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Thursday, December 4, 2008 09:35 AM
Original article: The buck stops where?

@Mark Denney

The Saudi's have fundraisers on TV for the families of terrorists. They set up Wahabi schools all over south Asia to fuel a fight against infidels. They funded those hijackers on 9-11. They are more responsible for the attack on us that Iraq ever was. We set the Kurds up to be attacked remember and then did nothing when they were attacked by Sadaam. The Iraqis began to torment the Kurds well before the first war with Iraq and afterward and yet we did nothing, the fact is we abandoned the Kurds after the first gulf war. Please. The neo-cons had been planning this since 1998, 9-11 gave them a reason because American's were scared shitless. They wanted to attack any Muslim anywhere. I will repeat again, Iraq did not attack us. If they did not attack us we had no legal reason to attack Iraq, it is a violation of International Law, then we violated the Geneva Conventions. You and I are never going to agree on this. I didn't support the war against Iraq from the beginning, I knew those folks in charge were lying. I worked for the DoE. The folks in the Whitehouse didn't want evidence that disproved what they wanted people to believe. But they did know there was evidence to the contrary and they didn't care. They never will care.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 10:15 AM
Original article: The buck stops where?

@Mark Denney

Actually I would have acted economically against the Saudi's long ago. Had Pres Clinton and the Republicans in the 90's had invested in alternative fuels (natural gas for one, which can power automobiles, funded focus fusion, funded cars that were fuel efficient like the care I owned in 1987 that got 55 miles to the gallon), but they did not. Had we implemented the plans in the 1970's to explore and fund alternate energies, perhaps this would not have happened at all. But in the 1990's oil was cheap again, so why would our government officials do anything differently, I mean they got tons of money from Oil companies right! I would have embargoed Saudi oil products immediately, I would have sued them in international courts, start a war, probably not. I would have pushed legislation making it illegal for American companies to do business in Saudi Arabia. Do you know anything about Saudi Arabia? The royal family and Saudi's themselves barely work they hire folks from places like the Philippines trap them in Saudi Arabia and use them as slaves. We certainly could have seen this coming they've been holding fund raisers for terrorists for more than 20 years. We would stop selling the Saudi military ANYTHING. They can fund these things because of our addiction to oil. The continue to fund terrorism. They continue to work against the US. They continue to be some of the worst offenders of human rights and we do nothing because they have oil.

Saturday, December 6, 2008 07:15 AM

OMG

I did the exact same thing! What a great idea Cary!

Sunday, December 7, 2008 07:58 AM

Matt Miller: Fool

Yeah I read his little essay in the Post yesterday. What an ridiculous article it was too. How much more secrecy is needed in the executive branch. I found it to be a intellectually dishonest essay. Miller is one of the problems isn't he. He wants more secrecy for the President, something we've had a bit much of lately. He is a foolish little man, but he doesn't care because he has now been published in the Washington Post.

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