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June 14, 2006
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Rove may not be indicted but Rove is guilty! He knowingly leaked the identity of a covert CIA agent during a time of war and if this were an honest administration he would be indicted for committing Treason! But then this is the Bush administration, more commonly known as the administration that “declassifies” the intelligence and “fixes” the facts when it suits their purpose! Without Rove they know the “shrub” aka the president of the United States of America couldn’t achieve world domination! They know the “shrub” can’t even eat pretzels and watch TV alone, so accomplishing world domination would be out of the question without Rove!
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“COOPER: How optimistic is this White House that this trip to Baghdad, the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi death, could actually be the beginning of a bounce …?” WHAT A CROCK---to even try to put a positive spin on this accumulation of misguided bungles! First off, what’s so positive about the fact that it took two 500 lb. bombs to kill one terrorist who should have been captured (who knows now what myriad bits of information about the “insurgency” could have been gleaned from interrogating Zarqawi?), and what’s to be proud of when the “liberator” has to sneak into Iraq unannounced, guarded by 70,000 US troops, and then tell me what’s so good about an administration that finds its top advisor NOT being INDICTED cause for celebration! Come on, the only bounce that could possibly be considered positive is; BOUNCING Bush and this entire administration OUT OF OFFICE, OUT OF WASHINGTON and back to Crawford where they can do no further harm!
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One just has to wonder if the US military and the Bush administration know how utterly stupid and desperate they sound when they float such a ridiculous assertion as this regarding the recent suicides at Guantanamo ---“I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.” Has this guy been taking “senile” lessons from Donald Rumsfeld or what? If this kind of gobbledygook represents the intelligence of our military leadership then it’s no wonder we find ourselves in a quagmire in Iraq! It gets even worse--- “A top US official has described the suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a "good PR move to draw attention." When top US officials make such inane statements, you have to know they’ve just come from a session at the White House where George Bush extolled the virtues of reading “My Pet Goat”! And the final nail in this coffin of rhetoric comes from none other than the guardians of “fair and imbalanced” FOXNEWS. “Fox News announced it would refer henceforth to such suicides as 'homicide suicides' to let viewers know that they were actually attacks on American self-esteem.”
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Democracy just may have a chance at surviving the Bush administration because of the courage of Patriots like Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame! Joe Wilson refused to be intimidated, and willingly faced the Bush administration down, to bring the truth to the American people. He fought city hall, and I continue to hope he will win. Freedom and democracy depend on it!
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I would really like to believe that the Repuglicans who are switching their party affiliation to Democratic are sincere and it’s an honest turn around! I would really like to be able to trust their declared motives and that the change came out of a principled decision, but given they are Repuglicans, part and parcel of the culture of corruption, I have to question, is this just another Repuglican election strategy in how the Repuglican party intends to maintain their majority--by one Repug running against another Repug, as a Democrat, and thus in the end, no matter what, a Repug actually wins? Is this how they intend to get “bipartisan” cooperation in order to totally annihilate democracy? The whole thing has a Rovian smell to it and that means skullduggery and deceit lurking in the shadows feeding the beast!
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Does anyone honestly believe Jeb Bush is going to allow testing on voting machines that can actually guarantee a Repuglican victory? “Florida elections supervisors opposed a state proposal Monday that would require them to get approval before testing voting equipment. The issue, in part, resulted from a secret test several months ago when elections office workers hacked into a Diebold optical-scan voting system in Leon County to show that it could be made to produce false results.” It’s up to the voters in Florida and all across America to demand an end to “black box voting” that predetermines Repuglican winners!
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Frankly, this should scare the Bejeezzus out of everyone in America who consider themselves a patriot! To know the Repuglican Party can steal our votes should have every person in America who really cares about “Freedom and Democracy” up in arms! The Repuglican Party has murdered the very heart of Democracy by rigging the Democratic election process and stealing our votes! And to not speak up and speak out means the end of our most precious civil right, the very essence of Democracy, the right to vote and have that vote counted honestly! “The issue, in part, resulted from a secret test several months ago when elections office workers hacked into a Diebold optical-scan voting system in Leon County to show that it could be made to produce false results.” Don’t think for a moment this current culture of Repuglican corruption isn’t involved. If they’ll steal your money, for God’s sake, realize they will steal your vote!
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