My hope with the whole Plame investigation is that it will restart the talk about Bush faking the case for war. If people can start talking about Bush's hyping of false intelligence, it gives the war supporters political cover to change their tune.
"He lied! Of COURSE I wouldn't have supported a war if Bush had told the truth."
I had such long arguments with very well-educated friends about the war. I was called a "Soft bigot" because I didn't believe that we could export democracy on the tip of a Tomahawk missile. After all the names we anti-war people were called, "bigots" "appeasers" "cowards", it's hardly harsh to call the pro-war crowd dupes.
Admitting mistakes, as it has been pointed out, is part of moving forward. Some of us ex-Naderites have voiced our regrets. In fact, not admitting mistakes has been a hallmark of this administration and a huge obstacle to correcting the mistakes that have been made.
I read that a court has ruled in the Jose Padilla case that a citizen has no protection under the Constitution if the executive declares him an enemy combatant. Even if he wasn't in any kind of combat.
Basically, we no longer have a bill of rights. It was good while it lasted. You can be declared an enemy combatant, and then you have no lawyer, no appeal, no nothing. The gov't doesn't have to tell anyone where you are, they can deny they have you, they can ship you off to Egypt to be tortured, they can kill you and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
This is the biggest story we have right now, in my opinion, and it's getting no attention.
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