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Ashcroft Resigns- Immediately Calls For Greater Executive Priviledge
Was he fired because he wasn't dictatorial enough?

Immediately after the big election win, Attorney General John Ashcroft resigned, inexplicably stating in his resignation letter, "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved,". Today he stated that judges who question President Bush's decisions during war are threatening national security.

Let's just ignore, for the moment, Ashcroft's hallucination that a big "Mission Accomplished" sign hangs over our crime-free nation. I want to know what could motivate him to campaign for more Presidential authority in the war on terror?

Does Bush's war decisions and the results thereof warrant less scrutiny? There is apparently a major divide among Americans on this issue. Concerning the Iraq war, for example, many Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi regime were involved in the 9/11 attacks. Some may even still believe that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that threatened America, requiring an invasion and overthrow.

But factually, none of this is true, and none of it was true when the President told us these stories. When Bush told us he knew where Iraq's WMD stockpiles were located, he was wrong. When he said, "We found them!" in reference to the mobile hydrogen balloon trailers (believing they were poison gas weaponry), he was wrong. When he told us that the Iraqi people would welcome us with open arms, he was wrong. When he decided to attack without a stabilization plan for the country, he was wrong. When he proudly proclaimed that major war efforts in Iraq were complete and our mission was accomplished, he was wrong.

The list of Bush's bad calls, misreading of critical situations, and downright obliviousness to facts on Iraq goes on and on. Who could possibly argue that judicial oversight to temper this wild shotgun approach to national security harms us in a manner greater than the actions itself?