pesky Constitutional Issues
by Robert Scheer
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0420-01.htm
[excerpt]
So, it was a holy war, a new crusade. No wonder George W. Bush could
lie to Congress and the American public with such impunity while
keeping the key members of his Cabinet in the dark. He was serving a
higher power, according to Bob Woodward, who interviewed the president
for a new book on the months leading up to the Iraq invasion.
Of course, as a self-described "messenger" of God who was "praying for
strength to do the Lord's will," Bush was not troubled about shredding
a little secular document called the U.S. Constitution.
The Constitution reserves to Congress the authority to allocate funds
and to declare war. Thus it would seem to be an impeachable offense to
misappropriate $700 million that had been earmarked to restore order
to Afghanistan and put it toward planning an invasion of Iraq — in a
secret scheme hatched, according to Woodward, only 72 days after 9/11.
But not only has the president rejected the checks and balances
installed by the nation's founders to avoid the "foreign
entanglements" George Washington warned us about, he again is shown to
have pursued a foreign policy that stands as a sharp rebuke to his
more worldly and cautious father. During the first Gulf War, George
H.W. Bush wisely heeded the concerns of Congress, as well as a broad
coalition of regional and international allies, and kept to clear,
limited and sound goals.
In contrast, the younger Bush vocally disdains world opinion and
international bodies like the United Nations, seeming instead to
relish his role as an avenging Christian crusader who seeks — under
the guiding hand of the Almighty — to cleanse the Arab world of
"evildoers."
Asked by Woodward, an assistant managing editor at the Washington
Post, if he had ever consulted the former president before ordering
the invasion of Iraq, Bush replied that "he is the wrong father to
appeal to in terms of strength; there is a higher father that I appeal
to."
[end excerpt]
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Historical Reality SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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| User: "Non-TweedlePug Voter" |
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| Title: Re: Another With God on his side |
24 Nov 2007 06:06:57 PM |
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Sounds kinda gay.
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