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Subject: Democratic vs. GOP Presidents

Bush was forced to creep in the back door of the White House after his 2000 selection after his limo was pelted by eggs. He was heckled in the Parliament of Australia. He was snuck in the back door of Buckingham Palace while his likeness was toppled by 250,000 livid Londoners in the street out front. He was forced to meet on an offshore island in Spain under heavy guard. Ireland required the largest force in its history to protect him from tens of thousands of protestors. He is contemplating not speaking before the Parliament of Canada for fear of being publicly ridiculed once more. In Chile, nearly thirty thousand protestors jeered him while his Secret Service got in a fisticuffs with that nation's elite police. And these are our allies that so hate his guts!

Wherever Clinton ventures in the world he is enthusiastically greeted "as a cross between JFK and Elvis." JFK himself was met by 1 million wildly excited fans in Berlin. And another million in Frankfurt. Two million waved American flags screaming "Vive le President!" in Paris streets. In South America, in Ireland, Italy, Canada everywhere he traveled he was beloved, admired, and cheered. In Pakistan and India hundreds of thousands flooded the Ganges river in flowers, and filled streets to cheer Jackie Kennedy when she made good will tours on the President's behalf. They called her "Durga, Goddess of Power" and
"America's Queen." Tens of millions of citizens around the globe gave likenesses of JFK and Jackie places of honor in their homes. Leaders from Nehru to De Gaulle and even our enemies like the Soviet premier professed crushes on America's First Lady.

No amount of spin will change world opinion about the vile Bush junta. Except for his blind followers, the world's people know the difference between genuine decency, intelligence and caring versus a thieving, lying, mass murdering thug cartel. As Ghandi said every brute in history gets what they deserve....and so eventually will Napoleon Bonehead.

Suzanne
San Francisco

Subject: Vote FLIPPING, Kerry to Bush, is the answer! (As sent to Keith Olbermann and media outlets)

Hello Keith,

I think you totally missed the most probable explanation for the Bush win. The votes were flipped from Kerry to Bush electronically. All of the capabilities were built into the machines to do exactly that when they were manufactured. Why would anyone devise a system to steal elections if they didn't plan to use it? If you want probable cause, all the manufacturers have direct ties to the Republican party, some of whom stated their intent to deliver the vote to President Bush! Republicans consistently strive to suppress minority voters by any means possible, and they are inventing new methods every election cycle. Why???

The exit polls were NOT flawed! The disparity, or "flip flop," by voters in highly Democratic registered counties, is farcical! Logical thinking would assume that the long lines of voters in highly Democratic areas, where all types of voter suppression have now been
"documented by sworn testimony," intended to vote for Democrats! Furthermore, those people who endured long waits in line because of too few voting machines tells me they were pissed at Bush's policies and were determined to change administrations! Why has the constant issue of Republican harassment been ignored by the media? To name only a few, changed polling places without notifying voters, mailings to voters that Democrats were to vote Wednesday instead of Tuesday because of the larger than expected turn out, mailings stating they would be arrested at the polls if they owed child support or had outstanding warrants, etc. etc. This is Republican strategy, pure and simple, they CANNOT WIN A FAIR ELECTION! What is more astounding is the perpetrators of THE FRAUD AGAINST DEMOCRACY are rewarded following the elections with "parties in their honor" and advancement in Republican politics! I know this for a fact!

Saul, the Judge in Florida that refused to "examine the ballots" during the high profile trial, essentially gave Bush the State of Florida. Katherine Harris who did all she could do as Secretary of State "and" Bush campaign chairman in Florida to assure Bush a Florida victory, were honored in Topeka, Kansas as "Hero and Heroine" for their contribution to the Bush victory in 2000! Then you have Blackwell in Ohio in 2004! How much proof does the media need to raise at least one eyebrow in concern for Voting integrity? Every bit of proof, every insinuation, every coincidence, every suspicious voting discrepancy shows a Bush gain and a Kerry deficit. The circumstantial evidence is overwhelming and should, at the very least, merit an investigation by the media, not a condemnation of those of us that are living through this fiasco! THEY FLIPPED THE VOTES!

