Sunday, January 14, 2007
Behold! The Emperor George
It truly lacks a regal ring to it but it does describe the efforts Our Dear Leader, Crazy Dick Cheney and Wormtongue Addington to draw all power to the Oval Office. Dahlia Lithwick has a good exposition of this most unAmerican Republican value as practiced by the evil trio.
But Guantanamo Bay stays open for the same reason that Padilla stays on trial. Having claimed the right to label enemy combatants and detain them indefinitely without charges, the Bush administration cannot retreat from that position without ceding ground. The president is as much a prisoner of Guantanamo Bay as the detainees are. Having gone nose to nose with Congress over his authority to craft stripped-down courts, guaranteed to produce guilty verdicts, Bush cannot call off the trials. The endgame in the war against terrorism isn't holding the line against terrorists. It's holding the line on hard-fought claims to limitless presidential authority.And all of this is being done in our name, but for their benefit. Guantanamo would be too nice a place for these three.
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