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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Arnold</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Although not an “officially declared”
war, Bush “declared” war on terror as a knee-jerk response to 9/11.
Exploiting the American people’s patriotism following that attack, President
Bush signed into effect the Patriot Act (H.R. 3162 dated October 21, 2001)
which expanded President Bush’s executive powers virtually limitlessly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a
href="http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html">http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In effect we are at war against
terror. Hey, I didn’t vote for him.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Congress and the American people have been
fighting the Patriot Act ever since.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:navy'>Seeya round town, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<br>
<br>
Tom Hansen<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place><br>
<br>
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."<br>
<br>
- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Donovan Arnold
[mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, July 22, 2007 11:21
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Tom Hansen; 'Andreas Schou'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Vision2020] Essay on
Globalism by Ron Paul</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The US Constitution gives the House control over the budget and ability
to control war. The President cannot legally have troops overseas for more than
90 days without declaration of war or approval of Congress. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Congress doesn't need an appropriations bill passed to change
that. It can simply vote with a simple majority vote to either cut funding to
the military or order the troops back. The Democratic controlled Congress
has not done that. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>75% of the population wants to end the war, NOW. Yet Congress is not
acting on that public demand. There must be a reason why.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>US troops will still be in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> in 2008
and 2009. They are simple giving you lip service and stalling. Our
troop numbers might be reduced in the near future, but we are staying in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, our
national security depends on it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Donovan<br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Tom Hansen
<thansen@moscow.com></span></i></b> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Arnold, Arnold, Arnold –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you have been following the news this
past month or so, you would have realized (like all of the rest of us have)
that Congress IS refusing to finance the war any further than September (or is
it November?).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Congress’ refusal to further finance
Bush’s war is what gave birth to Bush’s claim that Congress refuses
to provide a sizeable pay hike for the military, which is tied into the budget
for Bush’s war. It is all tied into the budget for fiscal year
’08. If Congress refuses to pass the FY08 budget, as written,
(which, for all intents and purposes, it intends to do), finances for
Bush’s war run extremely shallow and the military does not get its much
needed pay raise.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>Seeya round town, <u1:place u2:st="on"><u1:City u2:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</u1:City></u1:place></st1:place></st1:City>.<br>
<br>
Tom Hansen<br>
<u1:place u2:st="on"><u1:City u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</u1:City></st1:City>,
<u1:State u2:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</u1:State></u1:place></st1:State></st1:place><br>
<br>
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."<br>
<br>
- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Donovan Arnold<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, July 22, 2007 12:14
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Andreas Schou<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Essay on
Globalism by Ron Paul</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Andreas,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>If Congress really wanted to end the war all they have to do is not
fund it. It requires 60% in the Senate and majority vote in the House to
continue to fund the operations. US House, which controls the purse
strings, could end the war tomorrow by voting to cut it off. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>They instead are trying to shift the ending of the war to the Senate
intentionally in a way that does not impact funding, which is harder to do
politically, they know that. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>One or two senators could potentially block a bill in the Senate or at
least slow it way down. It is difficult to pass legislation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>When I was in the ASUI Senate, I use to slow down appointments to paid
positions that were made to buddies of other elected officials. I wanted
people that were best for the job, not someone getting a check
because they helped their frat buddy with campaigning. Today, appointments
now have to go through a process that screens out individuals not qualified,
but it was not that way when I was in, the victor went the spoils and ASUI
paychecks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>There is a whole host of motions and parliamentary procedures,
filibustering, and other tactics a senator can use to slow down
or disrupt legislation. Two senators can place huge road blocks in
the way of legislation they really disagree with. If a committee chair
can also wage more havoc as well. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Donovan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Andreas Schou
<ophite@gmail.com></span></i></b> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On 7/21/07, Donovan Arnold <DONOVANJARNOLD2005@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<br>
> The reason the US Senate is stalling on the withdraw of troops from <u1:country-region u2:st="on"><u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</u1:place></u1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region>
is<br>
> because it knows two things;<br>
><br>
> 1) That the people that voted for them what an end to the war now and what<br>
> the troops back home.<br>
><br>
> and<br>
><br>
> 2) That if the <u1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</u1:country-region></st1:country-region>
withdraws troops from <u1:country-region u2:st="on"><u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</u1:place></u1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region>
it would have negative<br>
> repercussions and that it vital to US interests to keep troops there.<br>
<br>
Donovan --<br>
<br>
The US Senate is failing to end the war because a withdrawal requires<br>
a 60-vote majority to break a Republican filibuster (which they have<br>
done every time it has come to a vote) and a 66-vote majority to break<br>
a Bush veto threat. In the House of Representatives, where party unity<br>
and the number of defectors needed is higher, breaking a Bush veto is<br>
almost impossible, given the tiny Democratic majority.<br>
<br>
Thus the Republicans hold us in an unwinnable morass for yet another year.<br>
<br>
-- ACS<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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