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May 8, 2006
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Tom DeLay, the biggest hypocrite of all, calls the Democrats “hypocrites”! I haven’t stopped laughing since viewing his lying eyes on the tube Sunday A.M. All that can be said for DeLay at this point, is he is undoubtedly the most pathetic bug man exterminator to ever crawl around and contaminate the halls of Congress.
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Madmen are running the world, and if left to carry out their plan, there will be no world left to run!
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CIA Director Porter Goss resigned unexpectedly Friday. “I don't suppose it has anything to do with the fact that Goss is neck deep in the Wilkes-Corruption-and-Hookers story that's been burbling in the background all week. We don't know definitely why Goss pulled the plug yet. But the CIA Director doesn't march over to the White House and resign, effective immediately, unless something very big is up.” Hmm, I wonder what “very big is up”?
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“RUMSFELD: … why do you think that the men and women in uniform, every day when they came out of Kuwait and went into Iraq, put on chemical weapon protective suits? They honestly believed that there were chemical weapons, Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons on his own people previously, he'd used them on his neighbor, the Iranians, and they believed he had those weapons. We believed he had those weapons.” And just who was it that was shaking hands with Saddam after he used those weapons on the Iranians? Who condoned the use of those weapons? The name Rummie comes to mind!
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As I watch the Bush administration taking over every phase of government in this country, I am aware of how some people must have felt pre-WWII. In contemplating what does one do in the event this take over becomes complete, I am struck with the knowledge that those who had the vision to leave Germany, prior to a full and complete Nazi occupation, packed their bags and escaped the Third Reich by coming to America! But what does one do today, now that neo-conservative modern America has become everything those people left behind!
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"'This administration may be over,' Lance Tarrance, a chief architect of the Republicans' 1960s and '70s Southern strategy, told a gathering of journalists and political wonks last week. 'By and large, if you want to be tough about it, the relevancy of this administration on policy may be over.'" Maybe God does answer prayers!
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Doesn’t surprise me----mainstream corporate media is portraying the truth as rude! Rather than tell us the truth about Bush’s policies, they would be polite and just outright lie for him. Rather than tell the truth, they would support crimes against the Constitution and ultimately crimes against humanity, i.e., warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, torture and abuse, and preemptive unnecessary war that ends up killing thousands of innocent people! Yessiree bobtail, the American press has finally shed their cloak of “fair and balanced”! We’ve always known they were supporting all the wrong people and all the wrong causes!
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Has the Repuglican Party gotten so desperate about losing in November the newest ploy is to switch parties and rag on Bush’s horrific preemptive war in Iraq in hopes of appearing to be a Democrat? “Former state Sen. John Verkamp, who served 10 years in the Legislature as a Republican from Flagstaff, has switched over to the Democratic Party and plans to run on an anti-war platform.” Where has John Verkamp been for the last three and a half years? Why wasn’t he speaking out about Iraq before now? Just who does he think he’s kidding?
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In answering the question regarding the “Best Moment of Your Presidency,” George Bush has once again proven all the money in the world cannot buy class! "I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound (3.402 kilos) perch in my lake," says George Bush. Then again, given the mess he’s made of everything since stealing the presidency, perhaps catching a fish is his best moment!
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“Death in Iraq. It is relentless and incessant.” So writes Dahr Jamail for Truthout. And then in a letter from a friend in Iraq, “Death lurks everywhere in Iraq today. Keeping up with the numbers of dead is impossible … The numbers are being hidden … and the Badr, operating out of the Ministry of Interior, which is funded by the US, are making sure the numbers remain shrouded.” And yet, George Bush would have us believe things are going well in Iraq!
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And just where is that self-proclaimed moralist, that guardian of family values, Joe Lieberman, when it’s a Repuglican lying about things that have cost the lives of thousands of innocent people and over 2400 American soldiers? As a matter of fact, where are all those self-proclaimed custodians of morality who like to tell us all how to live our lives? Gasp, don’t tell me, but it's true, they’re hiding under that cloak of corruption pretending to be the voice of God!
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