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Dude, go away. Things were better when you said as much as you were seen.   

In his interview with the FT, Clinton struck a pragmatic note about the abuses, citing "two huge problems" that have nothing to do with morality.

"Practical problem number one. If American or British troops get the reputation for abusing people in their prisons, " Clinton said, "it puts are own soldiers much more at risk" when they are serving overseas.

"The second problem is, if you rough somebody up bad enough they'll eventually tell you, most of them, whatever you want to hear to get you to stop doing it.

"And if you run a dictatorship, maybe all you want is for somebody to say they are guilty. If you are trying to preserve and expand freedom you want to convict the guilty and exonerate the innocent. If people are abused and they confess, or the finger other people [sic], and you gather up those who are not guilty, then as a practical matter you've let the guilty go free."

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Will Barbara Bush Tuck Bubba In?
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Amendment XXII - Presidential term limits. Ratified 2/27/1951. History

1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

That is a funny conspiracy.

Why would Blair give approval to information that requires hime to lie more?

Unfortunately the politicians aren't concerned with doing what is right for the country.  They do what is right for themselves.

*Yep, that's it in a nutshell.  The "freedom fries" politician is backing away from his previous support for the Iraq war.  Because of all the casualities?  Because of all the cost?

No, because public opinion is at its lowest point ever regarding Iraq and he's worried about his re-election chances in the wash of overwhelming disapproval.

Time to roast a goat.

--Cindy