SUPPORT THE TROOPS
OPPOSE THE POLICY
Monday, May 30, 2005
Sunday, May 29, 2005
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS WITH OUTRAGE THIS MEMORIAL DAY !!!
Memorial Day is meant to remember and honor the troops that have given their lives for this country to be free. But sometimes our leaders are pretty flippant about sending someone else's kid in harm's way. If you really support our troops ask yourself some questions???????
Where's the outrage that after two years our troops don't have the body armour they need to protect themselves?
Where's the outrage that the Humvees they have are little better than the one's driven here in the States?
Where's the outrage that our vice-president's former employer has no-bid contracts in Iraq and has been overcharging at abominable amounts?
Where's the outrage that there is more than $8 billion in money targeted for Iraqi reconstruction that is missing and this administration refuses to investigate it?
Where's the outrage that there was a 'Downing Street Memo' released proving that this administration was ready to go to war 6 months before they did and they were telling us it was not in the planning, it would be a decision of last resort. A blatant lie we seem to be buying.
Where is the outrage that this administration has reduced it's military to a prison sentence that not many are buying into. To enlist in the military today you almost need your enlistees to have a similar mindset as a suicide bomber. If you pay attention you know the chances of coming out of Iraq unscathed by death, extreme mental or physical problems are remote. The only thing worse is that your government is not likely to care for you when you get back.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS is nothing more than a ribbon strapped to the back of an SUV!
I suppose if you have a loved one in Iraq or Afghanistan you are more sensitive to these issues and are more prone to connect the dots. But, if you think this administration has anything more to accomplish than to' take care of us' you are very mistaken. In other words 'take care of us' means take control of us as a parent would take care of a child, knowing what is best for us and then 'MAKE IT LAW'. As Andrew Card had once said, paraphrasing, the president sees the country as his 10 year old children. Well, and this is an extreme, but what if your father is named Dobbs, the father that killed his own daughter and her best friend. It happened in a fit of rage when he thought the discipline doled out to her should not have been rescinded by her mother. Father does not always know best. And sometimes he could be dangerous, very dangerous.
Where's the outrage that after two years our troops don't have the body armour they need to protect themselves?
Where's the outrage that the Humvees they have are little better than the one's driven here in the States?
Where's the outrage that our vice-president's former employer has no-bid contracts in Iraq and has been overcharging at abominable amounts?
Where's the outrage that there is more than $8 billion in money targeted for Iraqi reconstruction that is missing and this administration refuses to investigate it?
Where's the outrage that there was a 'Downing Street Memo' released proving that this administration was ready to go to war 6 months before they did and they were telling us it was not in the planning, it would be a decision of last resort. A blatant lie we seem to be buying.
Where is the outrage that this administration has reduced it's military to a prison sentence that not many are buying into. To enlist in the military today you almost need your enlistees to have a similar mindset as a suicide bomber. If you pay attention you know the chances of coming out of Iraq unscathed by death, extreme mental or physical problems are remote. The only thing worse is that your government is not likely to care for you when you get back.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS is nothing more than a ribbon strapped to the back of an SUV!
I suppose if you have a loved one in Iraq or Afghanistan you are more sensitive to these issues and are more prone to connect the dots. But, if you think this administration has anything more to accomplish than to' take care of us' you are very mistaken. In other words 'take care of us' means take control of us as a parent would take care of a child, knowing what is best for us and then 'MAKE IT LAW'. As Andrew Card had once said, paraphrasing, the president sees the country as his 10 year old children. Well, and this is an extreme, but what if your father is named Dobbs, the father that killed his own daughter and her best friend. It happened in a fit of rage when he thought the discipline doled out to her should not have been rescinded by her mother. Father does not always know best. And sometimes he could be dangerous, very dangerous.
Saturday, May 28, 2005
WE MUST WAKE UP !!!!!!!!!!!
