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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (3086)	6/30/2006 6:27:07 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 224680

Bush is the one who let Osama Bin Laden go, ignored the 8-6 warning about 9-11, said he didn't care about Osama anymore, said the war on terror could not be won, moved our counter-terror assets from Afghanistan (where al Qaida was) to Iraq (where no one from Al Qaida was), lied about why he was doing it, then invited Jihadists in to attack US troops. Kerry has one way of dealing with terrorists, just find them and kill them. Period. But that takes good intel and cooperation with other countries. Illegal surveillance on Americans by the president is a crime. The FISA court was set up to handle all counter-terrorism situations which could possibly come up, and Bushies are just plain lying on this subject to try and cover up for Bush so be won't get impeached for it. Also, Bush could very well be abusing these powers to spy on domestic opponents, including the opponents of corporate pals like Exxon. We already know he's set the FBI on harmless peace groups. Rumsfield's DOD intelligence is also surveiling anti-war groups. This is a violation of the Constitution and an abuse of power far beyond anything Nixon was guilty of. Who knows how far-reaching it is. And when you add in ther Dark Lord Dick Cheney, you REALLY can't trust what they're doing with it. I would not put anything past Cheney.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (3086)	6/30/2006 6:34:41 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224680

Why do rightwingers support Bush-Cheney-Rumsfield knowing those three deliberately lied our way into Iraq, forgetting about most of the real war on terror as they did, then bungled the pre-planning so badly that three years later Iraq is an even less safe place than before we invaded it? I'd also like to remind you that Bush-Cheney's dereliction to guard and secure Saddam's ammo dumps directly led to the creation of 1000's of IED's which are blowing our troops apart . David Kaye the WMD inspector said this: "And I think back, tragically, to having to sit in Baghdad in 2003 and watch Predator video as terrorists in pickup trucks, insurgents in pickup trucks, pulled up ammunition storage points and hauled out high explosive ammunition, and we had no boots on the ground to stop them, and no assets in the air to stop them. That's what really worries me and upsets me to a great deal." * We should all be upset a great deal, with this pisspoor civilian leadership that made a bloody quagmire out of Iraq.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (3086)	6/30/2006 6:38:19 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 224680

Al Sadr, The Man Bush-Cheney Made The New Saddam Of Iraq Jun 30, 9:57 AM ET KUFA, Iraq (AFP) - Iraq's fiery Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has demanded the reconstruction of a revered Shiite shrine that was allegedly bombed by Al-Qaeda and the withdrawal of US troops from the country. "We have said previously that the Iraqi government should rebuild the Shiite shrine in Samarra, but we have not seen anything but talk," he said in a sermon in the southern Shiite town of Kufa. Sadr urged the people to help rebuild the shrine whose bombing in February triggered nationwide sectarian clashes between Shiites and Sunnis. "From here (Kufa) I say that the believers, worshippers of Iraq and outside must register their names as volunteers to reconstruct and protect the shrine but they should wait for the permisssion from us to start work," Sadr said. Iraqi authorities said Wednesday they had captured a Tunisian Al-Qaeda militant allegedly behind the bombing of the shrine in Samarra, north of the capital. The radical cleric also rejected any reconciliation with the US authorities. "I strongly reject reconciliation with three groups -- first the US, the nawasib (the killers of Shiites), and the Baathists" of the deposed Saddam Hussein regime, Sadr said. "We demand that the occupiers leave and offer a timetable for their withdrawal and not extend their stay here," Sadr said, adding that de-Baathification must be activated fast and "their leader executed". He also called for the release of detainees from Najaf who had fought the US forces during a rebellion in the summer of 2004. * Still think the networks aren't reporting enough "good news" from Iraq? This guy may be the most powerful man in Iraq going forward, and we put him there.