Here is one

[shraby]

angry man! He knows how to tell it like it is.
<http://indyweek.com/durham/current/news.html>

[jbm]

1. That was great!!

Thanks for the link! :)

[Vickers]

2. That is awesome! Folks, go read this one

It has lines like this:

"Journalists used to look for the smoking gun, but this time we have the cannons of Waterloo, we have Gettysburg and Sevastopol, we have enough gun smoke to cause asthma in heaven."

Har!

[Robbien]

3. It was very long but well worth the read. Thanks

He covered it all. And yes I have also never before had so much trouble typing because my fingers were trembling with the outrage.

[Taylor Mason Powell]

4. This is really fantastic.

:kick:

[leftofthedial]

5. tells it like it is

hard to believe L'il George's approval is even in the double digits.

[dbt]

6. Woo Fuckin' HOO!

This guy is all the way ON!

"the crazy bastards who annexed Baghdad:" Priceless!

:bounce:
dbt

[tnlefty]

13. I think that we should make this one stick

Maybe a t-shirt or bumpbersticker?

[LittleApple81]

7. He is absolutely fantastic. I am going to quote a part of it because

I know some DUers don't read unless they get a sample:

The irreducible truth is that the invasion of Iraq was the worst blunder, the most staggering miscarriage of judgment, the most fateful, egregious, deceitful abuse of power in the history of American foreign policy. If you don't believe it yet, just keep watching. Apologists strain to dismiss parallels with Vietnam, but the similarities are stunning. In every action our soldiers kill innocent civilians, and in every other action apparent innocents kill our soldiers--and there's never any way to sort them out. And now these acts of subhuman sadism, these little My Lais.

Since the defining moment of the Bush presidency, the preposterous flight-suit, Fox News-produced photo-op on the Abraham Lincoln in front of the banner that read "Mission Accomplished," the shaming truth is that everything has gone wrong. Just as it was bound to go wrong, as many of us predicted it would go wrong--if anything more hopelessly wrong than any of us would have dared to prophesy. Iraq is an epic train wreck, and there's not a single American citizen who's going to walk away unscathed.

The shame of this truth, of such a failure and so much deceit exposed, would have brought on mass resignations or votes of no confidence in any free country in the world. In Japan not long ago, there would have been ritual suicides, shamed officials disemboweling themselves with samurai swords. Yet up to this point--at least to the point where we see grinning soldiers taking pictures of each other over piles of naked Iraqis--neither the president, the vice president nor any of the individuals who urged and designed this debacle have resigned or been terminated--or even apologized. They have betrayed no familiarity with the concept of shame.

[maggrwaggr]

8. "no one can stop these people except you and me"

Ain't that the truth.

We're the only people who can stop the most dangerous country on the face of the earth.

No wonder I spend so much frikkin' time here.

Great article. I'm e-mailing it to everybody.

[calimary]

10. F-in' A, maggrwaggr. EVERYTHING you said, too.

Especially the "no wonder I spend so much frikkin' time here" part. Sure applies to me!

Man, this is blistering and I haven't even finished it. I'm printing out a copy. It's a keeper. Always amazing to see thoughts similar to my own, and plenty of others here, articulated by some other outsider.

This is another one of those "if he's writing this, OTHERS are thinking this" type of thing. But the real significance is how this is being said outside OUR tight little circle here. I'd expect this kind of outrage from any of us. Now that it's being articulated by others NOT in our direct sphere of influence, it's a VERY loud signal. Could THIS be the "mushroom cloud" that the White House now MOST deservedly faces?

[Nay]

9. Astounding and wonderful commentary. I'm taking it to work tomorrow.

Absolutely well done. It captures my outrage perfectly. A keeper.

[Poiuyt]

11. That's the best editorial I've read in a long time!

[trof]

12. Tell 'em!

[e-mail]

[Robbien]

18. Good idea. Done!

[Ms. Clio]

14. Incredible--thanks so much for finding this!!

"Every occupation is doomed. The only way you "win" a war of occupation is the old-fashioned way, the way Rome finally defeated the Carthaginians: kill all the fighters, enslave everyone else, raze the cities and sow the fields with salt."

(snip)

Conventional wisdom says that an incumbent president with a $200 million war chest cannot be defeated, and that one who commands a live, bleeding, suffering army in the field is doubly invincible. By this logic, the most destructively incompetent president since Andrew Johnson will be rewarded with a second term. That would probably mean a military draft and more wars in the oil countries and, under visionaries like Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, a chance for the United States to emulate 19th-century Paraguay, which simultaneously declared war on Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay and fought ferociously until 90 percent of the male population was dead.

