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PRESIDENT BUSH: Hey hey hey!!! How about that wimp John Kerry. Are these guys pushovers or what?
KARL ROVE: No time to get cocky, George. We've still got six weeks to go.
PRESIDENT BUSH: What is that? Twenty-two days? We can handle it.
VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Hell, that'll fly by. These guys are even bigger whiners than we thought. It's almost embarrassing. Ha ha ha.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Why don't we just have the son-of-a-bitch rubbed out. He's still taller than you.
KARL ROVE: Telling that talk show host on national television that the war on terrorism can't be won was not part of the script, George. You have to be more careful.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Yeah, maybe you should stop campaigning with Jack Daniels.
PRESIDENT BUSH: You can go smooch Saddam again, Don.
VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Hell, Karl, these Democrats are so spineless George could do another reading of "My Pet Goat" on 60 Minutes and it won't matter. They didn't even pick up on what he said.
SECRETARY RIDGE: I believe John Kerry was out windsurfing that day. We had submarine surveillance on him.
KARL ROVE: No time to get cocky, George. We've still got six weeks to go.
PRESIDENT BUSH: What is that? Twenty-two days? We can handle it.
VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Hell, that'll fly by. These guys are even bigger whiners than we thought. It's almost embarrassing. Ha ha ha.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Why don't we just have the son-of-a-bitch rubbed out. He's still taller than you.
KARL ROVE: Telling that talk show host on national television that the war on terrorism can't be won was not part of the script, George. You have to be more careful.
SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Yeah, maybe you should stop campaigning with Jack Daniels.
PRESIDENT BUSH: You can go smooch Saddam again, Don.
VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Hell, Karl, these Democrats are so spineless George could do another reading of "My Pet Goat" on 60 Minutes and it won't matter. They didn't even pick up on what he said.
SECRETARY RIDGE: I believe John Kerry was out windsurfing that day. We had submarine surveillance on him.
When are we going to wake up and get the point? Now that we have counted
1,000+ dead soldiers in Iraq, isn't it about time to reconsider what we
are doing? There are no weapons of mass destruction - just lies. There
is no connection between September 11 and Iraq - just lies. There was no
connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda -just lies. The world and
especially America is not safer as a result of these actions. The Bush
administration continues to manipulate your emotions with constant false
alarms, vague warnings, or nonspecific information from unspecified
sources, and elevated color alerts. Does this make you feel safer?
AUSTIN, Texas --- Oh for heaven's sake, doesn't anyone know how to research a story anymore? I have never seen anything as silly as this ridiculous Republican chorus that, aha!, Ben Barnes is a Democrat and so we know he's lying!
The question is not whether Ben Barnes is a Democrat. Ben Barnes has never claimed to be nonpartisan or not to have any affiliation with the Kerry campaign. Of course he does. He's been a major Democratic player for years. The question is whether Ben Barnes is telling the truth about how he got George W. Bush in the Texas Air National Guard.
The ridiculous little blowhard Sean Hannity crowed on Fox "News" that "Ben Barnes testified under oath in 1999 that no member of the Bush family ever contacted him about getting into the Air National Guard." How true. Nor has he changed his story one whit. Barnes testified in 1999 that the man who called him about little George Bush was Sid Adger, Poppy George Bush's dear and good friend. Let's ask Poppy about Sid Adger and see some of that "famous Bush loyalty."
The question is not whether Ben Barnes is a Democrat. Ben Barnes has never claimed to be nonpartisan or not to have any affiliation with the Kerry campaign. Of course he does. He's been a major Democratic player for years. The question is whether Ben Barnes is telling the truth about how he got George W. Bush in the Texas Air National Guard.
The ridiculous little blowhard Sean Hannity crowed on Fox "News" that "Ben Barnes testified under oath in 1999 that no member of the Bush family ever contacted him about getting into the Air National Guard." How true. Nor has he changed his story one whit. Barnes testified in 1999 that the man who called him about little George Bush was Sid Adger, Poppy George Bush's dear and good friend. Let's ask Poppy about Sid Adger and see some of that "famous Bush loyalty."
Soon after the American death toll in Iraq passed the 1,000
mark, I thought of Saadoun Hammadi and some oratory he provided two
years ago.
