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Originally Posted by TracyCoxx
I'm not going to loose any sleep over some foreign terrorist being waterboarded. And I've already talked about bush starting the Iraqi war. How did Bush break the FISA law? The wiretapping was discontinued January 2007 and the FISA law went into effect in June 2008? 
Now tell me about being blinded by party ideology again?
Can you elaborate about my narrow view? I stick up for some things Bush does, but not all. I stick up for Clinton, and constantly bash BO. But you just see it as me blindly supporting republicans and trashing democrats. Who has the narrow view? |
TRACY:
The FISA law was put into effect because of Nixon's misuse of power; the FISA law you're talking about was put into effect to protect Bush's violations AFTER THE FACT. It's a bogus law, like John Yoo's legal mumbo-jumbo that legalized waterboarding AFTER THE FACT, which America has prosecuted as a violation of The Geneva Convention. Bush violated that law too. AFTER THE FACT also applies to wiretapping violations to protect Bush and phone companies.
If Obama did that, Conse 'Pubs would push for WAR CRIMES to win the election of '08.
The point is that laws and treaties cannot be violated or respected based on the situation. There are ways to legally do what Bush wanted, but he didn't want a 95% chance of getting it the right way--or having someone else besides him having final say, like The SC. That's what a DICTATOR does, dude. Waterboarding is torture if done against us, but not when we do it, right? We're all good guys, and they are all worst of the worst, right. NO EXCEPTIONS!!
Bush violated the FISA laws that were in effect from before RR, and violated The Geneva Convention.
It's rule of law, and not rule of law that can be changed on the fly for Conse 'Pubs ONLY!! That's NARROW!!
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