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Mark E. Smith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 09:45 PM
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Bush Dismisses Bloodshed In Iraq As "Just A Comma"
Crooks and Liars September 24, 2006 (video attached)

BLITZER: Let's move on and talk a little bit about Iraq. Because this is a huge, huge
issue, as you know, for the American public, a lot of concern that perhaps they
are on the verge of a civil war - if not already a civil war - We see these horrible
bodies showing up. Tortured, mutilation. The Shia and the Sunni, the Iranians
apparently having a negative role. Of course, al Qaeda in Iraq is still operating.

BUSH: Yes, you see - you see it on TV, and that's the power of an enemy that is
willing to kill innocent people. But there's also an unbelievable will and resiliency
by the Iraqi people ... Admittedly, it seems like a decade ago. I like to tell people
when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma
because there is - my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.

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Crooks & Liars - This is an appalling statement to make. With a civil war full of Iraqi bloodshed and over 20,000
of our men and women killed or wounded since the war started - one would think this might matter more than a
simple pause. Apparently it doesn't.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/24/bush-dismisses-bloodshed-in-iraq-as-just-a-comma

Bush is as cold as he is stupid.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 09:48 PM
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1. W says the dead troops are a comma, Snow says just a #
In the meantime we are a willing partner to genocide.
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:03 PM
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13. And a Colin helped start the war.
Colin Powell.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 09:57 PM
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2. An absolutely appalling statement by someone who is stealing my
oxygen.

Talk about sentence structure..."an unbelievable will and resiliency
by the Iraqi people" ...

"just like a comma"

I would give up everything that I own for 10 minutes alone in a room with that fuckface.
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 09:59 PM
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3. and farting methane. What a waste of human life. nt
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PerceptionManagement Donating Member (226 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:21 AM
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33. That's his legacy: A Personal Sense of Over-Entitlement and no Compassion.
Selfish,conceited and murderously wrong.
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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:57 AM
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34. Bush lives in his LASSEIZ FAIRYLAND
He lives in his little Galt's Gulch dream world, just like every other paranoid freak.
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Greylyn58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 10:09 PM
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4. You know the Shrub has made some appalling
Edited on Sun Sep-24-06 10:11 PM by Greylyn58
statements over the course of his pResidency in our WH, but I have to say this has to be one of the coldest. The man has all the compassion of a rock and he rates a total zero in the empathy department. I doubt very much if he's ever had an honest, loving feeling about anyone in his entire life.

How much blood and death does he require. Even a Vampire would be overloaded by now!!

Damn!!!!!

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

~Mahatma Gandhi







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durtee librul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 01:53 PM
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51. And yet he has a story on MSN today
about how compassionate he is with widows and greiving parents in private as he doesn't want to 'tarnish' his image as a tough leader by letting the public see his tears....

Puullllleeez....will someone stop him? I will try and find the link again and post it here. Story wants to make you puke.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 10:14 PM
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5. so, will democrats run with this FREE macaca moment from Bush?
my moderate repub neighbor mentioned this remark to me! before I read about here.

He just could not believe what a heartless and callous thing to say about American and Iraqi lives.

he said it was....ta da...."unchristian".

so are the dems gonna let this golden moment pass, let the clinton interview thing pass?

I hope not. and I emailed our senators to suggest they do not let these things pass.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm
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Mark E. Smith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 10:17 PM
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8. F*cking well better
Even if I have to travel to Washington DC myself and pound on
Howard Dean's door until my fist bleeds.
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 10:15 PM
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6. Pssssst!! George!! Your sociopathic side is showing!
Quick! Start talkin' 'bout Jeezus!!
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 10:16 PM
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7. tell it to the mothers, daughters, sons & fathers of the dead
What an arrogant, outrageous remark.
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doubleplusgood Donating Member (810 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 10:31 PM
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9. the Ends justifies the Means
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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 10:33 PM
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10. What a hateful, miserable little pustule of a man. eom
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wanpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 10:42 PM
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11. please explain this theory to the families of the fallen soldiers and the
families of the more than 100K Iraqi's, innocent by the way, killed in your "comma", Mr. president.
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ninkasi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:03 PM
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12. He is a sociopath
One of the reasons rational people use when arguing against the use of torture, is that aside from the fact that torture is always wrong, they claim that other countries will retaliate by torturing our troops. Bush does not care. He does not care how many of our own citizens are killed, or permanently injured, in body or mind or both. He does not care if the invasion he insisted on is destroying Iraq, and creating more terrorists.

