The Shrine

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/polit ... =GOOGLE</a>

Lawyers Decided Bans on Torture Didn't Bind Bush. (Yes, it's NYT, and yes it's from Google. Grumble, grumble.)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, the Bush administration's lawyers say that Bush is above the law. Shocking. And I thank you for the Google link, btw.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Idiots, only Steven Segal is above the law.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>When the job is image control, trying to dance around the issue with legal loopholes is not going to win over world opinion, or the votes of the American public.</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Ooh, don't forget to add Stalone to that list. He is the law. who would've thought judge dredd was only 4 feet tall....</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The Warren Commission, also appointed by The President at the time, concluded that the Magic Bullet was a viable explanation for the death of Kennedy and injuries to Connelly.... (G-Man, note how I dissed a Democrat)</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Lyndon was a Republicrat. He doesn't count.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Wasn't he Kennedy's vice president?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Uh, no. While his tenure in the Senate might be called otherwise, Johnson was a classic New Deal Democrat in the FDR vein. His Great Society programs are evidence enough of that.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>It's ironic that a Democrat starts the Vietnam war and a Republican ends it.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Not so much, really. Kennedy (who escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam years before Johnson) and LBJ were both staunch anti-communist liberals. The Democratic Party had no shortage of those until the 1970s.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Kennedy at least had an exit strategy. He didn't want nearly as much involvement with Vietnam as it actually turned out.</div>