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Jon wrote:

> PMDavis <pmdlandarch@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<1f2bo0h494jidi21nmj8maapej0dh05cot@4ax.com>...
> 
>>On 31 Oct 2004 07:40:33 -0800, master_blaster100@lycos.com (Jon)
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_31-10-2004_pg7_30
>>>
>>>"the most obvious message of Friday's videotape is that bin Laden is
>>>alive and well. Ayman al-Zawahiri, also released a videotape last
>>>month, which aired on the third anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The
>>>fact that both of al Qaeda's leaders have recently had the leisure to
>>>make videotaped statements suggest that they are feeling secure,
>>>wherever it is that they are hiding.
>>>
>>>"He said this raised an important question, namely whether Senator
>>>Kerry was correct when he said on Friday, "I regret that when George
>>>Bush had the opportunity in Afghanistan at Tora Bora he didn't choose
>>>to use American forces to hunt down Osama bin Laden?" The
>>>preponderance of evidence indicates that al Qeada's leader was indeed
>>>at Tora Bora, and there is no disputing the fact the Tora Bora battle
>>>was "outsourced" to Afghan warlords of questionable competence and
>>>loyalty, as Senator Kerry has repeatedly charged."
>>
>>
>>There is also the important question of why Senator Kerry publically
>>endorsed Bush's strategy and battle plans for Tora Bora at the time,
>>and now at this late date has decided that Bush's strategy at the time
>>was the wrong one.  
>>
>>There is no dispute that the Democrats where in the forefront of the
>>effort to have local troops fighting the battles against Bin Laden.  
>>
>>I smell a real lack of leadership among Democrats and an unwillingness
>>to be accountable for their actions at the time.
> 
> 
> I would say that the person refusing to be accountable is Mr. Bush. 
> He publically said that he cannot remember ever having made an error. 
> Failing to destroy Al Qaeda after they attacked America is an error.
> 
> Kerry couldn't be worse, since Bush just plain screwed up.
> 
> http://www.theamericancause.org/patthecheney.htm
> http://www.theamericancause.org/caseagainst.htm
> http://www.theamericancause.org/patthewarpartys.htm

I don't think Kerry will kill American citizens when it pleases him, as 
GW wants to do:





George W. Bush, Warlord

by Ted Rall

A Presidential Impostor Turns Political Assassin

NEW YORK--First he appointed himself President. Now George W. Bush has 
declared himself God.

As Americans begin their third year of Supreme Court-ordered political 
occupation, Bush has just signed an impressive new executive order. You 
may be surprised to learn that it grants him the right to order your 
execution. No judge, jury or lawyer. No chance to prove your innocence. 
One stroke of Bush's pen, and bang--you're dead.

Not even your American citizenship, according to Bush, will save your 
life if and when he decides to kill you. The only reason you're reading 
this right now--instead of meeting the Entity Formerly Known as God--is 
that neither Bush nor one of his "high-level officials" has yet signed a 
piece of paper declaring you an "enemy combatant." Once they do the 
paperwork, Administration officials assert, they have the right to 
murder you.

Bush's secret assassination directive surfaced on Dec. 3, when reporters 
asked about the Nov. 3 Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites) 
rub-out of alleged Al Qaeda operatives riding in a car in Yemen. Langley 
fired a Hellfire missile from a remote-controlled Predator drone into 
the vehicle, blowing up several men. The CIA (news - web sites) later 
discovered that an American citizen, Kamal Derwish, had inadvertently 
been killed in the inferno.

"No constitutional questions are raised here," asserted National 
Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), stretching 
credulity more than usual. Officials claim that a loophole in Bush's 
order authorizing the CIA to "covertly attack Al Qaeda all over the 
world" validates Derwish's murder. Since this sneaky directive makes 
exception neither for Americans nor American soil, these guys say, you 
and I have no more rights than the now-deceased, not-presumed-innocent 
Kamal Derwish.

Your life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are now officially 
subject to George W. Bush's personal judgement--or whim.

The war on terrorism isn't a war, it's a cheesy public service 
announcement, like the "war on poverty" and the "war on drugs." Like 
those old un-won campaigns, it involves no declaration of war, no 
defined enemy, no front. And like them it will gradually fade into 
embarrassing irrelevance. "Can you believe it?" future citizens will 
marvel. "People actually took this stuff seriously!" In the meantime, 
America's Gang of Four--Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft--have 
brilliantly exploited the nebulousness of nullity. Having no enemy means 
that anyone can be declared the enemy. Having no battleground means that 
the battleground is anywhere and everywhere. "The Bush Administration 
and Al Qaeda together have defined the entire world as a battlefield," 
writes the Associated Press' John J. Lumpkin.

While the CIA has targeted U.S. citizens in the past, those killings 
were officially sanctioned only when the person in question was 
considered an immediate threat to American lives. Scott L. Silliman, 
director of the Duke University Center on Law, Ethics and National 
Security asks: "Could you put a Hellfire missile into a car in 
Washington, D.C. under the same theory? The answer is yes, you could."

Never mind that anyone driving on the Beltway could just as easily be 
pulled over by the cops. Like the medieval lords who wielded the right 
of life and death over their subjects, our Texan warlord now claims the 
droit du seigneur over the American people.

Under his legalized assassination mandate, Bush could theoretically 
declare the 2004 Democratic nominee an "enemy combatant," Hellfire his 
campaign bus and coast to reelection unopposed. It would be a heck of a 
lot easier than preparing for debates.

Granted, it's unlikely that CIA missiles will begin raining down on 
Berkeley or other liberal burgs anytime soon. Killing Muslims, even 
those with U.S. citizenship, is one thing; offing "ordinary" Americans 
is another. As has been the case with previous Bushie infringements on 
fundamental civil rights--electronic eavesdropping, jailing people 
without trial or a visit by a lawyer--most citizens believe themselves 
safe simply by virtue of their not being terrorists.

They may be right. They might be wrong. It's all in the hands of the 
executioner-in-chief now.

Source: http://www.Rall.com



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