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Gordon Wagner

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 06:14 AM

Ron Paul and a couple of pesky facts

I realize that facts to Republicans are like garlic braids to vampires, but...

>question to the Ron Paul supporters: do you think the world would be a better place if we didn't liberate Kuwait? Maybe we shouldn't have intervened in WWII?

Did we "liberate" Kuwait? Why didn't the UN stop Kuwait from slant-drilling into Iraq's oil fields? Did the "liberation" of Kuwait need to involve the war crime of slaughtering retreating Iraqi troops? Did we intervene in WWII? I believe the official story is that we were attacked. And I'm sure that there's a valid national security reason for that November 1941 telegraphic exchange between FDR and Churchill to remain classified after all these years. Oh, my, yes. National security. I'm certain that the classified information would not reveal foreknowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which might have prevented the sinking at anchor of our largely outdated fleet. God must have allowed to US to put its modern ships to sea, some kind of divine providence, before the attack.

Ron Paul, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich are able to be heard via the Internet and stand out from their respective packs for the sole reason that it's bracing to hear any candidate give voice to a non-fascistic point of view.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 08:53 AM

Moral high ground? Are you putting me on?

>When you target unarmed innocent civilians, you lose the right to negotiate.

So, would that include the US war crimes in Fallujah if not the whole of Iraq? What about the preceding decade of illegal aerial bombardment of Iraq? What about the decades prior which saw the USA supporting the most heinous dictators on the planet in an effort to stem "communism" which was the boogey man before "Al Queda" was manufactured? Is the blood of literally millions of innocent people not on our hands? It's a miracle that the US hasn't drowned in innocent blood it has spilled.

I don't buy one word of the "Al Queda" 9/11/01 story, and neither should you. That false-flag operation excuses nothing -- torture, invasion and occupation are wrong. Bush43 are wrong to rape the Constitution. The level of unreality shot through the GOP candidates takes your breath away. Or it ought to, at least.

Thursday, May 17, 2007 08:19 AM
Original article: All hail the king

Impeachment. I'll tell you why.

Because Bush43 is INSANE. Disarm him now, BEFORE he can become the ultimate terrorist and detonate nuclear weapons (as American as apple pie) on Iran or Syria or whatever country Israel wants him to destroy next.

Rat in a drainditch / caught on a limb

You know better but I know him

Cheney first. Then Dubya. Get them out of office and out of power. How much more do you need to have revealed? These men are scum and deserve to be removed from office, not given further opportunity to demonstrate their criminality.

Thursday, May 17, 2007 04:23 PM
Original article: Wolfowitz agrees to quit

Why the end of June?

Walk his ass out of the office at once. "Agrees to quit"? WTF? He fucked up in a moronic manner and ought to be frog-marched out of his office, period. Goodbye, Paul, thanks for the Iraq occupation and everything. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. BTW your girlfriend is butt-ugly.

Saturday, May 19, 2007 07:40 AM
Original article: Who's afraid of Ron Paul?

Wait until you hear his opinion on the Federal Reserve

What would Rudy and Fox News/CNN say when faced with a GOP candidate who points out that the Federal Reserve and its fiat currency has severely hurt the US economy? Forget 9/11/01, the real fireworks begin when you focus on the Fed. Look where it got JFK...

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 06:41 AM

Roll-over-and-play-dead Democrats and the MSM

The MSM has been worse than useless to Americans for years and the Democrats have been complicit in allowing Bush43 to continue his occupation of Iraq.

Those two facts are why candidates like Gravel, Kucinich and Paul stand out from the more-of-the-same pack.

GK's article reminds me of excuses offered up by a battered wife as to why she cannot leave the marriage. Bush43 isn't a bad President, he's the worst President in US history by an enormous margin.

The Bush43 Presidential library ought to be an American version of Spandau prison, with Bush43 its sole occupant.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 06:57 AM

Embrace the horror

renewing suspicions the agency could be violating the law and using torture.

No! It cannot be!!

Here's a little morsel for the eager fascists who penned letters on this article: how about if Cheney and Bush43 are tortured in some secret prison until they give up what they REALLY know about 9/11/01?

I think that would be... enlightening. Door swings both ways, right? And waterboarding isn't really torture, is it? So why wait? A little debriefing for the boys? What do you say?

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 09:31 AM
Original article: Power to the people, 2.0

Bullshit manufactured Gary Hart candidates

No, thank you. Do. Not. Want.

How about more information on Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich? I remember Obama and Hillary trying to outdo one another with their fealty when groveling before the AIPAC convention earlier this year. Spare me the "anti-Semite" barbs and tell me I'm wrong.

Outside of Gravel and Kucinich I'd say that the alleged range of Democratic candidates were popped out of the same mold. I'd still like to hear why Kuncinich holding a copy of the Constitution was funny. And why the other debate participants had quiet smiles on their faces when Mike Gravel spoke. They may as well have been pod people from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 01:35 PM

Abramoff's SunCruz gambling boats and Mohammed Atta

Anybody in or near the MSM care to follow this story? Jack Abramoff's SunCruz gambling boats had Mohammed Atta as a guest pre-9/11/01.

What. An. Interesting. Coincidence.

No point in bringing up the "Israeli art student" spy ring which appeared to be shepherding the 9/11/01 perps. Probably. Just. Another. Interesting. Coincidence.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 02:44 PM

Did The Gonz coach a witness?

Gee, y'think?! Seems impossible. Especially a little Christian twinkette who's been brainwashed since birth. Think she was primed to accept a little more programming? Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Amen.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 06:58 PM

Make your own pet food

Not difficult and fairly cheap.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 07:49 PM

Darwinism at work

[filing nails]

Thursday, May 24, 2007 10:01 AM

Three words

Nationalize. Big. Oil.

Thursday, May 24, 2007 02:57 PM

It's more convenient for Big Ag to buy off Feds

Than it is to buy off each state one at a time. It's a matter of economics. Streamlining corruption. Eat the soylent green and shut up or we'll ship your butt to Gitmo.

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