Calling for the impeachment of a wartime president. How is that not giving aid and comfort to our enemies? Imagine Al Jazeera talking this up. You mean to tell me that that would not strengthen the Islamofasicists' resolve?
As a vet, I find it indescribably disgusting to suggest anything like this right now. Not one here who calls for this gives a flying flip about this war effort or our troops.
Do you care about the defense of the homeland? If you do, why would you support the borders and immigration policy of this Administration? What is the remedy for a President who refuses to defend America's borders? Sorry, but the subject has been raised, because it NEEDED to be raised.
Leaving our borders wide open in a time of war. How is THAT not giving aid and comfort to our enemies?
Many of the anti-immigrant FReepers are members of the Constitution Party (American Independence Party in Calif) who like Buchanan have always opposed the Wars in Afganistan and Iraq. Their platform:
"In responding to terrorism, however, the United States must avoid acts of retaliation abroad which destroy innocent human lives, creating enmity toward the United States and its people; and
" In accord with the views of our Founding Fathers, we must disengage this nation from the international entanglements which generate foreign hatred of the United States, and are used as the excuse for terrorist attacks on America and its people.
" The 'war on terrorism" is not a proper excuse for perpetual U.S. occupation of foreign lands, military assaults on countries which have not injured us, or perpetual commitment of taxpayer dollars to finance foreign governments. "
I sometimes think that immigration is not their primary concern, but rather is just the issue they are using to attack President Bush and the war in Iraq. They want out troops brought home "to guard the border".
rdb3,
There is currently no war. US troops are doing police work for the government of Iraq. There is no nation-state with which we are in a state of war.
The historical role of a military is to protect the nation's borders. US troops are absent from their historical role because they are protecting the borders of Muslim caliphates 6,000 miles away. President Bush, as commander in chief, is clearly derelict in his duty.
If a Democrat were in office, you'd be pounding on your keyboard every day about how the President should secure the border, particularly given the threat of Muslim terrorism.
Thank you!!
BUMP!!!
you said it. You got it right.