MR. MEHLMAN: We've involved the international community more, the EU, the U.N.
My Comment:
After they've lost all credibility with the international community and those organizations and after the Democrats have hammered the Administration about this problem for years, they are finally doing the sane thing.
MR. MEHLMAN: I've-I acknowledge that when you're facing any war, the enemy is smart, the enemy thinks, and particularly in this kind of war, it requires you to adapt to win. We're going to adapt to win, and what you heard from Chairman Dean and when you hear from the Democratic leaders, if they had their way, "It's too tough, we'll cut and run," that's not the answer.
MR. MEHLMAN: David, there's no question we're in a tough political environment. We're in the sixth year of a president's term, we know that. We're in the middle of a tough war. But the focus now is going to be who's on the ballot? What are the choices? And I don't believe Americans, in the middle of a tough war, as they see these plots, want to weaken the tools and surrender the tools that are critical to keeping Americans safe. I don't think they want to weaken how we interrogate potential terrorists. I don't think they want to weaken the surveillance. I don't think they want to kill the Patriot Act, and I certainly don't want to think that they give the enemy the kind of victory that the 9/11 Commission had said they would have if we cut and run from Iraq.
My Comments:
Let's look at the claims one phrase at a time:
1. "We're in the middle of a tough war" - We are not in a war we are in a police action against a world wide terrorist network just as the British had a police action against the IRA. The IRA wanted the British and the Protestants out of Ireland and the Radical Islamists want the US and the Jews out of Muslim territory in the Middle East. The Administration wants to keep us believing that we are "at war" so the President can use his War Powers to establish a Unitary Presidency (totalitarian).
3. "Weaken the surveillance" - They want the President and the Administration to have a free hand to arbitraily break the law with no warrant and no oversight from the Congress or the Courts.
4. "Kill the Patriot Act" - They want to continue with the objectionable parts of the Patriot Act that allows them to "secretly" access your Library Records and to do "Sneak and Peak" searches of your property without your presence or knowledge.
5. "The 9/11 Commission had said" and "we cut and run from Iraq" - The 9/11 Commission "never" said that we shouldn't get out of Iraq. This is a bald faced lie.
Source Meet The Press Transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14273400/page/7/
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