GOP Rep. asks if Bush is an "enemy"
President Bush once told the world "you are either with us or against us" on terrorism. Now a Republican Southland lawmaker is employing the same rhetoric against the president.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach/Long Beach skewered the administration Wednesday for the prosecution of Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos. Both face federal prison time -- 11 and 12 years respectively -- for shooting a drug dealer in the buttocks and trying to hide it while guarding the Texas/Mexico border.
"These two men are heroes willing to put their lives on the line for us," said Rohrabacher who called with other lawmakers for Bush to pardon the agents.
Employing the harshest rhetoric yet against Bush, Rohrabacher said, ``We're going to find out whose side you're on...the American people or the side of our enemies. If you let these two men go to jail for defending us, then we'll know your on the side of our enemies."
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As with everything else this pathetic excuse for a president has touched, the good Americans doing their job got screwed. As a combat veteran (Marines), I keep thinking I can't get more disgusted with this devisive, crap-talking, out-of-touch, non-serving little weasel... until something new (like this here) hits the web. It'll take years to repair the damage to the image of America that this wanna-be hero has caused, both at home and abroad. Rohrbacher's got it right: the agents should be exonerated immediately and offered an apology by the USBP for this whole farce. Heck, if they'd have shot this drug-dealing bastard in the head, they wouldn't be having this problem right now, would they.