Andrew Sullivan from the Atlantic Magazine Slams Chris Wallace Over Cheney Interview.

When future historians ask how the United States came not only to practice torture but to celebrate it and treat torturers as heroes, a special place in hell among the journalists who embraced and justified it should be reserved for Chris Wallace.

Read the story HERE

President Bush and 7 top members of his Administration made at least 935 false and misleading statements in the 2 years after 9-11 in order to justify their illegal invasion of Iraq. We have known for some time that the Bush administration methodically and repeatedly told blatant lies about the National Security threat posed by Saddam Hussein in order to gain national and world support for invading a sovereign nation that was no threat to the United States. This carefully coordinated campaign was the underpinning of the Bush administrations entire case for war.
Now, after an comprehensive analysis of pre-war rhetoric and exhaustive examination of the facts by the Fund for Independence in Journalism and the Center for Public Integrity the true scope of this administrations deception, illicit behavior and complete disdain for the American people is again on view.
You can view the entire report, called False Pretenses, HERE

In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003. Not surprisingly, the officials with the most opportunities to make speeches, grant media interviews, and otherwise frame the public debate also made the most false statements, according to this first-ever analysis of the entire body of prewar rhetoric.

Besides George Bush (260 false statements), who are the 7 officials that should be tried for treason?

• Vice President Dick Cheney (48 false statements)
• National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (56 false statements)
• Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (109 false statements)
• Secretary of State Colin Powell (244 false statements)
• Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz (85 false statements)
• White House press secretary Ari Fleischer (109 false statements)
• White House press secretary Scott McClellan (14 false statements)

As of today, three thousand, nine hundred and thirty one (3931) Americans have died in Iraq because Bush lied. That means as of now, for every lie this administration told, 4 Americans have been murdered by this administration.
I hope Bush and the Republicans who protect him are proud of the pain and suffering they have caused the families, the sons, daughters, mothers and fathers of these men and women who are no longer with us.
[tags]Impeach Bush, Impeach Cheney, Traitor, Iraq, surge[/tags]

Late Friday My Senator, Dianne Feinstein, along with Senator Chuck Schumer caved in to Bush’s hissy fit over the nomination of Michael Mukasey as Attorney General. They even waited until LATE Friday afternoon, usually when the Bush Administration releases embarrassing news they want to bury, to announce their capitulation and support of Mukasey. The “Great Decider” played his 9-11 fear mongering again, “Approve Mukasey or we will all die, and it will be all your fault”.

“The job of Attorney General is essential to the security of America”…”Some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden, and the requests of our commanders on the ground, and less time responding to the demands of MoveOn.org bloggers and Code Pink protesters.”

I guess the “Great Decider” has decided the Code Pink ladies are a threat to Bush’s false and misleading sense of National Security.

In a statement released by my dear Senator Feinstein she tried to justify her decision by essentially saying Mukasey is better than Gonzales and Bush won’t nominate anyone else. So Senator Feinstein, Mukasey is evil but not as evil as Gonzales or some other ass kisser Bush could put up there to protect his administration from being tried for war crimes? That makes it right? I am disappointed in you Senator.

First and foremost, Michael Mukasey is not Alberto Gonzales. Rather, he has forged an independent life path as a practitioner of the law and a federal judge in the Southern District of New York.
I truly believe he will be a strong Attorney General and will represent the best interests of the American people.
The Justice Department is in desperate need of effective leadership. The Department is leaderless, and 10 of its top positions are vacant. Morale among U.S. Attorneys needs to be restored, priorities reassessed, and a new dynamic of independence from the White House forged.
I believe that Judge Mukasey is the best we will get and voting him down would only perpetuate acting and recess appointments, allowing the Administration to avoid the transparency that confirmation hearings provide and diminish effective oversight by Congress.

The only interests Mukasey will represent are those of George “temper tantrum” Bush and Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney and their aspirations of making the Presidency a Dictatorship. Saying he is the best we will get does not make it right.

This man refuses to state that “waterboarding” is torture. Why? Because torture is illegal under our Constitution and under the Geneva Convention and our “Great Decider” has been using torture for the last 6 years… so to say waterboarding is torture is to say the Bush Administration is guilty of WAR CRIMES!

But torture aside, even more important, is that Mukasey believes in all of the most extreme positions of the Bush administration regarding presidential dictorial powers.

He has ruled, as a judge, that the President has the power to detain American citizens on U.S. soil indefinitely without ever having to charge them with a crime. There goes the Constitutional right of habeas corpus.

He has suggested that the president can ignore “certain laws” in wartime if he or she believes national security is at stake. Who decides what these “certain laws” are? Who decides what is “national security”? The “Great Decider” of course and we have seen time and time again what great decisions this traitor has made.
Couchmouse
[tags]Impeach Bush, Constitution, Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, War Crimes[/tags]

For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give the president virtually unlimited wartime power. Finally, in the aftermath of 9/11, the Justice Department and the White House made a number of controversial legal decisions. Orchestrated by Cheney and his lawyer David Addington, the department interpreted executive power in an expansive and extraordinary way, granting President George W. Bush the power to detain, interrogate, torture, wiretap and spy — without congressional approval or judicial review.

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Watch the full documentary here about how the Bush administration has tried to consolidate dictatorial power in the executive branch, from even before 9-11.
The below is a sample from Chapter 1 of the program.