The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Actually, I can....the person who outed PLame was a man named Richard Armitage, a Clinton appointee in the state department. This is old news.



Off the top of my head I can think of 900 or so illegally acquired FBI files, and historically, a Nixon staffer went to jail for only illegally having access to one.



Abuse of power? How about burning the Branch Dividians alive? Treason? How about giving missile tech to China and nukes to North Korea? There's also the case of classified documents being stuffed in the pants of one Sandy Berger so they could be removed from the national archives. There is acceptance of lots of campaign contributions from foreign nationals.



I am no fan of Bush, which I have made clear here over and over. Trying to say that abuse of power is unique to the republicans is the outragous claim here.

I keep editing this to add more, but what's the point? Not going to go anywhere, change anyone's mind.

IsM covered your 1st point, so I won’t respond to it.

I’ll probably be the lone voice on this, but I see no abuse of power in the actions taken against the Branch Davidians. It ended in a tragedy, yes. But I lay the blame on the Davidians themselves. Even if the justice department were to blame, how does that handful of deaths compare the thousands killed by the federal government’s incompetent (or culpable) response to Katrina. A violent, messianic cult wiped out compared to a whole city? Not even close.

As to the others, again… They are nowhere near the scale of abuse and treason committed by the Bush administration. Actions, btw, that are routinely glossed and ignored over by the , so called, “liberal” press.

How about illegal warrantless wiretaps of US citizens?
How about firing career prosecutors because they won’t prosecute according to the President’s political whim?
How about the systematic trashing of the Constitution?
How about lying to get us in to a war against a nation that has never attacked the US (and had nothing to attack us with), was anti-Islamic extremist, and cost us the lives of thousands of US military personnel… All for nothing.

I could go on, but as you said, but what's the point? Not going to go anywhere, change anyone's mind.