Conclusion, with the exception of one, Keith Olbermann & MSNBC, the other Media Corporate sponsors of the Bush Administration, SUCK! Is that stated plainly enough? We have been robbed, we are being robbed again, and the Corporate media is a willing accomplice! I guess the campaign advertising plus the relaxation of further concentration of media ownership by Bush supporters is a hurdle Democrats can never hope to clear. If this problem isn't resolved now, you can kiss Democracy in the United States, GOODBYE!

Sincerely,

Daryl D. Heslop,
Neosho Falls, Kansas

P.S. Keith keep up the good work, we still have a chance to win for our country! We know it will not be easy, but it is a battle we MUST WIN or the country we love will cease to exist! We didn't fight WW II to defeat Fascism to lay down and welcome it in 2004. The voting public needs to have at least part of the information that people like us have "dug up." We can never educate them without a free press doing their job. You are the
only light shining on the atrocity at the moment, I commend you for that. We need many more, like you, to have ANY CHANCE OF SUCCESS

Subject: Why?

Why doesn't the Kerry campaign or the DNC in the face of overwhelming evidence that the 2004 election was rigged use their $45 million+ fund and army of lawyers to fight this fraud, theft and racketeering in court? This is about the future of western civilization and the planet. They are failing.

Why did the oxymoronically named DLC appoint pro-gun, pro-life, unknown what's-his-name Reid to minority whip instead of Senator Kerry who has national name recognition, a following and a voice? When will the positively asinine DLC get it that America doesn't benefit from GOP-lite?

Why are Senator Leahy and other Democrats not planning to block Bush's nomination for Attorney General when Gonzales has committed known crimes against US and International law? When are the Democrats in Congress going to stand together in one heroic voice?

Why do friends and family who shopped and watched "reality TV" while I spent 18 hours a day for three years protesting, writing letters, researching, making calls, campaigning, writing a book, and also trying to warn them that Democracy was on life-support while they planned to vote for Bush...now question my imminent move to France? For them I have a one word reply: Au revoir.

Suzanne
San Francisco

Subject: Bush's Canadian trip

Your headline caught my eye! On this particular chat room I visit...because we can discuss politics like minded...there are many Canadians. Many of them have talked with much trepidation about Bush's visit...and the fear of people in Canada not taking kindly to him.

From everything they say...Canadians do not like him at all...and do not want him there. They are constantly offering us a haven if we want to move.

For some of us....that is not an option...but they are very concerned about their
neighbors to the South.

Shirley.......St. Louis

Subject: George W's jacket in Chile

I hope someone caught the lack of a bulge in George's jacket at the meetings in Chile.
It looks to me like he hired a new tailor, or he was more afraid of debating than of 25,000 protestors. Just look at the video of the fracas with the security personnel.

Best Regards and keep up the good work,

Bush Intervenes In APEC Fracas (CBS News)

Ken Rich

Subject: Why The USA Must Reject Bush's Evil "Marquis de Sade" Nominee For Attorney
General: Alberto Gonzales Wrote "Torture Memo" That Laid Groundwork For Abu Ghraib

There was a bipartisan consensus on last Sunday's televised political talk-shows that the US Senate will confirm, with relative ease, Mr. Bush's appointment of Alberto R. Gonzales as the next Attorney General ("AG"). However, if our Senators retain any respect for universal human rights and the rule of constitutional and international law, they will vigorously oppose Mr. Gonzales' appointment as our new AG. [1] [2] Furthermore, it's imperative that our Senators, both left and right, defeat this unwise appointment for the
following five reasons.

