Posted on 12/21/2005 7:16:48 AM PST by RepublicNewbie
The Democrats are determined to win the war and will stop at nothing to vanquish the enemy. The only problem is that they're fighting the wrong war against an imaginary foe. This week, a majority of Senate Democrats (and a tiny handful of nervous Republicans) decided to abandon the war on terror and instead wage war on what they mistakenly believe is a Bush administration assault on civil liberties. First, they threatened to filibuster the renewal of certain provisions of the Patriot Act, despite having overwhelmingly supported these same provisions when the law was enacted in 2001. Then they jumped all over news reports that the president had ordered secret surveillance in the United States by the National Security Agency (NSA), without seeking a court order to do so. The overblown rhetoric on this story makes you wonder whether the president's middle name is Millhouse and he was caught spying on a bunch of pot-smoking hippies who want to make love, not war. The whole episode would be droll if the stakes weren't so high.
(Excerpt) Read more at postchronicle.com ...
Lot's o' goodies at tPC today.
See also:
Spy on the enemy, not the innocent
by Cliff Kincaid
Bush Goes on Offense...Finally
by Jim Kouri.
BTTT
If the Islamics are using the phone lines to try to coordinate attacks on the USA I damned sure want it stopped.
These are the same retards who atacked intelligence sources for not stopping 911. Now they want to tie the hands of those intelligence sources.Are they really that stupid.. No they arent. They just want another reason to attack the President. They are so transparent. They could care less about security as long as they can take another shot at Bush.
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