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Originally posted by Mulhollanddose
..."the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons."

Seems obvious that Bush is taking this extraordinary power quite seriously. Thank God it is Bush at the helm and not some neo-socialist.

Bush IS a socialist, young man. Proof? Largest expansion of government in recent history, largest increase in social programs in 40 years, encouragement of unrestricted immigration, wide spread encouragement of pork barrel programs, and on and on.

These are powers that, during wartime, do not threaten our well-being, in fact they do just the opposite. If you are dead or in terror you are not free at all. If you are dead your body will be used as a leftist device to call for larger more intrusive government with socialists at the helm because Bush did such an incompetent job.

No one I know is being threatened by anyone in America except by the federal government, and to a more limited extent by state and local governments. Those are the only credible threats to Americans today.

Once again, if you could eliminate Democrat politicization from the equation,

That's what agents of the government do, they politicize everything, that's why we call them polititicans or didn't you understand that? That's the way it's always been, and will always be. And, that's why it's important to minimize the power of politicians to the extent we can, primarily by choking of the life-blood of government, tax money.

and allowed terrorists to slither under the radar, for the sake of our civil liberties, I would be on board. I would be a fool. It would allow the cancer of foreign infiltration to fester and we would have to deal with the problem later, with a neo-fascist liberal steering the ship...No thanks. This dirty type of job I would rather entrust to the current socialist-lite Republicans, than to the neo-communist Democrat party.

That's a risky position that I cannot allow you, adn those like you, to take in as much as I can stop your stripping away at my freedom, via fora such as this, and other lawful means, I shall take them. Every thug dictator around the globe depends on guys just like you, that are willing to grant them the power to do anything to foster the perception of safety.

Democrats crying foul for this perceived violation of civil rights is simple rhetoric. They never have cared for civil rights and they never will, unless it is convenient to pushing forth their big-brother government, demonizing the rich, enabling the poor and controlling every aspect of American life.

Of course Democrats in government don't care for rights, the only current politician in the federal government that does is Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, other than him no Republican cares one whit for rights either, remember Republicans were the original socialists in America, or didn't you know that either?