GEORGE W.BUSH: "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. ".

Question

Do you agree?

Answer 1

The Patriot Act, The Military Commissions Act, the legislation signed into effect May 9 of this year, and the OVER 750 Executive Orders by bush -- all of this gives bush the power of a dictator.

HEIL HITLER.

It's happened.
It's done.
All we need is an "emergency" and then people will be freaking out and panicking because BUSH WILL CALL ALL THE SHOTS.
No input from Congress.
No input from the Judicial Branch,.
No input from citizenry.

AND IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO "UNDO" THIS HEINOUS LEGISLATION.

If any of you have two brain cells left in your head, get off the couch and call/write/email your elected reps to IMPEACH bush and cheney and rescind EACH of these pieces of legislaiton.

"New legislation signed on May 9, 2007, declares that in the event of a "catastrophic event", the President can take total control over the government and the country, bypassing all other levels of government at the state, federal, local, territorial and tribal levels, and thus ensuring total unprecedented dictatorial power.

The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, which also places the Secretary of Homeland Security in charge of domestic "security", was signed earlier this month without the approval or oversight of Congress and seemingly supercedes the National Emergency Act which allows the president to declare a national emergency but also requires that Congress have the authority to "modify, rescind, or render dormant" such emergency authority if it believes the president has acted inappropriately.

Journalist Jerome Corsi, who has studied the directive also states that it makes no reference to Congress and "its language appears to negate any requirement that the president submit to Congress a determination that a national emergency exists."
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To Robert: Why, you sweet talker, you. Have you harassed your rep today?

Answer 2

That seems to be an illustration of the President's genuine strategies and emotions it particularly is why the founding fathers created seperation of powers alongside with exams and balances to circumvent Bush from transforming into a dictator. he's already an fool it particularly is merely organic for him yet we as electorate could do all that's mandatory to circumvent such an fool from assuming such powers as Congress foolishly granted him after 9/11 which allowed the buffoon to get plenty means and start up a mindless conflict to maximum folk yet to not the persons who're making "killing money clever off of the conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan..........

Answer 3

Yes. A benevolant dictatorship is the best form of government. Someone who listens to everyone, judges which side is best and then acts accordingly. There can't be any argument, but people trust and respect the opinion of their leader who wants the best for them.

The problem is that a benevolant dictatorship is IMPOSSIBLE in a society of more than a few hundred individuals, because there are too many conflicting interests. Therefore democracy is the best form of government for dealing with large groups of people. Bush is walking a very dangerous line suggesting America should be a dictatorship.

Answer 4

Absolutely. Obviously it would be easier. You get to make all the decisions without worrying about what the public thinks, what congress thinks, what the judicial or legislative branch thinks, what the rest of your administration thinks, what you advisors think, all those pesky vetoes, etc. It would be infinately easier to run a country as a dictator. That, of course, doesn't make it right though.

Answer 5

If you were under a dictatorship you wouldn't be able to express that. We still have free speech. Protect it.

Answer 6

According to George W. Bush:

•"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier."—Texas Governor, George W. Bush, Governing Magazine, July 1998.

•"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."—President-elect George W. Bush, CNN.com, December 18, 2000.

•"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."—President George W. Bush, Business Week, July 30, 2001.

•"To say 'unchecked power' basically is ascribing some kind of dictatorial position to the President, which I strongly reject."—President George W. Bush, White House Press Release, December 19, 2005.

On a dictatorial / imperial presidency

•"Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader—a dictator—willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures,' which few know how, or are willing, to employ."—Michael Ledeen, White House advisor and fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli’s Iron Rules Are As Timely and Important Today As Five Centuries Ago. [1]

•"This is not a monarchy. The legislative branch has oversight responsibility to make sure there is no corruption in the executive branch."—Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), December 2001. [2]

•"An imperial presidency or an imperial justice department conflicts with the democratic principles of our nation."
—Rep. Waxman

Websites
•"Dictator Bush," BushWatch.com.

Legislation
•H.J. Res. 64, Short Title: "Authorization for Use of Military Force," Congressional Record, House, September 14, 2001.

Articles & Commentary
2000
•Robert Lederman, "GW Bush: 'It Would Be Easier If I Was Dictator'," The Konformist, December 2000.
•Transcript: "Transition of Power: President-Elect Bush Meets With Congressional Leaders on Capitol Hill," CNN, December 18, 2000.

2001
•Sonya Ross, "'Dictatorship would be easier,' Bush jokes of his struggles," Associated Press (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), July 27, 2001.

