BUSH's "War On Terror" Is A Death Blow To the Noble American Republic - By Robert Parry

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Bush's War on the Republic

By Robert Parry
January 24, 2007


From the beginning of the “war on terror,” George W. Bush has lied to the American people about the goals, motivation and even the identity of the enemy – a propaganda exercise that continued through his 2007 State of the Union Address and that is sounding the death knell for the Republic.

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In Bush’s State of the Union speech on Jan. 23, there could be heard a requiem for the Republic.

“The evil that inspired and rejoiced in 9/11 is still at work in the world. And so long as that’s the case, America is still a nation at war,” Bush told Congress.

But that “evil” will always be “at work in the world,” so America will always be “a nation at war” and thus, under Bush’s theories of unlimited Commander-in-Chief powers, the American Republic will be banished permanently.

Bluntly put, Bush and his neoconservative legal advisers don't believe in the “unalienable rights” guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, including ones as fundamental as the habeas corpus right to a fair trial and protections against warrantless searches and seizures. See, for instance, Consortiumnews.com's "Gonzales Questions Habeas Corpus."

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But the bottom line for Bush’s “war on terror” is that it won't just cost countless lives and hundreds of billions of dollars; it also is doomed to fail, at least as presently constituted. If it lasts much longer, it is certain, too, to deliver a death blow to the noble American Republic.
more at:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/012407.html

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1. A death blow to the American Republic and the dollar and tens of millions

of the citizenry still love it and march to their drummers beat in lockstep.

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2. That is really true

Their goal really does seem to get unlimited executive power. If they haven't succeeded, it is not for lack of trying.