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To: TopCat who wrote (78993)	8/19/2006 4:10:11 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) of 81568

On a different topic which is more political and not a personal attack of those who post on this thread. My comments: Bush claims that we "do not understand the nature of the world we live in." I wonder if he understands what we in the US want on Iraq war and how we think he needs to fight the terror war. Should he be dictating to us on we should think? Isn't that what communists and dictators do whereas in a democracy it is the elected leaders who are required to listen to the people and carry out what they want? This post also says that the chairman of the Republican party wants to turn the judge's decision into a political advantage for his party. But I thought that in the past Bush had criticized those who politicized the war on terror. Does that criticism not apply to his own party members? Happy reading. Bush says anti-wiretap ruling ignores reality Saturday, August 19, 2006 JAMES ROWLEY President George W. Bush rejected suggestions that his legal strategy in the war against al-Qaida is threatened by a judge's ruling that his terrorist surveillance program was illegal. Bush said he was confident that an appeals court will overturn the Detroit federal judge's decision Thursday barring the wiretapping of suspected terrorists without court warrants. "Those who herald this decision simply do not understand the nature of the world in which we live," Bush told reporters at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Md. "This country of ours is at war and we must give those whose responsibility it is to protect the United States the tools necessary to protect this country in a time of war." Senate Democrats praised the ruling as a repudiation of what Democratic Leader Harry Reid called Bush's "decision to ignore the Constitution and the Congress" by ordering the National Security Agency to carry out the surveillance program. The president's comments came as the chairman of the Republican Party sought to turn the ruling into a political advantage for the coming congressional elections by noting that the trial judge who made the decision, Anna Diggs Taylor, was appointed by a Democratic president. Taylor was nominated by President Jimmy Carter. The decision by a "Democrat-appointed judge" who "sided with the ACLU," Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman wrote in an e-mail to supporters, "is a reminder of what is at stake" in the coming election. "Will we use every tool in our arsenal to respond to emerging threats, or embrace the Democrat-ACLU position that just made it harder for our intelligence agencies to detect terrorist plots inside the United States," Mehlman wrote. The president said the surveillance program would ultimately be upheld in court. "We strongly believe it's constitutional," Bush said. "If al-Qaida is calling into the United States, we want to know why they're calling." In her ruling, Taylor held that the surveillance program Bush ordered after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks violated the Constitution and federal law. She enjoined further wiretapping of international long-distance phone calls between the U.S. and suspected terrorists overseas. Taylor's order won't be implemented until she holds a hearing on whether to prevent it from taking effect while the government appeals. al.com

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