Now that we know the GOP shelters pedophiles, can we focus on the quagmire in Iraq?

Question

This may be the more important thing for which to hold the Bush Administration accountable.

Fr Chuck, Good for you, sir. This really should be a bi partisan issue. I hope this goes far, very far.
Good luck and good hunting.

Mathguy, I agree. The Republican leadership knew about this situation for years and covered it up.
They were the party in control. I am absolutely certain there are equally bad Democrats too, but they are marginalized and not in charge of the house leadership. We deserve better.

Answer 1

The GOP has welcomed the shift in attention, for they have no ideas, no plan, no extraction from Iraq. AND, once in this mess, it will be difficult for ANYONE to withdraw without being in danger of leaving all the oil money in the hands of fanatic terrorists...Bush has certainly left a great legacy for the American public.
The Republicans are trying to shift this whole thing into an ANTI GAY deal, thinking that is the only way to salvage the mess, but it is NOT a GAY thing, it is NOT pedophile thing, it is a COVER UP thing that ranks up there with WATERGATE, perhaps worse.

The Republicans are terrified that if the Dems get in, they will begin impeachment proceedings, and if it were not that Cheney is next in line, I would be there yelling for them.
The Quagmire is HERE in America, we don't have to look abroad. We are in a mess of epic proportions, our national debt under Bush has become unimaginable, our dollar is soon to sink through the floor. At this time, the exchange rate of the Euro to US has risen to 17% and there is NO end in sight. We cannot accumulate a 4 Trillion dollar deficit without paying the bill, I cannot fathom how much money that is...but I do know that this entire administration and ALL those who have backed it need to be railroaded OUT of DC. NO ONE could do a worse job.

Answer 2

Exiting Iraq will happen as good citizens continue to wake up and realize how vitally important it is to speak up and write to the media and politicians. In the past, everyone let the activists be the first to take charge and the Administration trained the public to designate them as the Left and to minimalize and dismiss what was happening.

Now more and more people realize the war was a mistake. Still, they are afraid of being smeared with namecalling like Left Wing and Liberal. You don't have to be those names to oppose this war and to write everywhere and tell everyone everyday that a pullout is demanded. Keep an eye on the Foley investigation because as that is swepted under the rug, more wrongdoing will happen concerning the upcoming Election.

To prevent this from ever happening again, Americans should stop thinking that people who think differently are unworthy. Realize that citizens are all in this together. Fight to have the rigged Republican owned voting machines scrutinized immediately and up and until the last vote is taken. Then have monitors oversee what Republicans have done with those votes for decades and make sure that every one is counted.

Demand that no Republican be charge of any elections, votes, or polling stations from this day forward.

Answer 3

Foley is a scumbag, but nothing is served by acting like only Republicans are bad. There are plenty of corrupt, inept, and sick people on both sides of the isle. The more both sides point fingers at each other and pretend that their side never does anything wrong, the more divided we become. Both sides should condemn what was done here. Same goes when a Democrat does something wrong.

Answer 4

and that isn't any longer to teach the actual shown actuality that Bush has all yet left out the certainly wrongdoer behind the attacks (Osama bin weighted down) and did not convey him to justice, yet he has also exacerbated the international terrorist concern, because no longer in elementary words is there now a terrorist disaster in Iraq that did not exist throughout Saddam's regime, yet now an complete new technology of terrorists is being bred, because the conflict has develop right into a reason celebre between the Islamic fundamentalists.

Answer 5

It is just some of the true repuglican family values just coming to light. There is no doubt in my mind that they are crooks. More interested in their own agenda the what is good for America. Like the war in Iraq that was started based on a lie.

Answer 6

yes just like the democratic leaders said, since he was gay and had a deep interest in children they should have suspected him.

I am starting already following thier view point and making a list that our school and scout groups should start investigating

Answer 7

Shelters? They kicked the guy to the curb? When have the Democrats EVER done that in the face of a sex scandal? Too busy trying to look PC.
And let's not forget, it looks like PLENTY OF DEMS knew about Foley and did NOTHING until this close to election. They didn't care about the "children"...they cared about the scandal.

