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To: i-node who wrote (703574)	3/9/2013 7:54:46 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

How is George Bush a "criminal" while Joe Biden isn't? Isn't your claim on this the height of hypocrisy itself? Oh, they are not off the hook for sure...but bush wanted it, he and his administration actively sold it, and waged it... I probably have a different take on this than you do, because I've been self-employed all my life. When sales slow down, the paychecks stop coming. But I have no unemployment benefits, my bills go on, and we now have a government that expects me to pay not only for my expensive health care but for that of others. I don't have IBM to take care of me and I don't have a fat pension plan funded by someone else. I don't have a fat inheritance, either. I have what I can accumulate in my lifetime, and the government wants more of it. I have a problem with that to enable lazy assed people to have a permanent vacation for the rest of their lives. The risks and rewards of self employment I suppose...doesn't change the fact that those who depend on a paycheck sometimes lose the ability to feed their families and are not necessarily bums are you put it. Al

To: i-node who wrote (703574)	3/9/2013 9:16:59 PM
From: Don Hurst	Respond to of 1573857

>>"I don't give a big shit about other people until I know my own family is secure."<< Amazing...your family is "entitled" because of your "efforts"?,...well I'll be darned, what next?...Socialism? ...let them fend for themselves.

To: i-node who wrote (703574)	3/10/2013 4:07:49 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1573857

"How is George Bush a "criminal" while Joe Biden isn't? Isn't your claim on this the height of hypocrisy itself?"Your answer is here: Three days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Congress approved the Authorization for Use of Military Force. It was enacted with good intentions — to give President George W. Bush the authority to invade Afghanistan and go after Al Qaeda and the Taliban rulers who sheltered and aided the terrorists who had attacked the United States. But over time, that resolution became warped into something else: the basis for a vast overreaching of power by one president, Mr. Bush, and less outrageous but still dangerous policies by another, Barack Obama. Mr. Bush used the authorization law as an excuse to kidnap hundreds of people — guilty and blameless people alike — and throw them into secret prisons where many were tortured. He used it as a pretext to open the Guantánamo Bay camp and to eavesdrop on Americans without bothering to obtain a warrant. He claimed it as justification for the invasion of Iraq, twisting intelligence to fabricate a connection between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks. nytimes.com