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May 30, 2006

More proof that what you see, on what has actually become the boob tube, is not real!  It’s astounding we have to find out from a foreign news service that American television, mainstream corporate media, is in cahoots with George Bush’s Office of Disinformation!  So much for the press here in America, what was once just ditto head pundits, has become ditto head televised “news”!

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"In a place like this, words fail; in the end, there can be only a dread silence, a silence which itself is a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?" Hmm, it seems these days there’s a new twist on seeking absolution---if the atrocities are so horrific as to be unforgivable, then there are some in this world who would blame it all on God!  Sorry, guys, even though God gave man the gift of choice, there were no guarantees man would chose the moral high ground!  God is not responsible for man’s depravity!

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Our sons and daughters were ordered to Iraq by the president of the United States, in the military, serving and defending America! If they die in that place, under orders, during that service, be it in fierce battle or by accident, they deserve Purple Heart recognition!

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“Every morning the streets of Baghdad are littered with dozens of bodies, bruised, torn, mutilated, executed only because they are Sunni or because they are Shiite. Power drills are an especially popular torture device.”  My heart aches for Iraq.  Democracy according to Bush is not democracy after all!

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“Just when President Bush was trying to accentuate the positive in Iraq and declare a new beginning in the war on terror, a rash of bad news comes from multiple fronts in the global struggle.”  The really bad news is that George Bush is the primary cause of all this bad news!  His father, though not a whole lot smarter, at least knew better than to invade Iraq and topple Saddam!  He knew the horrors that would be unleashed with an actual invasion of Baghdad, he knew the cost in lives, both American and innocent Iraqis.  But along comes Poppy’s boy, you know, the one who thinks he’s George Bush the smarter, and what do we get---worldwide chaos, endless war, death and destruction, and untold damage to America’s reputation that will take decades to overcome!  Poppy and his friends have traditionally bought George a way out of failure, but what about the rest of us, what will it take for America to succeed???

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The nightmare which has overtaken America will end only when the Repuglicans are run out of town for good! “... don't underestimate Jeb Bush's prospects as a future presidential contender, says former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich.”  If freedom and democracy really mean something to the American people, then the reign of Repuglicanism, this bunch of power hungry, dictator wannabees must stop here and now!

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Some men are capable of doing something so unbelievable as to believe no one would believe it!  Who would have believed the Supreme Court of the United States of America would overrule the people’s choice for president and install the loser in the Oval Office?  Who would have believed that a president would ignore a PDB warning, that terrorist “bin Laden was determined to strike within the U.S.,” and fly off for a month’s vacation at the ranch?  Who would have believed that a president would “fix the facts” and lie to wage a preemptive unnecessary war?  Who would have believed that the separation of church and state within America would be rendered null and void?  Who would have believed the Geneva Conventions would be deemed outdated by a president in America and he would then condone and even order up torture and abuse?  Who would have believed the Constitutional right to counsel and trial by a jury of peers would be tossed out the window and citizens would be held indefinitely?  Who would have believed an American president would sanction spying on American citizens?  And who would believe that “Operation Northwoods” has finally come to fruition with some updated alterations to fit a mad, crazy plan for world domination!

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