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December 2 , 2005
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I’m still hoping to see Karl Rove “frogmarched” out of the White House in handcuffs! If anyone was ever more deserving of it than he, hmm, a pause to add to that, now that I’m thinking about it, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, and Donald Rumsfeld makes for good thoughts of Justice being served! And throw in Karen Hughes for good measure!
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This week brought a disparaging shriek just yesterday as I heard none other than George Bush announce a “Welcome to the Christmas Pageant for Peace” on the televised Tree Lighting ceremony at the White House! Somehow the man who ordered up a preemptive unnecessary war in Iraq sanctimoniously uttering the word PEACE was beyond belief. More lies, more propaganda, more cover-up, leaves us with an ever increasing feeling of dread. Bush told us, in his canned speech, the assault on Tel Afar was led by the Iraqis, and oops, we find out from someone who was actually there it was an American-led assault. Also in the news is a story about a soldier returning home with radiation disease caused from the use of American weapons of mass destruction containing Depleted Uranium. We find out that “genocide” is being conducted in Iraq and that many Iraqis believe conditions there were better under Saddam---so much for “freedom and democracy”! We’ve heard rumors that George is becoming more paranoid, more delusional and more determined, which does not bode well for America. We also discovered Bush’s nomination for the Supreme Court, Alito, actually does have a strategy to overturn Roe v. Wade. The good news, a majority of Americans are on to the diabolical machinations of George Bush and his entire administration, the Repuglican Party is in disarray and it’s becoming an every man and/or woman for themselves scenario, more charges are being brought against those who used political positions of power to extort money and bestow favors, and, thanks to John Murtha, the debate on what to do in Iraq has begun. Perhaps there is some room for HOPE after all.
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Do not discount the stories about the use of Depleted Uranium---our soldiers are returning home bearing the effects and the scars of having inhaled microscopic radioactive dust as a result of exploding Depleted Uranium weaponry! If in fact DU was safe to use as the Pentagon insists, why in God’s name would Army Doctors try and dissuade troops returning home from being tested for DU, unless there’s a cover-up going on? I am reminded of Tuskegee and all the government denials way back then, I am reminded of the cover-ups regarding testing of the Atomic-bomb pre and post World War II and how this government chooses to forge ahead even when they know the results of what they are doing is devastatingly destructive. Recently there were articles stating, “It is unlikely that there is a threshold of radiation exposure below which cancers are not induced”, which is enough for me to know the use of Depleted Uranium is dangerous! Weapons of Mass Destruction come in many forms, and are not limited to use by foreign governments. We are subjecting our soldiers to radiation poisoning resulting from the use of Depleted Uranium, we are poisoning the atmosphere, and it could very well be an ill wind that blows it all back on us! Remember, what goes around comes around!
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You just have to wonder how guys like Bob Woodward must feel, if they are capable of feeling after having been caught up in the money-making machine of lies, manipulation, and war? How do they feel when they see the unspeakable horrors of the effects of White Phosphorus on innocent civilians caught in the cross fire of battle as a result of an unnecessary war, the Abu Ghraib pictures depicting torture and abuse beyond anyone’s imagination, the flag-draped coffins on airplanes returning to Dover knowing that families are grieving the loss of someone they loved dearly, the appalling diabolical beheadings of hostages by terrorists, children now orphans in the streets of Baghdad because their parents were victims of “shock and awe,” a president who continues to lie to the American people, an administration hell-bent on death and destruction, you have to wonder how the Woodwards in this world feel, knowing they are as guilty as this administration in the cause and effect of the war because they, too, lied by omission in the run up to this preemptive, unnecessary war! The United States Mainstream Corporate Media has failed its duty and fiduciary responsibility to the American people, to the troops, and most egregiously to the innocent people of Iraq! USMCM aided and abetted an insane pre-conceived plot to wage war in Iraq and begin the march on world domination!
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Rumor has it, right after the State of the Union, Cheney, Rove, and Card are going to get the axe! And no one’s better at it than that old battle axe herself, Barbara Bush, First mother to her boy George! It’s no wonder George is the most irresponsible, ne’er do well, dirt bag slacker---Babs has never held him responsible for anything, we can see where he gets it, it’s always been blame, blame, blame someone else for his mistakes, and mother’s always been there to back her little boy up!!!
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“BUSH: This year in Tal Afar it was a very different story. The assault was primarily led by Iraqi security forces, 11 Iraqi battalions backed by five coalition battalions providing support.” OOPS, FOILED, CAUGHT LYING AGAIN! [Time Reporter Michael] “WARE: I was in that battle from the very beginning to the very end. I was with Iraqi units right there on the front line as they were battling with al Qaeda. They were not leading. They were being led by the U.S. green beret special forces with them. Green berets who were following an American plan of attack who were advancing with these Iraqi units as and when they were told to do so by the American battle planners. The Iraqis led nothing.”
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