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Saturday, Jul 4, 2009
It has been strange watching Bush flail around this spring as his ratings plummet, he seems so small. People are turning sour on him and his Operation Iraqi Quagmire. Just wait till the taxpayer is presented with the bill: estimates run to at least a trillion dollars. I'm sure that the tax hike to pay that off will be very popular. And don't fool yourself, it's coming folks. We can't keep borrowing forever. So many lives have been ruined that people want to know why this happened. Tuesday Bush was asked point blank: why did you invade Baghdad? His final answer was that Saddam kicked out the inspectors: wrong! This seems to be a myth that has taken root in Bush's mind, but really in the months before invasion there were 2000 inspectors in Iraq. We need true leaders in this country and Bush has got to start telling the truth.
Clifton Goodwin
I've had it with the Democrats. They have no back bone whatsoever.
Voted for Bu$h's war, its continued funding, and the UnPatriot Act.
Come November I'm voting Green and Libertarian. Good riddance you cowardly democats!
I leave you with the wise words from Thomas Paine:
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."
I remember the summer of 1998 very well. After Clinton's lie was exposed he couldn't stop apologizing for it and the press wouldn't let him alone (or the Republicans). Remember he had been cornered into that lie over a personal matter because his entire Presidency, 1993-1998, had been investigated for acts prior to coming to office. And what have we found since then were the fruits of those investigations? Nothing illegal.
So there really is a bigger issue here. The Republicans couldn't believe that the will of the people was to elect Bill Clinton president in 1992 over George Bush (a war President after the Gulf war). So the Republicans did everything they could to thwart the will of the people by undermining the will of the people and trying to destroy Bill Clinton's Presidency. It didn't work, but it wasted taxpayer dollars and it invaded President Clinton's private life--and the polls showed that in the 1998 mid-term elections.
Unfortunately, this country had two extremely catastrophic events happen very close to one another. The dot.com bubble burst and 9/11. They both cause economic turmoil, huge loss of life and shock. Americans were and are scared. We needed real leaders. Instead of using this opportunity to unify this country and provide real leadership, the people running this country at the time seized this moment as a power grab for their own personal political gain. And there is blame to be spread everywhere for the situation that we are in now, yet until people are willing to accept there part in this we can't move forward.
Thank Joe Conason for continuing to point out President Bush's LIES because they are LIES. Until the press is willing to accept there part in this mess, admit there errors and what they, and begin reporting News and holding this administration accountable, MSM is not worth .25 a day, reading or watching. The Daily Show is mention often as fake news, but John Stewart does a much better job of report news and holding both sides of the aisle accountable than any MSM outlet around today. The New York Times, The Post, NBC, ABC and CBS could learn something from John Stewart (I won't even bother mentioning FOX).
The Democrats authorized Bush to go to War in Iraq and the Patriot Act. Yes, the Republicans play dirty politics and they may have done so out of fear for job security, but look did that fear work for you Dems? You are still in the minority. It might help you if you admit your mistakes, come clean and accept responsibility for YOUR part in this mess.
This country is deep in debt, we are losing jobs, our soldiers are dying in a war that has nothing to do with 9/11 (which happened almost 4 years ago) Osama is still out there, health care is a mess, companies continue to lay people off but they hire new people only as independent contractors and no benefits, wages are stagnant, the environment is crumbling and people is Washington are beholden to corporations. What is going on!
To bring it all home, Clinton's lies were about his person life. Bush's LIES are about life, death, our taxpayer dollars and the very future of this country. Which one is more moral?
Almost no one in America remembers Vietnam and the lies that began it, so why should they remember yet another lie from their President? I understand that what passes for the news in America is instead black propaganda. What I don't understand is why Americans care so little that they don't educate themselves about their government and more importantly their history. A few hours on the internet would put the lie to the lies.
So I can only conclude that most people in America simply don't care. They don't care about the 500,000 "extra deaths" caused by 10 years of sanctions. And they certainly don't care, or even notice, the 130,000 killed since then. As far as I can tell from here in Canada, they don't even care about 2000 plus dead Americans! So why should they notice a lie about something that does not interest them? Why would a little lie bother them, when a pile of bodies that if stacked up, would reach into space, seems not to perturb the American psyche at all?
Your President lies all the time, he does so on behalf of the ruling oligarchy, the demons at PNAC, and of course, your good good friends in Israel. He lies so that Americans can continue to be fatter than anyone in the world, he does it so you can drive 2 SUV's and live in 6000 square foot houses. He lies for you, and if you don't love him for it, well at least you do him the courtesy of not mentioning his insane and easily refuted lies.
I remember when the inspectors were asked to leave, and I remember why. Am I special, am I a genius,? No, but I do care, so I remember.
When will America care? When the war affects them, when it kills them, then, and only then they will care. America has not just lost it's way, it has gone insane. Bush is the President you deserve. Only an American needs Joe Conason to "remind" people that Bush is liar. Liar - he's a freaking monster, and history, if there is one, will depict him that way.
Bill Owen
Ottawa, Ontario
The Wasilla soap opera just gets weirder as Palin complains critics are "picking apart a good point guard"
The media outlet's use of Bush euphemisms sparks a much-needed debate on journalistic standards.
And so are his Fox News pals, who lambasted Sen. Al Franken's "stolen election"
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Thanks for sharing, Governor. Now please take a cue from Norm Coleman, and go away
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