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Democracy in the U.S.: A Very Dirty Business


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Blue
- 1237 days ago - watchingamerica.com
George Walker Bush will likely pass into history as the worst president of the United States. He might not even finish his second term. The reason: deliberate wrongs like the "telephone eavesdropping" of society, govenment decision-making in the hands of
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AniTa H. (146)
Friday July 28, 2006, 7:32 pm
What a great article...Too bad it couldn't hit maintstream press. Too bad the damage is already done!!
 

Cheryl Sunshine Benson (524)
Saturday July 29, 2006, 4:52 pm
Democracy in the U.S.: A Very Dirty Business, Demonocracy is becoming a dirty business in other countries too, like mine Oh Canada & many CDN's are oblvious to it or say nothing. I don't get it!

 

Blue Bunting (855)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 12:09 am
Do "we" have a "democracy" in the U$A now ?????

 

Nick Morris (5)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 11:33 am
Of course, people gloss over that Clinton was the one who authorized telephone eavesdropping in 1994 with his Echelon program.
 

Amalthea Lalaith (4)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 11:48 am
Worst president ever? What a joke...
 

Past Member (0)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 12:04 pm
I think the government has been doing things under the table all along since it began. The media has just made it a point to draw attention to the negative side of this administration more than any I have ever seen. Maybe because it likes being popular; that is why our children do things that hurt others. The media was also thought responsible for Lady Diana’s death if we think back… they just couldn't leave her alone. Until I sit in the hot seat like this president has and have had to go through the scrutiny he has, I will try to find a solution and make a suggestion instead of a criticism. He has had more to deal with during his presidency than any other in a very long time and I feel he hasn't gotten up from one catastrophe before he has gotten hit with another. He has endured all this while having a whole nation of people ridiculing him... that is a real shame. I was taught we were supposed to support our president and help him instead of finding fault with his every turn... That is what I was taught kept a nation strong but I guess all the generations before me were wrong huh?
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 3:46 pm
JoAnn, Bu$h!t creates chaos day by day ... it's part of his PNAC plan; if you haven't read the Plan ...do yourself a favor and you'll have a "unique" appreciation for Bu$h!t's cabal!
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 3:52 pm
Nick, it's so apparent that you're a paid $hill for Bu$h!t!
 

Nick Morris (5)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 4:24 pm
Not really, I just know my history. Just Google 'Clinton Echelon program' and you'll see. It's a well known fact that Clinton authrozied it. BTW, if you wanna refute my statement, actually refute it, don't just make some out-landish accusation.
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 8:34 pm
Nick, there's no need to bring up Clinton every time Bu$h!t gets caught making wrong decisions ... I'm not a Democrat and I don't like Clinton ... but it's rather funny tht George and Barb Bu$h call Bill Clinton "son" ... don't you think so?

As far as I can see the Clintons are in cahoots with the Bu$h!ts.

HOw much did you say they're paying you to spread Bu$h!t propaganda?

 

Past Member (0)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 8:37 pm
Pat,
When I posted my comment I just stated my opinion... it wasn't meant for debate and I'm not here to debate. I've listened to your side and didn't get angry... just because you don't agree doesn't mean I am wrong. I am not here to change the world or piss others off... I'm not here to go along with the crowd and be led blindly down a path because others say that is the way to go. If you have a better way to run the country then please run for president and straighten us out... it has been in bad shape for a long time... a very long time... it will take a long time to get this country back on it's feet and it didn't start with George W... it has been going down hill for many years...
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 8:39 pm
As far as I can tell, Joann, anyone is free to make a comment, even me ... you wouldn't deny me that right, would you?
 

Past Member (0)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 8:46 pm
Absolutely not... but I do hope you give me the same right and don't think that just because we don't agree that I'm stupid. I absolutely don't think you are stupid and I just want to be able to state my opinion also without fear of being ripped apart... opinions are just that... opinions... besides, I try to see the good in everyone including politicians...lol... sometimes it is hard but I do try...
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 9:24 pm
JoAnn, why do you think that I would think you are stupid?
 

