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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (52355)	1/25/2006 8:57:03 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

You can look up the Congressional resolutions authorizing the war and see that a lot of charges were made against Saddam. Trying to say the war was about one thing only is inaccurate. There was only one reason for which the American public would support the spilling of American blood and the spending of American money -- and that is if the nation's security was threatened. None of the other excuses - Saddam is a bad guy, Iraq needs to be a democracy, we need to change the Middle East... blah blah blah would have worked. It would have been a good thing if the enemy didn't know we were monitoring calls to the US. OK, now that they know about it, there is no point in any further monitoring right? Then why is Dumbya continuing to spy on us? Also suppose some FISA judge said no, do we then fail to monitor enemy communications cause a judge said no - and possibly let people die as a result? FISA has been a rubber stamp all these 27 years. Of the 14,000 of so requests that were made over the years, FISA had approved all but five. In any case, how would we know if the FISA judge would say "no", when Dumbya didn't even ask?!

To: Brumar89 who wrote (52355)	1/25/2006 9:45:55 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Also suppose some FISA judge said no, do we then fail to monitor enemy communications cause a judge said no - and possibly let people die as a result? So, is there anything that Dumbya is NOT allowed to do under the guise of protecting the American people? Like, he is not allowed to ______ (fill in the blank) ...

To: Brumar89 who wrote (52355)	1/27/2006 2:01:54 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

It would have been a good thing if the enemy didn't know we were monitoring calls to the US. Duh! A few years ago, I heard a woman calling a radio station (from a pay phone) and saying that she is very careful about what websites she visits because she was sure they were being monitored. And this was an American who only had serious disagreement with Dumbya's disastrous policies and a revulsion for Dumbya. Nothing more than that. Nah! The enemy is too stupid to realize that they were being monitored until this news broke out. Sure, a few thousand of them are holding out against 140,000 US troops in Iraq and are coming up with improvised explosive devices, mortars and recently, an airborne IED that is bringing down low-flying US helicopters. Boy, they really must be stupid to achieve all that! ;-)