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  •  Bush is a dictator- look at Padilla (4.00 / 6)

    Bush will detain anyone he damn well pleases, and if he feels like making up some secret charges, you will be thrown in jail until the "war on terra" is over.  And Dictator Bush will decide when the war is over.

    Will Bush appoint himself dictator for life?  That could well be the end result if the 4th Court of Appeals decision is upheld by the Supreme Scum.

    What would stop Bush from declaring that it was just too dangerous to hold the 2008 election?  Surely not Joe Lieberman, he would just continue to kiss Bush and confirm incompetent jerks like Mike Brown.

    by MD patriot on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 01:18:05 PM PDT

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    •  Considering his popularity (none / 1)

      I wouldn't think that would stand.  Regardless of how it sometimes seems, we do not live in a 3rd rate Bannana Republic, and people do NOT have to answer to him.  He would need to build a strong and loyal force of well-armed men to enforce his will, and frankly I think he's been so busy sending them off to be slaughtered in Iraq that their loyalty to him is hanging by the thread of their oath and damn little else.

      If he were not bound by the 2 term limit, I'd say we could expect an election-rigging in 2008, but the Republicans themselves were so outraged that a liberal would take office and impede their rollback of the New Deal for almost 16 years straight that they may have cut off their own noses to spite their face in amending the constitution to limit Presidential terms.

      Warned you we tried. Listen you did not. Now screwed we all are.

      by slippytoad on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 04:02:31 PM PDT

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