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Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:39 AM
Original article: Quote of the day

More Doubts Erased Every Day

When will the minimal percentage (20 - 30%) still supporting Bush get the picture?

Every time Bush is asked to comment on anything but the weather he mumbles these incoherent ramblings full of destroyed syntax and misuse of the language.

Is the world laughing, or crying.

Thursday, March 27, 2008 03:40 PM

Get Out !

Nothing permanent that's good will happen until we leave.

We are invaders, a cancer that the Iraqi people barely tolerate but their patience is wearing thin.

What idiot thought up this war anyway - oops - I forgot that a small town in Texas is missing its idiot.

Friday, March 28, 2008 07:33 AM

GOP Lock-Step Politics

When you elect a Republican you are electing much more than the candidate. You are electing Karl Rove, Ronald Reagan, and a bunch of neocons holding the puppet strings that are attached to the candidate.

Any Republican in the White House will be following the GOP script hook, line, and sinker.

Saturday, March 29, 2008 08:40 AM

Where Is The Story ?

Why are we reading this here (thanks Glenn) when this should be appearing in the greater news media? Or did I miss this story in the N.Y. Times, perhaps?

This report points out, more than ever, the complete hogwash that is the creation of the Bush Administration. When the Attorney General stands before the public and lies outright we have lost our direction as a country and a society.

Saturday, March 29, 2008 09:07 AM

The SUV Mentality

I get a kick out of folks driving their SUVs to the recycling center to drop off their household items for recycling.

Since the USA uses more oil per person than any other country, shouldn't we be making the hard choices toward minimum fuel mileage for ALL vehicles not used explicitly for commercial purposes? Shouldn't we be taking a hard look at the availability of 12 mpg suvs and pickups being driven as family vehicles? Are 4,000 square foot homes for 3.5 people really needed? Shouldn't we ask why Americans consider it their "right" to wastefully consume finite resources and to pollute? Shouldn't we develop truly viable rail mass transit as done in Europe?

Don't ask about the cost for mass transit. If we can spent trillions of dollars to defeat a perceived threat in Iraq we can spend that much to head off a greater threat here at home.

Saturday, March 29, 2008 09:09 AM

Priceless !

"Some people think Mad Max was a science fiction fantasy.

I say it was a documentary."

Thank you Bill Owen.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 08:49 AM
Original article: John Yoo's war crimes

Torture Is Out Of The Closet

We all know that the use of torture exists worldwide. We know because its use has been alluded to, documented, photographed, fictionalized in novels and movies, and we know that just plain common sense knows what people are capable of in private.

When torture is exposed it becomes a legal and moral issue but the use of torture is universal, and common. We tolerate the knowledge of it up to the point when we are confronted with the question: Does America use torture?

Is it surprising that the Bush Administration is stupid enough to allow this dirty little secret to become common knowledge? Given this Administration's performance so far I'd say that it is in keeping with everything else it has done.

So let's nor get our underwear bunched up about this. We know torture exists and we know, or suspected, that our clandestine information-gathering operations used ot condoned the use of torture. "The End Justifies The Means" applies here.

Oh, wait. Wasn't that in the Communist Manifesto?

Thursday, April 3, 2008 03:09 PM

Wreckage

The wreckage left by the Bush Administration has yet to be fully disclosed, I fear.

On an almost daily basis we read about yet another failure caused by Bush and his pet idiots.

Someone, somwhere must be compiling a list of the failures caused by the stupidity, arrogance, lack of regulation and oversight, twisted facts, and outright lies of this Administration and an enabling Republican Congress.

This list should be carved on the gravestone of the Republican Party.

Friday, April 4, 2008 04:13 PM
Original article: The Obama difference

I Love Reading Ann Coulter's Rants

She is the pefect bottom-feeder, dredging up gossip and tidbits of useless information that she somehow manages to build into a column.

She is very funny at times, though. And I doubt that anyone would change their vote based upon her rants.

Her verbal attacks on Obama are hilarious and she would have you believe that Obama and Hitler are brothers-in-arms.

Far out!

Monday, April 7, 2008 01:07 PM

A Reminder

Let's be sure to remind, remind, remind war supporters that we shouldn't be in Iraq, in the first place.

This means that all the destruction, the dead, the wounded, and the displaced have been sacrificed in vain.

Monday, April 7, 2008 01:10 PM

Impossible !

It is not possible to underestimate the intelligence of the American public.

Monday, April 7, 2008 01:15 PM

If You Vote For McCain

You are voting for four more years of a Republican Party dominated by Karl Rove and the same bunch of fools that we have been forced to tolerate over the past seven years.

A change is needed. Not an exchange.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 08:24 AM

Progress ?

If you call the addition of 30,000 troops and a predictable drop in violence "progress", then you must be willing to keep those troops in Iraq indefinitely.

The "limited engagement" strategy we all heard about last year was just another Bush-Cheney smokescreen to cover up a permanent increase in our Iraq forces.

Iraq does not yet have a standing army capable of keeping the peace if we leave. That, in itself, tells the entire story. How many years does it take to pull together the necessary elements to train and equip an effective Iraqi force? Remember that Iraq had a standing army before we arrived.

Knowing the lies and deceit used by the Bush Administration to attack Iraq, I would not be surprised if our true objective is to keep a US military presence in Iraq indefinitely. A weak in ineffective Iraqi military is OK with Bush because our real reason for attacking Iraq may not have been the "threat" of WMD.

The real reason for attacking Iraq, I firmly believe, was to secure the production of oil.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 05:50 PM

Not Surprising

It's probable that every utterance by the Bush Administration concerning the war (or anything else, for that matter) is either a lie, or an attempt to spin the story so to minimize the damage to BushCo.

I cannot recall a more despicable Administration since the Richard Nixon presidency.

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