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11-08-2006, 01:03 PM | #16 | |||
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11-08-2006, 01:05 PM | #17 |
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I listened to some Rush today and he came very close to getting it right. He said essentially that the Republicans didn't run as conservatives so the Democrats won running against nothing (outside the war). The bit he missed was that the Republicans failed to rule as conservatives by invading countries, exploding the deficit, and becoming as corrupt as the Dems they evicted. Here's to the blessings of divided government.
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There is no sense in opposing the GWOT just because it's a Republican President trying to win it, yet that is what I see over and over, not only among the most frayed threads of the lunatic fringe, but among Democrats who ought to know better -- and don't! The Democrats have abandoned fighting the war in favor of fighting the Republicans. Dopes. Dupes.
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11-08-2006, 01:28 PM | #19 |
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The problem with Gitmo is real simple. If we *say* you are an enemy combatant, you're an enemy combatant. It is irrelevant whether you actually are or not.
That's not the American way, and that's what sticks in American craws.
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11-08-2006, 01:54 PM | #20 |
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It's pretty easy to say so once somebody's emptied a magazine at our troops.
Sure, I've heard the same things about assorted anonymous people getting swept up, but to have exactly zero dubious cases like this is, well, an impossibility when lead and high explosives are flying. There is also the consideration of the sources of such allegations -- they don't stem from the parties that want humanity's cause to win, but from those who oppose humanity's cause because America is leading it, for crying in a bucket. Can you imagine any motive more disgusting?
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11-08-2006, 01:57 PM | #21 | |
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Habeus Corpus is appropriate for EVERYONE!!! It's a HUMAN right, not an American right. Our rights don't come from government.
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NO.
There was never habeas corpus for German or Italian POWs in WW2, nor habeas corpus for our men in the Hanoi Hilton. NO. NO. NO.
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My point being that radar's argument failed by overreaching -- and whether in law they are in the letter of the law POWs in Gitmo, they are de facto POWs in any way that's really going to count.
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11-08-2006, 03:35 PM | #26 | |
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11-08-2006, 04:03 PM | #27 |
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Nancy says they are "ready to govern". I gotta think they cant do any worse than the last bunch.
I am jazzed that Waxman will be able to get in there and account. The house will be able to question and check and exercise some control over the use of the military in Iraq to hopefully ensure less missuse and abuse. |
11-08-2006, 04:06 PM | #28 |
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I'd rather they concentrate on the contractors misuse and abuse in Iraq.
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11-08-2006, 09:41 PM | #30 |
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I was hoping the Rs would hold on to their by-the-skin-of-their-teeth majority in the Senate, thus promoting the principle of Gridlock. The American public does best when their politicians do the least (damage, that is). Still, not a bad outcome.
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