Past Member (0)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 10:14 pm
I guess stupid was a harsh word but there are people in this world who hate George Bush, my brother included. He thinks that because I don't that I'm "not informed"... I'm ignorant or just don't care... that isn't the case at all. I just feel that the president isn't the only person in the decision making process... he is just the figure head who catches all the crap. It just seems like he can't win for losing... days after 9/11 most people shouted "WAR"... when he declared it they screamed "why?" I have a friend who lost her fiancee' in the first building... she doesn't wonder why. My daughter has a brother in law in Iraq who doesn't wonder why... he is a marine who is one of the ones knocking on doors looking for the enemy... he has found many good Iraqi's but he has an extremely dangerous job. He has seen some awful things that would be going on here if we hadn't taken the war to them. All I know is what I hear from the one's who know first hand... that is about the war. On the other hand I have even heard he was responsible for Katrina... now that is ridiculous! I have been to New Orleans and seen who is and who is not cleaning up... I was there in January... alot of people from other states were and are doing their part to help and there is alot of cleanup going on now after taking in some of the refugees... alot of rebuilding going on here... it isn't always the government that causes the messes... not everyone is appreciative and we are the ones responsible for cleaning up after those disasters. I guess what I am saying is that there is good and bad in all people. You just can't blame one person for what a whole group does... I would just love to hear someone other than him being blamed for a change... use someone else's name for a change!! His policies, his ideas, his tactics may not suit you but if we knew alot of what the CIA was up to we wouldn't like that a whole lot more... spying on civilians has been going on for many years... from the helicopters flying overhead looking for drugs to the phone taps, detectives, military tactics used on the civilians, etc... like I said earlier, the media has just made it more out in the open... he just happens to be the one who is president now while the media has such access to all the records. The biggest problem is that other countries don't need spies anymore... they can just watch our news to see what weapons we have, what tactics we are going to use, where our military is at any given time... I think they have toooo much rein and should be yanked in a bit! Enough is enough...
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 10:17 pm
See, JoAnn, I don't think you are stupid ... I think GeeDumbya Bu$h is really, $tupid!
 

Past Member (0)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 10:31 pm
Maybe just a bit confused.... George that is but then again, that has already been established... now stopit!! You've got me doing it! lol...
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 10:47 pm
JoAnn, it's a pity GeeDumbya is too dumb to be included in the plans for invading Lebanon dicussed with Rum$FAILed and Cheney and Powell months ago ...Bu$h!t's conversation on open microphone with Blair revealed his ignorance.
 

Past Member (0)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 10:50 pm
Do you mean where he said $hit?
 

Nick Morris (5)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 11:01 pm
You know Patt, if you think you can do a better job, you run for office.
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 11:23 pm
Nick, I Refuse To Have A Battle Of Wits With An Unarmed Person.
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Sunday July 30, 2006, 11:24 pm
JoAnn, Bu$h!t's brain, from cocaine use, looks like lattice work ... he had not one clue about what was going on between I$rael and Lebanon.
 

Nick Morris (5)
Monday July 31, 2006, 12:05 am
Is that the best you can do, Patt, just dish out personal attacks? Because that's what you're doing, against me, Bush, and probably countless people on this site. Why don't you back up that big mouth of yours with some substance?
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Monday July 31, 2006, 12:44 am
Nick, Your Proctologist Called.... He Found Your head.
 

Past Member (0)
Monday July 31, 2006, 6:41 pm
This is beginning to sound like the presidential debates and I REALLY hate those... more mud slinging than I care for really... If the issues can be talked about and not personal attacks it might be worth the time but it isn't about the issues anymore. What George Bush did in his younger days is something he can't do anything about no more than what I can do about what you or I did yesterday or 10 years ago. I feel this is no longer a political problem but a personal problem. There is no one in this world I would waste this much time hating... there are so many positive things I can do to make a better place for my family to live. I've never researched anyone I disliked this much... didn't see the point really and when the next election comes around he won't be in office anyway. Then there will be someone else there for everyone to rip apart...
 

K U Harder (8)
Wednesday August 2, 2006, 7:34 am
Patti, THANK YOU SO MUCH for this article! This is, without doubt, one of the best articles I have EVER read. Who elected this goof? I have yet to find anyone who voted for him (or maybe they won't admit they voted for him). I saw a segment that NBC did in Russia where they interviewed the person-on-the- street. They ask these people what they thought of America. One woman shook her head and said, "I don't understand why the American people elected George Bush." (Obviously a very intelligent woman.) I have a "Worst President Ever" t-shirt which I wore to get a new driver's license photo.
 