1. Mr. Gonzales Knew, Or Should Have Known, That He Was Dispensing Disastrously False Legal Advice. While functioning as Mr. Bush's White House Counsel, Mr. Gonzales wrote his infamous "torture memo" in August of 2002, entitled "Standards Of conduct Form Interrogations Under 18 U.S.C. 2340-2340A." In that legally-meritless 50-page opinion, Mr. Gonzales:

(A) falsely argued that the US government's interrogators would be legally justified in torturing -- even unto death -- war prisoners who were captured in the USA's so-called "war on terror"; and

(B) falsely advised President Bush that his subfunction as commander-in-chief somehow magically empowered him with the authority to (i) override the US Constitution and the federal War Crimes Act, (ii) ignore the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Convention On Torture, (iii) flout international human-rights law, and (iv) therefore authorize those acts of torture.

"Taking his cue from the Nazis' 'führer principle,' Gonzales posits that Bush, by virtue of
his 'commander-in-chief authority,' can authorize torture. But American law doesn't include any such concept." [3]

2. Mr. Gonzales Has Been Egregiously Complicit In War Crimes. The entire world knows that Mr. Gonzales' 2002 legal memorandum paved the way for the perpetration of heinous war crimes, like the illegal torture of war prisoners inside the US military prisons in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Even worse, the Pentagon now admits that there have been 127 recent homicides of war prisoners, of whom at least 40 were tortured to death. [4] And according to the highly-respected International Committee of the Red Cross, almost all of the Iraqi prisoners who managed to survive their torture inside Abu Ghraib prison
were released because they proved to be innocent civilian noncombatants. [5] Hence, it's certainly possible that Mr. Gonzales could be indicted for his complicity in war crimes under Nüremberg Principle VII, among others. [6] [7]

3. Mr. Gonzales Has An Ominous History Of Unethical Practice. Americans should consider themselves to have been doubly forewarned by Mr. Gonzales' record as both a lawyer and a jurist in Texas. Before he became Mr. Bush's White House Counsel, Mr. Gonzales: (A) represented CEO Ken Lay's fraudulent-predator corporation, Enron; and (B) then earned a reputation from the bench for unsound legal rulings which contravened the rule of law and underscored his lack of common sense, as well as for sleazy acts of corruption which violated legal ethics and basic morality. [8]

4. Consenting To His Appointment Would Discredit The US Senate. If the Senate foolishly rubber-stamps Mr. Gonzales' appointment as AG, the Senators then will have proven that they're so ethically irresponsible as to be undeserving of re-election. Moreover, they will have heaped insult upon injury by sending this morally-depraved message to the world:

"The United States Senate not only has condoned Mr. Gonzales' outrageously-unjust 'torture memo' misconduct, but also has chosen to reward it by elevating this monstrous shyster into the nation's top law-enforcement position!"

5. We Must Avoid Unnecessarily Exacerbating Global Tensions And Fears. Of course, the Senate's craven capitulation to an utterly-indefensible appointment would further alienate the international community and inflame Islamic anti-Americanism. Finally, Mr. Bush's successful appointment of Mr. Gonzales would buttress a widely-held dystopic theory about the USA, the main thesis of which is:

(A) that Americans are collectively suffering from a 9/11-induced mass psychosis;

(B) which caused them to re-elect their thinly-veiled neofascist dictator, "Reichsführer Bush"; and

(C) whose regime has been incrementally luring them down the antidemocratic rabbit-hole, from whence the USA will emerge as the world's most dangerous rogue state -- the "American Fourth Reich." [9]

Overarching Conclusions: Don't be fooled by the fact that Mr. Gonzales neither has a wicked scar under one monocle-bedecked eye, nor foams at the mouth psychotically, nor clicks his boot-heels fascistically. Thus far, he's slipped under the vetting radar-screen only because he embodies the banality of evil. Nevertheless, it's all-too-clear that he's unfit to become our nation's top law enforcement officer because:

(1) he's really nothing more than Mr. Bush's bumbling personal consiglieré, which is to state that he's a toadying yes-man; and

(2) his professional history is that of a pettifogging shyster who obviously lacks the requisite intellectual integrity, law-abiding temperament, and ethical judgment. Hence, he must be rejected, as in: "Fool me once, shame on Messrs. Gonzales and Bush; fool me twice, shame on every Senator and the entire USA!"

