Re: So, What IS a Fascist, anyway?

"Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> --
> "In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the
> sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law & order."
>
> - Idi Dada Amin
>
> "Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation
of
> Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in
> midstream. .and would have incurred incalculable human and political
> costs. .We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect rule
> Iraq. .There was no viable 'exit strategy' we could see. .Going in and
> occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate,
> would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression
> that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United
> States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile
> land. It would have been a dramatically  different -- and perhaps
barren --
> outcome."
>
> - Elected President Bush
>
> "Gunner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 07:06:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fredric L.
> > Rice) wrote:
> >
> > >Jonathan Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >>Fredric L. Rice wrote:
> > >>> usual suspect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>>>Rat & Swan wrote:
> > >>>>>But, in fact, that is very much what he is, although he doesn't see
> it
> > >>>>>himself (as you say, "fascist" has become a dirty word).  He took
> > >>>>>power by legal means, but without winning an election.
> > >>>>He won the election.
> > >>> In the same way any third world dictatorship "wins elections."
> > >
> > >>No.  He won the election according to the process laid
> > >>out in the Constitution.
> > >
> > >You'll need to quote exactly where in the U. S. Constitution it decrees
> > >that elections may be halted when Democrats are proven to hold the
> majority
> > >of the popular vote.
> > >
> > >Right.  You lose again.
> > >
> >
> > Snicker..YOU lose again...snicker
> >
> > http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecmenu2.htm
>
> Ah, but Florida's electors were not chosen in the manner prescribed by
> Florida law (i.e., NOT per the Constitution), as ensured by the SCOTUS
> 5 Judge decision, so that page does not apply in the argument at hand.

Please explain how they were not chosen in the manner prescribed by Florida
law .

> The concurring Justices understood this (and the dissenting Justices
> explicitly stated as much) and ensured that the decision would have
> no lasting precedential effects.
>
> We have been paying for the shortsightedness of 5 guys in dresses ever
> since.
>
> Dan