I want to know the name of the presidential candidate or candidates who TRULY care more for their country than their ambitions.
Is there such a person?
Or is it just, "I love Jesus more than you love Jesus, SO THERE!!"
WASHINGTON - U.S. Congress wants to hear more about the Mitchell Report on drug use in baseball.
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jrlkq53yJrwVdYtYfU6gNYsmssig
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The Outstanding Public Debt as of 12 Dec 2007 at 08:03:00 PM GMT is:
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The estimated population of the United States is 303,784,313 The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
so each citizen's share of this debt is $30,188.67.
$1.51 billion per day since September 29, 2006!
Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House!
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Just imagine!! The moment you are born you are $30,000 in debt.
it's the American way
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http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/03/iran.nuclear/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail
'Politico' Gets Scoop on Giuliani: He Charged Visits During Affair to NYC
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003678650
Another goody2shoes Republican
By LAURIE KELLMANThe Associated Press
Tuesday, November 6, 2007; 11:26 AM
WASHINGTON -- The Judiciary Committee advanced Attorney General designate Michael Mukasey's nomination to the Senate floor Tuesday, virtually ensuring confirmation for a former judge ensnarled in bitter controversy over terrorism-era prisoner interrogations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110600778.html
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/336858_ratheronline26.html
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
October 15, 2007 2:59 p.m. EST
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008833900
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Military high schools? Military training, discipline and brainwashing? What a great idea! If you're looking forward to the day when the Constitution of the United States is tossed into the paper shredder, and a military junta replaces our current form of government, then go for it!!
I think Senator Craig should stay to the end of his term, attend every session of the Senate, and force his fellow Republicans to face their hypocrisy on a daily basis.
Maybe if Larry came out of the closet, he could stay out of the stall.
US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the early front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has called for a 90-day deadline to start pulling American troops from Iraq.
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Now in September 07 she votes for war again. What are we to believe?
Yesterday, by a vote of 76-22, the Senate passed the Kyl-Lieberman amendment in support of military actions against Iran. This is the second such endorsement of the president by a senate majority in just three months. In July, the Lieberman amendment to "confront Iran" passed with the far stronger majority of 97-0.
One can debate whether or not the "Gen. Betray Us" ad was appropriate.
What to my way of thinking is not debatable is that the General was playing political hack for Bush and his evil war. This justifies the criticism of the General implied in the ad.
Chairman Greenspan has articulated what I've believed for years. Iraq is about oil.
It's also about our permanent military presence in the area. This is what the neo-cons want, and what they are planning for.
War forever. Power forever.
| NOUN: | A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples. |
A letter to Senator Barbara Boxer
Breaking News!!
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from Bloomberg news:
Warner Says U.S. Should Start Withdrawing Troops on Sept. 15
By Bill Roberts
Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Virginia Senator John Warner said President George W. Bush should begin withdrawing troops from Iraq on Sept. 15 to show the Iraqi government that the U.S. commitment there isn't open-ended.
Bush should announce that ``we will start an orderly, carefully planned, thought-out redeployment,'' said Warner, the No. 2 Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Warner said the number of troops to be withdrawn and the timing of the withdrawal would be up to the president.
Warner suggested Bush should pick a few thousand soldiers out of the 162,000 U.S. combat troops now in Iraq, or ``whatever number he wants,'' Warner said.
``Say 500 could begin to redeploy and be home not later than Christmas of this year,'' Warner said.
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Or is this the Republican version of "good cop. bad cop"?
Whose Report Is It, Anyway?
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, August 16, 2007; 12:26 PM
The "Petraeus Report" -- the supposedly trustworthy mid-September reckoning of military and political progress in Iraq by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker -- is instead looking more like a White House con job in the making.
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The conventional wisdom circulating around Washington and the talking heads is that General Petraeus will give a "report" written by Bush flunkies in the White House.
If this is true, and the General is an honorable man, he will RESIGN, before this report is even written.
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The Karl Rove of Nazi Germay
I want to say GOOD RIDDANCE, but I'm afraid we haven't seen the last of Karl, aka "Turdblossom", as Dubya calls him.
