In These Times

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• • 01 Jun 06
  • 12:23 pm

  Scorp: Hey I am not looking to start another round of arguments but stay with me here. 1. I am a Republican; have a much more conservative twist than anything else. 2. Politics is what it is - you can point out the contradictions of Kennedy, Kerry and many others on the Dem. side but....let's look at what the Bush admin has said. Hussein was an imminent threat to our nation, Iraq has ties to Al Qada, Iraq had WMDs. Then it became a story of post 9/11 we can't allow leaders like Hussein to exist, then it became the middle …

  Posted to Why Exiting Iraq Wont Be Easy

• • 12 May 06
  • 9:06 am

  Jon B - congrats on capturing the real points. Imagine the hypocrisy of the posters here - specifically "tina1" types if the politicians in control were democrats and they were doing this. The blow hards on talk radio would be assailing them and demanding investigations/impeachments. True conservative values were always founded on small gov't and less intrusive gov't. I am astonished at how this radicalization of the right has hijacked conservative ideology and I think you explained the reasons perfectly. Bush's followers would support him to the latter w/o regard to the substance; shame on them for being ideologically brainwashed. Well …

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• • 09 Feb 06
  • 5:38 pm

  I gotta agree with you on that whattheheck....I'm sorry but I will not shed a tear that the press is unable to check out my records or some random public official in the name of their special investigation.

  Posted to Information Is Power

• • 10 Feb 06
  • 5:11 pm

  bye

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• • 26 Jan 06
  • 7:57 am

  It may be wasted effort but here's a suggestion. As the debate rages here on these threads and elsewhere, one thing that has been overlooked is where the Grand Presedencia has been claiming his authority. Whether it's for eavesdropping, utilizing his back door draft, and other "war powers" authority, it all has by claimed to originate by the emergency powers granted the him by Congress after 9/11. Our efforts as citizens that are concerned about the "imperialist" authority of this president, need to start sending Congress daily messages that if they oppose these acts as they claim, they need to draft …

  Posted to FBI, DoD, NSA: All Spying on You