"Horn, John" wrote: > > > From: Jeffrey Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Some of the more choice bits from General Ashcroft's expert legal mind: > > > "I think it's important to understand that we are at war now." > > > [except that we're NOT at war, as no declaration of war has been made by > > congress..] > > I'm not sure exactly how I feel about the military tribunals, but I'm not > sure this is a fair statement. I've felt that the main reason that we > having officially declared war is because there's no one to actually declare > war ON.
Perhaps, but there's certainly legal issues regarding war, the declaration thereof, and the powers that the government can LEGALLY exercise - all dependant upon an actual declaration of war.. not to mention social and poitical realities. I'm sorry, but we are not at war. Dropping some bombs from the safety of 30,000 feet while our puppet army (a corrupt, monarchal puppet army with a shoddy human rights record that China would be ashamed of) attacks is NOT war (unless, somehow, we're now going to retroactively declare all the other military actions we've taken like this in the past "war" and prosecute the Executive branch at the time for overstepping their bounds.. its Congress that declares war, NOT President Cheney) > Meaning that there's no one foreign government behind what happened > on Sept 11th. Sure, we are spanking the Taliban but that's more because > they won't turn over bin Laden, isn't it? You betchya.. but in most Americans minds, Afghanistan is behind the attack, not merely a target of convenience that happened along when we were pissed and throwing our weight around - "You're with us or you're with the terrorists" was what George Jr said, wasn't it? How much more of a short-sighted, narrow, and backwater a foreign policy statement could he possibly have made? *sigh* > If it had been Iraq or someone like that behind > the attacks, I think the USA would have declared war immediately on that > country and we would have our declaration of war. Rose colored glasses, John? There's quite a heap of evidence that Iraq was behind this, or at least, offered FAR MORE support to AQ than the Taliban ever did, but we're not bombing their children, are we? -j- -- "O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend, The brightest heaven of invention!"
