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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 08:44 PM
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Clift: "Cheney and the president want somebody ... will support their desire to make war with Iran"

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Eleanor Clift: "He brings a much needed professional expertise to the State Department? But he also knows that if he had stayed in that intelligence job, he'd spend the next two years having to agree with Dick Cheney that we have to wage war with Iran, or he’d be pushing back unsuccessfully. He's smart to get out of that spot."

John McLaughlin: "So the president is fortifying himself. The president and maybe Rice if she’s -- depending on which way she's going -- they're fortifying themselves against the Dick Cheney reaction to this?"

Eleanor Clift: "No. They're -- I'm saying that Dick Cheney and the president want somebody in that intelligence job who will support their desire to make war with Iran, and I don't think -- I think Negroponte is too smart for that; he wanted out."

Mort Zuckerman: "Absolutely. He's very qualified."

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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 08:49 PM
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1. Someone just posted
the information from the constitution..and if you read it and re-read it bush does not have the power to invade or bomb anything else without congress approval. Unless congress has issued a declaration of war (which they have not) then the president can bomb or invade. So it is coming down to a constitutional crisis. The only way bush will get his way is to blantantly violate the constitution.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 08:54 PM
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2. ..or another Maine / Lucitania / Pearl Harbor / Gulf of Tonkin / 9-11...
take your pick...
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HockeyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 08:54 PM
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3. More grounds for impeachment
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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 08:55 PM
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4. Sure are a lot of rumblings about Iran
in the past couple of weeks. Hope to hell the Democratic congress can keep these maniacs in check.
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