September 26, 2005
Face of Compassion
MESSAGE TO THE GULF---I CARE
Less than a month after the towers and the Pentagon were attacked, the President conspired with members of the Cabinet and Agency heads to withhold "sensitive" national security information from all but eight members of the Congress. The rationale for this effort to preclude Congressional over-sight was the so-called "War on Terror" which is turning out to be more a reign of terror than anything else.
But the question now is why did the gang of eight, including Democrats Graham, Daschel and Pelosi go along with this executive power grab? Did they even realize the implications when the President called and told them that from then on the rest of the people's representatives would be kept in the dark on what was being planned for Afghanistan and Iraq and, as the victims of Katrina and Rita have now discovered, the American people themselves?
Did they even answer the phone?
Since Graham and Daschel and Gebhardt are now out of office perhaps they can reveal why Frist and Hastert and Roberts of Kansas, continue to conspire with the Administration to deceive the American people. Surely they're not fearful of being arrested and charged with treason for revealing information that the people have a right to know.
One suspects that perhaps a feeling of guilt at having been complicit keeps them silent. It shouldn't. As long as the Bush Administration isn't called to account, matters can only go from bad to worse. How many more people have to die?
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