Past Member (0)
Friday August 4, 2006, 3:08 pm
it seems that hating Bush takes to paradise. hmm
i read them all (the comments)..my opinion is that the ral threat to american democracy is the intolerance and narrowed vision of facts that many americans show.in this page. a day you will call a dictator to get rid of the whatever 'Bush' on shift. Depressing.
have a good day.
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Friday August 4, 2006, 3:21 pm
Soeme "facts" for you, Mario ... right out of Bu$h's mouth, if you can stand to listen to his lies again ..

Remind us all, again, why Bu$h Invaded Iraq

http://www.peacecandy.com/gwbush/remindus/
 

MEL ISSA (3)
Friday August 4, 2006, 4:18 pm
* * * * * A zillion stars just for the giggles, Patt. Luv your jokes! Now I'm going to go read the article. I agree, Bush-it and the Clinton's walk the same path, although the US was doing better economically when the Clinton's were in office. The present yokel in the White House is destroying everything in his path while padding the family coffers. Two more years, my, how time flies when your killing innocent people while making billions for crony corporations! The thought that my tax dollars will be supporting that hose-bag for the rest of his feeble-minded life makes me want to throw up! I hope Nick sends his proctologist to the White House because they ALL need help finding their heads! * * * * *
 

Revaru Anabela (13)
Friday August 4, 2006, 9:41 pm
I believe that democracy, generally is in a ‘BIG DANGER” if it is leaded by narrow minded people. They will use the name of democracy and it’s principles to achieve personal goals in the most undemocratic ways. It will always be a gap between what they say and what they intend. A simple but awful example is the “Iraq war”. The messianic vision that such a leader has is a consequence of it’s unfortunate past. The Americans are seen these days as infatuate and dangerous cause they can come and conquer a country pretending who knows what. But, it’s an image of US leaders that is projected over an entire country…and I think is fair for everybody to make a difference between the leaders and “the leaded”.
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Friday August 4, 2006, 9:46 pm
Revaru .. you are "too smart" .. .you want to look at the background of those proposing "democracy" ...

it's all in the "profit motives" darling ...

who will benefit

always ask

QUI BONO?

 

Navy Mom (12)
Sunday August 6, 2006, 10:54 am
Just more left wing, HATE propaganda against BUSH and the United States democracy.
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Sunday August 6, 2006, 11:30 am
The Birth Pangs of a New Middle East (A Poem)

By Nesreen Melek


The world is witnessing "the birth pangs of a new Middle East"
Yet Abeer's voice will be heard
"I was fifteen when the American soldiers took turns and raped me."
"They burned my body, shot my parents to cover up their acts."
Another voice will be heard "who will revenge for the rape and the killing?"

The world is witnessing "the birth pangs of a new Middle East"
Ali will not be able to write the chapters of the history book
His limbs were amputated in the name of democracy
A voice will be heard "who will revenge for destroying Ali's future and the future of other children?"

The world is witnessing "the birth pangs of a new Middle East"
Children from Israel wrote notes on rockets which were sent to kill the Lebanese children.
The corpses of the Lebanese children are resting in plastic bags ready to be buried in mass graves.
A voice will be heard "what is the difference between Arab children and other children all over the world?"

The world is witnessing "the birth pangs of a new Middle East"
People in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine will remember the killers.
The scars will stay on their bodies and hearts in case they will forget.
A voice will be heard "we will never forget their atrocities and we will never forgive"

The world is witnessing "the birth pangs of a new Middle East"
Arabs are seeking refuge in other countries as their countries are destroyed.
But when they will blow themselves taking their lives and others
they would be called terrorists.
A voice will be heard "what would we call their atrocities against Arabs?"

The world is witnessing "the birth pangs of a new Middle East"
Palm trees in Iraq are burned, Olive trees in Palestine are cut, Magnolia and Jasmine bushes in Lebanon are burned.
The bombing and the killing will continue.
And the fertile soil will be saturated with blood.

