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On July 26, Lt. Col. Stephen E. Abraham testified on Capitol Hill that the Bush administration's legal system at Guantanamo - used to determine which detainees should be held indefinitely as enemy combatants - relied on shaky evidence and pressured officers to rush hundreds of hearings.
This is profoundly damaging to the United States' reputation around the world. And it buttresses my belief that President Bush should close the facility within a year, and come up with a process for transferring detainees and ensuring that they face justice.
Abraham is the first Guantanamo insider to go public, and his testimony is further evidence that the Bush administration has set up a separate and lesser system of justice for Guantanamo detainees. It is clear that the administration's attempts to hold and process detainees at Guantanamo are another example of its efforts to expand presidential authority.
The practices described by Abraham would not pass muster in a U.S. District Court, but they appear to be acceptable procedures at Guantanamo. A system that sets a double standard for detainees, holding them indefinitely on flimsy or nonexistent evidence, is inherently unfair and highly suspect. This is damaging, because it goes against America's legal traditions and values, which are a model for the rest of the world.
Such a system does nothing to make America safer. In fact, it makes the world a more dangerous place for Americans, increasing the odds our troops will be denied their rights when captured on foreign battlefields.
Abraham is to be commended for stepping forward - for taking a move that many consider career suicide.
He is a 22-year Army Reserve veteran, who in civilian life is a respected Newport Beach lawyer. His revelations first hit the news on June 22, when he signed a sworn affidavit describing the Bush administration's separate system of justice at Guantanamo.
Days later, the U.S. Supreme Court - in a move not seen in decades - reversed itself and agreed to hear the appeals of two Guantanamo detainees, who assert that they should be able to challenge their incarceration before a judge in the American federal court system.
Many legal experts believe Abraham's revelations spurred the high court to make its unusual about-face. Just weeks earlier it had refused to hear the appeals.
Abraham's testimony goes directly to the root of the problem at Guantanamo.
Detainee abuses reported during the early years at Guantanamo are presumably a thing of the past. But the continued operation of this separate system of justice contributes to the sustained erosion of America's international reputation.
You do not have to be a lawyer to see Guantanamo for what it is: An evasion of U.S. and international law.
The flawed legal theory behind Guantanamo was drafted by Justice Department lawyer John Yoo, who also authored the infamous "torture memo" that paved the way for secret CIA detentions and interrogation. He concluded habeas corpus and other legal protections do not apply to detainees because Guantanamo is "neither part of the United States nor a possession or territory of the United States."
This extreme theory has had a rocky time in the courts. In 2004, the Supreme Court ruled in Rasul vs. Bush that American courts do have jurisdiction to hear habeas corpus and other claims from Guantanamo detainees. And in 2006, the high court ruled in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld that the Pentagon's process for adjudicating detainees was invalid.
In response, the Bush administration pushed the Military Commissions Act through Congress. It cleared the Republican-majority Senate last year, 65-34. I voted against it.
This dangerous law gives the president broad power to interpret the Geneva Conventions; severely limits detainee appeals; and permits coerced testimony to be entered as evidence - a first in U.S. history. Its flaws are now on full display.
Two military judges threw out charges against two detainees because they had been incorrectly classified as "enemy combatants" instead of "unlawful enemy combatants," as the law requires. And then came Abraham's revelations.
No wonder Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said trials at Guantanamo would lack legitimacy in the eyes of the world, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell said he would close Guantanamo "not tomorrow, but this afternoon."
Make no mistake: We must track down, prosecute and punish terrorists. But we must never forget we are a nation of laws. This makes us strong, not weak. The Bush administration's failed legal experiment at Guantanamo hurts the United States around the world every day. The time has come to close it down.
Dianne Feinstein is the senior U.S. senator from California.
© 2007 The San Francisco Chronicle
38 Comments so far
Show AllThanks for the info, Hide Behind, on Feinstein. She is a disgrace to the Democratic Party, and big deal, she makes a speech regarding Gitmo. Why didn't she and others call for the overturning of Bush's military commission act. Time after time, Bush erodes our constitution, but you never hear from either Feinstein or Boxer in forcing the end to Bush's many illegal acts. And why shouln't she support impeachment at least in words even though it will take the House to start proceedings which they will not do. We need a complete overhaul of the entire House and Senate and Judicial Department. Feinstein is part of this debacle, and entirely too late in speaking up against Gitmo.
