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To: i-node who wrote (448945)1/20/2009 1:41:28 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574129
 
Renditions were started by Clinton ... on Gore's advice.

Gitmo is a lot more justified than FDR's concentration camps for ethnic Japanese. Even ethnic Japanese orphans were removed from orphanages to be locked up.



To: i-node who wrote (448945)1/20/2009 1:57:59 PM
From: Road Walker2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574129
 
A message for you:

"Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works..."


From the text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address 1-20-09



To: i-node who wrote (448945)1/20/2009 2:40:01 PM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574129
 
Abu Ghraib - What did Bush have to do with THAT?

The permissive nature of his administration permeated every aspect of his dealings with the issue of "homeland security" as if the end justified any means. Damn...you are as thick as a brick...that you ask the question is proof that I waste my time with someone like you.

Al