[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >In a message dated 8/20/06 9:07:47 P.M. Central Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >In a message dated 8/20/06 7:07:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >>MD, you recount these extreme measures by past presidents >>as if they were all justified. I'm not ready to assume they >>were. For example, I've encountered many citations of >>Lincoln suspending writs of habeas corpus, but not one >> citation has ever said, "And history proves he was >>correct to do so." Same with FDR's internment of >>Japanese Americans. >> >>If history teaches me anything from the above >>examples, it's that presidents take reprehensible >>actions under stress. >> >> >> >>And you know what? What Bush is doing is far less invasive than >> >> >anything any > > >>of these other presidents did and having far greater success in >>accomplishing the goals. If you read the poll from the Washington >> >> >Post you will notice > > >>that even 65% thought it was necessary even if it violated privacy. >> >> >Only about > > >>30% or less opposed it. These are the hard core Bush haters that >> >> >don't trust > > >> him on any account and are just looking for something to complain >> >> >about. If > > >>Bush had a judge reviewing every wire tap as they came in, on the >> >> >spot those > > >>same people would be complaining and demanding to know if it was a >> >> >Bush > > >>appointee or a good liberal judge that will play politics with the >> >> >program and be > > >>a thorn in the side. >> >> >> > >I thought FDR monitored EVERY transatlantic communication (via the >atlantic cable) unknown to the public of the time. > >JohnY > > > > > >Every democratic president did things that had a republican president done >them would make today's liberals scream. Yet FDR , JFK, Jimmy Carter and >Bill >Clinton are gods who could do no wrong. I guarantee you had FDR been a >republican that interred Japanese during WW2 there would be a current movement > to >erase his name from history after demonizing it for a couple of generations. > At their worst FDR, JFK, Carter and Clinton were far better than the joke that's in the White House.
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