MEMBER BLOG TAG: cheney
| Tuesday, December 21, 2010 4:17PM | | | | Open Letter: Lamar Smith | Tags: US Constitution, Convention Against Torture, Reagan, George W. Bush, Richard Cheney
| | | | An Open Letter to the Honorable Lamar Smith
House of Representatives
Chair, House Judiciary Committee
Representative Lamar Smith:
December 9, 2010, The Express News quoted you as referring to the House Judiciary Committee as “the guardian of the Constitution.” As you know Article VI of the US Constitution states: “This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.” (All highlighting mine)
As you know Ronald Reagan signed and the US ratified the “Convention Against Torture and... | | | | | | | Thursday, June 5, 2008 8:20AM | | | | Scott McClellan, enabler | Tags: liberal media, George Bush, Dick Cheney, John Cornyn, NBC, MSNBC
| | | | It required former White House spokesman and Bush toady Scott McClellan to shatter the near-sacred Big Lie of a “liberal” media.” He revealed conservative, even right wing, unpatriotic, “deferential, complicit enablers” of George W. Bush. If you’re “complicit” in an illegal war, torture, rendition, spying on US citizens and other crimes don’t dare call yourself a patriot. It doesn’t matter how many times you dodged the draft or how fervently you have encouraged your children to duck the military or how earnestly you begged them to serve their country by shopping and fudging on taxes like their role models. If you are complicit in crimes against the American people you are not a patriot.
As governor, Bush was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice... | | | | | | | Friday, October 12, 2007 6:16PM | | | | Re-thinking Vietnam | Tags: Vietnam, died in vain, War Atrocity Museum, Saigon, Berlin Airlift, Eisenhower, Truman, US, UN, Korean War, Kennedy, Laos, southeast asia, SEATO. ASEAN, nuclear war, communists, communism, Kruschev, Westmoreland, Nixon, China, Brezhnev, Cold War, Ford, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, CIA, Team B, Soviets, Arms Control, Reagan, Iran/Contra, arms race, Iron Curtain, San Antonio Express-News
| | | | April is the pucker factor for Vietnam Veterans. Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army on April 30. Every anniversary Vietnam vets are told again that their service, suffering and sacrifice was for nothing, that their comrades died in vain.
In 1989, the War Atrocity Museum in the city still called Saigon displayed the photograph of the arch war criminal, Dwight Eisenhower. The Vietnamese consider him the primary villain because he did not sign the Peace Accord between France and Vietnam but signed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) agreement committing the US to defend South Vietnam. More foreign troops, other than US, fought in Vietnam under the SEATO Treaty than fought in Korea under the UN flag or in the Coalition... | | | | | |
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