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Originally Posted by reconmike
Im sorry but where were all you people who are yelling Bush lied!!! this is illegal!!!! when Slick Willie Clinton was using Echelon system to do the same thing?
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I wasn't too politically inclined in those times but rest assured I would most likely have personally disagreed with using Echelon as well.
But the entire notion that one who disagrees with Bush is thus necessarily aligned with the Democrats is highly fallacious. I believe a government with 3 or more relatively equal parties with competing ideas is much better than a "bipartisanship"; a bipartisanship which has more or less disempowered the public from persuing a reasonable and affable democratic society. The evidence is in that people argue against republicans to make democrats out of them, and people vote for the opposing party because they dislike what the party that is currently in power represents- not because people believe in what the opposition represents.
Anyhow that's really a tangent that probably deserves it's own topic, I don't mean to threadjack.