He cares about one thing, and one thing only. He cares about imposing his own warped beliefs on every person who opposes him. He does not care for the heartbreak of others, even American citizens, as shown by his lack of response after Katrina claimed so many American lives.

The only view he has of the world is one which means that every single issue, every decision, must be made according to his own beliefs. Think of Ted Bundy, or Charles Manson having complete control over this country, and essentially being the most powerful person in the world. This is what has happened to us. We have the equivalent of Bundy, or Manson, or Hitler squatting in the Oval Office, and he, like they would be, are not moved by pleas, or mercy, or compassion.

The longer he stays in office without the people of this country voting Democrats into power, and making loud and clear demands for impeaching him, the lower we will sink in every civilized country's eyes. That is one of the many reasons we have to regain control of at least one, and preferably both, houses of Congress. Remember this about Bush...he does not care. It's all just a comma to him.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 02:21 AM
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21. Remember those two captured and tortued troops a few months back?
They were captured, brutally tortured, and finally killed because they belong to the same unit as those four or five soldiers that raped a 14-year old girl after killing her family, then they killed her as well and torched the house in an attempt to cover it up.

When you disrespect the Iraqis, you do the work of Al-Qaeda for them. And it is your squadmates that will pay the price.
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ninkasi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 03:04 AM
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25. Exactly!
The sad truth is that the more bloodshed and agony we inflict on Iraq, the more dangerous our lives and the lives of our troops will be. I am just having an extremely hard time trying to find any redeeming qualities among Republicans in general, and Bush in particular. Invading a country who hasn't attacked us, and acting with increasing barbarity against people whose main gripe is our invasion of their country, is very obviously not working.

I wish that once, just once the Congress would put up a united front, and demand that we enter into a dialog with the people we are now killing. I do not want to believe that our country is so morally corrupt that most of us agree with Dubya.

All we can do is keep opposing, keep supporting liberals and progressives, and stamp this unbridled lust for power and and show of what the neocons believe is merely manly. They are deluded. We must never go down that dark corridor with them. I, for one, am not willing to risk my family, or Iraqi's families, to sate the lust Bush has for raw power.
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LiberalHeart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:20 PM
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14. I wonder if Cindy has heard this sickening comment.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:09 AM
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44. She heard it. She was on Washington Journal this morning and said,
"My son was not a comma."
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:31 PM
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15. Where's Truman Capote when you need him?
In Cold Blood doesn't have anything on the sociopath in chief.
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:43 PM
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16. The words of a heartless mass-murderer " a comma"
I am wondering if the people who call the US "the great Satan" are right on in this case.

Bush = fake blue collar Satan
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darkism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-24-06 11:43 PM
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17. This seems prime for a KO response on Monday's Countdown
Although I don't think Keith should be doing too many of those "special commentaries" so as not to dilute their punch, this is just BEGGING for one...and he hasn't had one in two weeks now.

Hmmmm...
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wellst0nev0ter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 12:03 AM
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18. "Just A Comma"
yeah, fuck you very much monkeyboy :grr:
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 02:46 AM
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23. just a comma. a number, a date
and when the military death toll hit 2,604 it was "just a number"

But I just gave him a patient smile. "2,740 dead Americans may seem like a big number to you," I explained, "But almost as many American soldiers -- 2,604 -- have now been killed in the Iraq war. And a number like this isn't a sign of some sort of problem -- as White House spokesman Tony Snow put it when U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached the 2,500 mark, it's just 'a number'! It doesn't mean anything!"
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/editorial/detail.asp?onNews=&GRP=i&id=88946

and on 1st anniversary of Katrina fiasco is was "just a date"