There is nothing wrong with Ron Paul's beliefs. He isn't even opposed to states providing social services, medical services....etc. His whole argument is you can't have a powerful central government that gets the Lion's share of taxes, controls the money supply, has control over all that spending, has control over the military...and not wind up with war. Medicare and social services aren't his cup of tea...but if power and control went back to the states...people could live were they wanted to live. Clearly the Northeast and West would be governend liberally and the South conservatively. We would see who prospers best. Personally I'm not a big fan of Social security and medicare. I think it is all a big ponzi scheme that is going to blow up in our faces...but hey. We'll see what happens when our country goes from 6 workers to 3 workers for every retiree by 2020. Not only will less money be coming in...but the demand for services will be 3 times as large. Nobody wants to listen to mr. David Walker though. Boy are we up sh#% creek.
Why is this site posting this woman's propaganda on their site. This is garbage. This woman is as bad a war profiteer as Cheney. She is actually worse than Cheney because at least Cheney is open about it.
Note to Senator Feinstein: You don't need to waste your time writing op-ed pieces condemning Guantanamo. If you and Congress want Gitmo closed, all you have to do is end the funding. Or weren't you aware of that?
Close it? Duh.
And bring those that held them to justice as well. fbturd BushCo fascist pieces
And tell them a countries sovereignty ends where its borders end. So international law kicks in when you go outside the borders. duh.
International law may also apply within one's own country as well. Depending on the law.
Or so says the US constitution.
treaties become 'the law of the land'
So, why aren't we impeaching the anti-Constitutional bastards, Diane?
"President Bush should close the facility within a year, and come up with a process for transferring detainees and ensuring that they face justice."
"Face justice?" They have been held for years and tortured when they haven't even done anything, you simpleton. And no, everyone the bush administration labels a "terrorist" must not be punished, because it is merely a vapid catchword applied to people who haven't done anything. But actually, the stupidest part of the statement above is that you want bush himself to design a system of "justice" for and expect it to better than "kidnap middle eastern fourteen year olds and lock them in a dark room for six years because they were upset we shot their families to death." The people in the bush administration and those who take their orders from them are the terrorists!
Senator, if you would do the job we pay you to do, then we would be demanding interim President Pelosi to close not just Gitmo, but all of the illegal US torture prisons worldwide, while we watched with revulsion the unprecedented Bush/Cheney war crimes tribunals, followed by their "domestic enemies of the Constitution" tribunals, followed by their "give us our f**king money back" tribunals.
Do your job, Senator - get rid of Cheneybush, then we'll get to fixin the rest...
you have pull in the congress, dianne; help impeach them and stop blustering.
1) Diane is a Senator and cannot bring impeachment. That is the job of the House.
2) What is Congress doing to revoke the Military Commissions Act? It's one thing to complain about and quite another to actually DO SOMETHING!
I think that Diane, for the most part is fine senator. I would also add, that it would be helpful for her to suggest some solutions or legislation to get this mess cleaned up and get Guantanamo closed.
close it!
The power of the church is alive and doing well iin our military today.
From our military academsy to Generals in very high command situations.
A Table and meeting room in which the Christian Embnassy holds meetings with pentaggon officials and officers meet for prayer meeting is set aside.
Our Special Forces and Rangers are ordered to take part in evangelical Christain Rock Festivals, which are just a evangelical tent meetings with rock and roll, complete with pyro tenincs, Flags waving ,armored HumVees, dressed in their cammys and recruiters in the aisles cheering GODs new Army.
In order for one of protestant pursuasion to get into the Chaplain Corps they are first asked if they support President bush and what church do they belong too and it had best be one of the evangelicals that the head
General of the chaplains is part of.Oh yes you can be Jewish for an automatic shoe in.
Won't even go into how deep they are in the intelligence services but the center for language translation and the worlds largest concentration camp is being built there, is in UTAH because their Mormon National Guard Memebers travel the world doing their two years for their church duty which entails learning the languages.
There is not one DeptHead who is not of their movemtn and every office within those departments is staffed three deep at least, yes incliuding our Attorney Generals office.
Perversion of GODs' words is one if not the most important cornerstone of formtion in the German NAZI Facism. regimes climb to power in germany and the saem went for Catholic churches role in advent of Mussollinis Facist state.
the one reason Bush has so much power and this country is turning to a Fascist form is just becauzse of the infiltration over many years of the evangelicals.
