http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/secrethistory/timeline4.html
Clinton didn't strike the 2nd time because bin Laden was supposed to be in a governor's mansion next to a mosque. The intelligence wasn't reliable, and 200 innocent people could have been killed. One terrorist is not worth 200 innocent men, women, and children. Remember, he's not Hitler and this isn't WWII, where you cut off the head and the beast dies. Some other two bit religious fundamentalist would have taken his place. This is why the issue isn't bin Laden, but the lack of steps taken by Bush to increase security, or even READ the briefing given to him by Condoleeza.
You're using Lincoln to defend Bush? The Constitution is most important precisely in desperate times.
It was torture according to the tribunals that sentenced soldiers to prison terms. It's torture according to John McCain. Are you more of an expert on torture than a US senator who has been tortured?
What they've done to our troops has no bearing on the way we should act. We are civilized, free people. We are supposed to be BETTER than them.
George Bush may not have personally outed Plame, but someone in his administration did. Either he's a mouthpiece who's out of the loop, or he can be held responsible for the actions of his administration as a whole. Too bad he'll always get someone else to take the fall.
He knew it was faulty. The admin picked and chose which intelligence to present, and buried warnings and intelligence that didn't support invasion. Technically Congress authorized GWB to use force if necessary, not to go to war. IMO, they were most concerned with public opinion, which supported the war, otherwise they wouldn't have voted to authorize the use of force.
More troops doesn't mean going in there with guns blazing and wiping the country off the map. It means getting the job done properly, and leaving the Iraqis with a free country. I fully support finishing the job done in Iraq, even if it takes "100 years".
Wow.. Imagine if we did just wipe them off the map. Then I guess no one would be the wiser about the lack of WMDs, and the only thing Bush would have to worry about would be the millions of dead children resting on his conscience.