"It's a time to remember that people suffered and it's a time to recommit ourselves to helping them," Bush said Wednesday. "But I also want people to remember that a one-year anniversary is just that, because it's going to require a long time to help these people rebuild."
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2006/08/bush-visits-new-orleans-farts-around.html
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 01:26 PM
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47. And don't forget contradicta's" "it's SIXTEEN WORDS!"
Trying to dismiss and diminish the significance of that outright LIE in the State of the Union address about Iraq purportedly trying to buy uranium from Africa.
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Tellurian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 01:55 AM
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19. McCain...are you listening here..
All the torture you've endured is just a "comma"!

When are you going to stand up to your maniac Commander in Chief
and jump over to the Demos or at least the Indys..

You should know by now they consider your suffering no more
than a historical punctuation mark. Have you come all this
way, laying your life on the line to be treated like a
disposable subhuman?

Wake Up, McCain, it's later than you think!
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TheWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 02:14 AM
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20. After reading this I DARE, I absolutely DARE anyone to justify
This piece of shit's right to exist.

I DARE you.
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lumpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 02:37 AM
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22. ".....that's the power of an enemy that is willing to
kill innocent people". That SOB has the audacity of even mentioning the killing of innocent people. Let alone saying...."when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like jst a comma...."
Fucking bastard. One can hope that all soldiers in Iraq who are putting their lives on the line because of this lying bastard hears these words. The families of those sacrificing for Bush's war should show their outrage. Every person in this country should be condemning this man who is ruining lives and our very future. Every politician in this country should be calling for an end to this corrupt administration.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 02:55 AM
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24. This from the guy who's just an astrick. n/t
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 01:27 PM
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48. GOOD one!
Excellent!
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 04:31 AM
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54. Well, he's going to have one after his name forever
Regarding the 2000 and 2004 elections. We know Bush won due to a deliberate inaccurate and biased recount of the Florida ballots, and due to massive voter fraud and disenfranchisement in Ohio. Astrick city!
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Scairp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 03:05 AM
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26. WTF does that even mean?
I certainly don't understand it, but then half the shite that comes out of his piehole I don't get.
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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 03:07 AM
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27. Not a surprising statement really from your Texecutioner
.
.
.

Y'all got too many bloodlusting voters down there

yeah, I realize there was a SELECTION down there,

But still

Many WANTED this KILLER IN OFFICE!!



(sigh)
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 03:50 AM
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28. Not only is it a stunningly stupid comment...
but yet again Bush shows his the shortcomings of his vocabulary (one thinks the word he wanted was 'parenthesis').
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VWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:02 AM
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35. No, I think the idiot meant "comment"
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DrZeeLit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 05:23 AM
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29. A low estimate has Iraq deaths at 20,000 -- I guess * would think
(geez...did I say "think"??? let me rephrase that)

I guess somebody musta put in his head that bit about the comma.

But most rational individuals would consider 20,000 dead more like an action verb.

And Darfur (sp)? Must be a paragraph? Unless, and this is probably closer to the truth... it's the whole darn "My Pet Goat" all over again and he's not touching it!

What a jerk.
He might as well say "bring it on" -- oh, he did that already, didn't he?

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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 05:41 AM
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30. It's easy to spit out flip and nasty remarks when you're an ignorant
frat boy who went AWOL when it was his turn. And his turn didn't even involved real bullets.
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 06:07 AM
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31. So what does that make
each individual casuality?

A micro-pixel? A speck of dust?
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 07:17 AM
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32. when commas go bad
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 01:30 PM
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49. Holy crap - more than 29-HUNDRED "commas."
Edited on Mon Sep-25-06 01:31 PM by calimary
Maybe he thinks they're no better than the frogs he used to stuff with firecrackers to throw up into the air and watch explode. Or the fraternity pledges who were little more than brand-worthy cattle to him.

