Comments on: Nelson Has Always Been A DINO

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:39:56 +0000

If we don’t stand by the Constitution there’s nothing worth winning.

Read some damn history! Torture does not work! It didn’t work for the Soviets in Afghanistan; it didn’t work for the French in Algeria, it didn’t work for Nazi Germany. It doesn’t work, and if you resort to it you make more enemies.

All of the “terrorists” that have been rounded up lately have been located by standard police procedure. It works.

The people who lost Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora because they decided to attack another country have no room to talk about being soft on terrorism.

You cannot enforce the law by breaking it. You cannot stop terrorism by becoming a terrorist.

By: Right Democrat

Right Democrat — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:43:30 +0000

I agree that Bill Nelson should take a more progressive stance on economic issues (Nelson’s votes for free trade agreements and the bankruptcy bill were certainly sellouts) but he was right about the national security issue debated in the Senate Intelligence Committee last week. We cannot tie the hands of our intelligence agencies and win the war on terrorism. Most Americans are far more worried about being safe from a terrorist attack than the rights of supected terrorists. They don’t even mind if the government is snooping on terror rings which just prevented the bombing of JFK airport. If we Democrats come across as soft on terrorism, we are going to lose – it’s that simple.