Back door power grab
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Clyde
5:22 AM
Bush Seeks to Affirm a Continuing War on Terror
Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received almost no public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President Bush's defining legacies: an affirmation that the United States is still at war with Al Qaeda.
Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Bush's advisers assert that many Americans may have forgotten that. So they want Congress to say so and "acknowledge again and explicitly that this nation remains engaged in an armed conflict with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated organizations, who have already proclaimed themselves at war with us and who are dedicated to the slaughter of Americans."
The language, part of a proposal for hearing legal appeals from detainees at the United States naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, goes beyond political symbolism. Echoing a measure that Congress passed just days after the Sept. 11 attacks, it carries significant legal and public policy implications for Mr. Bush, and potentially his successor, to claim the imprimatur of Congress to use the tools of war, including detention, interrogation and surveillance, against the enemy, legal and political analysts say.
Some lawmakers are concerned that the administration's effort to declare anew a war footing is an 11th-hour maneuver to re-establish its broad interpretation of the president's wartime powers, even in the face of challenges from the Supreme Court and Congress.
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OK,gotcha, but I'm a bit confused. Is that what it means to be a 'terrorist'? You 'slaughter' people, while we, the land of the free and home of the brave just drop cluster bombs on people and KILL them. I suppose you don't get blood splashed all over you in the cockpit (being some miles above the poor unfortunates mingling with all them slaughtering 'terrists'). And you call them pussy farts in congress as 'challenging' the fucker in the dark house? I always thought challenge meant putting the screws to him, not rolling over on your back and offering up your ass for a f**king.
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