Republicans: Party of Treason

[Ringo84]

You hear a lot these days about how Democrats are "traitors". How we "hate America". Well gee... if Ann Coulter says it, then it must be true. Right?

I submit that it's the Republican party that's the party of treason and anti-Americanism. Look at the facts:

1. The Patriot Act, which all but eliminates the right against unusual searches and seizures, the writ of Habeas Corpus, and the fifth Amendment. A party who truly cared about America would not try their damndest to subvert the Constitution - the document that outlines our laws - in the name of "national security".

2. Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib (I'll bet that Bush thought that we'd conveniently forget about his major balls-up at Abu Ghraib). Our country is supposed to be the "good guy" that does not resort to the practices of its enemies - torture - to protect the country or achieve its goals. Since torture has always been counter to the stated values of Americans, it follows that torture is an unAmerican - perhaps even anti-American - practice.

3. Iraq, which Bush justified with falsehoods. If the Iraq war had truly been as necessary as Bush spun it, he would not have had to lie to get us into Iraq.

Three years later, we're distracted in Iraq - a country that was never a threat to us at all - while Osama bin Laden is still free to continue terrorizing us and other nations. If allowing OBL to survive this long isn't treason - or at most, an indication of serious mismanagement.

4. Spying on Americans. In the Constitution, we are guaranteed freedom from unusual searches and seizures. Apparently in a post-9/11 world, however, the Constitution - a "piece of paper" in Bush's eyes - means nothing. Bush has successfully exploited justifiable fear of terrorists so that he can continue to turn the United States into a police state.

Bush and the Republican party have undermined national security, our image abroad, the War on Terror, and have royally mismanaged nearly everything with which they have come into contact. They are the traitors - the people who wave an American flag while the President takes away our freedoms.

These Republicans should be ashamed of themselves and their exploitation of fear after 9/11.

[BillZBubb]

1. You forgot Plame!

Outing a CIA agent working on WMD in wartime has got to qualify.

I would also submit that Bush's signing statements on laws passed by Congress are unconstitutional.

[Ringo84]

2. Re: amBushed

Right! that's another good example. It's been one traitorous activity after another since 2000.
Ringo