Re: So, What IS a Fascist, anyway? Answer: nothing but a favorite swearword of leftists.

"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
>
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > >They [SCOTUS] ruled that the electoral provisions of the U.S.
> > >Constitution were being subverted by the Democrats'
> > >frivolous attempts to stall the Florida results.
>
> Well, that might be interesting if the Democrats were trying to stall, but
> in fact (look it up) the Democrats were trying to meet the deadline
> defined by Congress (per the Constitution),

The Democrats were trying to change the results of the election by
selectively counting ballots with an ever changing definition of what would
be counted as a vote.

> and every effort by the
> Republican Party and officers thereof was bent upon the delay of
> any legal efforts to arrive at a verifiable count of votes according to
the
> laws of Florida with the apparent purpose of having their candidate,
> who was temporarily ahead in the voting at the time, assigned the
> electors of the state.

Temporarily ahead? Gore never lead Florida. He never proved that he was the
winner. The only way that he could do such was to file for a full recount of
the state. That is something that he never did.

> The SCOTUS, in the person of 5 of the 9 Justices, aided and abetted this
> injustice, and thus subverted the laws of Florida, as legally interpreted
> by the Florida Supreme Court, in express contradiction of the text of the
> Constitution of the United States.

The 5 to 4 Decision was to not allow recount to go past the safe harbor
date. That is not subverting the laws of Florida, it is called UPHOLDING
those laws.

> But it IS fascinating to watch the neo-cons complain about legislation
> from the bench...  Were it not for the damage done to the Constitution
> WRT future elections, it would be enjoyable.

Upholding the Safe Harbor date was not legislating from the bench. Ordering
a partial recount that could NOT be certified under existing Florida Code
is.

> Dan
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