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==Debates==
 
==Debates==
===Have Bush's actions in the wake of 9/11 been justified?===
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{{arg.mainpoint|Bush's actions in the wake of 9/11 have been justified.}}
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: {{arg.point|key=1|This is a war, and waging war requires some curtailment of freedom.}}
 
:: {{arg.point|key=1a|We are at war.}}
 
:: {{arg.point|key=1b|Waging war requires some curtailment of freedom.}}
 
: {{arg.point|key=2|Bush's abridgments of civil liberties thus far are at least ''within reason'', whether or not you agree on the details.}}
 
:: {{arg.info|i.e. it's difficult to judge if the current war justifies the curtailments thus far, so why not grant Bush the benefit of the doubt?}}
 
:: {{arg.point|key=2a|We still have far more freedoms than European countries do, so we don't really have any cause for complaint.}}
 
:: {{arg.point|key=2b|Some increase in surveillance powers at least seems reasonable.}}
 
: {{arg.point|key=3|Nobody has been seriously harmed by these curtailments so far.}}
 
:: {{arg.point|key=3a|The ''potential'' for abuse is there, but Bush would not intentionally abuse the power he has obtained.}}
 
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 16:28, 8 August 2008

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Notes

#politics 2005-07-22

<TheWoozle> Would you consider "pro-big-business" to be a positive or negative side of Republicanism?
<TheWoozle> And is pro-big-businessness a Conservative trait too? I wouldn't necessarily *think* so, but maybe I'm confusing Conservative and Libertarian.