Saddam Had WMD's according to the Investor's Business Daily. I have no doubt there's an avalanche of information that will come out. Much of this has simply never been translated. We don't have enough translators to cover the material. Some will claim this was all a Rovian plot to discredit their critics. I don't think so. I wish he were that brilliant, but he isn't. I also believe that much of the carping about "lies to get us into war" are not lies but predicated on information that is classified and we may find out some day that the threats were not only real but worse than we imagined. On the tapes, Saddam even talks about using "proxies" to attack us. That made the hair on my neck stand up. Put that together with the editorial (which, of course, I cannot now find) that predicts the Pentagon in flames, the White House/Capitol destroyed and "Americans will curse the name of Frank Sinatra" (singer of New York, New York). Where there's smoke, there's fire. Was al-Qaeda a stalking horse for Saddam? Maybe. We don't have any proof but the willingness of Saddam to work with unsavory characters who were notoriously anti-US is evident. I know I'm treading over old ground here, it's just that this earth just keeps being churned up as new things become available.
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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