more on Congressman Conyers calls for select committee tostudy impeachment

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> > Frankly they don't give a damn whether we succeed in our  
> > objectives in either Afghanistan or Iraq

I may give a damn if someone would explain to me what the real  
objectives of our involment in Iraq?

Dave


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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: December 23, 2005 10:47:55 AM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Congressman Conyers calls for select  
committee tostudy impeachment
Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com

[Note:  This comment comes from reader Dave Hughes.  DLH]

> From: "Dave Hughes" <dave () oldcolo com>
> Date: December 21, 2005 8:51:52 AM PST
> To: <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] re: Congressman Conyers calls for select  
> committee tostudy impeachment
>
> My source of information did not come from Drudge. I don't read or  
> use his trash.
>
> What angers me is that Congressional antagonists (I don't call them  
> 'critics' any more - they are far more interested in political  
> advantage for the next election and media grandstanding than  
> serious or responsible critique of how this war is being waged)  
> don't have a clue, and could care less, what it takes to cope with  
> the militant 100 year Islamic war aimed at the United States being  
> waged by Al Quaeda and its global wanna-be's.  Which is based on  
> subversion, clandestine communications, the use of ever more deadly  
> and miniaturized weaponry and related technologies (which I warned  
> Secretary of Defense McNamara of 40 years ago would be the future  
> nature of war) now including encrypted internet, fleeting telephone  
> calls and coded messaging many of whose signals between agents in  
> two foreign countries technically route through switches in the US.  
> Resulting in singular acts of terrorism far more calculated to  
> break the will of naive American people through their chosen weapon  
> of television than the amount of real destruction.
>
> Frankly they don't give a damn whether we succeed in our objectives  
> in either Afghanistan or Iraq  and are perfectly willing, starting  
> with what is printed in the New York Times in blatantly revealing  
> the details of every classified operation the US undertakes.  
> Whether or not that directly contributes to the death of more  
> Americans or more terrorist strikes or not, either in Iraq or New  
> York.
>
> As for my crack about Clinton's use of executive powers, just don't  
> forget that the botched intelligence about Iraq and the degree to  
> which it had, or was making, WMD, was provided a new President,  
> Rumsfeld and Powell, after 9/11 by the incompetent CIA Director  
> George 'slam dunk' Tennant whom Clinton selected and over whose  
> agency he presided for 8 preceding years, while Al Quaeda grew and  
> laid down its long range plans to destroy the infidel - the United  
> States.
>
> Clinton and his cabinet was utterly asleep at the foreign  
> intelligence and terrorist threat switch, even after Al Quaeda  
> started blowing up embassies. And even blew the opportunity to grab  
> or kill Osama Bin Laden, who had been identified by the previous,  
> Reagan, administration, when he was offered up on a silver plate by  
> another country.
>
>
> Dave Hughes
> dave () oldcolo com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dewayne Hendricks"  
> <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> To: "Dewayne-Net Technology List" <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:35 AM
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Congressman Conyers calls for select  
> committee tostudy impeachment
>
>
> > [Note:  This comment comes from reader Dave Hughes.  This blog  
> > item  might provide some clarity to Dave's comment: <http://  
> > thinkprogress.org/2005/12/20/drudge-fact-check/>.  DLH]
> >
> > > From: "Dave Hughes" <dave () oldcolo com>
> > > Date: December 20, 2005 5:11:56 PM PST
> > > To: <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> > > Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] Congressman Conyers calls for select  
> > > committee tostudy impeachment
> > >
> > > Gee, I wonder why the Republicans overlooked the opportunity to  
> > > add counts to Clinton's impeachment hearings, since he too  
> > > authorized warrentless wiretapping of Americans in the US during  
> > > his 8 years.
> > >
> > > Dave Hughes

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