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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: TimF who wrote (198401)8/21/2006 5:36:57 PM
From: geode00  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Iraq war over. Good, let's leave today.

As for our own criminal contingent, what about spying without a warrant is legal? Even more interesting, what about going around the law ---- when that isn't even remotely necessary ----- is legal?

What about the wiretapping laws and the process by which said laws can be changed is unavailable to this administration?

Why did they not try and get it changed? What has it not permitted? How often were warrants not obtained and why? Why is this administration IGNORING the law and why is that not ILLEGAL?

Since the war is over, by your definition of Saddam being on trial, then Bush isn't a wartime president. Saying that he's battling the 'war on terrorism' is nonsense since terrorism isn't a person or a country but a tactic. It makes as much sense as saying the 'war on drugs' or 'the war on obesity' or 'the war on inflation'. That would mean every President could declare war on something and claim 'wartime' powers.

It's ridiculous and everyone knows it.

Bush's argument that as a 'wartime president' he gets to expand powers AT WILL and WITHOUT OVERSIGHT and apparently WITHOUT END is utter nonsense both in and of themselves and growing out of his contention that he's a wartime president.

Think of the ramifications. From now on out every prez will be a 'wartime president' simply by declaring a preemptive war against somebody or something.

Is that what makes sense to you?
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