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

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (53001)	2/3/2006 5:02:30 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

No, we can't invade a country simply with bombs. We'd need NATO and the UN or other allies with hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground helping us. We cannot afford enough troops to even begin to consider invading Iran. And why would we? There's no excuse whatsoever. Has Iran attacked us? No, they simply have a nuclear program and a new unfriendly government. But Pakistan already has a bomb. Plus, if we invaded Iran, who would watch Iraq? Uh uh, maybe if Bush were friends with all our allies and we were attacked, but not going to happen. Also, Iraq was much weaker militarily than Iran. Iraq was a relatively easy invasion, especially since Saddam had no WMD. The most we could do would be to bomb their nukes facility, but it's a hardened site and I'm sure Iran has taken precautions.

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (53001)	2/3/2006 9:36:56 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 93284

MORE UNBELIEVABLE CORRUPTION... 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Libby Trial Date Set for January 2007 By Edwin Chen The Los Angeles Times Friday 03 February 2006 Washington - A US District Court judge today set a January, 2007 trial date for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former top White House official who was indicted on five counts of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI in a federal investigation on how a CIA operative's identity was exposed. Libby, who was Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and his top national security adviser, has proclaimed his innocence. "We are very happy with the trial date," Theodore Wells, Libby's lawyer, said after today's court hearing. "The Jan. 8 date will permit us the time we need to prepare our defense," he said, adding his client was "totally innocent." Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald launched the investigation after the CIA operative, Valerie Plame, was identified in the news media in 2003. At the time, her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador, had emerged as a prominent critic of the manner in which the Bush Administration had used intelligence to build a case to launch the Iraq war. Libby, who resigned after being indicted in late October, attended today's hearing, which lasted about 45 minutes, but said little. The judge, Reggie Walton, said he expected jury selection to take a few days. And lawyers for both sides said they expected the trial to last about a month. Still at issue is whether Fitzgerald has turned over all the relevant documents being sought by the defense. The prosecutor said the process was "99% complete," including the delivery of 1,250 pages to the defense team this week. But Wells said he believed that Fitzgerald still had "thousands and thousands and thousands of pages" in documents that should be turned over. -------