Ashcroft & Rummie Have to Go

The time for cabinet changes in the Bush Administration is now.

Two definite changes: Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Attorney General Ashcroft need to go.

I have been dissatisfied with the last two people to hold the directorship of the Justice Department: John Ashcroft and Janet Reno. Reno liked circumventing the Constitution in dealing with legal issues, and Ashcroft is turning a blind eye to parts of it (due process).

All parts of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights need to be observed by the government and John Ashcroft's Justice Department has not done their part. He’s still holding American citizens on U.S. soil without legal counsel and without their day in court as he thinks they may have had something to do with 9/11.

If so, then why haven’t they begun criminal proceedings? Legal limbo is illegal under the due process clause. It’s being said that Ashcroft may leave on his own terms before President Bush is sworn in for his second term. This would be an excellent start.

Bush needs a competent Secretary of Defense and Rumsfeld is clearly not up to the task. The entire battle plan for Iraq needs to be redone and goals clearly spelled out. Treating Iraq like a liberated Soviet satellite nation was a huge mistake. I think Poland, Lithuania, and other nations under Soviet domination would have welcomed U.S. troops and taken full advantage of their freedom, but Iraq is a Muslim nation that has been invaded by largely non-Muslim armies of the West.

Now that we’re there, it is important to get the Iraqi army, paramilitary and police set up with all the tools that they need to retake their country in all respects, and to secure their own country.