US State Dept Official; "I wake up and tell myself there's been a coup"

[LynnTheDem]

2003:

"Or, to quote a state department official who put it pungently to a reporter earlier this year, describing the dominance of the Pentagon hawks: "I just wake up in the morning and tell myself, 'There's been a military coup'. And then it all makes sense." "


"I just wake up in the morning and tell myself, 'There's been a military coup,' and then it all makes sense."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1045302,00.html

[tuvor]

1. I love that the UK papers keep their old links working.

Hey, LTD. :hi:

[LynnTheDem]

3. Hey, tuvor!

:hi:

:hug:

[tularetom]

4. Your posts are the best on DU

Sometimes I even read 'em.:woohoo:

[Bucky]

10. Makes it a double-plus harder to rewrite history, citizen... a little bit.

[savemefromdumbya]

2. maybe there will be a mutiny?

[ck4829]

9. Funny that you should mention that

Check out my post at:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2263510&mesg_id=2263510

[LSK]

5. K&R

:thumbsup:

[leesa]

6. Well, duh. And aren't you sworn to protect the country against all enemies

foreign AND DOMESTIC?

Our military leadersahip sucks. They aren't doing their job. They are all so afraid of losing their jobs that they are forgetting their oathe to protect and defend this country and that they have sworn to defend the Constitution.

Instead they think they have all sworn to defend their CIC and their paychecks.

[file83]

7. Yeah, and that "coup" was 9/11. As Bush said...

MISSON ACCOMPLISHED

[Kurovski]

8. K&R(nt)

[Just-plain-Kathy]

11. I like the idea of a coup...

:)

[EVDebs]

12. Those two congressional AUMF's witht the magic words

"as he (President Bush) determines" . These Authorizations for Use of Military Force, with the embedded War Powers Resolution of '73, are self-contradictory. With combined fabrication of WMD's in Iraq and (potentially) a similar situation with 9-11 (see 9-11 Press For Truth), we see that the "clear" "situations" and "circumstances" the WPA of '73 requires both weren't truthful.

AUMF Sept '01 ('war on terror')
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/sept_11/sjres23_eb.htm

AUMF Oct '02 (War in Iraq)
http://www.c-span.org/resources/pdf/hjres114.pdf#search=%22aumf%20oct%202002%22

War Powers Resolution of 1973
http://www.policyalmanac.org/world/archive/war_powers_resolution.shtml

The truthful part is implied by the WPA, but no reasonable mind can be expected to defend fantasies and fabrications, unless you are some DoD neocon with a political backing and a project requiring a war 'pretext'. Besides, Congress cannot abdicate ITS duties to a president or other executive. The power is theirs and theirs ALONE. The president doesnt' just declare war on his own...well, at least constitutionally, but now unconstitutionally he does now, "as he determines".

Seven Days In May, without the bullets. Only Congress, who did the damage in the first place, can repair the damage. Unfortunately, we have to wait 38 more days...when a Democratically controlled House can at least begin the necessary investigations and begin taking testimony under oath.

[midnight]

13. Speaking of military coups, has anyone read or heard anything

else about the coup in Tailand? I'm sorry for getting off topic here, but the Military Coup thing just triggered that coup. There is no talk about the fact that there constitution is susupended just as ours is being dismantled.