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August 15 , 2005
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How do they sleep at night, and how can they look at themselves in the mirror? How does a man relinquish everything for "The Party"? The Repuglicans had better start asking themselves the real question---are George Bush and this whole cabal called the Bush administration really worth it? Are the Bushies more important to you than honesty and decency, character and integrity, freedom and democracy? Each and every flag-draped coffin returning home deserves the truth, their families deserve to know the real reasons behind the deaths of those they love who cannot be replaced, those who have given their lives for Bush's lies. America has earned the right to know the truth!!
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George Bush has time to ride his bicycle, but he doesn't have time to meet with a mother, Cindy Sheehan, whose son's life was prematurely taken from her because Bush ordered troops into Iraq based on lies! If Lance Armstrong is really about the business of promoting bicycling, you'd think he'd choose a better model! Just the thought of Bush cycling for publicity and pleasure, while our sons and daughters are giving their lives in his trumped up war, is abhorrent!
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From the looks of things, George is more like Poppy than even he ever hoped to be! George can count the profits and run, now that he's given the gift of an entire country to the terrorists. Aren't the cities and palaces he's provided much better than the mountains and caves, what more can bin Laden want? George can always watch the impending disaster he started from afar, isn't that the Bush family motto after all? Save your political skin while you can, no matter that the sons and daughters of America have given their lives for the bombs and bullets he ordered up. No matter that intrigue, innuendo, lies, and devious behavior were the necessary components for his war of greed, now that he's raked in the profits, he can run, he does not have to pass go, all he has left to do is run with the loot. As for the American people, well there's a whole lot of them that believe money spells success, and the more money he ends up with the more successful he's been, doesn't really matter how he got it, in the end for them, it's only the money that matters, it doesn't matter how many people died because of his efforts. As for the Iraqi people, well he will fugettabout 'em, they are now "responsible" and they can either sink or swim, they did it before and they can do it again! Besides, it was all done for a "noble cause," and as a result, he will claim success and still sleep well at night! And the "base" remains intact awaiting Jeb!
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Cultural and political issues take a back seat at the funerals of loved ones; grief, mourning, and misery are the emotions that take over when one must witness the coffins of once living, breathing, vibrant family members lowered into the ground. To know the smiles, the laughter, the kindness, the caring, the love will no longer be shared is overwhelming, and will not be forgotten to accommodate the "progress" of a bunch of diabolical liars intent on world domination. Preemptive wars based on lies do not equal a "noble cause"! The death of someone you love is definitely not "progress." And "evil" comes in more than one form!
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If allowed to continue, George Bush will accomplish the inevitable demise of the Repuglican Party!! In just 5 short years he will have undone what has taken decades to build---years of think-tank planning, plotting, financing, and promoting will be over! The chaos of the Nixon years, followed by the insanity America is experiencing under George Bush, will most certainly doom the Repuglican party. As the Repuglicans in Congress continue their attempts to cover up the truth, as they continue to put the "classified" misdeeds of an insane administration above the best interests of America, they are in effect writing their own epitaph, and quite frankly, it really can't happen to a nastier, meaner, more devious bunch of political plotters soon enough!
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George Bush out of arrogance and stupidity, in an effort to show Poppy just who is the better man, plunged headlong into a mess that wiser men who came before him knew to be disaster! Those wiser souls knew the chaos that would result from an invasion, they knew the internal competing factions within Iraq could not come to resolution, they knew an invasion would result in inevitable massive death and destruction, they knew there was a better way, a way to avoid the death and destruction of countless thousands of innocent people, they knew a "cold war" was certainly a much wiser solution than "shock and awe." George Bush in his ignorance has unleashed hell on earth! I wonder, if and when the time comes, exactly how will he explain it all? "Noble Cause" does not and cannot justify the death and destruction; it's nothing more than a rhetorical excuse, an echo with an empty ring!
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