{"id":12966,"date":"2009-07-25T08:37:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12966"},"modified":"2009-07-25T09:06:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T14:06:39","slug":"stupid-bush-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12966","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Bush news"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times<\/a> tries to make us believe that President Bush was tempted to send US troops into the streets to arrest the Lackawanna Six with this headline;<\/p>\n

\"bushnazi1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, according to the article, Darth Cheney advocated for the US of Federal troops to round up the terrorists. It was a proposal that was never acted upon. I wonder how many people know these discussions go on every day as every administration engages in legal navel-gazing. But now this’ll become the standard answer to everyone who asks themselves if they should vote for a Republican.<\/p>\n

Decades after Nixon ruminated over sending the IRS after his enemies, it is part of the “Evil Nixon” caricature the Left likes to put forward. Nixon never used the IRS against his enemies – he merely asked the question once. Bush never sent troops to take out the Lackawanna Six, but a year from now that’s not what the conspiracy nuts will be saying.<\/p>\n

Still, at least one high-level meeting was convened to debate the issue, at which several top Bush aides argued firmly against the proposal to use the military, advanced by Mr. Cheney, his legal adviser David S. Addington and some senior Defense Department officials.<\/p>\n

Among those in opposition were Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser; John B. Bellinger III, the top lawyer at the National Security Council; Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Michael Chertoff, then the head of the Justice Department\u2019s criminal division.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The discussions did not proceed far enough to put military units on alert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And yet, somehow, it’s news.<\/p>\n

Actually, it makes no sense to use US troops the way law enforcement these days are trained and equipped almost exactly like the military. The only feasible reason is to make a political statement. And I don’t think the American people want to hear that political statement.<\/p>\n

If it was the Obama Administration having this discussion (and who says they aren’t) The New York Times would be applauding him for keeping a cooler head. So where’s the applause for Bush making the right decision?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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