Teh largest Lobby Gropup in DC is not Isrtael or soem Pharm but the Christin Zionist with an minimum estimate of membership of soem 45 million adherents.High estimate because of their influence over marginal church groups is some 80 million true beleivers in Dominionism.
The GOD SQUAD are a 450 Dollar a year tax free orgainzation. An 450 bilion dollars that no longer need be set aside for charity can now be spent preaching for whomever they want to elect.
They also own shares in every major firm in the top 500 and even though taxed on that amount they have to only pay 15% gains as it is listed as their soul source of non church income.
In case of a natinal emergency, in return for the over 120 million a year of federal grants, they under FEMA will be the chosen ones t handle the food supplysset aside under the new Homeland Security rulings.
In other words they are a branch of Homeland Security in a natural disaster and of course would support Bush no matter what martial law he invokes.
I am not afraid of some Islamic fundy coming here and trying to blow me away but these religous fantics scare the hell out of me!
If martial law crap hits the fan any bible thumper who comes knocking had best have a Kevlar covered Bible to hide behind.
Got nothing against anyones belief in a diety, what goes on between me and my Diety is between He and I and I will not bore anyone with my views on that, but expect the same from others and they sure as hell have no place within my Government so they can just keep it to themselves.
For what it's worth...
Todd Chretien (Green Party) ran against Feinstein in 2006. I remember going to his website and noticing there wasn't a word on there about Feinstein being a war-profiteer or about her husband Dick Blum and his company, Perini. So I wrote to them about it and got a e-mail back saying "we're just getting started with our website but we will be sure to put that on there."
Yeah right. They never did.
Seems to me if you're running against an establishment candidate one would have that person's record on one's website. Chretien never presented Feinstein's record on his website. And that really told me that he wasn't really serious about challenging the war-profiteer.
I suppose the reason she got back in was because of her name recognition. I doubt most people who voted for her even know her record...they couldn't be bothered. She didn't even have to campaign. I'm in California and I only saw one slick ad for her/by her on the corporate media.
"The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders' political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government's hostility to religion...The Founding Fathers envisioned a robustly Christian yet religiously tolerant America, with churches serving as vital institutions that would eclipse the state in importance." - ron paul
Wow, don't you just want to vote for this psychopath who thinks the constitution mentions "god" and envisions an america not run by a government, but by churches?
Feinstein has no credablity as a progressive senator and is one of the many slimeball democrats who while posing as a liberal has been feathering her own bed by many of her votes.
What First brought Feinstein in my politcal gunsights was the California Desert Tortoise episode.
A bill, which looked like a normal Democratic attepmt to curry favor of rich Sierra Club and Californian environmentalist, she sponsored was Titled in Defence of the Califronai Desert Turtle and Establishment of some named Desert National Park, and would make an area half the size of of New Jersey of limits except to foot traffic.
At first glance a fairly good cause, and the torise was endangered and the area in the largest portions was used by 4x4 bikers and sand dune runnning for many years and a limited amount of mining.
Of course the bikers and people who used area for recreation got all up in arms but unlike Feinstein in past who was supposed to be a hard heaed greenie she quickly agreed that a portion of desert could still be open to automotive and recreational activitys.
She did this without a fight.
Alarm bells form some of her earlier actions went off but they were very small two faced normal political chicanery every politco pulled.
What she did not mention that in the past she had also voted for alowing mining in that portion of desert that was not openm to the biukers and 4x4 crowd because the military said it needed the strategic minerals.
The fact that nowheres else in US could one find such minerals did have a validity to allowance and protection of the tortoise by mining intrest was in effect but in only a minimal way.
The Bill Passed, the 4x4's and bikers were happy Sierra Club and greeies gave her lots of fuding and votes and the tortoise being a lot like a tortoise just went on about its buisness.
So why and where was the ketch?
Prior date two years before Diane took notice of area.
Enter a country Indonesia, an Indonesian Financial rep from group in Arkansas of Clintons supporters and what with an introductrion to Feinsteins husband the two groups found they had mutual interest in mining so the largest mining Interest in Indonesia formed a limited Partnership corportion with MR Diannes husband the US CEO of the firm.
NOw you probably already have got where this is heading and it is.