The following link is by Scott Ritter, a U.N. weapons inspector who has an informed opinion about the war in Iraq. I wrote about the 'Downing Street Memo' the other day and . . . nothing. If you read this and the 'Downing Street Memo' and don't see a 'white hot smoking gun' you will never wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Stem Cell Research / Abortion Issue
Ignoring President Bush's threat of a veto, the House voted Tuesday to lift limits on embryonic stem cell research, a measure that supporters say could accelerate cures for diseases but opponents viewed as akin to abortion.
Bush does this photo op with these kids that were born from frozen embryos as if the stem cells to be used for research would deny these children being born, but this is so typically hypocritical of this administration. The only stem cells to be used for research are the ones to be discarded. So Bush is okay with discarding the stem cells but is against them being used for research. That's similar to outlawing organ donation.
And take the issue of abortion. The right makes it an issue they're against and twists the issue in a direction like the left would want rampant abortion. When, in fact, nobody is a fan of abortion. The issue is that it is to be allowed in certain circumstances. What do you think would happen if one of the Bush twins was raped by someone akin to this Dobbs maniac that killed his own daughter. I guarantee it would never come out that she had an abortion, but I guarantee you she would miscarry and that would be the end of it. Or do you think George in all his divine goodness would just accept this child as his first grandchild?
The right refers to abortion as murder, but they would never consider bringing up a woman who had an abortion on murder charges. I shouldn't say never, but it has never been called murder in that context. My point is that they talk about things in idealogical extremes for maximum distortion. Consider this, when you celebrate a birthday your age is calculated from the day you were born, not conceived . . . you're not 30 years and 9 months old. These things need to be looked at logically not idealogically. That's what I think.
Bush does this photo op with these kids that were born from frozen embryos as if the stem cells to be used for research would deny these children being born, but this is so typically hypocritical of this administration. The only stem cells to be used for research are the ones to be discarded. So Bush is okay with discarding the stem cells but is against them being used for research. That's similar to outlawing organ donation.
And take the issue of abortion. The right makes it an issue they're against and twists the issue in a direction like the left would want rampant abortion. When, in fact, nobody is a fan of abortion. The issue is that it is to be allowed in certain circumstances. What do you think would happen if one of the Bush twins was raped by someone akin to this Dobbs maniac that killed his own daughter. I guarantee it would never come out that she had an abortion, but I guarantee you she would miscarry and that would be the end of it. Or do you think George in all his divine goodness would just accept this child as his first grandchild?
The right refers to abortion as murder, but they would never consider bringing up a woman who had an abortion on murder charges. I shouldn't say never, but it has never been called murder in that context. My point is that they talk about things in idealogical extremes for maximum distortion. Consider this, when you celebrate a birthday your age is calculated from the day you were born, not conceived . . . you're not 30 years and 9 months old. These things need to be looked at logically not idealogically. That's what I think.
Monday, May 23, 2005
BY THE NUMBERS
The Statistics on the Cakewalk We Call The Iraqi War
Today is the 1,351st day since Osama bin Laden's attack on the U.S. on September 11, 2001. The amount of days between the attack on Pearl Harbor and VJ Day was 1,348 days. This administration absolutely did not lead us to believe that this would be anything less than a piece of cake. Trouble is, it was a rotten cake and it made us all sick. Oh, well . . . .
Recent Harris Interactive Poll Shows That:
How confident are you that U.S. policies in Iraq are successful?
May 2005
Confident -------- 25%
Not confident ---- 54%
Not sure --------- 20%
March 2005
Confident -------- 30%
Not confident ----- 49%
Not sure ---------- 21%
Considering everything that has happened, do you think military action was the right or wrong thing in Iraq?
May 2005
Right ------------- 39%
Wrong ------------ 48%
Not sure ---------- 13%
March 2005
Right -------------- 41%
Wrong ------------- 45%
Not sure ----------- 15%
We are slowly waking up. I just hope that the day when everybody sees the light we're not in a depression, about to become part of the third world, enduring floods, hurricanes and other consequences of global warming, etc. That's probably the day you might not want to wake up.
Today is the 1,351st day since Osama bin Laden's attack on the U.S. on September 11, 2001. The amount of days between the attack on Pearl Harbor and VJ Day was 1,348 days. This administration absolutely did not lead us to believe that this would be anything less than a piece of cake. Trouble is, it was a rotten cake and it made us all sick. Oh, well . . . .
