When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
"We didn’t go to war to capture Saddam Hussein. We went to war to get rid of weapons of mass destruction. Those weapons have not been found."--former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, quoted in We Caught The Wrong Guy, By William Rivers Pitt
Capturing Hussein became the stated goal after the weapons stubbornly refused to show themselves.
Iraq itself and those alleged weapons became a goal after Osama bin Laden refused to submit to US troops and whisked himself away from public view. He's still out there, and to the extent he was the threat to US security, we remain insecure.
Bush has done nothing to advance American security. He has enriched the companies of administration cronies and diminished American freedoms at home. I can't imagine what Liebermann was so jubilant about.
On CNN, Liebermann saidHussein must be tried before a tribunal that has the authority to impose the deaty penalty (which the Hague does not):
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More on Saddam Hussein
"We didn’t go to war to capture Saddam Hussein. We went to war to get rid of weapons of mass destruction. Those weapons have not been found."--former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, quoted in We Caught The Wrong Guy, By William Rivers Pitt
Capturing Hussein became the stated goal after the weapons stubbornly refused to show themselves.
Iraq itself and those alleged weapons became a goal after Osama bin Laden refused to submit to US troops and whisked himself away from public view. He's still out there, and to the extent he was the threat to US security, we remain insecure.
Bush has done nothing to advance American security. He has enriched the companies of administration cronies and diminished American freedoms at home. I can't imagine what Liebermann was so jubilant about.
On CNN, Liebermann saidHussein must be tried before a tribunal that has the authority to impose the deaty penalty (which the Hague does not):
This man, Saddam Hussein, this evil man, has to face the death penalty. The International Tribunal in The Hague cannot order the death penalty. So my first question about where he's going to be tried will be answered by whether that tribunal can execute him, which is what he surely deserves, and if it can be done by the Iraqi military tribunal, fine. But if it cannot, he should be brought before an American military tribunal and face the death that he's brought to hundreds of thousands of his own people and 460-plus Americans.--quoted on Laura Ingraham Talk Radio[Note: I searched for this quote and was finally able to find it only on this conservative website. That statement is over the top for anybody else.]
Palema
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