Pill Popping Rush Limbaugh came out recently saying troops that don’t back the strategy in Iraq are “phoney soldiers”.
I caught this on youtube and thought it was appropriate.
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Apparently a Spanish official has released a transcript of a private talk between Dubya and Jose Maria Aznar of Spain in early 2003.
The gist of the conversation is that Dubya is going to invade regardless of what the world thinks, and is dead set on the “fact” that Saddam is an immediate threat to the US.
He also believed that the takeover would happen without widespread destruction.
Even with the Spanish prime minister pleading for patience and for letting diplomacy handle Iraq, the decider would not accept any else’s advice.
There is a crude Google translation of the transcript in the article
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003646639
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This girl really went off the deep end. Seriously, Athiests are not the problem, and in my never so humble opinion, Athiests are traditionally more accepting than those with devout religions conviction. I’ve never seen an Athiests go door to door trying to convert people, I’ve never heard of an Atheist blowing themselves up.
My Rebuttal :
First off nutbag, “In God We Trust” was added to the currency in around 1837, it is not in the Constitution, it is not in the Declaration so it is not what this country was founded on. The country was founded with the consideration that all people should be able to worship in any way they saw fit, which includes the “non-believers”. You cannot push your views on another person, which is why Prayer should not be in schools. What would you say if we instituted Prayer in schools and forced everyone to Pray to Jesus, Muhammad, Budda, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Krishna, L. Ron Hubbard and whatever else you can think of? Would that be better? Or is it better to have you do that in the privacy of your own home, church, mosque, synagogue? How can practicing nothing be evil? And how the hell does being an Atheist have anything to do with Crime…even without the bible most people know right from wrong, and what is acceptable behavior. The 10 commandments, I consider to be human truths rather than religious truths. These are things that are engrained into the basic makeup of people, and that is why those themes are carried throughout most major religions.
You really need to get off your horse and realize that not everyone (thank God) thinks the way you do.
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For the first time in 31 years the Canadian Dollar is now in parity with the US dollar. The Canucks actually have run a budget surplus 10 of the last 11 years. The economy is so weak here that we are now on par with Canada.
Maybe we should take a closer look to our friends in the North. Seems they have it going on, rising currency value, national health care and no Bush.
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There really isn’t any dissenting opinion in the scientific community about global warming, the facts speak for themselves (RENT An Inconvenient Truth). A report is due to be filed today from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, basically saying that we need to do something now.
The Oil companies hate this idea, because fossil fuels account for most of the CO2 emissions, they want to keep reporting record earnings.
Excerpt : “Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.”
So if the facts don’t support your opinion or business model, bribe someone to make shit up.
Of course the lobby group has strong ties to the Bush administration, the administration that REFUSED to ratify the Kyoto accords.
It boggles the mind that we would not be doing everything we can to preserve the planet we have to live on, the economic damages from global warming FAR outweigh the cost of fighting it, yet corporations and governments refuse to take measures.
WAKE UP!
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Here is a group of brave people fighting for their rights and freedoms!
From DU: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364×2561501
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Looks like Hans Blix is in the news again. He is quoted in comments published in the Danish newspaper Politiken.
“Iraq is a pure failure,” Blix was quoted as saying
“If the Americans pull out, there is a risk that they will leave a country in civil war. At the same time it doesn’t seem that the United States can help to stabilize the situation by staying there.”
A lot of people have been saying this for a while, although I tend to agree that Saddam was an evil man, it might have taken a personality like that to keep a country like Iraq togather.
Here is the rest of the article
It has come to light that one of the current forms of “torture” used by the CIA to interrogate the detainees in Gitmo is waterboarding. Fine, I really don’t think WHAT kind of torture we do matters, just that we TORTURE people. I digress, the thing about waterboarding is that it is easily definable, and that it is documented that the US has CHARGED people and CONVICTED them for the practice :
On the issue of waterboarding, the United States charged Yukio Asano, a Japanese officer on May 1 to 28, 1947, with war crimes. The offenses were recounted by John Henry Burton, a civilian victim: After taking me down into the hallway they laid me out on a stretcher and strapped me on. The stretcher was then stood on end with my head almost touching the floor and my feet in the air. They then began pouring water over my face and at times it was impossible for me to breathe without sucking in water. The torture continued and continued. Yukio Asano was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor. We punished people with fifteen years of hard labor when waterboarding was used against Americans in World War II.
And waterboarding is specifiially listed and prohibited in the Human Intelligence Collector Operations section of the Army field manual.
But all this is ok because Mr. Bush says that we don’t torture. I would like to know what Mr. Bush considers torture.
I came across this little tidbit on Habeus Corpus.
Responding to abusive detention of persons without legal authority, public pressure on the English Parliament caused them to adopt this act, which established a critical right that was later written into the Constitution for the United States.
So lets look at this a little further, the American Colonists began to revolt against the English for abusive detention, to the point that the English Parliment passed the Habeus Corpus Act of 1679.
So where are the American people 327 years later when it is taken away? It is a sad day in this country, Habeus Corpus has been removed from our list of freedoms at the discretion of the President, and a “collective sigh” can be heard throughout the country. With the enlightenment of 300+ years, you would think that the American people have become wiser and more involved, but in fact the opposite has happened. If people respondend this way in the 1700’s we would all still be drinking tea and eating fish and chips.
“History will ask ‘Where were you and what did you do when this thing was singed into law?’”
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