President George W. Bush boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base Monday night, June 12, 2006, en route to Iraq!...

Why then did the government strong arm search engines into giving up search records?

And, for the record, Japan attacked this country and Germany declared war on it. What did Iraq do besides having an asshole as it's leader and possessing WMD? Oh wait, they did not have WMD after all...

Please tell me you are kidding. Since we have a financial relationship with the government as taxpayers, we should not mind being spied on?

The founding fathers knew that governments ALWAYS abuse power. Since government is a necessary evil, they wisely sought to limit the power of government.

If the administration want to protect us from terrorists, how about creating a homeland security department that is not a bad, expensive joke?

I don't feel safer having my calls logged when you can enter a homeland security building with a fake Mexican ID.

If you want to bend over for big brother I guess that's your choice, but something tells me Benjamin Franklin and Tom Paine would puke if they heard your defense of government spying on innocent citizens.

I didn't use my phone for international calls so my calls were not logged. I used a search engine and expect many private companies retained that information, not the government. My business was subject to random searches last month (trucking, which has been regulated for many decades. My offices are subject to searches without warrants being necessary). I also am subject to red light cameras and radar photo vans in my city. So the President is responsible for none of the real threats to liberty as I see it.

As for the troops in Iraq let's remember how many troops were in Japan or Germany in the years after WWII.

Considering that I have plenty of relatives still in NSA, plus some retired, plus some in the FBI, plus one possible working for the "company", and we both comment on the same website, you are probably anal-probed on a nightly basis by the DHS.

Have you read the actual news article? It's Iraqi & Coalition forces (so presumably mostly Iraqi w/ American+others making up the differance). The US would be hardpressed to get 75K into the capital from all over Iraq.

"Iraq's prime minister set in motion the biggest security crackdown in Baghdad since the U.S.-led invasion, with 75,000 Iraqi and U.S. troops to deploy across the strife-prone capital starting Wednesday"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060613/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Did you use your phone today? Guess what, your call has been logged by the government. Say hello to chicken little next time you call.

Did you use a search engine? Big brother is watching. This is all documented news. But hey, if you dont mind government keeping an eye on you guess its cool.

As for the government in Iraq, how long do you think they will hold power without US troops? A month, a week. Are they even in power? If so, why are we sending 75k troops to secure Baghdad?

As for democracy at home, I still hear the dire warnings of losing our civil liberties, of the silencing of dissent and jailing of political opponents but I have yet to see it happen. The Chicken Little's of today are losing credibility very, very quickly.

As for something new, how about a new democratically elected Iraqi government? That's pretty good news that should encourage Iraqis and Americans who want to see the troops come home. Slow steady progress is just that, slow and steady.

The President thanked them for their sacrifice, spoke of the progress being made, and reaffirmed that the role of U.S. troops is to support the developing government in Iraq.

Blah, blah, blah...Tell us something new, Chief.

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President Bush reviewed next steps in the troubled three-year old Iraq war on Tuesday in a suprise v...

And from the looks of it, despite his low approval rating at home, he definitely still has the support of the troops fighting abroad.

Remind me again what the UCMJ would prescribe for any soldier who booed the C-in-C?

Bush's favorite kind of audience: one that has no choice but to shut up, listen, and clap. "Why can't the *rest* of the country be like this?"