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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: techguerrilla who wrote (33966)	12/31/2003 7:13:01 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

I hope all Porchers have a great New Years holiday...;-) -s2@letsMakeAdifferenceIn2004.com

To: techguerrilla who wrote (33966)	12/31/2003 7:32:38 PM
From: elpolvo	Respond to of 89467

One Democratic voter refuses to bite the dust. <exhales and sighs> oh well... -the dust

To: techguerrilla who wrote (33966)	12/31/2003 8:16:48 PM
From: Rick McDougall	Respond to of 89467

<Hell, 25% of the populace is without health insurance now.> boston.com

To: techguerrilla who wrote (33966)	12/31/2003 10:27:03 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

BushCo makes me puke. One Democratic voter refuses to bite the dust. I was registered Democratic until 1982, then went Independent until '90 (or thereabout) when I was a founding member of the California Green Party. I'm back to being an Independent, but I fully intend to change my registration to Democratic in the next couple months. We must all hang together, or surely King George will hang us all apart. The MoFo Bonafarte!

To: techguerrilla who wrote (33966)	1/2/2004 1:24:31 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Colonel David Hackworth wants to find " the unvarnished truth"... sftt.org <<...Our first New Year’s resolution should be to find out if the stated reasons for our pre-emptive strike – Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction and Saddam’s connection with al-Qaeda – constituted a real threat to our national security. Because, contrary to public opinion, the present administration hasn’t yet made the case that Saddam and his sadists aided and abetted al-Qaeda's attacks on 9/11. We also need to know why our $30 billion-a-year intelligence agencies didn’t read the tea leaves correctly, as well as what’s being done besides upgrading the color code to prevent other similar strikes. Congress should get with the program and lift a page from the U.S. Army handbook on how to learn from a military operation. When an Army-training or actual-combat op is concluded, all the key players assemble for an honest, no-holds-barred critique of everything that’s gone down – the good, the bad and the ugly. Some of the participants might walk away black and blue, but everyone learns from the mistakes. Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and retired Gen. Tommy Franks should be required to report to a congressional committee convened to investigate both the invasion and the planning – or lack of planning – for the occupation of Iraq. This committee must operate without the political skullduggery that occurred during the numerous investigations into the Pearl Harbor catastrophe – when high-level malfeasance that cost thousands of lives and put America’s national security in extreme jeopardy was repeatedly covered up for more than 50 years. Our Iraqi casualties deserve nothing less than the unvarnished truth. Only then will their sacrifices not have been in vain. And only then can we all move on with the enlightenment we need to protect and preserve our precious country’s future...>>