“Everybody Knows the Clock is Ticking," Yet nobody knows what time it is.

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“Everybody Knows the Clock is Ticking"

Yet nobody knows what time it is.

By Jim Kirwan

06/28/07 "ICH" -- -- For most of the last ten days the news from Washington has been punctuated by the bizarre antics of Dick Cheney – the man that puts the ‘Vice’ in the US presidency. History gave us all a lesson during the Nixon years and Watergate, when the line between the laws and those who either make or enforce those laws was re-emphasized. No one then was allowed to place themselves above or beyond the law. That clock continues to tick: but apparently a lot of people have forgotten that presidents are not gods (or dictators), and that no president is or can ever be, allowed to remain above the laws of this nation that they supposedly lead.

Cheney and his apologists have been making a lot of noise about ‘facts not in evidence,’ concerning his vices within his role is this government. The claims being made by both Cheney and his invisible staff stretch credulity beyond the breaking point. He is currently claiming that he has a legislative role, because of his capacity as the tie-breaking vote in the Senate. According to the Constitution that does not make the-Vice a part of the legislative branch of government, anymore than it allows him to act as the White House Chief of Staff, without that title being formally conferred.

As for all of Cheney’s “other functions” that have been ‘given’ to him by what has become an “absent without leave president” who is unwilling or unable to do those jobs that are his by virtue of his office. These additional duties should have been challenged at every turn by oversight committees of the Congress—but they gave themselves a semi-permanent vacation after they gave Cheney-Bush that “License to Kill” that enabled the unchecked Invasion of Iraq. Consequently not only has the ‘Decider’ been allowed to go berserk, but apparently Cheney has been acting for Bush in so many different “official” capacities that no one can tell where one man leaves off and the other begins. (1)

On first glace this seems complex—but in reality if one returns to the basics, there can be no confusion. There is only one president of the United States at a time. The Vice-president is nothing but an empty suit in waiting whose only other ‘official’ task is to break tie votes in the Senate. Every other job that is given to The-Vice should be delegated on the record and be transparent enough that the public is aware of the duty thus delegated by the president and approved by the congress!

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It’s our money that is being used; our people that are wearing the uniforms that are prosecuting the wars of occupation, and our reputation that is being shredded in service to completely unworkable policies the world over. Millions of people have died; millions more have been displaced or mutilated in these unilateral military actions that were created from nothing more than a huge pack of deliberate and deceptive lies. Like it or not the facts on the ground belong to us - just as according to Bush himself: ‘He owns the Iraq War.’

It’s way past time for both Cheney & Bush to begin to pay for their actions, in public, and on the record. These two must answer those subpoenas and appear before the congress—and the public needs to keep the heat on the White House—to do just that!

in 9/11 then? If one looks at what transpired on 9/11 ie; Training being conducted, support being shut down in order to conduct this training... hmmmmmm Still seems to be a "HUGE" ? mark out there on this one.....

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