Posted on 09/13/2024 11:30:27 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Alberto Gonzales, who served as White House counsel and attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris in a POLITICO Magazine op-ed published Thursday morning.
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Gonzales and Cheney were both widely reviled by liberals and Democrats during the Bush years, particularly over their roles in the domestic and foreign responses to 9/11.
Gonzales, acting as Bush's top White House lawyer, signed an infamous memo in 2002 arguing that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to either al-Qaeda or Taliban detainees, and that those rules were "quaint" and "obsolete" in dealing with the War on Terror.
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Beginning here to wonder if things done in response to 9/11 was seen as an opportunity ala Rahm Emmanuel’s infamous quote, rather than protecting these United States.
They are now officially gone.
I still remember how solidly Freepers praised and backed Gonzalez back when the Democrats attacked him.
Yes, they were. Dick Cheney actually said so himself at the time.
Evidently, that @sshole doesn't remember THAT.
Me Too.
I am so sick of these duplicitous traitors.
Cheney and Gonzales are very popular KY cowboys among the communists and Marxists these days.
Yes, back then I still believed that there was a difference between the two parties.
I really don’t understand these guys. Do they have no sense of loyalty. The same MAGA crowd they despise were their only defenders back in the day. Shouldn’t they at least stay quiet? The true conservative public will never support another foreign war for a generation at least, and this just further cements that point. Where do these guys think they will get their soldiers? so many questions
They were always loyal to the Deep State.
Was criminals against Trump.
To clarify, the rule of law ofwhich Gonzales speaks that Trump will destroy is the one that is currently protecting the DC criminal cabal deep state and the ruling elite.
One of the great things Trump has done is not only to expose the Chinese, muslims, and Russians as America’s enemies, but also the deep state blob of unelected/permanent government bureaucrats and their corporatist circle jerks which is at war with Americans.
That is what this is all about. He is jockeying to improve his legacy.
Of course, he is willing to sell out his country to do it.
“I really don’t understand these guys. Do they have no sense of loyalty.”
No, you don’t understand them; that is to your credit.
Unfortunately I’ve lived long enough that I do understand them a little bit. It ain’t pretty.
He was right concerning the Geneva convention and unlawful combatants.
All those who were on the bleeding heart side, those who wanted to equate an Qaeda terrorists to soldiers, were and are very corrupt, foul individuals.
Another gift from G W MORON. Remember when G W MORON was prepping this POS for SCOTUS?
Notice hjow all the scum in the Bush Administration are now outing themselves as uniparty members who lied to us for eight straight years and now wonder why we despise them. I always wondered why Bush never fought back and now it is clear, he is really one of them. And, he is a despicable man to me now because of his lies and his support of the uniParty.
Seems to me the Republican party has set out to prove most of them are RINOS and are now lining up to prove they don’t know how to govern and have surrendered the 2024 election to the Dems. As screwed up as the Democrats they for the most part stick together.
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