The Bottom Line: Mr. Bush is somewhat analogous to Michael Corleone -- the potentially-honest son who allowed himself to become a bloodthirsty Mafia godfather in Mario Puzo's crime-family novels -- because he's attemp[ting] to consolidate his stranglehold upon American justice by elevating his loyal-but-sadistic scofflaw consiglieré into the AG's office, instead of appointing an honest attorney who has a history of upholding the rule of law; therefore, it is the duty of every American to insist that our US Senators vigorously oppose Alberto R. Gonzales until they've prevented this disgustingly-evil, Marquis-de-Sade-like man from eclipsing John Ashcroft as an even worse AG! [10]

ENDNOTES

[1] Read "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" now, at:
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

[2] Read "Principles Of The Nüremberg Tribunal, 1950" -- and please pay special attention to Nüremberg Principle VII, which addresses complicity in war crimes -- at:
http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-nurem.htm

[3] Read Ted Rall's 11-18-04 CD essay, "Monster Of A Lawyer: Nominee For Attorney General Even Worse than Ashcroft," at:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-28.htm

[4] Read Michael Ratner's 11-18-04 CD essay, "The Road To Abu Ghraib: Paved With The Legal Opinion Of Alberto R. Gonzales," at:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-32.htm

[5] Read Evan Augustine Peterson III's 8-10-04 Eklektikos essay, "The American Torture Doctors," at:
http://www.geocities.com/thechristiandigest/19.html

[6] Read Grant McCool's 1-28-03 GPF article, "US Lawyers Warn Bush On War Crimes," at:
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/law/2003/0128uslawyers.htm

[7] Read Colin Hallinan's 11-4-04 GPF/FPIF article, "J'accuse: War Crimes & Iraq," at:
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/law/2004/1104torture.htm

[8] Watch Mark Fiore's insightful 11-17-04 animation about Alberto Gonzales, "Attorney Extraordinare," at:
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/alberto.html

[9] For one example of the innumerable essays about America's swift descent into a neofascist dystopia, see the 8-10-04 TTS essay, "FEMA and Rex 84 Program," which contends through illustrative photos that the Bushites have prepared concentration camps across the USA for their coming purge of America's antifascist dissenters, at:
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2344

[10] Finally, consider this retrospective admonition by Lutheran pastor Dr. Martin Niemöller, a pacifist who survived incarceration in a Nazi concentration camp from 1937 through 1945, and upon his release was responsible for drafting the "Declaration of Guilt" by the German Churches for not opposing Hitler more strenuously:

Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D.
Executive Director of the American Center for International Law ("ACIL")
©2004EAPIII

Subject:Military Amputees to Get New Rehab ...now they can return to duty!

Click here: Guardian Unlimited | World Latest | Military Amputees to Get New Rehab Center

Considering this batch of soldiers was the least protected on the battlefield than any other! and that Bush cut most benefits in half! not including tripling time over there...you are going to feel the wrath of these guys (vietnam) when they finally wake up and smell the coffee!

Hakuna Matata,

debra

Subject: Bush's behavior at the Clinton Library

When I finally saw the whole Clinton library event unedited this Sunday morning on C-Span I noticed that for some reason Jimmy Carter, of all people, rushed up from behind, went around Bush, and very quickly got right in front of Bush almost as soon as he got out the library door. With fast long strides he stayed in front of Bush, too, almost deliberately it seemed. Later I read your headline with accompanying picture about “4 yr old Bush“ shoving Clinton out of the way so he could be the first out of the door. (I hadn’t noticed that part). Could it be that wise, shrewd Carter, standing right there, had seen and recognized what Bush did to Clinton? Carter’s curious behavior would then make sense after seeing your picture. It was like Carter was essentially saying to little Bush, “Oh, no you don’t!” Hee Hee Hee Hee.

http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2004...

