Jubal
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 2:16 pm
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By "overwhelmingly," you mean less than half, right? And this resolution allowed Bush to attack only if diplomacy failed, so the worst you can say is that Democrats wrongly abdicated authority to Bush.
You may be right. I'll check the vote tally, and if you are, I'll admit it.
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I thought you were a lawyer... ok. Um, Tell that to the UAW, while the NLRB rules that nurses can't unionize.
I am. So what? The middle class still exists, and it isn't composed entirely of union members.
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But he didn't create courts of no resort.
So that makes doing away with habeas corpus in many cases all right?
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Do you know how many terrorism detainees have been executed in US custody?
No. I would suggest you don't either.
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And you really think that Bill Clinton turned the ATF into a bunch of murderers between Inaugeration in January and the Waco raid in February?(sigh) cons...
His watch, his responsibility. And it was the FBI, not ATF. ATF was out of it by that point.
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Our president went on television and said "Saddam threw the inspectors out." On the next channel UN inspectors were bulldozing Al-Simood missiles. And we allegedly reelected the monkey.
Bush lied. Big news.
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I was talking about continuing nuclear proliferation in the United States. The Republicans are saying "you don't need nukes but we need MORE nukes, and we just might use them against you preemptively." But go ahead and tell me which dems you're talking about.
Sorry, my misunderstanding. I'm talking about the pro-Israel Democrats who were strangely silent when it was patently obvioius that Israel was developing nukes. And if I recall correctly, both houses of Congress were in Democratic hands, and the White House was in Democratic hands for part of the time that India and Pakistan were developing nukes.
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It's all about Clinton isn't it? You can at least debate whether Kosovo was worth the humanitarian cost.
No, it isn't. I don't think much of Clinton, but he was an OK president. My point was you seem to think the Republicans have a "Might is Right" philosophy. Well, Democrats have not been shy about applying might when they think it's right. Korea, Vietnam, and Kosovo were all started by Democrats.
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What democrats have claimed to know better than the world's leading experts in any field? I mean, not just going against their recommendations but actually trashing their authority? Bush has never acknowledged any higher authority than his "gut."
My point being that every administration, and every politician for that matter, claims to be in possession of the Truth.
Please don't think I'm defending President Bush here. As I said elsewhere, I think this will go down in history as the worst administration thus far. But I don't agree that all the evil in the world, or even the country, is to be laid at the door of the Bush administration.