[Peace-discuss] Iran bombing rumours

[John W.]

At 09:41 AM 3/29/2008, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:

>Don't forget the role of our complicit Congress and the newly stacked 
>Supreme Court.
>  --Jenifer

I haven't and I don't.  When I said, "He just goes ahead and does whatever 
he wants, and no one does anything to stop him," I was thinking primarily 
of the legislative branch as the "no one".

The Supreme Court isn't going to do much of anything to stop Bush because 
(a) it's stacked, as you say, and (b) it moves abysmally slowly.  Appeals 
have to start in the lower courts, and wend their way slowly up to the 
Supreme Court.  Due to the doctrine of certiorari, the Supreme Court can 
refuse to consider a case, and in fact refuses to hear probably 95% of all 
the cases that are appealed to it.  To my knowledge the S.C. hasn't even 
considered the constitutionality of "signing statements" yet.



>"John W." <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>At 07:56 PM 3/28/2008, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
>
> >Murdering Iranians
> >by Lew Rockwell at March 28, 2008 09:35 AM
> >
> >Terrible rumors from Russia continue to swirl around the Middle East that
> >the Cheney-Bush junta has decided to bomb Iran on April 4th or 6th,
> >targeting not only nuclear-power research facilities but ships, planes,
> >antiaircraft installations, and the Iranian pentagon. Apparently the
> >nuclear-power reactor being built by Russian companies will be spared, but
> >not much else. Will it happen? Certainly the neocon hate network is
> >working overtime to make it so. Bush fired the anti-neocon Admiral Fallon.
> >One thing we know for sure: it will be the typical Bush administration
> >snafu, with horrific consequences for the region and the world, not to
> >speak of the Iranian people, and reap much trouble for the US empire.
> >Indeed, it could mark the end of the empire if, as Bill Lind worries, the
> >Iranians in retaliation cut off water-food-ammo supply routes to US troops
> >in Iraq, and, with the help of Shiite militians, capture large numbers 
> of them.
>
>Whether or not these rumors are accurate, it's a real race against the
>clock to get Bush and Cheney out of office before they do even more
>damage. They're easily as insane as Adolf Hitler and his crew were back in
>the heyday of Nazi Germany. And what is perhaps the saddest thing, Bush
>hasn't even had to work half as hard as Hitler did to stir up the populace
>to support his policies. He just goes ahead and does whatever he wants,
>and no one does anything to stop him. Due to the cowardice/avarice of the
>corporate media, and the fact that ordinary citizens don't READ any more,
>Bush Inc. just sort of flies under the radar like a Stealth bomber.
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