Shortly after the Minneapolis bridge collapse, a local law enforcement official said that they were treating it like a crime scene. Well, it is a crime scene, the criminals are in positions of power, and they have been derelict in their duty to protect innocent citizens.
How do you charge an incompetant official with manslaughter?
http://www.pcw.co.uk/vnunet/news/2195262/california-voting-systems-full
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=189091&Sn=WORL&IssueID=30131
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19588942/
This is great stuff. Someone with the balls to tell it like it is. May he live long and prosper.
Scooter Libby, having outed a secret agent of the CIA, has given aid and comfort to the enemy, and therefore he is guilty of treason.
George Bush, the handmaiden of Dick Cheeney has commuted the prison sentence, and most likely will grant a full pardon before he leaves office.
Does this make Bush and Cheeney guilty of after the fact treason?
Can you imagine the uproar from the right if a Democratic president had commited the same act?
Bush, Blair discussed envoy role
NEWS.com.au, Australia - 5 hours ago
US President George W. Bush has talked with Tony Blair about his becoming a Middle East envoy once he steps down as Britain's prime minister, ...
What's the matter Dubya? Conde can't do the job? No credibility? Blair is short on credibility also. You and your whole gang are incredible. The meaning of incredible in this case is: WITHOUT CREDIBILITY.
From the dictionary under "incredible":
Related words doubtful, dubious, far-fetched, fishy, flimsy, questionable, suspect, unlikely, unreasonable; hopeless, impossible; absurd, outlandish, preposterous, ridiculous; indefensible, insupportable, untenable
Bush vetos stem cell research bill. What a big surprise! He uses religion to justify this, because it's his belief that souls are being murdered in the name of science.
We can only wish that he, in his fits of sanctimony, would consider the poor souls in Iraq that are being murdered to further his evil venture.
Maybe if Congress would promise Bush so many barrels of oil for each stem cell murdered, he would reconsider.
Everyone has their price ya know.
Dear Congressman Lantos
I'm distressed by having to say this, but I believe that Congress has abandoned the majority of the American people and our desire to get out of this awful and hopeless war in Iraq.
Bush has guaranteed that terror will continue for generations, and every year tens of thousands of innocent people,us and them, will die in a vain cause.
This must stop. If it continues, evil will triumph, and democracy will die.
It's about time that one of the Bushits headed for the cold stone walls. This is only the tip of the iceberg.
For Scooter to catch a break, he needs to rat out his boss. Here is the real criminal, and upon his hands is the blood of tens of thousands.
Scooter, do your duty for your country and tell the truth.
Or rot in Hell.
The following is a famous WWI poem I have recycled for the tragedy that is Iraq.
In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army
IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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Carter: Bush Administration "worst ever"
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/05/carter_bush_adm.html
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The time has come for the "Bushwhackers" to whack the Bush. Better late than never. However, it should have been sooner, and maybe there wouldn't be so many bodies.
The shame and the stain will linger for generations.
"The evil that men do__________________"
By Renae MerleWashington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 18, 2007; Page D03
The Coast Guard said yesterday that it will seek damages from Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for eight failed patrol boats that have come to exemplify the problems with its $24 billion modernization effort.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051702282.html
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President of the United States 1953-1961
From the Constitution of the United States:
Article 2, Section 4
The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
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The AG won't leave on his own? The Constitution show the way to remove this cancer from the body politic.
Today's news: "Wolfowitz bows to pressure and quits World Bank"
Here is an evil man for whom hanging would be too good. Maybe drawn and quartered would be better,
He is one of the gang of neo-cons in the DOD that started planning the invasion of Iraq 2 years before Bush was elected. He and his cohorts invented all sorts of rationalizations to justify the invasion such as WMD, bad Saddam, democracy for the Iraqis, yada-yada-yada. The plain truth is that they wanted a base for military operations in the middle east, and control over a large oil reserve. It was so easy for Cheney and this gang to bring Bush into their evil plans. All they had to do was wait for terrorists that they knew were in the country to attack, and give them the excuse they needed to start the war. He and his cohorts have the deaths of tens of thousands on their consciences.
The sins of these "fathers" will be visited upon the children, even unto the fourth generation.
A radical Christian is as big a danger to world order as a radical Islamist.
They both have a world domination agenda. They both hate Democracy.
