[Non-Sequitur]

Lose and become Iran.

Win and become what? A country where the rule of law is only adhered to when convenient?

[clee1]

Licoln suspended habeas corpus; FDR locked people up in a mental hospital for the duration.

A little domestic spying is the LEAST of people's civil liberties problems: unless you are a terrorist.

[SunSetSam]

I love when people with no historical perspective, no knowledge of history, and no regard for a very real enemy decide to post. Do a little research and look up what Lincoln, FDR, and Clinton did to protect national security. Despite the fact that Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus, FDR interned anybody who looked Japanese, and Clinton did unwarranted searches on a suspected Russian spy (it's amazing that now Clinton has to politically separate himself from one of the few times he did the right thing) civil liberties to do anything that doesn't include Christian beliefs are at an all time high.

[garbanzo]

Win and become what? A country where the rule of law is only adhered to when convenient?

Classic heads-I-win-tails-you-lose scenario.

[Prost1]

"Win and become what? A country where the rule of law is only adhered to when convenient?"

You are tying disconnected arguments. Thus, your question is meaningless...

[Krusty]

President Bush's policy only applies to international calls.

When an enemy of this country makes a phone call from overseas into our country, the president, as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, has the constitutional right and the duty to examine that phone call. It all falls under the current war being waged against al-qaeda.

If you support monitoriing the containers coming into our ports, you should have no objections to monitoring of communications into our borders.

[alnick]

That's ridiculous. Win and remain the great, free nation we are.

[Trajan88]

Re: "Win and become what? A country where the rule of law is only adhered to when convenient?"

I believe "convenience" went away when those aircraft slammed into the WTC and the Pentagon and crashed into that field in Penn.

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Ask Carter and Clinton. They also had domestic spying programs.