Barracuda2020 wrote:
If you want to blame then let's spread it around, if you're going to bring up Benghazi, then let's bring up the falsehood of the entire war for eight years that killed and wounded how many? Mexico...I really wouldn't go there if I were you.
And spying on American's, tell me again who forced the Patriot Act on us? Yeah, that's all OK, right?
Now the president, who has a winery, decides to tax imported wine, no self-interest there ONCE AGAIN. How transparent does it have to get before you guys see????
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That's a pretty good trick, Trump levying a tax on anything. Presidents are NOT allowed to levy taxes. That job falls to congress.
Why should I not go to Mexico? Surely, it's not because Obama and Eric Holder are stained with American blood from Fast and Furious. Obama enacted executive privilege and sealed his records. Eric Holder was held in contempt by congress for not providing those records . Only after a lawsuit filed by the house republicans did Obama release "some" of the documents requested. But there were none that stated that Obama or Holder knew anything about it...so why did Obama keep the documents hidden? Holder had to resign.
Are you referring to the war in Iraq? About there not being WMDs? Seems to me that there weren't any. And they weren't sneaked away...how do you sneak anything in a desert? That was Bush Jr's baby to get us into the war, IMHO.
Somebody's to blame for Benghazi! It's factual they they asked for increased security several times but were ignored. To blame a film maker's movie was just redirection to hide the fact that the upper echelon allowed those 4 Americans die and it was Clinton's AND Obama's job to NOT let that happen.
The Patriot Act? While it was demonized heavily, it has in fact saved lives. Newsday reported;
Information-sharing facilitated by the Patriot Act, for example, was
critical to the successful dismantling of terror cells in Lackawanna, Portland,
Ore., and Virginia. Likewise, the information-sharing provisions contained in
the act assisted the prosecution in San Diego of those involved with an
al-Qaida drugs-for-weapons plot involving "Stinger" anti-aircraft missiles.
It also aided in the prosecution of Enaam Arnaout, who had a relationship
with Osama bin Laden and used his charity organization to obtain funds
illicitly from unsuspecting Americans for terrorist groups.
These are not trivial successes. On the contrary, they're part of an
enormous, ongoing effort to protect America from further terrorist attacks.
We cannot, of course, say that the Patriot Act alone can stop terrorism.
But every time we successfully use the new tools to thwart a terrorist
organization, that's a victory
Also;
at a Judiciary Committee hearing on the Patriot
Act, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said: "I have never had a
single abuse of the Patriot Act reported to me. My staff...asked [the ACLU] for
instances of actual abuses. They...said they had none." So the fiction of
abuse can be laid to rest.
It just can't get transparent enough for me to see something that isn't there.