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Skriven 2004-10-10 16:46:00 av THURSTON ACKERMAN (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JOHN HULL
Ärende: V-P debate
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JH>08 Oct 04 22:22, THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote to JEFF BINKLEY:

JH> JB>>JH> JH>> TA> I just suffered through the Vice Presidental debate
JH> JB>>JH> JH>> (?) TA> and pray neither is ever called to be our
JH> JB>>JH> JH>> President.

JH> JB>>JH> JH>> TA> Are there no more "Harry Trumans" available?

JH> JB>>JH> JH>> TA> Ciao, Ack.

JH> JB>>JH> JH>>No, thank god.

JH> JB>>JH> TA> I am sorry you don't appreciate men who speak the truth,
JH> JB>>JH> TA> accept responsibility for their judgements and fully comply
JH> JB>>JH> TA> with all legal orders they receive from superior officers
JH> JB>>JH> TA> they have sworn an oath to accept.

JH> JB>>JH> TA> Ciao, Ack.

JH> JB>>JH>Harry Truman wasn't some kind of god.  He was a Democrat.  He
JH> JB>>JH>was a hell of a lot better than Clinton, or LBJ, or even Kennedy
JH> JB>>JH>- but he was still a Democrat - but he still helped lay the
JH> JB>>JH>foundation for fifty years of policy that have led us to where we
JH> JB>>JH>are today.  John Kerry is the inevitable finale of that sort of
JH> JB>>JH>policy.

JH> JB>>He was also the only American president to use the Atomic bomb,
JH> JB>>twice. Liberals don't like Atomic bombs.

JH> TA> How well some of us remember. I was in the Philippines (after New
JH> TA> Guinea and a couple islands along the way 8-( when Truman
JH> TA> commanded the atomic bombing of Japanese cities so a million of US GIs
JH> TA> wouldn't have to die on the beachs of Japan.

JH>My own father would've been in the early wave of troops invading Japan.  I a
JH>very much aware that the atom bombs saved millions of American casualties.

JH> TA> BTW I understand we killed many more civilians fire bombing Tokyo
JH> TA> than perished as a results of the atomic bombings. War is hell!
JH> TA> (Even more so when a President circumvents the Constitution and
JH> TA> leads US into it as in Iraq 8-(

JH>I'm sure you can explain exactly how the Constitution was circumvented.  See
JH>to me that Congress signed off on invading Iraq, long BEFORE one boot hit th
JH>ground there.

The Constitution grants the President, as Commander in Chief of US
Armed Forces, 90 days exploratory military actions outside of the
USA; after that a "declaration of war" must be enacted by the congress
to continue such military action outside of the USA. I am reasonably
sure we will be much more in compliance with the Constitution when we
have the two lawyers elected as President and Vice President of the USA!

Ciao, Ack.

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