How dangerous is the Bush administration?

For crying out loud, I figured your little thought is Bush is tapping American Citizens, not Al Qaeda.

I knew your angle of argument. You are grasping at straws.

The purpose of the program is to catch terrorists, not whether people are buying drugs from their neighbors or something, I'm not sure what people are so afraid of? The point is an American citizen, or non-citizen in the U.S. is either calling overseas or receiving calls from overseas wherein the number or source has been filtered as being suspicious and possibly connected to terrorist cells. What is your rampant paranoia all about anyway?

Parados, I am consistent. Bush is simply more pro-defense than the Democratic Party. Hey, they even wish to impeach him for tapping into Al Qaida phone conversations.

Most people have figured out that the Republican Party is more pro-defense than the Democratic Party. I don't know why this is mysterious to you? Where have you been? They made fun of Reagan for building up the military, for his star wars program, some of the weapons, etc. Go back and research it yourself. What did Clinton do during the 90's about terrorism? Zilch, nothing, as far as I can tell. He wanted to make terrorists into a law enforcement problem, not a military problem. After the first Trade Center bombing, he did nothing.

Hussein kicked the inspectors out of Iraq and what did he do? Nothing.

I remember when Democrats said the CIA wasn't important anymore, the military wasn't as important, because the Cold War was over. Also, Clinton's justice department said agencies could not share data on terrorists. This was really brilliant. I am being sarcastic. They cared more about protecting his backside on information about illegal campaign funds from China than they did about terrorists. If you think the Democrats are so pro-defense, then make your case. I haven't seen a case.

He happened to fall into a different historical time frame on the long term trend, which all presidents are subject to.

Did you study "debate" somewhere along the line? I will give you credit for being dogged with every bone I throw out. Did this all start with my comment on another thread about Humphrey being a Right winger in today's society? I have an idea to see what you think of it. I would like to come up with a 10 point issue list on a new thread, wherein we can compare right and left leaning philosophies, see where Humphrey falls, where Carter falls, etc. Military and defense would of course be one of those points, or possibly two if you want to look at terrorism apart from conventional defense.