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'Cause, you know in divisive times such as these...
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Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:47:26 GMT
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It's good to know that Republicans are working at restoring faith in the various
US institutions....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2983484.stm

"
The Republican majority in the US Congress has rejected calls for a formal
investigation into whether the government misread or inflated threats posed by
Iraq before going to war.
They said any such inquiry could harm the intelligence agencies, and that the
routine oversight work of the Intelligence and Armed Services committees would
be enough to evaluate the Iraqi threat.
"

"Such an inquiry could harm the intelligence agencies"?  As if the questions
about escalating and doctoring evidence by upper levels of gov't so that Dubya
could have his little war isn't harming these agencies...

Stop with the Nixonish cover-ups.  Let the investigation go unfettered--if
nothing is found, then we all go our merry way, and I'll say, "Well gee, I was
wrong about Dubya all this time."

However, finagle, slow down, obfuscate, restrict, and otherwise interfere with
the investigation, and it's the same ol' horsefeathers that Dubya et. al have
been telling us since day one, and it's WaterGate all over again...

For the love of freedom and democracy, will you guys learn?!?

Dave K



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  Re: 'Cause, you know in divisive times such as these...
 
(...) LOL (...) Doesn't count. The party in power wants to keep the power, and the Republicans are pretty adept at doing that, now by wrapping the flag in whatever argument they need to win. Wars are good for that:( (...) You'e not wrong. And the (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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