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BUSH PROPOSES LARGEST EXPANSION OF GOVERNMENT SINCE TRUMAN
CNN ^ | 6/6/2002 | President

Posted on 06/06/2002 5:17:43 PM PDT by UnBlinkingEye

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To: sinkspur
Wanna be better protected, or not?

You sound like a woman.

201 posted on 06/06/2002 6:51:41 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: Lower55
You have the homosexual line down. The freedom is more important than the safety.

The Founding Fathers were gay? Did Ben Franklin have a lisp or something?

202 posted on 06/06/2002 6:51:47 PM PDT by Teacher317
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To: sinkspur
Wanna be better protected, or not?

From what? Your chances of dying when you walk across a street or drive down a highway are much higher than being killed by a terrorist.

Don't fool yourself - the tools and laws were in place to stop 9/11, some mid-level bureaucrats left over from the clinton PC bonanza decided to ignore/bury the evidence, and so now you and I are paying and will be paying for their ignorance/idiocy/neglect through our taxes and through the hit on our freedoms/privacy/rights.

Just remember, Cheney, Rummy, and ol' Ridge think you and I should be victims and that there is nothing we can do about it. They are wrong, you and I can help elect a real Conservative, who doesn't think we should wait for the "inevitable" (their words, not mine) and who will do something about the terrorists, even those hiding in Saudi Arabia.

203 posted on 06/06/2002 6:51:54 PM PDT by texlok
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To: UnBlinkingEye
Uh...Yeah.
204 posted on 06/06/2002 6:53:20 PM PDT by Lower55
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To: sinkspur
I thought you had died. I wasted a good drunk on a false hope? Damn!

My, but you are the good Christian today.

205 posted on 06/06/2002 6:53:30 PM PDT by Teacher317
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To: Texasforever
I take it back you ARE a liar and a stupid one at that.

I'm no liar, want to compare SAT scores?

206 posted on 06/06/2002 6:53:45 PM PDT by UnBlinkingEye
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To: VRWC_minion
Right, I'm not against rolling them into one smart place where they might actually do some good. I'm aghast at where they were yesterday.
207 posted on 06/06/2002 6:54:31 PM PDT by discostu
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To: Jorge
Right. What we really want is law enforcement with no intelligence at all.

Sure, the CIA and FBI and ATF and DEA and EPA and, hell, the FDA should all get together, share "intelligence," and start busting people.

Should be fun to watch on the nightly news!

208 posted on 06/06/2002 6:55:07 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: Teacher317
You're black!"

No jo? Got any scrip fo da crib?

209 posted on 06/06/2002 6:55:14 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: UnBlinkingEye
I'm no liar, want to compare SAT scores?

The ones you took last week?

210 posted on 06/06/2002 6:55:17 PM PDT by Texasforever
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To: UnBlinkingEye
That's true. If your score is low enough, you're not smart enough to lie.
211 posted on 06/06/2002 6:55:46 PM PDT by Lower55
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To: UnBlinkingEye
Did you have a hard time understanding?

What I am proposing tonight is the most extensive reorganization of the federal government since the 1940s. During his presidency, Harry Truman recognized that our nation's fragmented defenses had to be reorganized to win the Cold War. He proposed uniting our military forces under a single Department of Defense, and creating the National Security Council to bring together defense, intelligence, and diplomacy. Truman's reforms are still helping us to fight terror abroad, and now we need similar dramatic reforms to secure our people at home.
Now did he say largest expansion?
212 posted on 06/06/2002 6:55:47 PM PDT by deport
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To: Darth Sidious
"Beats being a Bush bootlick."

You will never convince them of that. They have a case of boot polish always ready whenever Bush speaks.

213 posted on 06/06/2002 6:55:53 PM PDT by Don Myers
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To: Lower55
Whatever.

ROFL! Get your glaring inconsistency noted and you just ignore the poster. Priceless.

214 posted on 06/06/2002 6:56:39 PM PDT by Teacher317
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To: Teacher317
lol
215 posted on 06/06/2002 6:58:29 PM PDT by Lower55
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To: VRWC_minion
Ok class, listen up. Lets go slowly with today's lesson. Expanding gov't for defense = good Expanding gov't for sucking up to liberal causes = bad

The above may illustrate the furthest reaches of your intelligence, but, thankfully, some of us are more sophisticated.

You could have made your formula more elegant with the following:

Bush = Good

Bush = Good

216 posted on 06/06/2002 6:59:17 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: UnBlinkingEye
Do you really think that if we were not attempting to rule the world the September 11 attack would still have occurred?

By my calculations, now that we have the "Largest expansion of government since Truman" under our belts we should be able to rule the world by November 17, 2002 at the latest.

Some advise, your arguments are getting more hysterical each moment. Maybe you should start a new thread like "How chimpy wants to sell us out for oil" or something.

217 posted on 06/06/2002 6:59:20 PM PDT by VRWC_minion
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To: UnBlinkingEye
expanding federal government more than any Democrat since Truman.

Could you show me where in the text of his speech you see these words? Or to give you poetic license liberties, how about how you interpret a part of his speech to mean what you wrote.

Nice spin. You should work for CNN ;)

If you really think that's what he is doing, then I don't doubt why you asked what is the reason for the Dept of Defense.

218 posted on 06/06/2002 6:59:27 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: UnBlinkingEye
What a crock. This is another political horse-hocky move. I have to wonder when people in this country are going to wake up. This administration has been a major disappointment. I voted for Bush and have become very concerned with is leadership or should I say the advisors he has. Condi Rice and Carl Rove will be the undoing of this Country.

This latest move is nothing more than political gamesmanship at its finest. Yes the FBI and CIA need to be revamped but this is not the way its to be done. My opinion, is to clean house, period. DCI was suppose to be the central point for all intelligence. Creating another department is nothing more than a waste of money.

One does not fix the wheel by redesigning the car. We are our own worse enemy.

219 posted on 06/06/2002 7:00:18 PM PDT by PoppingSmoke
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To: sinkspur
No clue
220 posted on 06/06/2002 7:00:58 PM PDT by PoppingSmoke
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