(snip)

But the Chinese aren't coming to save us. Nothing and no one can stop these people except you and me, and the other 100 million or so American citizens who may vote in the November election. This isn't your conventional election, the usual dim-witted, media-managed Mister America contest where candidates vie for charm and style points and hire image coaches to help them act more confident and presidential. This is a referendum on what is arguably the most dismal performance by any incumbent president--and inarguably the biggest mistake. This is a referendum on George W. Bush, arguably the worst thing that has happened to the United States of America since the invention of the cathode ray tube.


(snip)

Am I polarized? I've never been a registered Democrat, I'm sick of this two-party straitjacket, I wish to God it didn't take Yale and a major American fortune to create a presidential candidate. The only current Democratic leaders who show me any courage are Nancy Pelosi and old Bob Byrd--Hillary Clinton has been especially cagy and gutless on this war--and John Kerry himself may leave a lot to be desired. He deserves your vote not because of anything he ever did or promises to do, but simply because he did not make this sick mess in Iraq and owes no allegiance to the sinister characters who designed it. And because his own "place in history," so important to the kind of men who run for president, would now rest entirely on his success in getting us out of it."



That's all of it, just exactly what I think,too, in one brilliant paragraph.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

15. I'm sending this one to everyone I know

KICK

Fantastic writing. He really crystallized it for me.

[mourningdove92]

16. Well done! I too, will be emailing this to everyone in my address book.

the best line, in my opinion is this:

I don't think it's accurate to describe America as polarized between Democrats and Republicans, or between liberals and conservatives. It's polarized between the people who believe George Bush and the people who do not.


the heart and soul of abb.

[phoebe]

20. Bush has enraged the Arab population with his stance over Israel

and the Jewish population with his overt ties to Saudi Arabia. G W Bush has played both ends against the middle and he's caught the rest of us in this nightmare. That is what is now alarmingly apparent.

[Alerter_]

17. My favorite quote

"If there's one American who actually believes that Operation Iraqi Freedom was about democracy for the poor Iraqis, then you, my friend, are too dangerously stupid to be allowed near a voting booth."

[never cry wolf]

19. Awesome editorial

Thanks so much for finding this, off it goes in my email.

[indigobusiness]

21. Stunning...I plugged this in

to another thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1610787#1611186

Thanks, I saw this earlier, but didn't bookmark it. A real scorcher.

[never cry wolf]

22. This piece deserves a big kick, EXCELLENT op-ed article!..n/t

[Ms. Clio]

23. kicking again because it really shouldn't be missed n/t

[maggrwaggr]

24. deserves yet another kick

:kick:

[shanti]

25. this is a great article

maybe people are waking up?

:kick:

[No2W2004]

26. This is perfect...it sums it all up beautifully!

I don't think it's accurate to describe America as polarized between Democrats and Republicans, or between liberals and conservatives. It's polarized between the people who believe George Bush and the people who do not. Thanks to some contested ballots in a state governed by the president's brother, a once-proud country has been delivered into the hands of liars, thugs, bullies, fanatics and thieves. The world pities or despises us, even as it fears us. What this election will test is the power of money and media to fool us, to obscure the truth and alter the obvious, to hide a great crime against the public trust under a blood-soaked flag. The most lavishly funded, most cynical, most sophisticated political campaign in human history will be out trolling for fools. I pray to God it doesn't catch you

[AnnitaR]

27. This is the part that got me...

<snip>

A quote I had underlined was from the testimony of Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials, not long before Hitler's vice-fuhrer poisoned himself in his jail cell:

"It is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."

<snip>

I have no words... only tears for what my country has become.

[Buns_of_Fire]

28. "If a spotted hyena stepped out of Air Force One...

wearing a baby-blue necktie, most Americans would salute and sing 'Hail to the Chief.'"

I never noticed (mostly because I almost get physically ill looking at the smirking bucket of walking pus) -- does boosh* have spots?

A :kick: for the morning crowd.

[laylah]

29. Awesome!

Thanks for the link...I have spread it far and wide...
Jenn

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. Man what a read! Concise, clear and correct!

Thanks for posting this! :toast:

[HootieMcBoob]

31. That is without a doubt one of the best articles I've ever read

about what's happening in this country today.

This is the article we need to copy and paste into email messages and send to everybody we know who we think might even be considering voting for Bush.

This has to be read by everybody.

So here's a kick :kick:

[Minstrel Boy]

32. Thank you! Best rant ever. n/t

[Jacobin]

33. MAJOR kick

Awesome!

Sums it all up.

Great read.

Highly recommended reading

[BeFree]

34. Don't blame me: I voted for Gore

Thanks for the kicks, kickers. This is a must read webwrite!

I'm not a sheeple!

[Oddman]

35. Loved it!

Thanks for the link! Has anybody posted it at the conservative forums?

[otohara]

36. Operation American Freedom

that was wonderful...

[never cry wolf]

37. Still deserves a kick!....n/t

[wtmusic]

38. Bookmark...bookmark....bookmark...

great read. A keeper