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[Coyotl]

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[gulliver]

1. The drug war has to go.

It is an ongoing, devastating crime against the American people. There is nothing to compare to it.

[Fumesucker]

5. Democrats have been about as enthusiastic in this as the Republicans

The Drug Czar for instance was an idea of Joe Biden's.

[Fumesucker]

8. No one could have predicted the Republicans would abuse a bad law?

The drug issue is one of the most bipartisan areas of agreement in Washington.

[Fumesucker]

10. Clearly the Democrats are less worried about losing voters than about what Republicans will say

It's obvious what their priorities are.

[Coyotl]

11. Why are you intent on bashing Dems. May I recommend the freeper site?

You will fit in really well there.

[Fumesucker]

12. I've been here a lot longer than you, grasshopper

On this issue Dems deserve criticism since they have enthusiastically gone along with the Republicans in disenfranchising the Democrats single most reliable voting bloc. Why does my pointing out somewhere the Democrats could really improve bother you so much?

I don't think the Democrats are that stupid which makes me wonder what their actual motivations are for what they have done and are doing in this matter.

[Coyotl]

13. I've been here a lot longer than you.

Since I changed names, you don't know how much longer, but much longer to be sure.

[anti partisan]

6. It won't go until we demand it goes.

It's too profitable for certain people for them to just let it fade into the night sky. Another prime example of a corporation and state complex ruining the lives of the American people.

[think]

3. Here's a chart that shows the US prison poulation by year:

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

[Skidmore]

4. It has served as a good way to employ part of the population

while sidestepping the creation of jobs and educating another section.