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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: DOUG H who wrote (29894)	6/9/2004 10:44:35 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) of 81568

Tha water was nice, thank you. Nothing like a good swim to clear out the cobwebs. You bring up something else that rattles around in my mind, that is the role of the citizenry in controlling the military. By that I mean this, we are at war and we are asking our young men and women to go into harms way FOR US. A call to arms is that and nonething less. That said, I feel it is my duty to hold the CIC's feet to the fire as to under what threat does he undertake these actions. The constitution provides that Congress has the power to declare war. But that Power of the people has been watered down quite a bit. The President did ask Congress for authorization to go to war if necessary for national security. Congress granted that permission. But after the granting of permission there has been little or no congressional oversight. And the the permission was given to protect the national security vis a vis the alleged WMD's. I am not entirely convinced that Bush flatout lied and went headlong willynilly into war to somehow vindicate Daddy. Or at the behest of Halliburton, et al, so they could rebuild a country. I think the truth lies soemwhere in between. There have been huge profits made by companies like Halliburton and Carlyle. Bush most likely knew ahead of time that profits would be made by those in the wartime business. Maybe he wasn't thinking of his Dad being on the board of directors of Carlyle, and maybe the influence of Cheney's Haliburton was never visualized. Maybe the no bid contract was just a lucky stroke for Haliburton...and Cheney just so happened to be a former Chief Executive for the company. And maybe Bush pushed it out of his mind the many family members, associates and friends that would stand to profit handsomely from a war. Personally I'm having a problem allowing for that separation of thought. Couple that with the clear evidence of over selling the threat of Saddam and you have what I think is undue influence of the almighty dollar. Orca

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