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Should Bush's Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resign?

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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is the most incompetent attorney general I can remember, ever (or at least, during the latter half of the 20th century in U.S. history). Janet Reno took some hits while she held the office. In recent history, chiefly because of decisions she made during the Waco incident, she held top award for the most controversial AG. However, she never indiscriminately discharged officials who, it turned out, were not staunch supporters of the sitting party in the White House. She did not use the excuse that she didn't "recall," when questioned about any faux pas she made while acting as the prosecutor for the people of the United States.

Its difficult for many to compete with the likes of Robert Kennedy, but the attorney general's job is to protect and support the People, not act as the private attorney to the President. Clearly, Mr. Gonzales still believes he is still in Texas and that Mr. Bush is still the governor of Texas, rather than the president of the United States.

Mr. Gonzales claims that he was not aware that the illegal alien shot by the two border patrol agents transported drugs across the border. The AG claimed he had nothing to do with the two agents being prosecuted and sentenced to 12 years (between them) imprisonment and thrown into the general population of a Texas prison to serve those sentences. I don't RECALL him commenting on the 2+ million dollar suit the illegal drug dealer brought against the People of the United States, either. Maybe this, too, Attorney General Gonzales doesn't RECALL?

Whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales 'recalls' or 'remembers' or 'had anything to do with' any of these incidents is irrelevant because, if he did not, he SHOULD have as the attorney for the People. It was his job and responsibility to be involved... to bring the suit... to act as OUR counsel. Even if that meant he prosecute the very people he has been protecting.

Yes, Mr. Gonzales should resign. It is obvious he either does not know his job or doesn't have the courage to stand his ground to do it. Nothing personal; just facts.

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Should Bush's Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resign?

Yes
  • 1 of 23

    by Ted Sherman

    Hey, Helium writers, the question has become moot. The guy has resigned. Whatever you think of him and the mess he made of

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  • 2 of 23

    by Amandy U. Levy

    I truly believe that Alberto Gonzalez, the former Attorney General fired the democratic federal attorneys. By the way, Alberto

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No
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    by Jim Smoot

    Non-elected government officials of any administration serve at the pleasure of the president. That means the president can

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    by Roberto Alvarez-Galloso

    If we ask Alberto Gonzales to resign, we might as well ask the US Government to resign and make way for a Multiracial Multi

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