They both hate the Constitution and the guarantees of freedom contained therein.
The world needs people of love and tolerance, not preachers of hate.
We are telling the Iraq "government" that they must stabilize their country, because our patience is running out and we can't stay there forever.
HUH??
Iraq was stable before we invaded. We wiped out that stability, and now we blame the Iraqis.
SAY WHAT??!!
This is like I punch you in the nose and then berate you because your nose is bleeding.
WAKE UP, PEOPLE
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=azGXV4skm37w&refer=home
Wolfowitz is one of the idiots who got us into the Iraq disaster. Now he wants to loot the World Bank.
Hanging would be too good for this evil man.
Letter from a General to Bush
May 1, 2007
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
Today, in your veto message regarding the bipartisan legislation just passed on Operation Iraqi Freedom, you asserted that you so decided because you listen to your commanders on the ground.
Respectfully, as your former commander on the ground, your administration did not listen to our best advice. In fact, a number of my fellow Generals were forced out of their jobs, because they did not tell you what you wanted to hear -- most notably General Eric Shinseki, whose foresight regarding troop levels was advice you rejected, at our troops' peril.
The legislation you vetoed today represented a course of action that is long overdue. This war can no longer be won by the military alone. We must bring to bear the entire array of national power - military, diplomatic and economic. The situation demands a surge in diplomacy, and pressure on the Iraqi government to fix its internal affairs. Further, the Army and Marine Corps are on the verge of breaking - or have been broken already - by the length and intensity of this war. This tempo is not sustainable - and you have failed to grow the ground forces to meet national security needs. We must begin the process of bringing troops home, and repairing and growing our military, if we are ever to have a combat-ready force for the long war on terror ahead of us.
The bill you rejected today sets benchmarks for success that the Iraqis would have to meet, and puts us on a course to redeploy our troops. It stresses the need for sending troops into battle only when they are rested, trained and equipped. In my view, and in the view of many others in the military that I know, that is the best course of action for our security.
As someone who served this nation for decades, I have the utmost respect for the office you hold. However, as a man of conscience, I could not sit idly by as you told the American people today that your veto was based on the recommendations of military men. Your administration ignored the advice of our military's finest minds before, and I see no evidence that you are listening to them now.
I urge you to reconsider your position, and work with Congress to pass a bill that achieves the goals laid out above.
Respectfully,
Major General Paul D. Eaton, USA, Retired
Another General speaks up:
The President vetoed our troops and the American people. His stubborn commitment to a failed strategy in Iraq is incomprehensible. He committed our great military to a failed strategy in violation of basic principles of war. His failure to mobilize the nation to defeat world wide Islamic extremism is tragic. We deserve more from our commander-in-chief and his administration.
--Maj. Gen. John Batiste, USA, Ret.
Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States, is slowly being burned to a crisp by the political firestorm surrounding him. His days are numbered. This is a case of political patronage gone very bad. We have a person in high office who is obviously unable to cope with the difficulties of the job, and will soon be a footnote in the history of the times.
Let us not be too quick to condemn this poor fellow. Let us remember that the voters of the United States put into power the incompetent that appointed his pal Alberto to be head of the Justice Department.
John Donne
Meditation 17
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee..."
"The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones."
William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar
So let it be with Imus
The Pentagon has extended the length of a tour of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan from 12 months to 15 months, and also a shorter turnaround time after home duty. The unfairness of this new policy is staggering.
There is still a sizable percentage of United States citizens who support the Bush-Cheney war. Why is there no clamor among these folks to re-instate the draft? What better way to "support the troops" than to provide them with more warm bodies to patrol the mean streets of Baghdad?
Do you suppose that the spectre of "the draft" would make more pacifists out of the warmongers? Hey, it's worth a try!
There are probably 2 reasons for Bush's attitude on climate change, one political and one religious.
Politically, there's big money to be had from the fossil fuel producers, coal and oil. He can't turn his back on that.
There may be a primary reason, and that is his fanatic evangelicalism. Armageddon and apocalypse are part of his belief system. That being the case, why take any measures against global warming? It would be contrary to God's will.
There's a message here. NEVER put a religious fanatic in a position of great power.