A voice will be heard "will there be an end to their hatred"
The world is witnessing "the birth pangs of a new Middle East"
Hatred, anger, despair and agony will be flourishing in the heart of Arabs.
But it will be too late for the killers to ask "why do they hate us"
 

Past Member (0)
Tuesday August 8, 2006, 5:20 pm
I personally voted for Bush and have no problem admitting it... I think if anyone else were in his position they would be in the same hot seat he is in but wouldn't be taking it quite so well... I thank God he has a sense of humor and a long list of things to do other than read things like this... I just feel there are so many people who spend too much time ripping others apart without ever looking to see what good there is in this nation... I'm sorry... no, actually I'm not! I have as much right not to hate him as you have a right to hate him so I say to you Pat and everyone else who does... go find something useful and productive to do with your time to help the nation rather than putting him down... it doesn't do one thing to make this nation stronger but it does make a nation divide itself and that is a nation that will not stand...
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Tuesday August 8, 2006, 9:42 pm
Joann ... just a "minute sample" of why Bu$h has lost the respect of the entire world ...
stupid Bu$h quotes:

10) "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." —LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

9) "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." —Greater Nashua, N.H., Jan. 27, 2000

8) "I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." —second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004

7) "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." —Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

6) "You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." —to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

5) "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." —Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004

4) "They misunderestimated me." —Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

3) "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

2) "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

1) "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
 

Past Member (0)
Wednesday August 9, 2006, 10:47 am
So what that has anything to do with the issues? We hava all said things wrong and you can't take it back once it is spoken. The press is sure to let the public in on anything WRONG he does but now the RIGHT he does doesn't matter anymore... so what good does it do to debate? It is kinda like falling down at school and the loud mouth of the school being the only one seeing you fall. It is the talk of the school by the end of the day and it has nothing to do with who you are or what you are inside. Who I am has nothing to do with how eloquently I speak...

Yes, I'm going to say it... Clinton screwed around on his wife and got caught, lied about it and then said oral sex wasn't sex.... but that didn't get as much criticism as Bush and his Bushisms... What does that say for the morality of this country? The president is in office and sets an example for our children... if what Clinton did wasn't wrong then making mistakes in one's speech shouldn't matter all that much either. Clinton wasn't the first and won't be the last president to do that in office but he got more press for it than anyone while they were in office including Kennedy. I'm just using this as an example and not the only example of stupidity that has gone on in the White House. What I want to know is were you this tough on others or did you just decide ot pick on Bush?
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Wednesday August 9, 2006, 11:48 am
Poor, poor JoAnn ... can't admit that Republicans were relentless with criticism towards criticism and they still are ... payback is a beach!
 

Past Member (0)
Thursday August 10, 2006, 10:15 pm
Patt, don't stroke me on the head and send me out to play like a little kid... I'm sorry that I am just not going to knuckle under to you that way. Poor, poor Patt... can't admit that you just love stirring up propaganda like this to see your name in print. I don't follow the crowd and hate Bush just because you do... I don't hate Republicans or Democrats either... I just hate it when someone can't find anything better to do than tear someone apart like you are doing. When you speak on the issues it is one thing but when you just come out and say " See, JoAnn, I don't think you are stupid ... I think GeeDumbya Bu$h is really, $tupid! " then that is a personal attack that means nothing to me. That just shows how you feel about him as a person and not as a president. Stick to the issues and maybe I'll listen... personal attacks just turn me off... Challenging the entire Republican party?? Oh well, poor poor Patt.... you have delusions of grandeur... there are many many Republicans who couldn't care less about you or your hate campaign at all.
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Thursday August 10, 2006, 10:25 pm
JoAnn, I am far from "poor" but you wallow in your misery, you seem to enjoy it.

But seriously, JoAnn, you just keep on trusting the Republicans and their propaganda machine - they say it's nothing. Just like they say that condoms don't work, that the earth is really 6,000 years old, and that dinosaurs lived alongside modern men. Oh yeah, they also told us that we'd be greeted like liberators in Iraq and that the war would be over in a matter of weeks, was it?
 

Thomas Panto (387)
Friday August 11, 2006, 6:03 am
The OWNERS of our country, our ONCE free press, our political parties and who select, fund and present THIER candidates to us on their TV stations, will not be easy to remove from Washington. They will decide the RATION and WHO will be on the ''Left'' and who will be on the ''right''. With their media they will TELL you who is ''them'' and who is ''us''. he faithfull followers of political parties will be their VICTIM.
If you want to LIBERATE AMERICA then you will have to do better than to simply folllow political party lines and EAT what is placed before you.
FREEDOM is the ability to go YOUR OWN WAY.
We don't have that FREEDOM until we have the freedom to vote for the candidates of OUR OWN CHOICE and NOT THEIRS.
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Thomas Panto (387)
Friday August 11, 2006, 6:11 am
And JoAnn, Do you have a free press ?