After the partnershi[p was formed MR Dianne met with a group in Pennsylvania and Eastern finacials and MRS Feinstin=en drafted her bill protecting a tortois , outlawing mining and the rst is history.
MR Diuanne the day the bill closed became a multi millionaire by the fact that he was now the sole provider of the strategi minerals from his partners who happend to be an Indonesian Mining Interest.
As a side note when Clinton made the Utah area a national Monument and eneded coal mining the very same Indonesian firms got coal contracts for delivery to US to make up for losses in park.
Most here know of Feinsteins husbands war contracts and security services since Iraq war began so I'll quit harping on her duplicity in a bit.
Whiel many Americans look at the slimballs in the GOP and call for voting for democrats MS Feinsteins example is not a singular event of behind the back wealth gathering.
Remeber there was already mining interest in the area and they were bought out by your tax monies and given other mining contracts at 2 cents on the dollar royaltys there was a very sizable group of co sponsors she owe either favors or financial promises who also profit from such deals.
Then when some other senator, republican or Demo is pulling a shady legislative vote or the President says, "I need your support and don't make me remind you of a tortise", who will Dianne kiss!
"Close Gitmo within a year"? "Give them Justice?" this is like saying, a guy should stop raping a woman in a year. Are you an idiot? Wouldn't you feel raped every day you are incarcerated and denied your freedom, blindfolded, humiliated and abused- and you say close it in a year?
Ms. Feinstien, something happened to you from your early years in San Francisco that turned you into a meeley-mouthed has been.
Bring them to Justice? Sounds like you think they are guilty. What has this administration ever done that turned out right or true. shouldn't you, Ms. FINEStien be saying that we should provide them due process and then let them sue their captors for violation of human rights?
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jmontarsi July 30th, 2007 9:20 pm
When is her term in the Senate finished? Californians, do your civic duty and start looking for a proper replacement.
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Her term is not finished for SIX YEARS...2012. Yes, that's right. The war-profiteer Feinstein was re-elected yet again in 2006 for another 6 year term. UGH.
That's what I was saying (in another thread). Before the 2006 "election" people were chanting to "vote them all out" of the congress in 2006. The one problem with that slogan is that they are not "all" up at the same time, particularly in the senate since the senate is divided into roughly thirds for re-election purposes and each senator serves a 6 year term.
So Feinstein got back in and at that time I said: So much for the "vote them all out and clean out the congress" slogan because it's already failed when the war-profiteer and pro-war Pelosi got back in, as to examples.
Stick Bush & Cheney in it for about a year
before you close it.
But seriously, free all those detained,
they'll probably never be physically or
mentally right again.
We do need a facility for every war profiteer post haste.
Abby, ron paul is hitler; he is far-right propaganda, and if you fell for all of his vapid reasoning, then I have no respect for you. You cannot take the "best parts" of a social democrat like Kucinich and a libertarian far-right bitch like paul; they are opposites in the actual government they would create. ron paul says that the separation between church and state is unconstitutional; so yeah, he would end the war, then declare a new one against the lower classes, minorities, and atheists in this country.
Ron Paul may be a scumbag vis-a-vis the social entitlements in the United States, but he is absolutely right-on about our troops leaving Iraq NOW, about abolishing the IRS, about abolishing The Federal Reserve (which is actually NOT a part of the United States government, but merely a VERY large private banking corporation listed in the phone book under Federal Express).
The Federal Reserve bankers have been in cahoots with the ruling elite of the United States since 1913 when their rotten system was approved by a handful of Congressmen during a Christmas break.
Since then they have been running the printing presses day and not creating "fiat" money then loaning it to the government and the People at interest. Watch "The Money Masters Parts 1 and 2" on Google if you'd like to know the TRUTH about who controls our money and why. And be prepared to learn some history in these videos. There are quotes in there of our past American heroes that will make your hair stand on end!
I don't agree with Ron Paul about a woman's right to choose what to do with her body, or about Medicare for all Americans or several other issues. But the guy is RIGHT about the Constitution, the Federal Reserve and the rotten IRS.
It's too bad we can't have a populist candidate who is highly trustworthy, charismatic and the best parts of Ron Paul and the best parts of Dennis Kucinich (minus his AIPAC ties) and Mike Gravel. Who the heck IS that??