 Report predicts climate calamity All continents face drought, starvation, rising seas, panel says
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http://www.artofbonsai.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9497#9497
Protesters Confront Karl Rove
(RIYADH, Saudi Arabia)—King Abdullah's harsh — and unexpected — attack on the U.S. military presence in Iraq could be a Saudi attempt to signal to Washington its anger over the situation in Iraq and build credibility among fellow Arabs.http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1604762,00.html
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The Saudi royal family has been good friends with the Bush family for a very long time. I guess they figure Bush is going down, and they need to repair relations with their close neighbors.
Are you happy with the price you are paying for gasoline? You will soon be UNHAPPY!
Regarding the Iraq war , I think Bush and John Murtha should debate face to face. Murtha knows all about dodging bullets. All Bush knows is dodging draft.
Slam dunk for big John.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/26/politics/main2608082.shtml
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Will the Congress ever get the backbone to deal with would-be dictator Bush? Is a Republican Senator the only one with guts?
I suspect Congress is using AG Gonzales as a surrogate for Bush as a way of trying to ramp up their courage to deal with "The Decider". If they are able to dump the Toad, will they rest on their laurels, or will they get the guts to deal with the real disaster?
Anyone who has any doubt about the mess we have made of Iraq should read the article in THE NEW YORKER of March 26 by George Packer titled "BETRAYED". Grim and grimmer.
If the worst foreign policy blunder in our history that has resulted in the deaths of many tens of thousands isn't grounds for impeachment, then we can only hope that Bush does something sexual and lies about it. That may be our only salvation.
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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Report: Gates Wanted to Shutter Guantanamo
Newly Sworn in, Robert Gates Argued to Close the U.S. Prison in Cuba; President Bush Did Not Agree
WASHINGTON -- March 23, 2007—
Soon after becoming defense secretary, Robert Gates argued the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be closed because the international community would view any trials there as tainted, The New York Times reported on Thursday.http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2975521
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Sounds to me like a high level game of "good cop, bad cop".
The other day Mitt Romney was making a speech to Cubans in Florida and made a major gaff by ending his speech with a quote by Fidel Castro. Went over like a lead balloon.
I remember back in the Vietnam era, Mitt's father, George Romney was running for presidential nomination on the Republican ticket. He went on a tour of Vietnam while the war was still raging. When he returned to the States, he complained that he had been "brainwashed" by the generals. concerning the state of the war.
He was savaged for this remark, and any chance he may have had for the nomination was ruined.
Ye shall speak the truth and the truth shall screw ye.
Like Father, like Son.
Finito
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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There is no justification for White House personnel to be above the law, and only speak to Congress off the record with no sworn testimony on the record concerning the firings of Attorneys General. They would without doubt, lie like a rug covering a dirty floor, and worse, get away with it. This is not right.
Subpoena the scoundrels, and if they lie, lock 'em up with Scooter.
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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========says Sec. of Defense Robert Gates concerning the "troop surge" in Iraq.
Once upon a time, there was a man who jumped off the Empire State Building. As he passed the 30th floor, he was heard to cry out, "so far, so good".
Beware of politicians who say, "so far, so good". It ain't gonna be good.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2632032&C=america
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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We were misled into the Iraq war by propagandizing falsehoods such as WMD, terrorism, "freedom" for Iraq, yada, yada, yada.
We are told that if we wind down the war, the Middle East will be destabilized, and chaos will reign. That may well be true.
How ironic it is that before the invasion, things were far more stable than they are now, and every move we've made has worsened the situation.
Before we invaded, Saddam had full control. There is no way he would have allowed any of bin Laden's terrorist thugs to set up shop in Iraq. They would have been shot or beheaded so fast it would take your breath away. Now look at the mess we made. Civil war has totally broken down Iraq society and the terrorists have gained a stronghold that they would NEVER have had before. How clever are we?
The real reasons we invaded Iraq are oil, and to gain a base for military operations in the Middle East. The true intention was for troops to stay indefinitely, and control the oil distribution infrastructure, and set up a buffer between Iran and Israel. The theory was that the oil profits would "pay" for the occupation.