Betsy

Subject: Re "Little Nero Went to Bed Hungry in Chile..."

Did you mean "Little Pinochet" with a little Pinot Arbusto panache?

I mean, how dare those Chileans treat El Gringo that way? After all, Texas' flag is a knock-off of Chile's ... and chili is the Texan national dish ... and ... and ...

Alamaine
Grand Forks, North Dakota, US of A

Subject: oh for christ sake

Oh for Christ sake! The reason Bush won is because so many people watch Fox News and have come to the conclusion Bush can do no wrong, he was chosen by God and we found the WMD. It has become like a cult and Bush is the Jim Jones. It's just on a larger scale with Fox News doing the recruiting and selling.

Karen Massey
South Carolina

Subject: Why?

That's really the Only Question.

Mr. Bush and his cartel tried to obstruct that question when they built their false premises for beginning this war. They knew we would want to know Why. And they've tried their damndest to divert our attention from the horrific photos of the dead children and the
mangled civilians and the crushed soldiers. They don't even allow the families to greet the coffins of their dead sons and daughters as they arrive back home to the America they loved, fought and died for.

Mr. Bush won't allow the coffins to be viewed, because he doesn't want the parents and brothers and sisters of those dead soldiers to ask Why. Why did my son die? Why did you send my precious child to give her life for your cause? Why have you destroyed our family?

Likewise, Mr. Bush doesn't want journalists to ask Why. In the beginning of his disastrous administration, he ensured the press corps' acquiescence by using fear and intimidation tactics to stifle the reporters questions. Now, after his supposed reelection, he uses his "political capital" to guarantee their continuing cowardice by restricting them to One Question Only during his rare "press conferences." Mr. Bush calls this restriction his "mandate," and the "will of the people."

Since the reporters have One Question Only, they obviously should just ask: "Mr. President. Why?"

Of course, since Mr. Bush and his minions work over time to prevent the asking of even this One question, there is no reason to believe he would actually deign to answer it. That is because the Answer to the question "Why?" does not exist.

There is no reason for this war, this senseless, hellish murder of human beings. No principal of democracy, no political ideology, no moral cause can justify the fact that Mr. Bush has consciously chosen to drop bombs onto homes, and mosques, and...my God...hospitals.

There is no reason Why 100,000 people who never harmed or threatened us have died at the bloody hands of Mr. Bush and his war machine.

Mr. Bush considers himself a man of faith, a man of compassion. But he is no benevolent peace maker, as someone who is truly acting as God's instrument would be. He is nothing more than a War Lord. And Mr. Bush's followers, who say they worship God and Protect Life and Guard Sanctity...I think I'll call them 'warshippers'....they 'warship' their God of Destruction and Death, their Prince of War, George W. Bush. Not GOD, But GOP.

We can expect nothing from these people in answer to The Only Question.

Why?

And we, the Peaceful, will never find an answer. We can only give of ourselves to those we've harmed so ruthlessly, thoughtlessly, carelessly. We've allowed this to happen.

We can't ask Why any longer. We must begin to ask How. How to stop it, and How to help heal what we have done.

elaine in petaluma

Subject: The Bubble Wrapped President

Someone should do a chart showing security costs for former presidents, compared with George Bush, our Insulated-in-Chief. Only a person extremely afraid and expecting the worst, would go to these extraordinary extremes.

About 15,000 Colombian security forces, backed by combat helicopters, radars on the lookout for hostile planes or missiles, and submarines and battleships prowling the waters, were deployed to protect the American president.

Bush to Tout U.S.-Backed Anti-Drug Efforts (AP/Yahoo)

A BuzzFlash Reader

Reading further down the page, I finally got to Bush:

I'm still looking for a detailed definition of megalomaniac and will let you know when I find it. Thanks for your time.

Jim P.