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McDermott Trusts Saddam, Not Bush:(Another Democrat Interested in National Security?)
efreedomnews.com ^ | 9/30/02 | Jonathan Rhodes

Posted on 10/01/2002 8:21:00 PM PDT by efnwriter

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McDermott Trusts Saddam, Not Bush:
(Another Democrat Interested in National Security?)

efn: September 30, 2002

Yesterday, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Washington), in Baghdad, stated Saddam Hussein should be taken at his word and trusted to allow unfettered arms inspections, while President Bush would lie to start a war with Iraq.  (ABC News This Week)

Mr. Stephanopoulos:   You’ve gone to Iraq in order to convince the Iraqis to accept inspectors. But yesterday the Iraqis seemed to reject the U.S. plan. Are they resigned to war? 

Rep. McDermott: No, I think they are simply feeling that the things that have been suggested to be changed in the way the inspections will be done, is unacceptable. I think there are going to be discussions tomorrow morning between Mr. Blix from the UN and the Iraqis, and I think they will come up with a regime which will not require coercive inspections, which is apparently what the Iraqis reacted to.

Mr. Stephanopoulos:  Why should we take the Iraqis at their word? As the White House points out, they have a decade long record of denying inspectors access and deceiving UN inspectors. 

Rep. McDermott: They said they would allow us to go look anywhere we wanted. And until they don’t do that, there is no need to do this coercive stuff where you bring in helicopters and armed people, and storm buildings. I think you have to take the Iraqis on their face value.

Mr. Stephanopoulos:   Before you left for Baghdad, you said the President of the United States will lie to the American people to get us into this war. 

Rep. McDermott:  I believe that sometimes, they [American Presidents] give out misinformation...

I think the president would mislead the American people. [in order to start a war with Iraq]

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U.S. Constitution

Article III, Section 3:  Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.


THE FEDERALIST PAPERS

No. XXXXIII:
The Same Subject Continued (The Powers Conferred by the Constitution Further Considered)
For the Independent Journal
Wednesday, January 23, 1788
MADISON

As treason may be committed against the United States, the authority of the United States ought to be enabled to punish it. But as new-fangled and artificial treasons have been the great engines by which violent factions, the natural offspring of free government, have usually wreaked their alternate malignity on each other, the convention have, with great judgment, opposed a barrier to this peculiar danger, by inserting a constitutional definition of the crime, fixing the proof necessary for conviction of it, and restraining the Congress, even in punishing it, from extending the consequences of guilt beyond the person of its author.


Sedition: rebellion or incitement: actions or words intended to provoke or incite rebellion against government authority, or such a rebellion.

FEDERALIST No. 74

The Command of the Military and Naval Forces, and the Pardoning
Power of the Executive
From the New York Packet.
Tuesday, March 25, 1788.

HAMILTON

It deserves particular attention, that
treason will often be connected with seditions which embrace a large
proportion of the community;

In every such case, we might expect to see the representation of the people
tainted with the same spirit which had given birth to the offense. And
when parties were pretty equally matched, the secret sympathy of the
friends and favorers of the condemned person, availing itself of the
good-nature and weakness of others, might frequently bestow impunity
where the terror of an example was necessary.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; iraq; mcdermott; treason
As of 10/1/02 Vote is 99% treason 1% not
1 posted on 10/01/2002 8:21:01 PM PDT by efnwriter
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WIPE THE SMILE OFF OF THIS MAN'S FACE.

VOTE THE RATS OUT!!

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2 posted on 10/01/2002 8:21:16 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: efnwriter
He certainlly did what he could to lend a helping hand to Saddam.
3 posted on 10/01/2002 8:27:00 PM PDT by dalebert
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