Re: Is America actually in a state of war?


trudogg wrote:
> [...this guy is more right than wrong. Our PP (pathetic president) has
> lied and spun and twisted the facts so often that I doubt there are
> even many dittoheads left that can answer the question correctly.]
>
> State of the Union, state of war: They have a nice ring. When George
> W. Bush goes before the Congress and the nation tomorrow night, he
> will present himself (again) as a war president. Personally and
> politically, the identity defines him. Instead of the callow leader he
> was in the beginning of his presidency, he will conduct himself as a
> man of sharp determination, with defiance born of the impression that
> his fight is to the death. He will justify all of his policies,
> including the illegal ones, by citing his responsibilities -- and
> privileges -- as wartime commander in chief. He will not have to
> remind the men and women in front of him that twice (just after 9/11
> and just before Iraq), they voted to license his use of "all necessary
> and appropriate force" -- enabling acts by which most of them still
> stand. The United States became a nation at war with congressional
> collusion.
>
> But did it? Here is the embarrassing question: Is America actually at
> war?

http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/MiddleEast/TerrorInUSA/Caesar.asp

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