Diana West is positively mental over the idea that the US has been meeting with Sunni insurgents to lay down their arms in exchange for something. I think she's wrong. They are not foreign fighters, they are locals. You get them to quit and you tilt the balance against the Al-Qaeda elements they will be mopped up in absolutely no time. The Sunnis have nowhere else to go. You have to give them something. A man with nothing to lose will fight like a cornered animal. Will they escape justice? Some of them will. Undoubtedly. Many will not. The other Iraqis know who they are and they'll be tried for offenses under the regime if not after. Still others are inveterate criminals who will revert to type and find themselves on the wrong end of an IP rifle.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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