more than half the american electorate know what the american government is doing, and approve of it. if they didn't approve, they would instruct their representatives to impeach bush and cheney.

under these conditions, emigration is the answer. i recommend switzerland or costa rica, or canada or australia or... well, lots of places don't run show trials, use torture, or drop bombs on wedding parties. find one that will let you in, in spite of an american passport.

detects a change in the weather? in a more perfect world, every one who had anything to do with gitmo would be looking at hard time, but maybe a change of course will preserve this birds career. he's a lawyer/politician/colonel, multi-talented and unsinkable.

what he isn't, is ethical.

you got all these soldiers, if you don't use, people will ask why their taxes are supporting a 'defense' machine bigger than the rest of the world, together. so naturally, you gotta use 'em. besides, using results in wear and destruction, so you can transform more taxes into mic profits. eisenhower saw the results and warned america, but somehow no one since has said anything.

news flash, folks: the bad guys won, they've been running america for a long time, you're not smart enough to see it, not brave enough to change it, and the rest of the world can expect visits by the american military every time dubya's dad wants to pump up carlyle group's profits.

naturally, they will strike back when and how they can. if there are any people left who think american foreign policy has no ill effects, such as the 9/11 attacks, they are as stupid as dubya is hypocritical. 3000 casualties should have provoked introspection, the expenses of preventing another such attack should have inspired someone to ask: "why are we so hated?" sorry, it's not because you're so wonderful.

hiatt's a dimwitted apologist for the current notably boof-headed regime. he shouldn't need a reply, but i suppose gg makes a living by 'outraging' several times a week. since he never has anything to say about 'why', he really isn't much more useful than hiatt, they are book-ends, in it for the money.

america's problems are much more serious, incurable most likely. you're just too dim, too ignorant, too arrogant to figure the world out. so you'll keep butting your collective head against reality, until finally the head breaks. it will, reality always has the last word.

in the meantime, choose yer 'king fer a day' as tho' it mattered. argue about 18c a gallon, as tho' this was more important than imperial war, melting polar caps, alternative power sources. and never, ever think think that killing people all around the world might have consequences 'not necessarily to the advantage' of americans not invested in munitions making.

has been slamming a pool cue across the usa's neck for 7 years now, and democrats are arguing?

keep your eyes on the main game, people: vote for any and every democrat you see. this isn't gonna fix all of america's problems, but it will greatly reduce the new ones mccain would bring you.

repeat before sleep: "democrats good, republicans bad! democrats good, republicans bad! democrats...."

you're voting for people, not for policies. you're electing a king, and hope for a good one, against all experience.

that's the result of living in an elective monarchy, rather than a genuine democracy. since you have no information about what they actually are going to do, you must try to guess: are they gonna bugger the nation up, or hold it together for another 4 years? it's hard to tell what kind of person you're handing sac and the usmc to, especially since what little you do know about candidates is half lies and the rest untrue. no wonder voters might be a little bitter, after getting bit by bush, and many, many others.

should be clear to everyone tho', the important contest is against mccain. both should be speaking against him, and letting voters judge who does it better. when they attack each other, they attack the people who depend on the democrat party to save the nation from the party of greed and arrogance.

when i was a young lad, the behavior of depraved gangsters was abhorred by every decent american. now 'decent' americans elect depraved gangsters to the highest offices.

in a nation without shame, and driven by greed, it is very appropriate that victims of evil should seek redress in a civil suit. everything is measured in money in america.

i thought 'free-fire zones' and the resulting mylai incidents plumbed the depths of immorality, but this generation is exploring new ground with the concept of collateral damage. anyone, anywhere is condemned to die if they happen to be in the blast radius of a bomb intended for someone the american president doesn't like.

for all it's sins, the nypd doesn't call an air strike on an apartment building in brooklyn because they think a mafia figure might be there. but the oval office is dealing with ragheads, sub-humans who don't vote in american elections.

it's no accident america doesn't dare submit to international law- half the beltway bandits would be living in a belgian cell.

are more fun to be around?

he represents america, more than half of whom would have been comfortable in nazi germany. dubya's grandfather, after all, was more than comfortable with the nazis, he went to jail for them.

that's why dubya was elected twice, you know: mainstream america backs the patriot act. so naturally, pollies who wish to prosper are unfazed by repressive laws. why do you complain about pollies earning their living?

if you were honest, you would castigate the people who vote for these pollies, but you and the pollies alike are pandering to the cattle. not a smidgen of difference, really, you both do it for the money.