Bush defends spying while visiting wounded troops

Associated Press via HoustonChronicle.com ^ | Jan. 1, 2006 | AP

[Ninian Dryhope]

Asked how he responds to Americans worried about violations of their privacy, he responded, "If somebody from al-Qaida is calling you, we'd like to know why."

You tell them, Mr. President.

[proxy_user]

Great headline...the dangling particple strikes again!

[hershey]

It wouldn't matter if GW had a thousand and one warrants, the NYTimes and Liberals, dems would still seize on this as the scandal of the year. Better yet, an attack might happen which they could and would immediately blame on GW and the republican party. It's all about getting back in power by hook or by crook.

[Reactionary]

"If somebody from al-Qaida is calling you, we'd like to know why."

That's going to leave a mark.

[CHICAGOFARMER]

HERE IS PRESIDENT BUSH"S AMMO

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550295/posts



http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/default.htm#attacks

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

[rhombus]

Not the same headline if you follow the link. The headline I saw was, "Bush visit to wounded troops sets year's tone".

[rhombus]

Not the same headline. Did AP change it or did you?

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Asked how he responds to Americans worried about violations of their privacy, he responded, "If somebody from al-Qaida is calling you, we'd like to know why."

D*mn straight, Mr President, and well said!

Now aren't you glad *this* guy is in charge, rather than Gore of Kerry?

[RobbyS]

Maybe we should simply send these contacts packing. The problem is that these characters are IN the States. Maybe they shouldn't be.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"Maybe they shouldn't be."

Time for some wet work. That would really get the lefties worked up about civil liberties.

[Ninian Dryhope]

Right. Why shouldn't the President have the right to spy on wounded troops?

[longfellow]

Isn't hitlary on one of these defense boards, doesn't she want to find out the leak? Won't this look bad on her when she runs for pres?

[Ninian Dryhope]

I pasted the headline in when I posted this, so they must have adjusted the headline after I made the post. I also pasted in the headline when I did the search to see if it had already been posted.

[RobbyS]

Any naturalized American citizen who is found to have Al Kyda connections should be stripped of his passport and sent back to his place of origin.

[Ninian Dryhope]

Not me, probably the Houston Chronicle, since I think papers usually do their own headlines on AP stories, which is why we so often get multiple versions posted of the same story.

[driftless]

A lot of the concern about the "spying" is in the duh category. You mean our government is actually trying to monitor communications between terrrorists who are trying to kill us all?!? Gee, that sure is awful isn't it, I mean the government trying to protect its citizens from being slaughtered by fundamentalist Islamic wackos. Bush should be impeached! (/sarcasm)

I'm still amazed at the stupidity of libs who fail to grasp the basic concept of national security by wiretapping terrorists.

[rhombus]

Maybe the paper got plenty of complaints for that original headline. They should have.

[Ninian Dryhope]

They not only changed the headline, they rewrote the entire story. Compare what I posted with what shows up when you follow the link. The new story starts out talking about the hospital visit rather than starting out with the so called spy part.

[festus]

So why is Bush spying on wounded soldiers ?

[Ninian Dryhope]

He claims that it is to protect us, but as we all know, he really wants to trample on all our civil liberties on the way to establishing his dictatorship /s.