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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Lane3 who wrote (7280)12/18/2005 10:18:32 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 541371
 
Edit-- was just reading elsewhere that Bush didn't hide anything from Congress and informed them everytime he extended the directive.... am very confused... what exactly did Congress know?

For me it is a big con that the necessity of Bush's actions is questionable, which seems to be the case the more that we read this morning.

He had already shown a dangerous tendency to decide what we should know (or not know) before Iraq, rather than allowing Americans to debate and decide on the facts. All of them.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice....
I'm not ready to yield this power without oversight to anyone easily, but less so to someone whose judgment I question.
Power is rather like the torture issue. It has a way of growing and justifying itself. It's a road I don't want to go down without a full discussion.

The balance of security and liberty-- it isn't perfect and I have no expectation of that. I do expect us to be allowed some input into what we can tolerate. But the judgment of this administration isn't one I trust to strike a balance I am comfortable with all by its lonesome.
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