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2007-10-15 Iraq
10-Hour Delay: Feds Sought Tap to Track Jimenex Captors in Iraq
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Posted by Sherry 2007-10-15 11:23|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top
 File under: Iraqi Insurgency 

#1 this country is supposed to function according to it's laws however it picks and chooses which laws to enforce and when. Maybe we have too many laws and maybe we have our head so far up our ass that we just can't see this is no way to win a war.
Posted by Bigfoot Jeaper6145 2007-10-15 11:59||   2007-10-15 11:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Multi-lawyered war. Incredible. On an aside note, this clashes violently, (as do this article) with the leftist/Msm/euro/... worldview of the US army acting recklessly, without any restraint, and crushing iraq under its jackboot. Not that will make the critics thought.
Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-15 12:07||   2007-10-15 12:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Lawyers don't win wars. The military should not have to check with lawyers in order to make a military decision.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-15 12:16||   2007-10-15 12:16|| Front Page Top

#4 So, why couldn't incompetant AG Gonzalez issue an order ahead of the paperwork, and who are the incompetant legal beagles who took 10 hours to do a job so incompetantly?
Posted by Phinater Thraviger 2007-10-15 12:30||   2007-10-15 12:30|| Front Page Top

#5 WHy did it take 10 hours? Becaue its DC, and everyone there is more concerned with power and covering their as than they are with the lives of the troops. Look at the actions of the Demcorat party for public proof - they are the ones that want all kinds of leagl hurdles in the way, and they really do not care to count the cost.

As for the Bush administration: Look at Especially Lawyers. After the screwing that Libby got (and not a damn finger lifted by Bush until way after the fact), nobody is going to stick their neck out.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-10-15 13:25||   2007-10-15 13:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Not only is the war over-lawyered but badly lawyered at that. This is systemic in our government. I have a hard time believing it anytime we do something right, or timely. It must be a collossal mistake if that ever happens.
Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back!  2007-10-15 13:30||   2007-10-15 13:30|| Front Page Top

#7 "How many lawyers does it take to rescue our soldiers?" he asked. "It should be zero."

Bottom line. The administration should have someone who is paid specifically to sit next to a hotline and provide authorization for these sorts of things. Precious human life aside, just the expense of training those soldiers that were killed could finance such a job slot for years.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-10-15 13:33||   2007-10-15 13:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Death by FISA.
Posted by doc 2007-10-15 15:16||   2007-10-15 15:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Bomb 'em. Twice...
Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical  2007-10-15 17:59||   2007-10-15 17:59|| Front Page Top

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