AUMF means All U MFs shut up

We're the Bushists. We have the power to do any goddamn thing we want.

The Bush administration argued yesterday that when Congress authorized military action against the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists, it also gave the president the power to detain people who never took up arms against the United States.

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The Justice Department acknowledges that Parhat never fought against the United States and says it has no evidence he planned to do so. Yet government lawyers contend he can be held under the law authorizing military force against anyone who "planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks" of 2001.

With these Orwellians in power, not only is the Constitution no longer in force, but the damn English dictionary is history, too.

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