Posted on 07/12/2002 1:06:26 PM PDT by spycatcher
It has likely already cost him my vote.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Fox News isn't a real News Channel - they just play one on TV.
"Blitzkrieg" refers to the German WWII combined-arms doctrine. Didn't know the "invaders" were equipped with tanks and tactical aircraft.
We are not only at war,
No, we are not. Only Congress can declare war.
we are being invaded,
More nonsense.
and government policy prohibits talking about it.
We're talking about it, right now.
Golly! Surprise, surprise!
Furthermore, reported FoxNews, UPI was saying that al Qaeda "sleeper cells" had managed to wreak havoc via financial scandals at other recent corporate casualties, including Enron, Arthur Andersen, and Global Crossing .
It turns out that the UPI article was actually a commentary by editor-at-large Arnaud de Borchgrave, one that later ran in The Washington Times. After de Borchgrave tells his fantastical story, he confesses that this scenario is "a flight of fancy."
In other words, it appears that someone at Fox News didn't realize that de Borchgrave's scoop was a joke. Didn't read all the way through the UPI bulletin. Didn't figure out how de Borchgrave was making some point about corporate executives being as destructive as violent terrorists. Didn't stop to wonder out why al Qaeda members in the Tora Bora caves would care about Adelphia, or why they ever would have heard of it.
The article was quietely removed from the FoxNews website.
"The eerie non-debate we're having as vast preparations for battle are made before our eyes is a consequence of a long-running constitutional scandal: the withering away of the requirement of a congressional declaration of war. Oh, the words are still there, of course, but presidents of both parties flagrantly ignore them -- sometimes with fancy arguments that are remarkably unpersuasive, but mainly by now with shrugging indifference. The result is not just a power shift between the branches of government but a general smothering of debate about, or even interest in, the decision to go to war among citizens in general."
"It's often said that modern warfare has no place for an 18th century conceit like the declaration of war. (This is said, in fact, by people who usually insist that the original intent of the Constitution's Framers requires no concessions to modernity.)"
The second paragraph pegs you rather well.
We should surround our national landmarks and send 1,000,000 marchers across the DC border to march on the capital to demand that our miliatry do what it's meant to do -- protect our borders.
We need a show of solidarity. Those folks in Washington don't give a tinker's damn what we think!
As far as declaring war, you mistake your idealism for reality. The reality is, war isn't declared anymore even in a state of war. So your original point is moot.
Well, let's don't push the landmark thingy too hard. If they vote for W, that's enough for now. We'll work on the violence abatement later or blame it on the dems. Whaddaya say?
More nonsense.
Come to California and look around, you might not think it's nonsense anymore.
I watched the show also, and was very impressed with it.
It's estimated that 500,000 of unknown national origin have crossed over the border with Mexico since 9-11-01.
If you look at my profile page, which, most of you have, you can see that the 500,000 thousand number is a very low estimate. We are pushing at least 1.5 million since 9/11.
And from the following article some agents estimate 10% are now from he Middle East.
Personally, I think 10% is high and would put it closer to 5% or even a little less. At any point it makes no difference, 5% of 1.5 million is 75,000, which is almost unbelievable.
Tancredo Fan (post#11), while the parts of the Mexican military are corrupt, they are pushing drugs not people across the border. Drugs are more profitable and can’t report you. I have never heard of any reports of the Military running wets across the border. These Mexican anti terrorist military groups are probably legit, and enjoy their job of tracking down the bad guys. Not everyone in Mexico is corrupt.
Some 99.9 percent of the 1.64 million undocumented immigrants detained at the southwest border last year were from Mexico and 16 other Latin countries.
TomGuy (post #16), I would say these number are also off. In FY 2001 the Border Patrol only apprehended 1.23 million illegals along the US/Mexico border. The 1.64 million were apprehended in FY 2000. In FY 2000, some 99.9% were probably from Mexico and 16 other Latin countries. But in FY 2001, I would bet that has dropped at least half a percent if not more.
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