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Too bad that didn't contribute to the discussion.
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quote:America needs a group of dedicated professionals who wake up each morning with the overriding duty of protecting the American people.
Gee, isn't that what they're supposed to do already?
I suppose you can argue that what Bush was trying to say was that he wants a department whose PRIMARY duty is "national defense," and nothing else. It's true that most other departments have to worry about all sorts of other duties as well.
Two years later, though, it seems that Mr. Bush is still capable of putting his foot in his mouth, and remembers that wonderful term, "fuzzy math."
quote:And as I understand, it was on this day 35 years ago that [President Truman] signed the National Security Act of 1947.
Now, I'm not a Mathematics Major at college, so maybe one of Bush's top-notch advisors or speechwriters is more familiar with some of the latest mathematical theories. But when I was in grade school, I was taught that 2002 - 35 = 1967.
Gotta love good ol' Dubya!
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Well, if the case is argued that civil rights limitation X could happen if attack Y, or something like it happens again, then I'd expect the present administration to be working as hard as it can to find out what caused attack Y to happen in the first place.
That apparently might happen in Congress even over the strong objections of the present administration, who instead clings to platatudes, vague warnings and threats of internment rather than looking for root causes.
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Yes, or else people might start asking questions like "how come the Constitution is so sacrosanct when it comes to gun control, but not when it comes to fucking over a bunch of darkies?"
quote:Yes, or else people might start asking questions like "how come the Constitution is so sacrosanct when it comes to gun control, but not when it comes to fucking over a bunch of darkies?"
Cause they need the guns to round up the darkies. Man, how hard could that be to understand.
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