Answer 8

Hopefully somebody is focused on Iraq, from what I hear it is a mess.

Answer 9

If you haven't been watching the political arena lately, you may not have noticed that the U.S. Congress last week handed President Bush a bill that, if signed, would spell the end of America as we know it.

Called the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the bill abandons the Geneva Convention (formed after Hitler's atrocities in WWII), legalizes the torture of U.S. citizens, suspends all civil rights for prisoners and allows the President to declare virtually anyone to be an "enemy combatant" -- artists, writers, scientists, protestors or anyone who does not agree with the pro-war stance of the current regime.

It would also retroactively grant blanket immunity to all U.S. military personnel who have committed war crimes under the Geneva Convention. Such immunity would extend to present and future war crimes as well. In other words, the United States will now officially harbor and support war criminals. In the context of international law, the United States is effectively declaring itself to be a criminal state that will respect no international law.

Just as frighteningly, the new Act would utterly nullify the courts and make it illegal for the judicial branch of government to interfere with the imprisonment and torture of anyone, thus affecting a dangerous power shift from the judicial branch of government to the executive branch.

Hitler followed the same strategy in centralizing his own power, and by nullifying the courts while taking over the media, he was able to propagandize his war, arrest all dissenters, and concentrate power in his own hands. The ultimate result was an unjust war and a humanitarian disaster that haunts the world to this day.

The United States is now firmly on the same path. These are dark times for our nation, and future historians will no doubt look upon this historic vote as the trigger that thrust the United States into a full-fledged police state, complete with secret arrests, government spying on citizens, and the mysterious "disappearance" of those who dared to speak out against the dictator.

A disgraced nation

What the U.S. Congress has done is beyond shameful. The rest of the world now sees the United States as a rogue nation, led by a power-grabbing madman who has, in six short years, taken us to the threshold of Police State tyranny, all while claiming to be protecting the Constitution.

Read the Military Commissions Act yourself! Here's a passage that nullifies the judicial branch:

"No court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider any claim or cause of action whatsoever, including any action pending on or filed after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, relating to the prosecution, trial, or judgment of a military commission under this chapter, including challenges to the lawfulness of procedures of military commissions under this chapter."

And here's another passage that rebukes the Geneva Convention:

"No person may invoke the Geneva Conventions or any protocols thereto in any habeas corpus or other civil action or proceeding to which the United States, or a current or former officer, employee, member of the Armed Forces, or other agent of the United States is a party as a source of rights in any court of the United States or its States or territories."

It makes you wonder. What kind of evil nation would reject, with such legal precision, the humanitarian protections of the Geneva Convention? What kind of U.S. Attorney General would allow a new law to nullify the federal courts? And what kind of traitorous Senator or Congressperson would vote for such a law in the first place?

Even twelve Democrats voted for the bill. The names of these traitors to our nation are:

Tom Carper of Delaware
Tim Johnson of South Dakota
Mary Landrieu of Louisiana
Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey
Menendez of New Jersey
Bill Nelson of Florida
Ben Nelson of Nebraska
Senator Pryor of Arkansas
Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia
Ken Salazar of Colorado
Debbie Stabenow of Michigan
Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut

And, of course, most Republicans voted for the bill as well. That's because their strategy for winning elections is to frame all reasonable men as "cut-and-run" sissies who don't have the backbone to bomb civilians, torture young children and imprison their own people under a system of legalized tyranny.

It is no exaggeration to say that every lawmaker who voted for this bill should be arrested and tried for treason. Failure to do so, in fact, is itself a crime against the United States of America.

By the way, this is NOT about Republican vs. Democrat. It's about the structure of power in this country and the dangers of consolidating political power. If these laws are left in place, any future President (even a Democrat) could use them to terrorize the nation and erect an impenetrable dictatorship. The real danger is not found in any one politician, but rather in the existence of a great political imbalance that invites dictatorship and nullifies the checks and balances that have kept our nation relatively free for so long. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

A repeat of Nazi Germany

Ever wonder how German citizens in the 1930's allowed the rise of a brutal dictator and the emergence of a military dictatorship? Actually, you're watching it happen right now in the United States. This is exactly how it happened in Nazi Germany.