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Old 08-21-2008
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You are right. McCain sounds like he will just shoot. But I am stumped trying to figure if that is better or worse than letting Dick Cheney decide which seems to be how it is done at the moment.

By the way, what is wrong with having some discussion before doing things like, say, taking the country into a war? Sure the prez is supposed to decide but it seems like it might be nice if he solicited opinions from, say, the Cabinet and the military and the guys in Congress dont you think? It might even be possible that one of them thought of something useful that didnt occur to the Prez all by himself.

And apart from that we DO still have a democracy. What the people think ought to matter on some level.
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