WAR

There are many issues going on in the United States, but I think the biggest issue is the war in Iraq. Even tough the war in Iraq seems like old news it is still an important issue going on today. The war in Iraq in my opinion is a huge mistake, which is costing the United States many problems. In addition, the war in Iraq is an issue that affects everybody and still there is no end to the war.
The Bush administration in my opinion used fear to convince people that the U.S. needed to go to war with Iraq. For example, the Bush administration claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that they were planning to use them on us. Until this day, we have not found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I think that the government should have verified that there were weapons of mass destruction before going to war over falls assumptions. The Bush administration made a bad decision going to war and should have used diplomacy first.
Furthermore, one of the problems that the war has cost us is it increase our national debt. The war in Iraq has cost us billions of dollars, which is continuing to increase. In addition, the money that we spent on Iraq is going to come out of our taxes, which would have gone to something more beneficiary to us. The money that we are using in Iraq could have been use to give health care to kids or even rebuilt New Orleans. The war in Iraq is financially costing us problems, which will continue to affect the United States.
In addition, the war in Iraq is an issue that is affecting everybody. For example, it affects both the citizens of Iraq and the U.S. soldiers. There are both citizens and soldiers that die everyday in Iraq and continue to die because of the war. In my opinion, it seems like the war in Iraq might turn out to be another situation like Vietnam were the death toll increases as long as we are at war. Another affect the war is having on us is that it has changed the way we look at government many people now disagree with the war, and would like to stop it.
Finally, I think that the war in Iraq is an important issue. The U.S needs to deal with this issue to stop all the problems it is creating. In my opinion, I think we should stop the war and focus more on the issue that are going on in the U.S. In addition, I think that we should not have gone into war in the first place and that nothing good could have come out of it.

Isidros government report: Bush detain policy

Isidros government report: Bush detain policy

Bush detain policy

Former chief federal judge Michael Mukasey approved secret warrants allowing government round- ups of muslims in the days after the september eleven attacks. Six years later Michael Mukasey now nominee attorney general is set to testify in front of the committee about the Bush administrations terrorist detention policy. When he was chief judge in the federal courthouse he issued rulings upholding the warrants as constitutional.
The warrants allowed the FBI to detain, without charges, an estimated 70 people, all but one of whom was a muslim, as withnesses after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Congress authorized material witness warrants in 1984 to allow the temporary detention of witnesses who flee before being called to testify to a grand jury or at trial. The warrants are signed by a judge in secret: the public is barred from court hearings about the people targeted by the warrant. Critics argued that the Bush administration has used the law to detain suspected terrorists when the government lacked suffivient criminal evidence to hold them.
I think that the committee should ask Michael Mukasey about the bush detention policy. Also they should ask him really tough questions about these secret warrants and why were they issued to people that didn't even do anything related to terrorism. A investigation on why people were detain for no reason should be conducted. In addition i think the committee should do something so that this does wil not happen anymore. Nobody deserves to be detain for no reason without being charged with something. Just imagine if the FBI arrested you and detain you without charging you with anything or telling you anything. The committte needs to really turn up the heat and press michael mukasey on these issues.
Finally i think that the Michael Mukasey and the Bush adminitration are wrong and should take responsibility for detaing people that are not even guilty of terrorist acts. I Think that it is unconstitutional to detain somebody without charging them with something specially when it does nt even relate to terrorism. In addition this issue should not be overlooked and that people need to realize that this is wrong and it needs to be changed.




http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/15/ag.hearings.ap/index.html

Isidros government report: Veto on kids insurance

Isidros government report: Veto on kids insurance

Veto on kids insurance

President Bush vetoes expansion of kid's health insurance program. The bill would have added thirty five billion dollars to the health insurance program over five years. The insurance program gives coverage to parents who make too much to qualify for medicaid, but not enough to buy insurance for their children. In my opinion president Bush should have left the bill pass because it would benefit the children who do not have health insurance. Also parents that make too much and dont qualify for health insurance , are being left out and should be helped out by the government. In addition health insurance as a whole in america is really screwed up sometimes because, lets say you need a operation for your heart, the first thing a doctor does is check your insurance to make sure you can afford it if you cant then you are screwed. I think that the government should help out does that cant afford health insurance even if means to spend billions of dollars. Instead of wasting billions of dollars in the war with Irag they should take that money and help out children who do not have health insurance. Furthermore instead of wasteing our money in foreign affairs we should take care of the problems at home first. The children of america are our future and we should help them out by being able to provide for health insurance, its not their fault that their parents dont make enough money to afford health insurance. Why should they suffer? The president is wrong for vetoing this bill he has clearly made a bad decision and should be corrected. If the president was put in the same situation as a parent who cant afford health insurance i bet he would want the government to help him out. No good can come from the president vetoing this bill, the people in goverment should fight against this decision and try to make the bill pass. Finally i believe the government should help out children in need of health insurance because it would save life's of children.





http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/bush.veto/index.html