•Douglas Valentine, "Homeland Insecurity: Phoenix, Chaos, The Enterprise, and The Politics of Terror In America," CounterPunch, November 8, 2001.

2002
•Editorial Board, "The shadow of dictatorship: Bush established secret government after September 11," WSWS, March 4, 2002.
•Patrick Martin, "Another step towards presidential dictatorship: Bush orders US citizen held indefinitely by military," WSWS, June 12, 2002.
•"The Bush Dictatorship," BuzzFlash, June 17, 2002.
•Democrats.com, "Stop the Bush Dictatorship!" MikeHersh.com, October 23, 2002.

2003
•Kaye Ross, "Nader Calls Bush 'Dictator'," San Jose Mercury News (Common Dreams), March 23, 2003.

2005
•David Swanson, "Bush Grabs for 'Dictatorship'," AlterNet, March 17, 2005: "At a MoveOn rally, Democratic senators denounce the Republican attempts to eliminate the filibuster as a 'power grab'."
•Justin Raimondo, "Bush's Wartime Dictatorship. The threat of presidential supremacism," antiwar.com, December 21, 2005.

2006
•Jonathan Schell, "The Hidden State Steps Forward," The Nation, January 9, 2006.
•Soj, "Republicans Called Bush a Dictator King in 2001," Daily Kos, February 3, 2006.
•"Spies, Lies, Thugs and Torture," Revolution #35, February 19, 2006.

•Jacob Weisberg, "The Power-Madness of King George. Is Bush turning America into an elective dictatorship?" Slate, January 25, 2006.

•Kurt Nimmo, "Bush: the Decider Dictator," Another Day in the Empire, April 18, 2006.

•Kurt Nimmo, "Carl Schmitt and the Bush Dictatorship," Another Day in the Empire, April 30, 2006.

•Glenn Greenwald, "Media finally starting to report the President's systematic lawbreaking," Unclaimed Territory Blogspot, April 30, 2006.

•Jeff Jacoby, Opinion: "About Our Dictator," Boston Globe, July 5, 2006.

•soccerdad, "Bush The (Dictator) Decider," The Left Coaster, October 6, 2006.

•James Bovard, "Bush’s Signing Statement Dictatorship," Future of Freedom Foundation, October 9, 2006; LewRockwell.com, October 11, 2006.

•James Bovard, "Sins of Commission. For Bush, being tough on terror requires torture, secret prisons, and no accountability," The American Conservative, December 18,
2007

•"Bush Paves Way for Martial Law," Revolution #83, March 25, 2007.

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•USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005
•Posse Comitatus Act
•presidential signing statements
•The Bush Theocracy
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•The Constitution in Crisis; The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War, and Illegal Domestic Surveillance
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•Bush dictatorship
From SourceWatch
"The danger is not abstract or merely symbolic. Bush's abuses of presidential power are the most extensive in American history. He has launched an aggressive war ('war of choice,' in today's euphemism) on false grounds. He has presided over a system of torture and sought to legitimize it by specious definitions of the word. He has asserted a wholesale right to lock up American citizens and others indefinitely without any legal showing or the right to see a lawyer or anyone else. He has kidnapped people in foreign countries and sent them to other countries, where they were tortured. In rationalizing these and other acts, his officials have laid claim to the unlimited, uncheckable and unreviewable powers he has asserted in the wiretapping case. He has tried to drop a thick shroud of secrecy over these and other actions.

"There is a name for a system of government that wages aggressive war, deceives its citizens, violates their rights, abuses power and breaks the law, rejects judicial and legislative checks on itself, claims power without limit, tortures prisoners and acts in secret. It is dictatorship," Jonathan Schell wrote in the January 9, 2006, issue of The Nation.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_dictatorship

Answer 7

Well of course, anybody would agree--if the gist of your question is, "Does George Bush want to be a dictator?" the answer is no, but it's definitely easier...look at Saddam...disagree with him and Blammo!! One right between the eyes...easy.

Answer 8

Do you have a source for this quote? Or are you trying to BS us by:

1) Claiming he said something he did not

2) Quoting out of context so that it appears that he said something he did not.

I am willing to bet money that this is nothing more than yet another lie from the Bush-haters.

Answer 9

that quote right there is the best insight we have into the soul of the man.

Compare his actions and his disregard for checks and balances, and disregard for the will of the american people, and you know he meant that statement.

Answer 10

JIM W should get best answer, short, sweet and to the point.