In Florida, a Republican campaign group is broadcasting TV ads saying that the Democratic Congress is "STOPPING electronic surveillance ON TERRORISTS."
THIS IS AN ABJECT LIE, the CIA, NSA and and any other government surveillance agency CAN _wiretap_ ANY SUSPECTS, anywhere in the world they need to, but they must get WARRANTS, even retroactively, so there is SOME OVERSIGHT to otherwise UNLIMITED GOVERNMENT SPYING ON AMERICAN CITIZENS....
The Democrats have been ANEMIC, at best (and, in case of cowardly Senate "Democrats" who voted FOR UNLIMITED SPYING ON AMERICAN CITIZENS, COMPLICIT) re _PUSHING BACK_ against the awful Bush-Cheney adminstration's GRABBING OF THE WAR-on-TERROR as a be-all, end-all EXCUSE to permit UNLIMITED EXPANSION OF THE US GOVERNMENT's ABILITY TO SPY ON, ARREST, and even indefinite holding of US citizens WITH NO OVERSIGHT to anyone.
The three trillion dollar war
by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes
February 23, 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article3419840.ece
The cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have grown to staggering proportionsJoseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes
The Bush Administration was wrong about the benefits of the war and it was wrong about the costs of the war. The president and his advisers expected a quick, inexpensive conflict. Instead, we have a war that is costing more than anyone could have imagined.
The cost of direct US military operations - not even including long-term costs such as taking care of wounded veterans - already exceeds the cost of the 12-year war in Vietnam and is more than double the cost of the Korean War.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article3419840.ece