At the time, Hammadi was the speaker of Iraq's National Assembly. "The U.S. administration is now speaking war," Hammadi said. "We are not going to turn the other cheek. We are going to fight. Not only our armed forces will fight. Our people will fight."
The date was Sept. 14, 2002. The venue was an ornate room inside a grand government building in Baghdad. And the gaunt elderly official was determined to make an impression on the four American visitors. So, with steel in his voice, Hammadi added: "I personally will fight."
Looking across the room, I tried to imagine this frail man pointing a rifle at American troops. He sounded awfully brave. And who was to say he wouldn't be on the front lines of Iraqi resistance to the invaders? Yet it was hard to picture him wielding a weapon against the armed forces of the world's only superpower.
At the time, Hammadi was the speaker of Iraq's National Assembly. "The U.S. administration is now speaking war," Hammadi said. "We are not going to turn the other cheek. We are going to fight. Not only our armed forces will fight. Our people will fight."
The date was Sept. 14, 2002. The venue was an ornate room inside a grand government building in Baghdad. And the gaunt elderly official was determined to make an impression on the four American visitors. So, with steel in his voice, Hammadi added: "I personally will fight."
Looking across the room, I tried to imagine this frail man pointing a rifle at American troops. He sounded awfully brave. And who was to say he wouldn't be on the front lines of Iraqi resistance to the invaders? Yet it was hard to picture him wielding a weapon against the armed forces of the world's only superpower.
unlike any conservative i know, i actually *read through the kerry testimony in
the 1970s. much to your disappointment, i'm sure, a great deal of kerry's
prepared testimony is about how vietnam vets aren't treated with enough respect
and help in the u.s, how they are in pain and have been forgotten. For
example, "I understand 57 percent of all those entering the VA hospitals talk
about suicide. Some 27 percent have tried, and they try because they come back
to this country and they have to face what they did in Vietnam, and then they
come back and find the indifference of a country that doesn't really care, that
doesn't really care."
while he is certainly critical of the war and the role of soliders in vietnam (and for a good reason!), he blames the chain of command and the leadership for the problems in vietnam ... not the soldiers. when he talks about soldiers as rapists and so on, he is telling what has been told to him by soldiers -- it is not an accusation. "They [the soliders giving testimony to Kerry's organization] relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do."
while he is certainly critical of the war and the role of soliders in vietnam (and for a good reason!), he blames the chain of command and the leadership for the problems in vietnam ... not the soldiers. when he talks about soldiers as rapists and so on, he is telling what has been told to him by soldiers -- it is not an accusation. "They [the soliders giving testimony to Kerry's organization] relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do."
AUSTIN, Texas -- The wire services are reporting that we just lost seven Marines in Fallujah. To use Linda Ellerbee's line, "And so it goes ..."
The way it does not, NOT go is as claimed last week at the Republican convention. I feel like the janitor in that photo of Madison Square Garden after the party, facing a sea of garbage that needs to be collected and thrown out. Even after several days and with alert bloggers to help, it's hard to catch all the lies. The number of things John Kerry is supposed to have said that he never said was the largest category.
-- Kerry never said we need to have a "sensitive war." (Bonus points if you can find Bush's references to our need for more sensitivity.)
-- Kerry never said we need other countries' permission to go to war.
-- Kerry has never failed to "support our troops in combat."
The way it does not, NOT go is as claimed last week at the Republican convention. I feel like the janitor in that photo of Madison Square Garden after the party, facing a sea of garbage that needs to be collected and thrown out. Even after several days and with alert bloggers to help, it's hard to catch all the lies. The number of things John Kerry is supposed to have said that he never said was the largest category.
-- Kerry never said we need to have a "sensitive war." (Bonus points if you can find Bush's references to our need for more sensitivity.)
-- Kerry never said we need other countries' permission to go to war.
-- Kerry has never failed to "support our troops in combat."
He's lost his voice since, but the best thing John Kerry did at the
Democratic convention was to challenge the bullying. He talked of the flag
belonging to all of us, and how "standing up to speak our minds is not a
challenge to patriotism [but] the heart and soul of patriotism." By doing
this, he drew the line against the pattern of intimidation that the Bush
administration has used to wage war on democracy itself.