When the OWNERS of the government , invading Iraq for OIL, wanted you to believe that our army was killing the ''bad people'', then they invented a new word for the citizens of Iraq. '' insergients'' . EVERY MEDIA then immeadiately began using that word.

If you want to again be a FREE AMERICA then you will have to rise ABOVE the WORDS ISSUED to you by your Rulers occupying Washington.

 

Past Member (0)
Friday August 11, 2006, 8:45 am
Thomas, at least you are talking on the issues and for that I thank you. I wholeheartedly believe in the constitution and our freedoms. I vote in every election and taught that to my daughters also vote now. In fact, if someone starts complaining about politics, the first question I ask them is if they voted... if they didn't then I tell them I don't want to hear anything they have to say!
"If you don't like something then change it and you can't change it if you don't vote!"
The only words I listen to are the ones I reason in my mind and they tell me we don't have the World Trade Centers anymore... the voice of a friend of mine who lost her fiancee' in the first building... the voice of a soldier fighting in Iraq and who sees what those people live in everyday. I also realize that our country didn't remain free by letting people come over here and "bomb" our citizens and just stand by and shake our fists. This war started long ago but they came here and murdered our citizens, not our military and that isn't tolerable... if you lost someone in the events of 9/11 and think we shouldn't seek out the perpetrators then we should have no prisons either. No one is guilty of any crimes if that wasn't murder. Oil companies are having a hayday with the war and not being blamed for any of the price gouging... the gas stations are too. In a 30 mile radius of where I live you can find a 40 cent difference in the price of the same grade of gasoline. That is the station and not the government.... it is easy to blame the government for EVERYTHING but put the blame where it is due... our country has a lot greedy people in it who don't care about anything but the almighty dollar. That isn't the governments fault... that is morals.... that is sad.

Patt... I'm not the one who is miserable. You are the one who is digging around finding fault with someone else instead of doing something constructive. Get out there and become a candidate in the next election... a woman is going to be president in the future and you are as good at digging up dirt as any candidate I've ever seen.
 

Past Member (0)
Friday August 11, 2006, 9:22 am
FREEDOM ISN'T FREE and I'm glad there are those of us who still believe this way. America isn't being a BULLY; I feel it just believes that we are suppose to protect our own like a mother is suppose to protect her own. I protected my children and one of them still was raped but there are laws and the police carry guns... that is no different than the military. Sometimes force has to be used to make things right and since you nor I are over in Iraq or in congress then we don't know what is going on in either place. I do know one thing though... even though there are some soldiers doing the wrong things, there are countless others doing what is right. They believe in what they are doing and the ones I know are still seeking out terrorists... Oil didn’t kill our citizens, terrorists did. Until something is done to terrorism there will be more attacks like they have done here for years. They hit and ran like the cowards they were and it was time to do something about it.
 

Thomas Panto (387)
Friday August 11, 2006, 4:18 pm
To KNOW the ATTACKERS from the DEFENDERS all you need to do is COUNT the MURDERED BODIES.
Millions of Arabs were MURDERED since 1948 using American and British Weapons.
Thousands abducted, jailed and murdered by Israel every year, year after year, for 60 YEARS.
Every one your weapons, and dogma, MURDER, has a FAMILY, and I am a member of that family.
How many bullets did it take to educate your children ?
How many bullets will it take to educate anyone's children ?
THAT is why we call MURDERERS ''MURDERERS''.
BULLETS offer NO ANSWERS, they only MURDER the SOLUTIONS.
After you have MURDERED EVERYONE who disagrees with you, then you will be left SURROUNDED by NOTHING but MURDERERS.
Do you want THAT WORLD ?
I DON'T.
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Friday August 11, 2006, 5:02 pm
The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew, and the world soon learned, the charge was false. Worse, it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful "black propaganda" campaign with links to the White House

the war, the war. imperialism. global capitalism. anti-immigrant racism. these cretins like the corporate democrates (you know who I mean, or at least you should) who have managed to highjack "progressivism"--no, that's not quite right--these people who have inherited a "progressive politics" constructed for them by republicans, reflexively demand a progressive politics emptied of anything to really fight for, anything that matters; whose heroes are clinton and blair, the staus quo of catastrophe distracted by nice smiles and the ambition for "diversity," safe sex, biofuels, organic foods, 99 cent mp3s, and the acceptable inevitability of the slaughter of brown people unfortunate to possess what we think we need.

these people are far more dispicable and dangerous than what they offer as the epitomies of their political "opposition."
 

