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August 22 , 2005
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"MR. GREGORY: Let me turn to something that you wrote in your book about Iraq--‘In the summer of 2002 ... the president began lobbying for an open-ended resolution empowering him to wage war on Iraq. ... Bush had made clear his intentions to wage war on Iraq in several of our private meetings …' What are you speaking about precisely, Senator?" "SEN. LOTT: Well, beginning in August that year and into the fall--in fact, beginning not too long after 9/11 … it was clear to me that he thought Iraq was a destabilizing force, was a danger and a growing danger, and that we were going to have to deal with that problem." Out of the mouths of Repuglican Senators and into the annals of history, George Bush had already made the decision to wage war on Iraq! It surely doesn't sound as though an honest attempt at diplomacy was ever a consideration or that war was the "last resort"!
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Even though his latest escapades more readily add to his qualifications as a Repuglican candidate for president, my suggestion would be, get out now Mr. Taft, while the getting out has only cost you $4000! The American people have grown weary of cronyism and corruption and I seriously doubt you could win national office in 2008!
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I can hear Karl now, telling George to get out there and do what you do best, get out there and rally the people, get out there and cheerlead louder and better than you've ever done before, because if you don't the Bush team is going down! Nothing he says will change the fact that by invading Iraq George Bush has created the impetus and opportunity for every radical extremist, under every grain of sand in the Middle-East and everywhere else on this planet, for that matter, to join bin Laden's holy war. Had Bush been a Lieutenant in bin Laden's army he would have been promoted to General for his accomplishments. No amount of cheerleading can change these results, no matter how many speeches, no matter how many times he repeats the same old slogans, no matter how much he tries to rally the crowd, George Bush cannot change the chaos and destruction he's created!!!
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One good thing about staunch, die hard supporters, when they finally realize they've been duped, God help those who pulled off the con! It is overwhelmingly difficult for one to admit to oneself you've been had, especially if your basic desire was for what you believed to be "for the good all," but when that light bulb finally comes on, frustration and anger become the dominant emotions that rise to a crescendo and fulminate into retaliation! Look out George Bush and Dick Cheney, your lies are coming home to roost, the American people have begun to conclude you guys are nothing more than con-artists, and from some you've taken their most treasured possession, someone they loved dearly, someone who can never be replaced, not even by a "noble cause"!
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And when it was over, the German people wondered how it all began! Controlling the media was just the beginning of Hitler's conquests!
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"... Limbaugh said Monday ... 'Her story is nothing more than forged documents. There's nothing about it that's real … It's not real.'" Watching her son's coffin lowered into the ground was real. Cindy Sheehan's grief is real. The very fact that those on the right are incapable of feeling compassion or empathy will be their eventual downfall! The words Cindy Sheehan speaks spring from the depths of her being, her words come from the love a mother has for her son. Her words are the result of her overwhelming grief in losing her son because Bush lied to the American people. Something you wouldn't understand Rush Limbaugh, because the drivel you spew and spit out each and every day comes from hate and is for the sake of money!
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When asked, "Was it worth it?" George Bush has a pat answer always involving "nobility" in one way or another, which I believe to him means, yes siree bobtail, it made a rich nobleman out of me and if you don't believe it, just take a gander at all the money I've made from this particular endeavor!! There is NOTHING NOBLE about ignoring an August 6th PDB which resulted in 9-11, nothing noble in flying off to Nebraska in the wake of the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil, nothing noble in lying to the American people in order to start a preemptive war in Iraq, nothing noble in scaring the beejeezus out of the American people and preemptively invading a country with "shock and awe," there is certainly nothing noble in the deaths of thousands of innocent people, and the deaths of over 1850+ American soldiers! So if you're looking for nobility in any of this disaster born of your desire, you, George Bush won't find it here.
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