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BBKing · 12-01-2006, 11:03

The US has checks and balances and so far they've done a superb job of stopping the President bankrupting his own country, violating the Constitution, clamping down on his people's freedom, eavesdropping at will without judicial oversight and destabilising the world through imperialistic military action. The appointment of Samuel Alito* to the Supreme Court bench can only strengthen the power of US democracy and provide a proper balance to the power of the executive.

And if you believe that, I've got a bridge you might be interested in buying.

The difference between Iran and the USA is that when the USA threatens someone you know they're damned well capable of attacking them, they've proved it (ask the people of El Salvador, Haiti, Iraq, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Serbia...). Iran, since the revolution there, haven't attacked anyone, although they've *been* attacked by Saddam Hussein, supported at the time by, er, the US and UK who hoped cynically that they'd knock each other out (Saddam's Iraq was taken off the list of terrorist supporting nations by Reagan in order to help him out against the Iranians).

* This gentleman believes in the supreme power of the President in over all other bodies in the USA (including his interpretation of the law being the only one that matters), abrogating the rights of women over their own bodies and that illegal immigrants have no fundamental rights. He also dislikes the decisions of the former Chief Justice Warren, who was in charge from 1953 to 1969 when the US did a lot of good things legally like civil rights and desegregation in schools, plus the rather obvious decision that voting systems should be based on one-man-one-vote rather than gerrymandering in favour of a particular party (no prizes for guessing which one at the moment). Naturally Warren is intensely disliked by US conservatives and racists, which makes him OK in my book (he's also the Warren of the JFK inquiry, of course).

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BBKing R.I.P. Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London Services: 20Mb VM CM, Virgin TV Posts: 5,983	Re: What is Iran up to? The US has checks and balances and so far they've done a superb job of stopping the President bankrupting his own country, violating the Constitution, clamping down on his people's freedom, eavesdropping at will without judicial oversight and destabilising the world through imperialistic military action. The appointment of Samuel Alito* to the Supreme Court bench can only strengthen the power of US democracy and provide a proper balance to the power of the executive. And if you believe that, I've got a bridge you might be interested in buying. The difference between Iran and the USA is that when the USA threatens someone you know they're damned well capable of attacking them, they've proved it (ask the people of El Salvador, Haiti, Iraq, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Serbia...). Iran, since the revolution there, haven't attacked anyone, although they've been attacked by Saddam Hussein, supported at the time by, er, the US and UK who hoped cynically that they'd knock each other out (Saddam's Iraq was taken off the list of terrorist supporting nations by Reagan in order to help him out against the Iranians). * This gentleman believes in the supreme power of the President in over all other bodies in the USA (including his interpretation of the law being the only one that matters), abrogating the rights of women over their own bodies and that illegal immigrants have no fundamental rights. He also dislikes the decisions of the former Chief Justice Warren, who was in charge from 1953 to 1969 when the US did a lot of good things legally like civil rights and desegregation in schools, plus the rather obvious decision that voting systems should be based on one-man-one-vote rather than gerrymandering in favour of a particular party (no prizes for guessing which one at the moment). Naturally Warren is intensely disliked by US conservatives and racists, which makes him OK in my book (he's also the Warren of the JFK inquiry, of course).