Up to 4,000 US troops to protect Bush at Inauguration Party

[zulchzulu]

Snip:

Troops to Protect Washington During Bush Inauguration
November 7, 2004

Despite campaigning on the slogan "America and the world are safer" George W. Bush and his Department of Homeland security are reportedly calling for unprecedented security for the presidential inauguration in January.

The Washington Post is reporting that thousands of police offices will be called in from around the nation along with a military protective force of possibly up to 4,000 soldiers."


http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000717.html

Posse Comitatus Act, anyone?
http://www.dojgov.net/posse_comitatus_act.htm

"Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus

Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001385----000-.html

[hang a left]

1. If I were **, I wouldn't buy that suit just yet. n/t

[AlCzervik]

2. But people love him!!! Their will is at his back!

[leftofthedial]

3. well crap.

so much for that idea.

[htuttle]

4. They only sent 200 marines to Haiti

The number grew to a thousand, though.

They didn't send nearly that many to Liberia.

We've sent none (save for a few 'advisors') to the Sudan.

Didn't send any to help out with multiple hurricanes in Florida, although his father had sent 22,000 to help with Andrew.

Priorities, I guess.

[Nikepallas]

5. if he needs 4000 troops then I think he knows now that something happened

during the elections.


I think he would try to move up inauguration if he could.

[Skittles]

7. HE IS A COWARDLY BASTARD

BRING THEM ON

[NewYorkerfromMass]

9. Yes, when we find out he stole the election

he will need all those troops. (and I thought we were much safer under his terrorism fighting admin?)

[2Design]

6. can't they have quiet ceremony and not waste our tax dollars

they wouldn't need all that fire power for anyone else. This is the most hated man and family in the world

[graywarrior]

10. Exactly. I'm not interested in a public masturbation

[CBHagman]

17. LOL, graywarrior!

I used to call the parade held by G.H.W. Bush following the first Gulf War "the National Masturbation" -- done for effect and having nothing to do with reality.

[brook]

8. Tin Pot Dictator...

with a *mandate*. Banana, anyone?

[greenbriar]

11. where are they going to pull them out of

Iraq?


backdoor draft???

[evilqueen]

13. hmmm....

That's what I was thinking. If we're so much SAFER now, and he's pulling cops and troops to guard his inauguration... who's keeping the rest of our nation safe?

[zulchzulu]

12. kick

Hopefully Mike Malloy could riff on this story. Nobody else will.

[Eloriel]

14. OMG -- this sends chills up my spine

we really are a military dictatorship now, aren't we?

I hope it makes him feel powerful -- and safe. In truth, it shows how very weak he is -- so hated, around the world and in his own country, that he needs an army to protect him.

Contrast that with a Bill Clinton, or a Jimmy Carter, or even (blech) a Ronald Reagan.

[zulchzulu]

15. Kick again

Mike Malloy needs to discuss this. Bernie Ward needs to break this.

[Amaya]

16. It just goes to show you

The next four years are gonna be a hoot! :eyes:

[Retrograde]

18. but our glorious leader

is beloved by the masses - he did get a mandate after all, didn't he? Why would he need so many soldiers to guard him?

I know - maybe the joyous populace will strew so many flowers in his path that they may inadvertently cause a traffic hazard and the troops will be there to sweep them away. Or they'll be there to keep him from being overwhelmed by the outpourings of love from the grateful hordes. Yup, that's it.

(BTW, how many regular army soldiers are there in Iraq right now? Afghanistan?)

[htuttle]

19. Is he going to parade a bunch of missiles and tanks up the street?

Like Kim Il Jong does?

[zulchzulu]

20. Hey, it should be fun!

Sig! Heil! Sig Heil!

Dang, Chimpy always wanted a parade.

[JSJ]

21. 'the troops' love their daddy

[renegade000]

22. headline: "bush crosses potomac"

quoted: "the die has been cast..."

[realcountrymusic]

23. Posse comitatus

Anyone ever heard of it?

Shit, I feel like one of those Montana Militia guys back in the early 90s. This is getting to be really fucked up.

rcm

[asianjoanne]

24. Well, it's nice to see

that our tax dollars, social security, and troops are being used for such an important event such as this! I mean, hell! We could be using it to help out our troops stuck in Iraq, but hey! The Inauguration Party is MORE important! *sense the sarcasm*

Buck Fush!

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

25. That's it

I am now changing my username to HEIL PRESIDENT GOD