Rick wrote:Taking the war to Iraq does nothing to curtail a terrorist attack on US soil.
We've been hit domestically a grand total of....zero times since the advent of the war!!! Though we were told there were "many more to come."
Rick wrote:The war in Iraq was never about WMD.
Sure it was. We know they were there because he used them in the past! And if they weren't he shouldn't have played shell games with the weapon's inspectors. So now that's what we're supposed to do, eh? Take the word of a madman. Nice foreign policy.
Rick wrote:As far as you not losing any rights, please read up on the Patriot act. The US government can now eavesdrop on your phone calls and internet activity. They can effect searches and seizures of your property and imprison you without charging you with a crime, or give you access to legal council and can hold you without probable cause, indefinitely. You're denied your first and fourth amendment rights in this instance, both of which are supposedly inalienable.
We live in vastly different times than when the ammendments were written. Terrorists have adapted and exploited our freedoms and some of them had to be re-assessed as to not be vulnerable ever again. If you feel like the government is gonna barge into your house and arrest you while you're surfing porn in one window and posting on MR in another with a beer in your left hand then you need couch help.
Rick wrote:It's Congress' approval rating that's at 9%. The Democrats can't approve anything because the Republicans have them hog tied. It takes 60% to approve anything in congress and the Democrats don't control 60%. The Republicans would rather walk through hell with a gasoline covered overcoat on than approve anything the Democrats submit.
Valid point(s), but they said their would be "immediate change." You're admitting that they lied and/or failed. It has to be one or both. Based on their statements logic mandates it.




