The Results that should Matter

[tolbiny]

you do realize that there are reports of AQ's membership increasing since our invasion? We are fighting people who wouldn't ever have fought us.

[Jedi Flopper]

The right to privacy is not in the constitution. If the supreme court can give us a "right" they can also take it away which is what they are doing by their silence concerning the patriot act. The current court's decisions are no less binding than any past court.

Your constitutional arguments are invalid.

[ChristinaB]

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[texaspimp]

If only your map were true Christina!!!

Thank God Indiana is in the UST. BTW, have you ever been to Texas or met the people there???

Does it bother some of your fans and friends that Christ is a part of your name?

[tolbiny]

If the supreme court can give us a "right" they can also take it away which is what they are doing by their silence concerning the patriot act.

The supreme court cannot give us rights. They can only interpret the constitution. They can interpret both explicitly and implicitly from the constitution.

"The current court's decisions are no less binding than any past court"

This is true.

[mmcd]

You're wrong. Whenever and wherever we started to kill off
Al Qaeda'a membership, their recruitment would have risen because we'd be making martyrs out of them.

We not only have to eliminate Al Qaeda as it stands right now at this moment, we also have to, at the very least, put a serious dent in their power base (i.e. the islamic fundamentalists that have that sort of political slant).

The U.S. could certainly do without those people that would join up with Al Qaeda. Just as well they get pushed off the fence in the earlier stages of the conflict, so we know exactly who presents a threat to us.

[akaLogic]

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Sorry. Why don't you tell me whose country it actually was

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This is actually a very interesting question, but I suspect the entire premise is wrong. Countries are not something like a plot of land that can be owned. The people of Iraq were not the personal slaves of Saddam Hussein, any more that GWB (or John Kerry, if he had won) would "own" the US.

A country is a poltical entity formed to PROTECT the rights of its citizens, not violate them. No dictator has the right to kill, rape, and ensalve his citizens.

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and then tell me what plans the US has regarding the human rights violations in the Sudan right now?


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That's a question you should probably ask your elected representative. As to what it should be, tell me what our national interest (if any) is in the Sudan, and then we can discuss it.

[Felix_Nietsche]

By the way, why is Australia not red? They did vote John Howard back into office.... But I guess that would screw up the blue/red ratio....

Liberals think this is high school where you have to be popular........ Maybe it is time to grow up and base your decisions on values and principles rather than what others think....