Senator Feinstein's record is clear enough:
1. She has repeated enabled Bush / Cheney to prosecute this illegal war;
2. Her family has directly profited from this war, and
3. Obviously, unless this woman has a REAL epiphany, her professional conduct will simply serve to continue enabling these facists to get away with murder, plunder of the public treasury unscathed, and the worst, shredding of The Constitution.
When is her term in the Senate finished? Californians, do your civic duty and start looking for a proper replacement.
One final comment concerning Speaker Pelosi's comments about "impeachment" being "off the table. If Speaker Pelosi (for whatever reason) is unable to fulfill the duties of her office as Speaker by ordering an impeach, then it follows that she would most likely be unable to fulfill her duties as President of the United States. Where do I send a campaign contribution to Cindy Sheehan?
Erma, you've proven yourself to be foolish by refusing to actually look at each person according to their merits but assign all "democrats" to be the same thing and also use childish, stupid nicknames for the group. This sort of single-issue fomentation is what the republican party is exploiting right now through their scumbag ron paul, who will put forward the corporate right agenda of killing the social welfare state in a way reagan couldn't have imagined because he puts forth a line of rhetoric about foreign policy that fools can't see through.
Colin Powell says he would close down Guantanamo "not tomorrow, but this afternoon."
What a wonderful guy! It's too bad he never had a powerful position where he could really do something about Guantanamo!
I love Colin Powell! Colin Powell is my inspiration! If a lying, sold-out, shameless scumbag like him can become rich and famous, then America is still the land of endless opportunity, and...
Kill me before I have to think again!
"....and former Secretary of State Colin Powell said he would close Guantanamo "not tomorrow, but this afternoon."
Good for him... but you? You want to give him a year more? Why?
If you stated impeachment was taken off the table, then it's up to you and others to join Kucinich in putting it back on the table. Even if it is the House that has to begin the proceedings, a well known Senator voicing support for it would go a long way...
We all like to remind people that George Bush is not a Dictator. Well neither is Nancy Pelosi. I hope Cindy Sheehan unseats her next year. But the rest of you need to remember who you work for and get your butts in gear.
This is a bunch of crap from a right wing enabling corporatist Dem.
What are you gonna actually do about this DiFi?
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Bobbi Dykema Katsanis July 30th, 2007 7:12 pm
You know what, people? I don't give a wet slap what Feinstein, Boxer, or anybody else voted for five years ago, six months ago, or last week. If they are calling for an end to any part of the Bush-Cheney fascist regime, they have my applause and my vote (I WILL be watching to see if they follow through on talk with action). The way I figure it, we can hold accountable everyone who ever made a misstep voting for any part of the Bush agenda any time in the last six years...
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You should care about what these Bush-Enablers have done because they have helped to create the Bush Dictatorship by their "YES" votes, their complicity and their silence. Period.
They made a "misstep" eh? A "misstep" over and over and over? (as Bush-Enablers). Clearly you are one of the Dems' koolaid drinkers. One of their excuse makers and apologists.
Sigh.
You will applaud any of these pieces of Bush-Enabling trash whom helped to create this dictatorship in the first damn place.
I swear, politicians love people like you. When they are among themselves and talking about people like you I can only imagine hearing them use the word "Sucker!" over and over.
You will applaud them (roll eyes upward) after they have **helped** create what you supposedly can't stand. That makes a hell of a lot of sense. But then Dem' koolaid drinkers don't make much sense to begin with.
I wonder what Powell is doing now. Why isn't he pushing to get Guantanamo closed? Why isn't Gates? I sense a politesse in DC where folks propose, get no answer, and shrug their shoulders and say I tried and that's all.
My guess is Bush will hit Iran before he leaves office and any one who holds a part in giving him permission to do so ought to be run out of congress...unacceptable.
if you listen to Democrats who support the Iraq invasion they characterize it the same way. What is the point? We are now in our fifth year and Dems are abdicating their responsibility for their vote giving permission to Bush to invade.
You know what, people? I don't give a wet slap what Feinstein, Boxer, or anybody else voted for five years ago, six months ago, or last week. If they are calling for an end to any part of the Bush-Cheney fascist regime, they have my applause and my vote (I WILL be watching to see if they follow through on talk with action). The way I figure it, we can hold accountable everyone who ever made a misstep voting for any part of the Bush agenda any time in the last six years (which leaves us with: Kucinich, Barbara Lee, and nobody else) or we can embrace anybody who wakes up and smells the fascism, however late to the table they happen to be, and maybe actually get some leverage to crowbar those a$$holes and their failed, destructive policies the hell out of there.
