Rise of the Empire

So it begins.

Here is my original post dealing with Star Wars and reality.

The Senate Judiciary Commitee panel voted to send Al Gonzales name to the floor of the Senate. The vote was on party lines.

divided Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) on Wednesday approved Alberto Gonzales as U.S. attorney general, rejecting concerns about his role in formulating administration policies blamed for contributing to the torture of suspected terrorists.

On a party-line vote of 10-8, the Republican-led panel sent President Bush's nomination of Gonzales to become the nation's highest ranking lawman to the full Senate for anticipated confirmation, possibly as early as next week.

Gonzales, now Bush's White House counsel, would replace John Ashcroft, who submitted his resignation after Bush was elected to a second term in November.

The United States should not use torture to get the truth out of detainees. Another reference that I forgot in my original post. Governor Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader use a probe droid on Princess Leia to find out where the rebel base is. She does not tell them where the base is. She gives a different answer.

I want the terrorists gone as much as the Republicans do but there has to be ways other than torture. I don't care if Al Gonzales is pro-choice. Although Roe may be at stake in these next few years, whats more important is how we are seen in the world. We are already at war in Iraq and Afghanistan (where is that schmuck anyway? We had him cornered and outsourced the job to the people fighting against us just days before!!!)

Tell the President to get our troops out of Iran:

Even as matters go from bad to worse in Iraq, there is increasing evidence that the Bush administration has already begun military incursions into an additional ten countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Most prominent among these countries is Iran, where the stated goal appears to be identifying targets related to Iran's nuclear program that could be subject to a preemptive attack.

According to an explosive article by renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, President Bush has signed a series of executive orders and Presidential findings authorizing the Pentagon to send in reconnaissance teams into a number of countries to prepare for military action. Underlying the mission in Iran appears to be the prediction that an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would lead to regime change, throwing out the fundamentalist mullahs who largely control the country. The only analysts who share this view also predicted that our troops occupying Iraq would be greeted with flowers.

The human, financial and moral costs of attempting regime change in Iran through a preemptive military strike are likely to dwarf those we are already suffering from Iraq.

These are dark times and Democrats must use Jedi-like instincts to prevail. With the brain that President Bush has, he can easily succomb to the mind tricks.

In 2008 election news, people are registered Bill Richardson for President domain names on the internet. Bill Richardson has nothing to do with it at all, it appears.