Tell Congress: Reject Endless War and a Torture Cover-Up

[TehBorken]

 

Tell Congress: Reject Endless War and a Torture Cover-Up

This sounds so outrageous, it seems like a joke or something out of "The
Onion."

Attorney General Michael Mukasey is demanding that Congress issue a new
declaration of war so that anyone that this president or the next one
declares to be an "enemy combatant" can be held indefinitely without a
trial.

The new declaration of war would make the entire globe — including the
United States itself — a “battlefield” where the president decides who
will be locked up forever.

With only five weeks left in the Congressional schedule and only six
months left in the Bush presidency, Mukasey’s ridiculous power grab should
be laughed out of town. But given this Congress’ track record, the Mukasey
proposal is no laughing matter. Especially because it also includes a
cover-up of the Bush administration’s systemic torture and abuse of
detainees.

We can’t take for granted that Congress will reject this outrageous
proposal. We have to meet it with an immediate wall of protest that says
to Congress: “Don’t you dare.”

I just told my members of Congress to reject the dangerous Bush/Mukasey
plan. You can do the same thing here:

http://action.aclu.org/mukasey