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Skriven 2004-10-13 23:45:00 av ED HULETT (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av THURSTON ACKERMAN
Ärende: V-P debate
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-=> THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote to ED HULETT <=-


 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH> JH>> TA> Are there no more "Harry Trumans" available?
 TA> EH> TA>
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH> JH>> TA> Ciao, Ack.
 TA> EH> TA>
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH> JH>>No, thank god.
 TA> EH> TA>
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH> TA> I am sorry you don't appreciate men who speak 
 TA> the truth
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH> TA> accept responsibility for their judgements and 
 TA> fully
 TA> EH> TA> comply
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH> TA> with all legal orders they receive from superior 
 TA> office
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH> TA> they have sworn an oath to accept.
 TA> EH> TA>
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH> TA> Ciao, Ack.
 TA> EH> TA>
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH>Harry Truman wasn't some kind of god.  He was a 
 TA> Democrat.  H
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH>was a hell of a lot better than Clinton, or LBJ, or 
 TA> even
 TA> EH> TA> Kennedy
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH>- but he was still a Democrat - but he still helped 
 TA> lay the
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH>foundation for fifty years of policy that have led us 
 TA> to
 TA> EH> TA> where we
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH>are today.  John Kerry is the inevitable finale of 
 TA> that sort
 TA> EH> TA> of
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>JH>policy.
 TA> EH> TA>
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>He was also the only American president to use the 
 TA> Atomic bomb,
 TA> EH> TA> JH> JB>>twice. Liberals don't like Atomic bombs.
 TA> EH> TA>
 TA> EH> TA> JH> TA> How well some of us remember. I was in the Philippines 
 TA> (after N
 TA> EH> TA> JH> TA> Guinea and a couple islands along the way 8-( when Truman
 TA> EH> TA> JH> TA> commanded the atomic bombing of Japanese cities so a 
 TA> million of
 TA> EH> TA> US GIs
 TA> EH> TA> JH> TA> wouldn't have to die on the beachs of Japan.
 TA> EH> TA>
 TA> EH> TA> JH>My own father would've been in the early wave of troops 
 TA> invading
 TA> EH> TA> Japan.  I a
 TA> EH> TA> JH>very much aware that the atom bombs saved millions of American
 TA> EH> TA> casualties.
 TA> EH> TA>
 TA> EH> TA> JH> TA> BTW I understand we killed many more civilians fire 
 TA> bombing Tok
 TA> EH> TA> JH> TA> than perished as a results of the atomic bombings. War 
 TA> is hell!
 TA> EH> TA> JH> TA> (Even more so when a President circumvents the 
 TA> Constitution and
 TA> EH> TA> JH> TA> leads US into it as in Iraq 8-(
 TA> EH> TA>
 TA> EH> TA> JH>I'm sure you can explain exactly how the Constitution was
 TA> EH> TA> circumvented.  See
 TA> EH> TA> JH>to me that Congress signed off on invading Iraq, long BEFORE 
 TA> one boo
 TA> EH> TA> hit th
 TA> EH> TA> JH>ground there.
 TA> EH> TA>
 TA> EH> TA> The Constitution grants the President, as Commander in Chief of 
 TA> US
 TA> EH> TA> Armed Forces, 90 days exploratory military actions outside of the
 TA> EH> TA> USA; after that a "declaration of war" must be enacted by the 
 TA> congress
 TA> EH> TA> to continue such military action outside of the USA. I am 
 TA> reasonably
 TA> EH> TA> sure we will be much more in compliance with the Constitution 
 TA> when we
 TA> EH> TA> have the two lawyers elected as President and Vice President of 
 TA> the USA
 TA> 
 TA> EH>So, you're saying that Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson all circumvented
the
 TA> EH>Constitution as well?
 TA> 
 TA> No. And it is quite evident I have sufficient abilty to screw up
 TA> without your backhanded attempt to put words here I never typed.

What? You don't like it when I point out the falacy of your claims?

Live with it.

Ed

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