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They don't. They say they do, but they don't.

Bingo! Give the lady a prize and send her to the head of the Class!

They don't support the troops, but have learned their lines well so as to deflect criticism. It's the one relevant lesson they learned from Vietnam.

Regards, Psy.

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

John Stuart Mill

"It was a completely unnecessary war. It was an unjust war. It was initiated on the basis of false pretenses. All of those are true, but we can't just pre-emptively withdraw... The violence is increasing monthly. My prayer is we'll see some kind of democracy eventually evolve." — Jimmy Carter, our biggest-mouthed ex-president, March 2006.

Bush slams leak of terror finance story ["The disclosure of this program is disgraceful,"....]
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Posted on 06/26/2006 8:23:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Bush slams leak of terror finance story

President Bush on Monday sharply condemned the disclosure of a secret anti-terrorism program that taps into an immense international database of confidential financial records. "The disclosure of this program is disgraceful," he said.

"For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America," Bush said. He said the disclosure of the program "makes it harder to win this war on terror."

The program has been going on since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. It was disclosed last week by several news organizations.

Using broad government subpoenas, the program allows U.S. counterterrorism analysts to obtain financial information from a vast database maintained by a company based in Belgium. It routes about 11 million financial transactions daily among 7,800 banks and other financial institutions in 200 countries.

"Congress was briefed and what we did was fully authorized under the law," Bush said, talking with reporters in the Roosevelt Room after meeting with groups that support U.S. troops in Iraq.