Every time I think I can't be any further sickened or revolted by this asshole, he proves me wrong again.
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BigDDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:21 AM
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36. He doesnt want to worry
his "beautiful mind" over a comma.
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nodehopper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:29 AM
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37. what do they mean, 20,000 of our men and women?
It really irks me when independent media runs commentary that is factually inaccurate, that allows the corporate Faux-type media to make a strawman out of it.
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 08:52 AM
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38. if Bill Clinton had said this it would be the headline on every
news outlet.
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 09:23 AM
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39. Plane load of Bush's commas.
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 09:30 AM
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40. More proof that Bush is a colon.
Sadly, though, the Democratic Leadership seems to be an ellipsis.
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 09:42 AM
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41. Somebody needs to beat that fascist with a clue stick
Tens of thousands dead, in often horrible, horrible ways, and it's a fucking comma. Someone should put a boot so far up that shithead's ass the laces come out his nose.
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Marie26 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 09:47 AM
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42. There's something so odd
about the way he speaks. There isn't one actual sentence in that whole quote.
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 10:58 AM
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43. "I like to tell people........." Therein lies the problem. Bush likes to
tell people what they should think. He is so arrogant he thinks he has all of the answers. No need to listen to what people who have actually studied an issue might have to say. Bush does not know squat about the history of the Middle East or the Iraqi people or what they might want.
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 09:45 PM
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53. The heart of privilege
He believes in divine right. To him, he fact that he comes from many generations of wealth and power is simply proof of his inherent superiority. Those who impede his domination must be quashed.

His insistent and consistent intrusions on the identities of others (by bestowing nicknames) and personal space (by unrequested neck rubs) just makes me want to have my mobile phone go off in his presence.
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leQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 11:22 AM
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45. is there any MSM coverage of this yet? (eom)
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nealmhughes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 01:10 PM
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46. Here is my open letter calling for impeachment.
Screeching Rats
Hope for a better tomorrow and defeat of corporate power and neoconservatism.
Home
SCREECHING RATS!

An Open Letter to George W. Bush and the People of the United States

It was Tom Paine who began Common Sense with a simple proclamation that “These are the times which try mens souls.” Such could not be more true now than when Mr. Paine of blessed memory wrote them over 200 years previous. Our souls are sorely tried, sir, by the current stream of thought and action coming from your White House (the author is loathe to call the building at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, our White House).

Sir, your administration is an utter failure. You sought revanche against a small band of religious fanatics and have instead of delivering them to the hands of justice, wrought havok upon the nation which harbored them and upon another independent republic which you and your administration used as a pretext to destroy. You and you alone played guitar and ate birthday cake while your own ministers worried about how far to roll up their sleeves or else ignored pleas while a city drowned. Any man with a sense of honor should have offered his resignation to the Congress over a year ago. You have not. Instead of the proverbial roses and candies being tossed to our troops in Baghdad, we find them cannon fodder for a warped neo-conservative worldview.

You place untold men and youths into a foreign detention center out of communication with their families, legal representation or even a mechanism for trying them for their alleged crimes. Your Department of Justice kidnapped a citizen of a close ally of the United States while en route to his home from a family vacation to a third country where he was tortured and offer no explaination for this act. In former times, this ally might consider it an act bordering upon an undeclared act of war.

Your administration is attempting to weasel its way through the Constitution, basic human rights under the UN Universal Declaration, and the common sense of decency as understood by most people in the world by finding an apology for torture — agressive interrogation — non-fatal physical discomfort — or whatever you may call it. The world thought that the last public outrage over legal torture had ended before Voltaire drew his last breath, but such is not the case.

Your Secretary of Defense, one Donald Rumsfeld, is obviously incompotent in directing a war of any magnitude. The BBC reported the following this very evening, the 24th of September, 2006 regarding the “leak” of a classified document that surmised that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was in fact, abetting the “terrorism” which you so loudly decry:

Last Updated: Sunday, 24 September 2006, 17:19 GMT 18:19 UK

The BBC’s defence correspondent Rob Watson says this is not the first time the US intelligence community has said that the war in Iraq has made the problem of Islamist extremism worse.