A former Air Force Colonel I know described the administration's attitude toward dissent as "shut up and color," as if we were unruly eight-year-olds. Whatever we may think of Bush's particular policies, the most dangerous thing he's done is to promote a culture that equates questioning with treason. This threatens the very dialogue that's at the core of our republic.
A former Air Force Colonel I know described the administration's attitude toward dissent as "shut up and color," as if we were unruly eight-year-olds. Whatever we may think of Bush's particular policies, the most dangerous thing he's done is to promote a culture that equates questioning with treason. This threatens the very dialogue that's at the core of our republic.
Surprise! Surprise!! There have been no official terror alerts to interfere with the much-hyped Bush Bounce following last week's Republican National Convention.
And after waiting through the Labor Day weekend, with trial balloons floating about the long-awaited Osama Surprise, it's easy to see why.
Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge has issued two terror alerts during the presidential campaign. One immediately followed John Kerry's choice of John Edwards as his running mate. The other immediately followed the Democratic National Convention.
The timing could not have been more obvious. Edwards' nomination generated a huge buzz for the Democrats. But the major media instantly turned to the intricacies of Ridge's bizarre, apocalyptic scare scam.
Then came a successful DNC. Again Ridge instantly screamed out breathless tales of a terrorist wolf, while the media slobbered at the door.
Ridge had only stale snippets, with no solid evidence for an imminent attack. There was no attack, and no arrests.
And after waiting through the Labor Day weekend, with trial balloons floating about the long-awaited Osama Surprise, it's easy to see why.
Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge has issued two terror alerts during the presidential campaign. One immediately followed John Kerry's choice of John Edwards as his running mate. The other immediately followed the Democratic National Convention.
The timing could not have been more obvious. Edwards' nomination generated a huge buzz for the Democrats. But the major media instantly turned to the intricacies of Ridge's bizarre, apocalyptic scare scam.
Then came a successful DNC. Again Ridge instantly screamed out breathless tales of a terrorist wolf, while the media slobbered at the door.
Ridge had only stale snippets, with no solid evidence for an imminent attack. There was no attack, and no arrests.
In letter after letter, I see people protesting that President Bush has
done and is doing a good job on the war on terror. But in every one of
these missives, the underlying fearful thought is the same:
I don't want to throw away my rabbit's foot.
This mystifies me, as I cannot see what such people find "lucky" or protective in George W. Bush. Yes, he did make a speech at the Statue of Liberty on the night of September 11, 2001, urging us to be brave, promising protection from further terrorist attacks and vowing Biblical revenge upon those who brought down the Twin Towers. But he was also the president who ignored multiple intelligence warnings that terrorists were planning to fly planes into tall buildings.
He is not a rabbit's foot of good fortune. To paraphrase considerably an old 60's expression, he is not the solution, he is the problem.
Michael J. Lombardi
I don't want to throw away my rabbit's foot.
This mystifies me, as I cannot see what such people find "lucky" or protective in George W. Bush. Yes, he did make a speech at the Statue of Liberty on the night of September 11, 2001, urging us to be brave, promising protection from further terrorist attacks and vowing Biblical revenge upon those who brought down the Twin Towers. But he was also the president who ignored multiple intelligence warnings that terrorists were planning to fly planes into tall buildings.
He is not a rabbit's foot of good fortune. To paraphrase considerably an old 60's expression, he is not the solution, he is the problem.
Michael J. Lombardi
Bob,
I enjoyed your article about Bush, Hitler & Religion; I grew up in US
churches and sensed all along that they were rigged by some quasi-Nazi
group with a few tricks up its sleeve, like maybe starting war for fun and
profit...
You might already know about "ACCESS DENIED For Reasons of National
Security", just out from Mark & Cathy Phillips. They have evidence most
of the press is afraid to talk about; in fact, they were talking at one
point with Danny Casolaro, and you know what happened there.
...This is their 2nd book, their first one, published in 1995, awakened a lot of people; I have
gotten to know them well and find that their statements all check out.
Kenyon Gibson, author: "Hemp for Victory", "Commons Sense: A Study of the Bushes, the
CIA, and the Suspicions Regarding 9/11".