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To: Huck
There was a time when I was happy in the thoughts that brave men were doing things in the night that kept me safe...things I could not know about...And I was secure.

Different world now. I pay attention to the man behind the curtain, even though I am no longer young.

7 posted on 05/03/2011 4:52:14 AM PDT by IrishPennant (Obama - as big a lie as the number 4 on a roman numeral clock...and so few bother to notice!)
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To: IrishPennant

I feel the same way. Every day of my life is now filled with doubt and worry.


398 posted on 05/03/2011 8:21:08 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( 1400 years of existence & Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curry)
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To: IrishPennant
There was a time when I was happy in the thoughts that brave men were doing things in the night that kept me safe...things I could not know about...And I was secure.

Different world now. I pay attention to the man behind the curtain, even though I am no longer young.

Could not have said it better...and "partisan politics" has nothing to do with it...as far as government is concerned...the TRUST factor(on both sides of the aisle)is gone.

On 9-11-01, after many years of BOTH parties spending/borrowing trillions of taxpayer dollars creating policies, practices and standards it was NEVER designed to be involved with, while at the same time getting in bed with despots and other criminal elements(foreign and domestic)who have no allegiance to any nation(unless power and greed are considered nations)...government FAILED at it's PRIMARY responsibility....protecting the American people...on American soil!

Killing "a" figurehead whom "most" consider the mastermind behind the 911 atrocity...10 years after the fact...in my mind does little to mitigate those failures. As far as this particular atrocity, I am more interested in knowing how/why the system broke down... especially after all the blood and treasure that has been spent over the years "supposedly" to prevent such atrocities.

No matter where the chips fall politically...people have a right to know the truth.

Maybe more importantly, the continuing of, and adding to, policies that remove freedoms from Americans in the name of..."security"...only gives further victories to the OBL's of the world...dead or alive.

Being cattle prodded at an airport while our borders are left wide open does little to make me look to the government and shout...."Woo Hoo!".

624 posted on 05/03/2011 11:41:16 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery, IXNAY THE TSA!)
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