A Look Back From 2017

[babylonsister]

I don't know whether to hope this guy is prescient or not...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/08/1046/

A Look Back From 2017
by Paul Campos

Now that a decade has passed since the extraordinary events of the summer of 2007, it’s possible to look back on that great national crisis with the benefit of some historical perspective.

Everyone is familiar with the broad outlines of the crisis, which began when President Bush ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to launch military operations against Iran. The series of events that unfolded over the next few days has been chronicled, analyzed and debated endlessly in the years since.

Three of the central questions in this debate are still unresolved, and will no doubt remain so. First, did the Joint Chiefs act within the law when they refused to follow the president’s orders, and instead instructed the Pentagon’s lawyers to request an emergency hearing before the Supreme Court?

Second, did the Supreme Court interpret the Constitution correctly when, by a 5-4 vote, it ruled that the president had exceeded his constitutional authority by, in effect, declaring war against Iran without congressional authorization?

Third, did the subsequent refusal of the Bush administration to obey this ruling provide sufficient legal grounds for the impeachment and conviction of President Bush and Vice President Cheney?

Defenders of the administration have always characterized these events as being, as Sen. Joseph Lieberman put it at the time (Lieberman was one of only nine senators who voted to acquit President Bush), “nothing less than a military, judicial and legislative coup.”

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[rhiannon55]

1. Wow. I hope he IS prescient (I think)

:scared: That scenario scares me, and yet, gives me hope. :think:

[babylonsister]

2. That's my problem, too! nt

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Not this Supreme Court

And not this Senate.

[pokercat999]

4. and not this country.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Yeah

Sigh.