Ford also replaced Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger with Rumsfeld at the latter’s urging, and Cheney became chief of staff. In a 1975 meeting, Cheney supported an FBI investigation into New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who had written about U.S. submarines spying in Soviet waters. He also wanted Hersh’s “apartment” searched. Government intelligence on Hersh was so bad that they weren’t aware he owned a house. At the same meeting, some rightly worried about whether they would “get hit with violating the First Amendment to the Constitution.”

Roger Roger, as usual your ignorance is stunning. These presidential powers have not been codified into law anywhere, nor has any supreme court precedent been made recently which substantially expanded presidential powers, so there is nothing to “reverse”. In fact, the only way to actively continue in Bush’s footsteps would be if the new president continued to break the law by doing things like ignoring the 4th amendment, the FISA courts, international treaties which have been ratified by congress and thus absorbed into american law, etc etc. If you consider following the law to be “reversing things” thing I guess according to this logic, clinton hopefully will.

Comment by Probus — October 10, 2007 @

Also, not to mention the fact that that scenario might ‘allow’ his puppet to claim executive power and stay in office.

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I’m sure Chomsky has connected the dots, but I think he probably keeps his mouth shut simply because anyone who suggests even that the government had foreknowledge and did nothing is lumped in with every bizarre theory out there.

I personally think the governmetn knew about it, and let it happen. Simple as that. I dont know for sure, but I dont want, and think it isnt necessary to become involved in scientific debate about which I have virtually no personal knowledge or understanding.

This is one of my favorites…

http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/the-smoking-gun-is-a-mushroom-cloud/

please check it out if you get a chance.

I agree, but I think it has more to do with their reluctance to give up on the entire “Free Market=Democracy” lie.

That’s why I am so surprised by Klein and Chomskey. They have a great deal of insight into just what these people have been doing over the last 30 or so years… and yet they refuse to connect the dots.

And 9/11 of course provided that needed new Pearl Harbor that the neocons have for long wished for.

arguewithmydad

Comment by Spudge Boy

The oil is still underneath the sand, isn’t it?
And even less functioning infrastructure to move it anywhere…
Meanwhile they can destroy the nation of Iraq, create separate zones of influence, and not have such messy issues like democracy and human rights to deal with.

Because to me, that’s the proof your theory is wrong: where is the oil revenue?

You have it backwards as do most people. We went to Iraq for the oil, but not to take it. We went to take it off the market, thus driving up the cost of the rest of the oil.

aka record profits for the oil companies.

Their plan is working perfectly.

Charlie Savage is just now catching up with the rest of us who have known this sh!t since Vietnam!!!!!

And TP should know this!!!

Someone put a stop the the moron, evil bastard that I’ve been complaining about around here for serveral years named David Addington!!!!!

He is stupid, he is dangerous and Congress should get this bastard under oath fast!!!

If we invade Iran it’s his mouth making it happen.

David Addington needs to be reined in ASAP!!! Along with Dick(head) Cheney!!!

Comment by TripMaster Monkey — October 9, 2007 @ 5:47 pm

On this topic, we violently disagree. I think this administration honestly thought that Rumsfeld’s strategy would work, that you could invade and occupy a country like Iraq without committing sufficient resources. They also believed that they could quickly and easily replace Saddam with their own benevolent dictator, Chalabi, and start sucking on the Iraqi oil teat immediately.

Because to me, that’s the proof your theory is wrong: where is the oil revenue?

Not to mention, we’ve seen this administration prove over and over again that they are utterly incompetent at anything but manipulation . . . of the press and Congress and the American public. Why assume they got it right once?

Comment by TripMaster Monkey

This sounds about right to me.

Comment by John Kerry — October 9, 2007 @ 4:56 pm

So fine. Give us some new talking points from your side we can rebut. I suspect the reason you are bored is because you no longer have any defense for these guys.

You actually understood what I was getting at which is that it’s getting BORING and BORING and BORING to keep hearing the same old left nut lib talking points OVER and OVER and OVER again about Bush and Cheney etc etc.

Nobody forces you to spend your worthless existence on a site where you are loathed. You do it on your own or are paid to be here day in and day out.