Past Member (0)
Monday August 14, 2006, 10:28 am
Well, now that there are more than one ATTACKING me... not really... debating is a much nicer term because no one is dying here... I'm not bullied that easily and I truly don't think that talking has ever settled much when it comes to angry people against civilized people. And to use the old worn out phrases, "guns don't kill people, people kill people"... and "kill or be killed". Are you going to stand and be killed when you can fight back?? Thomas, I am sorry about what happened the 10 years before I was born and the years where I was unaware but I really can't do much about that. Have you checked out the statistics of Israeli casualties from Arab attacks, abductions, those who have been wrongfully jailed?

Patt, Did you ride your horse or camel to work today? Do you walk everywhere you go? Do you only buy American products? If you aren't part of the solution and you still rant then you are part of the problem...

Do you really know what the Iraqi's have in their arsenal? Have you personally been there or are you going on what the "media and the political biggotts" are saying? "Black propaganda" had nothing to do with the genocide Hussein is being tried for in his own country... Was Hitler then ok for what he did? No, we are not the moral whip of the world but we became one for the terrorists when they came that one last time here on 9/11. This is our country and if we hadn't taken the war to them it was coming here sooner or later. Would you rather that be the case? Patt, is there any political decision that you DO agree with? NAFTA has taken nearly every job in my hometown and we had many many people out of work but instead of complaining about it, the local community college expanded and those workers are now becoming nurses and other medical professionals... they are becoming engineers... they are becoming entrepreneurs as I have and making a living. Instead of being negative, we are a positive people who do something about our situation.

We patched and patched and patched with these terrorists and let them keep getting by with lots of things but they crossed the line on 9/11... this didn't all start with President Bush, he is just the one who finally had to make this decision that congress backed to start with and so did most of the nation... now where are they? I was taught that you finish what you start... It is not only the government that makes America what it is... it is also the Americans who live in this country who love it... if you don't love it then find somewhere else who will put up with your angry attitudes...

A nation is only the sum of it's parts... I hope there is enough backbone left in this country to keep this nation as great and strong as it has been. Where you stand and can shake your fist at our politics, the politics of other nations could and would probably cut your legs out from under you. Make sure who is watching your back... I think I want the one who will take up for his brother, take up arms and fight for our freedoms rather than split a nation. We fight for new ideas, we are innovative, we are diverse, we are concerned but we are also logical... global warming isn't new, the ecological status of our world isn't only our concern so why are you thinking our policies are the only ones who are wrong?
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Monday August 14, 2006, 2:08 pm
JoAnn ... answer the same questions you asked, please:

Did you ride your horse or camel to work today? Do you walk everywhere you go? Do you only buy American products? If you aren't part of the solution and you still rant then you are part of the problem... Do you really know what the Iraqi's have in their arsenal? Have you personally been there or are you going on what the "media and the political biggotts" are saying?

I am retired, I walk or take the bus or train everywhere, I do NOT own a gas guzzling car. I've worked as a nurse and I've worked in TV broadcasting as well as being an inspector at the polls, so I do have some "life experience" ...

Lexington, KY .. .is that where you live? Have you ever travelled abroad?

A vote for any Republican? It’s a vote to kill another American soldier. By not deciding. By "staying the course". By not facing up to the reality that our troops’ lives and bodies are not to be squandered on corporate wars. The reason the Republicans don’t want the war to end is because they haven’t gotten an adequate return on their investment. That oil’s not flowing. "If we leave now, things will only get worse." Well, yeah. That’ll mean we didn’t get any oil at ALL!

Bring the troops home.

You and George Bush and good Republicans like Joe Lieberman don’t want to admit that the War in Iraq is a failure. You're all afraid to do anything that might Show Weakness In An Election Year. (And you see how well that worked out for Joe Lieberman.) Every day you all postpone facing up to the mess you’ve made, more soldiers die. DIE.

Not. Ever. Coming. Home.

Ever.

 

Thomas Panto (387)
Monday August 14, 2006, 2:41 pm
JoAnn,

We are DEFENDING HUMANITY from a POWER CORRUPTED RAGIME currently occupying our Capitol City and disolving our representative Democracy and burning our contitution.

If you take our contribution as a personal attack on you, and attack us personally then we can not help you discover the problem you and your children face.

. http://www.enabling.org/Journey_of_Life/One_Beginning/day03i.htm .

 
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