tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post6991826188387420530..comments2024-02-29T02:10:56.878-08:00Comments on J O S H U A P U N D I T: The Club Gitmo FumbleFreedom Fighterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-9144754353487087292009-01-26T00:40:00.000-08:002009-01-26T00:40:00.000-08:00Had the Decider done what he was supposed toHad Bu...<B>Had the Decider done what he was supposed to</B><BR/><BR/>Had Bush done what you wanted him to, President Obama would now have the war time powers of a FDR, with the concomitant ability to run through "Emergency Decrees" by the de facto and de jure justification of wartime exigencies.<BR/><BR/>And that is the prime and true motivation for why Bush did not take advantage of the political environment immediately after 9/11 to do just that. He had a longer vision of the US Constitution and the threats to it than simply your short term focus on the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and the immediate terrorist threat.<BR/><BR/>Had Bush been unable to secure the home front from terrorist attacks, had Bush engendered a sharia state within a state inside America like Tony Blair did for Britain, then you may have a point. But right now, you don't.Ymarsakarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11246906722493964175noreply@blogger.com