Comments on: Memos detail how Bush ignored Constitution

By: almandine

almandine — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nothing new here except the formal basis of all we have known for years. Pity that our President was so unwilling to tap into the American spirit instead of totalitarianism. That whole episode makes the current assault on our Liberty seem so benign.

By: barak

barak — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bush should be tried, waterboarded (it’s NOT torture, he said), drawn and quartered, and hung from the nearest high enough anything—-right after we do that to Cheney.

The two crooks must answer for their crimes. They must not be allowed to get away with all the criminal acts they have done and the terrible things they have done to the American People. As one of the people, I don’t feel so forgiving. Glad to see Doug finally come around on this issue.

By: OldFart

OldFart — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To me the only way to restore and prove our Constitution and ideals are real and work is to suffer the Constitutional Crises that would occur when we try President Bush, Vice president Cheney, the Cabinet, certain political appointees in Intelligence, Defense and Justice and disbar the White House Legal Office.

By: woody188

woody188 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Within two weeks of the 2001 attacks, government lawyers were discussing ways to wiretap U.S. conversations without warrants.

Perhaps that was when the lawyers started talking about it, but the Bush Administration was looking to do this in February of 2001, 7 months prior to the 9-11 attacks.

By: Hal Brown

Hal Brown — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

This "alleged" statement lives on and with a simple Google search you can find numerous references to it. Unfortunately Doug Thompson couldn't name his sources and was excoriated by some who suggested that he made the story up. It would be great to see him vindicated.

We may never have the conversation Doug wrote about validated. Assuming there was an episode like this it's time for someone who was there to step forward and tell us what Bush said.

It's not only justice for the truth to come out, but this is history, American history not revisionist Russia history.

By: adamrussell

adamrussell — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The crimes of Bush/Cheney were not committed by just those two. They were planned and committed by many members of the GOP. We need to investigate and clean house or this WILL be repeated.

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This wasn’t just Bush. And it wasn’t just Cheney. It’s far more insidious and dangerous. What we had was an administration choreographed by the military industrial complex. It saw a compatriot in Cheney and a gullible fool in Bush, an opportunity to make trillions of dollars, and it took over. The roots of this disaster are far deeper than just these two people.

—W—

By: woody188

woody188 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You can include Democrats, particularly Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. They were at least briefed on many things, including torture of terror suspects, and did nothing to stop it. In fact Nancy took impeachment off the table more as a measure to protect herself than to heal the nation. Count on it.