Ironic that these are the same people that want you to think they are strong on natl. defense huh?

The fake indignation is getting old.

What they really mean is-"Yeah, we know we've effed up...but we're in this together-which means you're going over the cliff with us America".

Sorry, but Americans are NOT that stupid.

Please tell something GOOD for this country this WH has done?

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still here.....

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W A I T I N G..

No-I can't think of anything either.

The public is also sick of GW/Cheney/mafia wanting to grab the reigns and take away civil rights-while appearing in flight suits-----only to muck it up and turn around and blame someone else.

I think the WH does not interpret that 70% against the war-as a reflection of public apathy, resentment, hostility towards ALL of thier policies.

They think they can create some sort of Straussian up is down-torture is good-wiretapping is necessary-which has left people scrambling for some sort of reality to hang on to.

I think most Americans have that foundational grounding of morals in themselves-and don't need to be told what they are or should be.

If they would get through that intrinsic prehistoric "fight or flight" mentality-and use thier higher brain and reasoning skills to look collectively at the past 7 yrs-this country could make GW just as irrelevant as he is.

I grew up not with my family and I not really ever being affected by war.

A good life.

A happy childhood.

a protected life.

Maybe because my sisters are both pregnant now-and one is using a family name of Henry-that my mom is finally looking into geneology and found that her uncle Henry was one who died at 19 in 44. Maybe I should give her a little credit-cut her some slack.

Maybe since I was in the healthcare field and saw more death, it's affected me more.It's not just like reading an obituary and saying "aww, poor Phil..how unfortunate.."----I saw it firsthand and thought more about it.

I've read about Jim Morrison(Doors) and how he was haunted by images he had seen of a wreck of some Native Americans-hence the recurring naked Indian dream..

I also had something similiar to happen to me at about age 12.

I don't know why but not a week goes by that I don't think of it.

A wreck-that was particularly gruesome-a head-on that just had happened. People were thrown and several were in the median face-down-blood pooled around thier heads.

Mom told all 3 of us to put our heads down-and actually physically held my youngest sisters head down.

I looked-and saw the whole thing.

I had nightmares for weeks.

Traumatized? yep, I guess obviously.

but I don't understand how seeing it in a hospital never bothered me the same way.

When I think about wars-I get the same gutteral sick feeling as when I think back to those people laying in the road dead.

I think the difference is that the wreck and wars are personal choices-that when used irresponsibly causes that same gruesomeness-same car-wreck casualties (of lives cut short). In a hospital, for the most part, it's natural causes due to natural ocurrances.

I hate thinking that: "if they'd just done this....all those lives would be spared." Yet that's exactly how I feel-like a bystander watching a car-wreck about to happen. I hate it.

I don't think peoples'/troops lives should be so expendable-so maybe its' a good thing to be so affected by horrible deaths...

so it doesn't happen again.

know what I mean B.?

RMP-Thanks for your service.

RMP you made me realize that rather than just blogging-I need to be more active. I plan to do that soon.

Even more than that-this Thanksgiving-I'm going to have some serious discussion with my parents and anyone else gathered around the table. I'm 44 (NOT a Boomer)-and have parents in thier 70s. I can remember my bridge-playing,gated community living,garden-club,never worked full-time mom making comments about Kerry-that the reason she would not vote for him (with wrinkled nose) "she just didn't like his hair".

seriously.

She said this.

My mother even sent me a piece of spam from one of her Rt.-wing female friends about Barack Obamas' name (Osama).

I went O F F-and replied to every name that was on the email list about how prejudiced this was.

Unfortunately, I live in the South-where much of this ignorant/indiffence is prominent(especially by women).

Boomers want to get angry over comments pointing any blame of this war and others-yet it is this complete obliviousness to finding actual facts that make this group want to put thier hands over their ears.

My mom (and many southern women) will use the argument that politics is just too "ugly" for them.

What they mean is-"just tell us what we want to hear-that's what we're brainwashed to think."

I know I'm stubborn, and very interested in politics-I know there are those who don't share the same views.

At this point in time and history, I don't plan on taking that as any sort of excuse.

The stakes are too high for our country right now.

I'm not willing to give up more of my civil rights.

Not willing to shift the debts of this war on my daughters' shoulders.

Not willing to see more Americans die needlessly.

Not willing to see oil companies continue to gouge the public.

Poor mom-she has no clue what she is in for this Thanksgiving-if I have to de-program though-that's what I'll do.