Lest there be any doubt of this, the real leader for this mess was no other than the evil eminence gris Dick Cheney, former head of Halliburton. This must be believed. What corporation was first on the scene with huge no-bid contracts that so far have made them billions of dollars? None other than Cheney's Halliburton. Quid pro quo. What does Cheney get out of this deal?
It's a safe wager that if the Democrats in Congress, and the assumed coming Democratic President can't find a way out, we will be there far into the future, and that future will at the very least involve war with Iran.
Body bag making will be a growth industry.
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=======Albertoad Gonzalas better git to hoppin' his way back to Texas. He seems to have overstayed his welcome in Bushiland. Speaking of overstaying welcome, it's getting close to the time for Dubya to git outa Dodge.
How much more of these people can the country stand?
To paraphrase Shakespeare, " The General doth protest too much, methinks".
The General seems to be very worried about homosexual relations, and his belief in the immorality of these relations.
Let us speak of the immorality of thousands of US soldiers dead, tens of thousands of soldiers grievously wounded and more tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children dead and wounded, all because of this evil, ill conceived and incompetently prosecuted war.
Let us speak of the immorality of wounded soldiers returned to Walter Reed and housed in rat infested, cockroach overrun, and mold encrusted quarters. You can be certain that these Generals would not keep their pet dogs in such conditions.
Let us speak of Generals whose main concern would seem to be the number of medals they can pin on their chest, all the while strutting about in self glorification.
Let us speak of the far right "Christians" whose moral compass seems more pointed to acquisition and consolidation of power unto themselves and their cohorts, rather than concern for the well being of mankind.
They claim to follow Jesus and his teachings. Are they aware of this one? Sometimes called the Golden Rule.
"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." Matthew 7:12, King James Version.
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/03/12/halliburton/
Halliburton: We're going to Dubai-land!
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Please Halliburton, take Cheney with you. We don't want him, you can have him. He belongs in the desert like Ozymandias.
| P. B. Shelley |
| Ozymandias |
| I met a traveller from an antique land | |
| Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone | |
| Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, | |
| Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown | |
| And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command | |
| Tell that its sculptor well those passions read | |
| Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, | |
| The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. | |
| And on the pedestal these words appear: | |
| "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: | |
| Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" | |
| Nothing beside remains: round the decay | |
| Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, | |
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The lone and level sands stretch far away. ---------------------------------------------------- I love this poem. I first read it in college English in 1957. It tells the story of power gone awry. It tells the story of ambition gone to madness. It tells we the people that if we don't carefully consider who we vote for, and to whom we grant great power, our freedom, and even our life may be lost in the swirling sands of time. |
The neo-nazi rag, National Review is already calling for a Presidential pardon for Scooter Libby.
Bush has brought so much shame and disgrace on the Presidency, that one more shameful and disgraceful act won't make much difference in history's verdict.
=============has been found guilty.
He should be sentenced to 10 years of cleaning up dirty veterans hospitals.
Dirt to dirt.
Regarding the disgraceful care given to wounded soldiers at Walter Reed. There's a strong possibility that it's a rank and class situation. I'm willing to make a sizeable wager that it was only enlisted personnel in the dirty and substandard facility. If there had been officers treated this poorly, the stink would have hit the fan long ago.
RHIP (rank has it's privileges) One of the first things I learned as a buck private.
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Once they are wounded, they become a liability and no longer worthy of "support". Events at Walter Reed seem to prove this.
Disgraceful and incompetent. That's our government.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
(03-01) 10:23 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --
Republican presidential contender John McCain, facing criticism from Democrats, on Thursday said he regretted using the word "wasted" to describe the more than 3,100 U.S. lives lost in the Iraq war.
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What's wrong with "calling a spade a spade"? History, in all it's ruthless truth, will judge it to be a waste of lives, ours and theirs, our fortune and our honor.
How can the wealthy and powerful, situated as they are with all the trappings of luxury and security, send the innocent to die in a vain attempt to satisfy their evil ambitions?
We the people, when will we ever learn?
These people have no shame.
============================== Dana Priest On Walter Reed: An ‘Unbelievable’ Story of ‘Neglect’ and ‘Indifference’Dana Priest and Anne Hull of the Washington Post revealed over the weekend that Walter Reed hospital, once perceived as the “crown jewel of military medicine,” has become “something else entirely — a holding ground for physically and psychologically damaged outpatients.”
