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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (343894)	1/16/2003 8:09:22 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769670

This ain't marriage, or paying the rent -- this is protecting the life of citizens in this country. A permanent all-professional army are what the Founders warned against -- a "standing army", which is precursor to totalitarianism. Much more important than even the rent... Here's the problem - you can never get rid of or even reduce a large standing army, it will create reasons to exist, even in peacetime, because the progenitors and beneficiaries will creat reasons, i.e. conflict. Which has been happening for 50 years to an increasing degree. So much so that it's questionable that much of the 200 incursions had any real merit, and were constructs. Trying to separate the real from constructed conflicts brings up all kinds of uncomfortable issues, like Ollie North, Casey and arms-hostages, cocaine-arms deals, that contaminate the idea all such covert actions. Given that we have one, better to have great participation by citizens, rather than it being beholden to the potentially totalitarian and covert Executive Branch, as it is now. The secretive and covert Executive Branch of course want nothing to do with increased participation, whether military or politics, they'd rather have complete autocracy than partial. Understandable, but un-American, unConstitutional, and deadly to democracy. Look at today's news, Senators pissed at the autocracy and "arrogance" of the Executive Branch, which believes, rightly, that it is in complete control of all actions of gov't, and since passage of funding bills, doesn't need Congress... certainly that's the impression, at least.