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"No respect for the law?
I think it's more that we've lost respect for those who are supposed to preserve and uphold the law. "

It depends on what you mean by "is".  That it was only "sex" and nobody's business.  It wasn't about the most powerful man in the entire world lying to deny an American citizen her right to a fair trial.

 

That educators take to the streets of Ballard when they disagree with the results of a fair election.  Thus teaching our children the first rule of anarchy:  the mob is more powerful than the ballot box.

 

That women wearing dresses on the streets of Seattle have no expectation of privacy.

 

That laws are meant to be obeyed and enforced unless of course you are a screaming special interest group caterwauling about racism and the City cancels that law.

 

That the bums who used to be run out of town for vagrancy and "no visible means of support" are now guests of the city and those who don't like it are just bigots.

 

That pederasty and homosexuality are an abomination to some but they'd better be quiet about it or they'll be shouted down in the streets and mocked in the courts.

 

That civilized society ain't civil no more.

 

Hypocrisy is the game now.

 

Laws are meant to be obeyed and enforced unless you don't like that one, or that one, or that one..... 

 

 

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/178134_iraqed.html

Just why was this a just war? -

As an adjective: Just 1 a: having a basis in or conforming to fact or reason: REASONABLE <a just but not a generous decision> b archaic: faithful to an original c : conforming to a standard of correctness : PROPER <just proportions> 2 a (1) : acting or being in conformity with what is morally upright or good : RIGHTEOUS <a just war> (2) : being what is merited : DESERVED <a just punishment> b : legally correct : LAWFUL <just title to an estate>

I'd say more that it was necessary because only the Lord is righteous.  The United Nations was formed after WWII to prevent another Nazi Germany.  Iraq came pretty close to meeting that definition.  We'd been invaded by terrorists who did some pretty significant damage to us on our soil as well as in other parts of the world.  The United Nations, Germany, France, and Russia were all busy lining their pockets while Saddam Hussein was butchering and starving his people.  I guess that might explain their moral indignation at our going to war without their permission. 

It was two birds with one stone.  We cleared out Saddam Hussein and sent a message to the other folk in that region that we were serious about fighting terrorism and they could very well be next since we were in the neighborhood anyway.  Besides, if you're going to have a war the other peoples turf is always better to fight on than your own.

And the 9/11 Commission - what a bunch of posturing poseurs.  When you're up to your ass in alligators its a little tuff to remember that the primary mission was to drain the swamp. The Commission was to find answers and bring "closure" to the families.  What I saw on television was about as nasty as the McCarthy Hearings.

 

It was a woman thing –

 

That tiny little woman, old by most standards, who independently took the body of her husband across country for the national honor that was due him as a former president.

 

It was she who was by his side in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, ‘til death did them part.

 

As great was the man so much greater was the woman left behind alone to carry him across the continent twice to bury him.

 

My admiration, respect, and prayers for this tiny little wife who dearly loved, and now will miss, her husband.

 

 

This week President Bush represented the United States at the commemoration of the anniversary of D-Day.

 

Not since President Reagan and the first President Bush has the United States been represented so well.

 

That leaders of foreign nations, the Pope, the United Nations, and some in the United States rebuke him for the war in Iraq is emblematic of their collective memory failure.

 

It is interesting that WWII brought to an end the monster that was Hitler and the horror that were the pogroms and ghettos and yet today those who criticize you permit equal atrocities throughout the world.

 

President Bush has returned morality and ethics to the stained White House of his predecessor.