So, which would you rather: actual change or more self-righteous yapping?
Boxer is not pro-war; she voted against the original authorization to attack Iraq, and the vote two weeks ago was not to give bush authority to attack iran; we think bush could use it as justification to do so later, but the senate didn't intend it to be used that way.
Io Q. Lellity July 30th, 2007 6:30 pm
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Erma is correct about Feinstein; she is politically right of center, and a parasite along the same lines as senator clinton is. Barbara Boxer, the junior senator for California, however, is truly left/progressive.
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Boxer USED to be a true left/progressive but that is no longer the case.
Boxer is a Traitor to the US Constitution too because she voted "YES" for Bush's USAPATRIOT ACT also. A truly left/progressive person would not have done that.
Also, two weeks ago the Senate (which includes pro-war Boxer and pro-war Feinstein) by a 97-0 vote gave Dictator Bush authority to attack Iran.
A truly left/progressive person would never do that.
Looks like Fienstien is trying to infiltrate the progressive movement. Since she recently endorsed Clinton for President aka GWB in a skirt, what is her agenda. I live in California and this woman has trodden on every progressive value I hold sacred. I find her participation on this site offensive and contrary to Common Dreams values and philosophy.
Just so all you folks know, Fienstien is no friend to progressives; she has consistently violated progressive values on the environment, war in Iraq, and CAFE standards. To wit she recently appeared to quip that CAFE standards has been ignored and then takes refuge under an unacceptable standard of 35 MPG. Fienstien is another bought and paid for politician owned by corporate interests now characterizing herself as a champion of progressive values. She was one of the first Senators to visit Gitmo stating at the time the it was an exemplary facility and like the Iraq war now shifting ground. Time to take out the trash people!
Erma is correct about Feinstein; she is politically right of center, and a parasite along the same lines as senator clinton is. Barbara Boxer, the junior senator for California, however, is truly left/progressive.
Rebel Farmer,
Another link about war-profiteer Feinstein, in case my first link holds no credibility with you:
The Center for Public Integrity
Perini Corporation
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=45
Chairman and CEO Ronald Tutor and billionaire investor Richard Blum, who together own investment groups that hold 75 percent of Perini's voting stock, control the company. Blum is the husband of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
(Check out the following):
Iraq contracts
Afghanistan contracts
As of May 20, 2004
On March 12, 2004, the Program Management Office awarded Perini a contract with a ceiling of $500,000,000 for "electrical power distribution and transmission" in the southern region of Iraq.
[Erma's Editorial: electrical power distribution and transmission in southern Iraq would not have been needed or necessary if Dictator Bush had not needlessly destroyed Iraq's infrastructure in the first damn place with their illegal and criminal attack on Iraq which Feinstein and other Bush-Enabling trash in congress voted "YES" for.]
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Rebel Farmer July 30th, 2007 2:30 pm
I think that Diane, for the most part is fine senator.
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Well either you haven't been paying any attention to what this woman has been doing and is about or you and I have two opposite definitions of what makes a "fine senator."
You think a "fine senator" would vote "YES" for Bush's USAPATRIOT ACT which shreds the US Constitution? She did just that.
You think a "fine senator" would vote "YES" for Bush's attack on Afghanistan and Iraq and subsequent funding for Bush's occupation? She did just that.
You think a "fine senator" would buy into this Bush's phony "war on terror" nonsense as she does.
You think a "fine senator" would be an Afghanistan and Iraq war profiteer. She and her husband are that:
Senator Feinstein's War Profiteering
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12106.htm
You think a "fine senator" would be one of Bush's strongest enablers? She is that.
I can't stand pro-war, pro-Bush, pro-corporate, pro-imperalistic Dianne Feinstein. She's repugnant as far as I'm concerned. She is a Repug. I have no respect for this disgusting woman at all. I'm in California. I didn't vote for her.
War-profiteer Feinstein said the other day on a national talk show when asked about impeachment...
She said impeachment is not going to happen because the Dems would look like nuts if they were try to impeach Bush/Cheney.
(The fact is she doesn't want them impeached because she has been one-with-them since Day One.)
Of course this woman is more into what things "look like." She has no regard or respect for the US Constitution. If she did she would not have voted "YES" for Bush's USAPATRIOT ACT.