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Originally Posted by Bucco
Interesting read from Dionne Searcey of the Wall St Journal on this subject...
"Regardless, three days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, House and the Senate passed joint resolutions authorizing the President to “use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.”
It is amazing how easy it has become to be pompous and self righteous 8 years removed from that attack on our country !!!!
"The whole kerfuffle over disclosure skirts the legal elephant in the room in the most recent revelation: if our CIA’s shaggy assassins (trust us, we’ve seen those secret agent types on the Iraqi battlefield and they appear to never, ever shave) came across Osama bin Laden in a cave, can they legally kill him on the spot? "
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/07/13/...ver-finds-him/
Now add to this story the fact that just came out that the Democratic congressmen and women made this available to the PRESS first when they wrote the letter to the CIA !!!!
Is everyone ok with our congress doing this ? Why no outrage about this ? |
...Because memories are short, and the only thing that counts is "me."
The number of things that have been trumped up as having importance are too numerous to list. However, they all have one thing in common - tomorrow's political gain. And both parties are guilty to some extent. What is sad is that "party faithful" follow the respective DNC/RNC press releases as if they constitute the Third Tablet. There is no possible consideration that the "party faithful" are being manipulated in as skilled a fashion as ever seen.
Being a member of a political party is a noble action. Being a political party fanatic is like being a fanatic about anything - blind and dangerous.
When party members don't run their party, but let themselves be dictated to by "party elite," then it's Berlin in 1936 all over again. And running your party is not just donating money and being a bobble-head yes-doll over every party-issued statement or position. Today's parties survive by virtue of the multitude who are willing to be blindly led for the sake of belonging to something which is bigger than themselves and chock full of celebrities.
There's been a lot of fingerpoint from Democrats at Republicans, and Republicans at Democrats. That accomplishes nothing. Much more effective fingerpointing would be by Democrats at Democratic leadership, and Republicans at Republican leadership. Then the parties would be "of the people" instead of "for the leadership.