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also wrong
[Read the article: If we leave Iraq, do we lose for good?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't say he stole the 2000 election, I said he stole both the 2000 and 2004 elections and there's plenty of evidence that he did just that. Are you aware that in the 2000 election in one county Al Gore received minus 16,000 votes according to the voting machine. A statistical impossibility and an obvious case of vote tampering. This is yet another great unexplored scandal of this administration. If you add in all the black citizens who were turned away at polling booths (because everyone knows you can't trust them not to vote Democrat) or made to stand for hours until they gave up and went away and all the people who found their names had been removed from the electoral roll because they were supposedly felons -they weren't but they still didn't get to vote- it might all start to add up for you. This isn't just about voting systems or hanging chads, this is about wholesale and deliberate voting fraud. Haven't you ever wondered why this administration despises the voters the way they do? They know they aren't an elected government and for them it's not about that. It's about them having a God given right to rule and if the voters are too stupid to vote the right way they'll take the election by fraud. And that's what they did.The man who owned the company that made the voting machines was a major contributor to the Republican party and I believe he later ran as governor of a state. The question is, how does this happen in a supposed democracy? Instead of hitting the denial button why don't you inform yourself about what's really going on? Your democracy is being destroyed before your eyes. If all of this happened in some backwater in Africa a lot of Americans would curl their lips and say 'Well you can't expect them to understand how democracy works. They're uneducated.' What you really need to get rid of, is the electoral colleges. This is a 19th century system based on the idea that 'The People' can't be trusted and every barrier possible must be put between them and the outcome they really want to vote for. Something your mainstream media has certainly taken to heart. 'The People' are so stupid they can't be told the truth about anything. And they aren't told the truth. The irony is that the American people are a hell of a lot smarter than the talking heads that clutter up 'News and Current Affairs' shows. Or perhaps that's the real problem. Fooling Americans and tricking them into voting against their own interests or into becoming so disillusioned that they don't bother to vote at all is a big job and if that fails,well,there's more than one way to skin a cat.
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The loss is yours
[Read the article: If we leave Iraq, do we lose for good?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I haven't lost a damn thing Capertree. America lost when Bush cheated his way into the White House and it's been losing ever since.It's all of a piece. The Bush administration's corrupt and dishonest behaviour is not an aberration, that was my point. This is how they think, how they fight elections and how they govern. That's why Bush gave 'clemency' to Scooter Libby for lying(committing perjury) for the team and protecting Cheney. The concept of right and wrong is just not there and you can fiddle while Rome burns all you like. If you don't want to face the truth no one can force you, but trying to fight each fact to a standstill doesn't change what those facts mean. American democracy is in real trouble and getting rid of Bush won't fix it. It's goes much deeper than that. Why fight corruption? Well, if you don't, it destroys your political, financial and legal system. If you think that's not a problem, don't lose any sleep over it. Fortunately there are people in politics and the law who know what's going on and they will face it and try to resist it even if people like you go on making excuses for inexcusable behaviour. Just remember that Nixon was prepared to dismantle any institution and fire any person who resisted him towards the end. One man refused to yield and that's what brought him down. If that one person does yield then you have a dictatorship. Bush and Cheney are moving in that direction right now but I'm sure you have an explanation for that. They're just protecting western civilization, aren't they?
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David Brooks- simpering ninny extraordinaire
[Read the article: The Iraq war is lost]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I admire the letter on David Brooks more than I can say! At last I know that someone else has had to sit there yelling and throwing their ratty old slippers at the TV screen whenever this simpering ninny appears. The only thing I cannot let pass unchallenged is the statement that David Brooks is smart. What are you saying!! If he's so damn smart why does he support the war in Iraq? The two can't possibly go together. If he's smart he couldn't possibly talk about George W.Bush without breaking into an hysterical giggle. But he doesn't. He smiles, he simpers, he pretends to be objective (they all do that) and sneakily defends whatever latest crime or idiocy Bush has been involved in. It's the sneakiness that makes me queasy. Smart? No. Cunning as a shithouse rat? Yes.
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Think about what you're not doing
[Read the article: The Iraq war is lost]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would like to dedicate a poem I found to the Republican members of the Congress who refuse to shit or get off the pot on the Iraq war.
Inscription for a War
Stranger go tell the Spartans
we died here obedient to their commands
(Inscription at Thermopylae)
Linger not stranger: shed no tear;
Go back to those who sent us here.
We are the young they drafted out
To wars their folly brought about.
Go tell those old men safe in bed,
We took their orders and are dead.
A.D. Hope