Indeed it had warned that might happen even before the US-led invasion in 2003.

Pakistan man waving Osama Bin Laden poster
Many have been inspired by al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden
But, our correspondent says, this latest finding, known as a National Intelligence Estimate, is the most comprehensive report yet, based on the considered analysis of all 16 of the US intelligence agencies.

According to the New York Times, which has spoken to officials who have either read it, or been involved in drafting it, the report says the invasion and occupation of Iraq has spawned a new generation of Islamic radicalism that has spread across the globe.



It reportedly concludes that, while al-Qaeda may have been weakened since the 11 September 2001 attacks, the radical Islamic movement worldwide has strengthened with the formation of new groups and cells who are inspired by Osama Bin Laden, but not under his direct control….

This is the same SecDef who has been quoted in the press as saying that the next person who brought up the “reconstruction” of Iraq to him during the hot war there “will be fired.” He is your minister, Mr. Bush. He is hand in glove with your and your collective obviously erroneous assessment of “staying the course.” The morgues in Baghdad continue to be the most popular place for impromptu get togethers in the city as the last two months saw over 2000 persons murdered in the area, many with signs of torture and still bound…

Your Vice President, Richard Cheney, is not fit to preside over a school board meeting, much less the Senate of the United States of America. His corporate ties are not hidden to anyone; one wonders where his allegiance lies: to the country or his oil corporation cronies?

Your Attorney General, is a talking perversion of our ancient Anglo-Saxon tradition within the Common Law as well as our current statutes. His inverted sense of justice is an outrage. His refusal to hold timely trials or to even establish a system of holding them in accordance of anything resembling a legitimate court of justice — of advocating the basic near-universal rights of a defendent to have access to all evidence both potentially exculpatory and incriminating under the veil of “state secret” is dispicable. He does not deserve to be a member of any bar, much less the AG of the USA.

Mr. Bush, you have ignored pleas for peace and an open administration, driven us into national penury and yet found time for vacation upon vacation. One wonders who actually governs? This writer has little faith in our present Congress, and none at all in your administration. None. For the sake of the country and what dignity we have left, please resign and take Messrs. Cheney, Rumsfeld and Gonzales with you.

In closing sir, your administration currently jangles sabres at the state of the Islamic Republic of Iran. What Iran is doing is what multiple states, even those in this hemisphere is doing, and that is enrich Uranium for the use of power reactors. The very program in which Iran is currently engaged is one begun by President Eisenhower! It lay in stasis for many years, but began again after the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution which ousted the tryant Reza Pahlavi, the soi-disant “Shah.” Those close to your administration claim that Iran is developing enrichment technology in order to produce a nuclear bomb. Reputable researchers from around the world disclaim their ability to assemble any such weapon at their current rate of development for perhaps ten years. The consequences of a war with Iran would be utter disaster for the United States, the neighbors of Iran and the country of Iran. Every analysist knows this. You know this. Why let the sabre-rattling continue? To make us live in fear? To make us into two camps, one that is “terrorist-enabling” (the current opposition party) and one of “patriots and terrorist slayers” (the other major political party)?

No, Mr. Bush, we aren’t afraid. We know your game and it disgusts us. It is time for you to return to Texas. I call upon you to resign or else for the House of Representatives to impeach and the Senate to try you for high crimes and misdomenors. I call for the same actions towards your VP and the cabinet officers identified above.

Mr. Bush and fellow citizens, the government is ours, not Mr. Bush’s and Mr. Cheney’s. The House and Senate represent us and have the power of the purse and oversight and to declare war, not the President. Allow us to close with a reflection on the words of James Madison:

“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes…known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”


http://screechingrats.wordpress.com/2006/09/25/an-open-letter-to-george-w-bush-and-the-people-of-the-united-states/
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file83 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 01:38 PM
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50. Here are all 2700 commas, Mr. President:
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-25-06 01:55 PM
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52. "(A)n enemy that is willing to kill innocent people"
I consider any one willing to kill innocent people an enemy, Frat Boy.



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