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I hope Dana gets a Pulitzer Prize
I wrote this more that a year ago. bin Laden is still alive. What I said then, I still believe.
Thursday, December 29, 2005
1:39:00 PM EST Where is bin Laden?
Does bin Laden have more propaganda value to Bush and Co. if he remains free and can be perceived as a major threat in the "War on Terror"?
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I have long suspected that there were more reasons than meet the eye for the seeming abandonment of the war against the Taliban and bin Laden in Afghanistan.
To maintain a constant state of war, one's enemy must remain alive and healthy.
An excerpt taken from a letter by Obama that I thought had a deft turn of phrase:
"-----it's not the magnitude of our problems that concerns people the most. It's the smallness of our politics."
Hillary, if you make a mistake, and are unable to admit that you made a mistake, it's likely that you will make more mistakes.
I'm a loyal Democrat. I hate that I have to say this about a fellow Democrat.
From the Grammy Awards:
"I, for the first time in my life, am speechless," said Maines, who generated controversy during a 2003 UK concert by telling the audience that she was ashamed George W. Bush was from her home state of Texas.
http://www.livedaily.com/news/Grammys_make_nice_with_Dixie_Chicks-11503.html?t=98
Natalie Maines spoke the truth in 2003 and for that the Dixie Chicks suffered the "slings and arrows" of public condemnation and lost bookings.
Ms. Maines has been vindicated by history. I can only wish that more of our politicians had her courage. Maybe we wouldn't be in this most awful mess that's Iraq.
----------------has announced that he is in the running for the Democratic nomination to be the candidate for President of the United States.
He will be taking plenty of criticism for his lack of experience in Washington.
Lets talk about the current occupant of the Oval Office. His only relevant experience was as Governor of Texas. If you look into the strange and wonderful document known as the Constitution of the State of Texas, you will learn that the Lt. Governor holds more power than the Governor.
So, if Obama was to win the nomination, and subsequently win the Presidency, he would have at the time he's sworn in, 4 more years experience in Washington than Bush had at the time he was sworn in.
Experience is good, but intelligence is better.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of it's laborers, the genius of it's scientists, the hopes of it's children.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Senate dithers
While soldiers die
The Congress fiddles
While innocents cry
The world is watching,
You and I
We won't forget
How they did lie
Gavin Newsom, what was he thinking?
I knew that I should have told that boy the Parable of the Cat and the Railroad Track. Too late
Once upon a time there was a tomcat in a small town. He liked to wander about from neighborhood to neighborhood, meeting friends, stealing food, and occasionally stopping in his travels for a rest.
This particular day was very warm, and Mr. Tom soon became sleepy and decided to nap. As usual. he wasn't fussy about where he snoozed, and on this day, it was beside the railroad track.
Soon he was sleeping very soundly too close to the track. As he slept, his tail twitched back and forth, and came to rest on the track. Poor timing, as a train was rolling by.
Mr. Tom's tail hit the track, and the wheel cut off a bit of the tip, which woke up Tom. He saw what had happened to his tail, and in a rage tried to bite the train. Lo and behold, his head was cut off.
The Moral:
Never lose your head over a little piece of tail.
--------------is an old saying about people who never learn, and keep doing the same thing over and over again in the vain hope that it will finally work.
Does this describe Bush? One who is incapable of learning? His "surge" is all about throwing live bodies after dead. None of his children will come back in body bags.
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“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam -– How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” -- John Kerry in his 1971 appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Who is the poor soul to be the last to die for the miserable failure that inhabits the Oval Office?
Impeach Bush
Cong. Tom Lantos was in Iraq and Afghanistan with Cong. Nancy Pelosi and several other members of Congress. As a constituent I receive a regular email from Tom.
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This is a paragraph from the latest email:
"What we saw and heard in Baghdad leaves me even more convinced than before that the Administration’s ‘stay the course’ approach will only lead us deeper into disaster. Placing more of our troops in harm’s way in order to shore up a failed policy is unconscionably reckless and only compounds the mistakes already made."
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Bush is an evil man who cares not a bit about how many have to die for him to get his way.
IMPEACH BUSH
Posted September 27, 2007 | 02:54 PM (EST)