"Congress Must Curb A Runaway Executive"

by Liberty and Power

Leon Fuerth, a former national security adviser to vice-president Al Gore, and a research professor of international affairs at the George Washington University, has an interesting article in the Financial Times May 19th.

He points out that the prisoner abuses in Iraq are not a mere anomoly, but, like much of the actions of the Bush administration, an example of the growig power of the Executive branch of government. Fuerth calls for the Congress to once agin reassert itself into the separation of powers, even as more judges are appointed sympathetic to the executive point of view.

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Arnold Shcherban - 5/23/2004

It looks like the overwhelming majority of bloggers(in a
striking similarity to a mass-media reporters and analysts) are not political observers and commentators, but businessmen and economists.
All they care about is the outcome of the Iraq war and
outcome, primarily for Americans, i.e. whether this country will not loose too much financially, and in terms
of lifes of its soldiers, whether the economical consequences of the US agression against Iraq will be
positive for the USA, whether the war will tarnish the ideological image of this nation, etc.
Noone seems to care about the other side of this tragedy
enforced by the only superpower in the world on the Iraqi
populus and the continuing for decades US march towards world hegemony, so obvious to any unbiased observer, along with the becoming casual trampling of international order law and order, and a shaking(even without that)peace stability.