Re: [privacy] We'll likely *never* get to the bottom of this...

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Dude VanWinkle wrote:

> On 5/23/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 May 2006 23:04:45 -0000, Fergie said:
> > > Vote these traitors out in the next election, folks -- that's the
> > > _only_ avenue we have.
> >
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >                 --Ed Howdershelt
> >
> > I think we're looking at needing that third box.  Of course, the biggest
> > problem is that if we impeach George W. Bush (pick a reason, any reason,
> > from here: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6330) - then we'd
> > have Dick Cheney in power, not just pulling the strings.
>
> Well, another problem we will have is Clinton proved that lying is not
> an impeachable offence, right?
>
> Or is it lying about a BJ is not an impeachable offence?
 
I find it a constant source of amazement that Americans don't know that 
the impeachable offence was lying under oath to Congress. 
 
> > Kind of reminds me of how George I, in Gulf War I, decided not to get rid
> > of Saddam Hussein then - because the most likely outcome was his son Udu
> > coming into power.
>
> And look how well that turned out ;-)
 
Except that wasn't the "because".

The "because" was that the Coalition's war objective was to get the Iraqis 
out of Kuwait, not to take over Iraq. If we'd gone on to invade Baghdad, 
the Saudis would have been upset, and with the Saudi boot on the American 
neck, that can't be allowed to happen.

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