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Fresh_Start Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 10:05 PM
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Can Foley be spun as national security weakness?
If GOP doesn't know whats going no in their own house for the last 5 years, how can they possibly know whats going on in Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world?

If GOP investigate process is limited to asking someone if they are doing wrong, how the hell are they going to find terrorists before they strike?

I know its a stretch, but maybe someone more creative then me can find the words to make it ring
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sutz12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 10:06 PM
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1. Thank god the "liquid explosives plot" was in England.
We would have screwed the pooch on that one. Hell, we pretty much screwed the pooch on that one by remote control.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 10:08 PM
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2. I think Katrina
pretty well did all that. They proved themselves quite incompetent then, and it's only compunded by this latest bungled criminal mess. I think the theme needs to be "Staying the course -- consistenly dropping the ball".
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DianaForRussFeingold Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 10:19 PM
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3. A President Who Since 9/11 Will Not Listen IS A National Security Weakness
Olbermann’s Special Comment: "It is not the Democrats whose inaction in the face of the enemy you fear" "A President who since 9/11 will not listen, is not listening — and thanks to Bob Woodward's most recent account — evidently has never listened." ....
Transcript & Video : http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/05/olbermanns-special-comment-it-is-not-the-democrats-whose-inaction-in-the-face-of-the-enemy-you-fear/#more-10808

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razors edge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 10:24 PM
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4. YES
If the average american has a report of indecent behavior alleged against them what happens?

If they have kids, children's protective services takes the case.

If they have elderly, adult protective services takes the case

If a governmental representative is not investigated and pursued with the same level of concern as the very laws they have passed to control the rest of us, have they not left a situation where international intelligence agencies could compromise our own leadership and blackmail them for their own purposes?
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Fresh_Start Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 11:38 PM
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5. Thank you I forgot about the classic blackmail weakness
unfortunately I don't think that average Goper would understand it.
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