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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (19523)	1/17/2007 3:03:53 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 32591

"except for AS" Keep him busy here so he doesn't join any "secret" societies-LOL! His biggest problem seems to be that America has too aggressive a presentation against these terrorists Pan-Islamists. I wonder just how far he thinks we should close our eyes to murder and tyranny? Some people do argue for U.S. isolationism. But I think this is a case of pay now or pay later. It is a global village and no one country is resource independent. Plus, the attempt to build nukes is very real and will only be stopped by force. World domination IS a Muslim value. AS does not understand how religions have shaped the world and nationalism and divided people into those favored by God and those irrelevant. He does not understand that genocide has raged for decades and centuries and now these primitives are getting better weapons as the world shrinks. He thinks it is none of our business and that Bush caused it all. He is wrong on both scores. But people who can rationalize away 9-11 can rationalize away just about anything. Maybe the stars ARE attached to the sky by rivets or glue...hmmm.

To: Scoobah who wrote (19523)	1/17/2007 3:22:04 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 32591

Using this as an occasion for political opportunism. I doubt if more than a couple of those senators SINCERELY oppose the plan. But that is politics. By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - A group of senators including a Republican war critic announced agreement Wednesday on a resolution opposing President Bush's 21,500 troop build up in Iraq, setting the markers for a major clash between the White House and Congress over the unpopular war. The non-binding resolution, which was also gaining interest from a second key Republican, would symbolically put the Senate on record as saying the U.S. commitment in Iraq "can only be sustained" with popular support among the American public and in Congress. "I will do everything I can to stop the president's policy as he outlined it Wednesday night," said Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), a Nebraska Republican and potential 2008 presidential candidate, who joined Democrats at a press conference on the resolution. "I think it is dangerously irresponsible," Hagel said. Even as skeptical Republicans were summoned to private meetings with Bush and national security adviser Stephen Hadley at the White House, Bush's aides made clear that the Capitol Hill challenge would be met aggressively by the administration. Presidential spokesman Tony Snow said resolutions passed by Congress will not affect Bush's decision-making. "The president has obligations as a commander in chief," he said. "And he will go ahead and execute them." news.yahoo.com