Recent Harris Interactive Poll Shows That:
How confident are you that U.S. policies in Iraq are successful?
May 2005
Confident -------- 25%
Not confident ---- 54%
Not sure --------- 20%
March 2005
Confident -------- 30%
Not confident ----- 49%
Not sure ---------- 21%
Considering everything that has happened, do you think military action was the right or wrong thing in Iraq?
May 2005
Right ------------- 39%
Wrong ------------ 48%
Not sure ---------- 13%
March 2005
Right -------------- 41%
Wrong ------------- 45%
Not sure ----------- 15%
We are slowly waking up. I just hope that the day when everybody sees the light we're not in a depression, about to become part of the third world, enduring floods, hurricanes and other consequences of global warming, etc. That's probably the day you might not want to wake up.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
How Do We Get Distracted To The Wrong Story?
The top news story over the past few days has been the Newsweek article about flushing the Koran down a toilet. How could the White House come out and say that this incident, which if it isn't accurate, is not untrue. There have been other instances of 'Koran abuse' over the past year and it hasn't sparked this kind of fury. Let's also remember that this administration is the one guilty of creating this atmosphere of anger towards the U.S.
On March 17, 2004, the Independent of London interviewed the first British citizen released from Guantanamo Bay. The prisoner said he had been physically beaten but did not consider that as bad as the psychological torture, which he described extensively. Jamal al-Harith, a computer programmer from Manchester, said 70 percent of the inmates had gone on a hunger strike after a guard kicked a cop of the Koran. The strike was ended by force-feeding.
December 30, 2004, "Released Moroccan Guantanamo Detainee Tells Islamist Paper of His Ordeal reported the Financial Times. They watched you each time you went to the toilet; the American soldiers used to tear up copies of the Koran and throw them in the toilet," said the released prisoner.
January 9, 2005, Andrew Sullivan, writing in the Sun Times of London said, "We now know a great deal of what has gone on in U.S. detention facilities under the Bush administration. Several government and Red Cross reports detail the way many detainees have been treated. We know for certain that five inmates have been tortured to death, 23 others died under suspicious circumstances, thousands of women and children were grabbed almost at randomfrom their homes in Baghdad, taken to Sadaam's former torture palace and subjected to abuse, murder, beatings, semi-crucifixions and rape.
I don't think a article that Newsweek wrote caused this rioting and killing as the White House would have you believe. This administration will take any opportunity to take the focus off of them. And I think they've done it again. Why else would the "Downing Street Memo" http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/memo.html be off the front page. This is damaging news for this administration because it confirms that Bush was determined to go to war at least 6 months before we did. I can't understand how we can be so easily manipulated. This country is guilty of torture and guilty of lying about it. We need to do something about it now.
On March 17, 2004, the Independent of London interviewed the first British citizen released from Guantanamo Bay. The prisoner said he had been physically beaten but did not consider that as bad as the psychological torture, which he described extensively. Jamal al-Harith, a computer programmer from Manchester, said 70 percent of the inmates had gone on a hunger strike after a guard kicked a cop of the Koran. The strike was ended by force-feeding.
December 30, 2004, "Released Moroccan Guantanamo Detainee Tells Islamist Paper of His Ordeal reported the Financial Times. They watched you each time you went to the toilet; the American soldiers used to tear up copies of the Koran and throw them in the toilet," said the released prisoner.
January 9, 2005, Andrew Sullivan, writing in the Sun Times of London said, "We now know a great deal of what has gone on in U.S. detention facilities under the Bush administration. Several government and Red Cross reports detail the way many detainees have been treated. We know for certain that five inmates have been tortured to death, 23 others died under suspicious circumstances, thousands of women and children were grabbed almost at randomfrom their homes in Baghdad, taken to Sadaam's former torture palace and subjected to abuse, murder, beatings, semi-crucifixions and rape.
I don't think a article that Newsweek wrote caused this rioting and killing as the White House would have you believe. This administration will take any opportunity to take the focus off of them. And I think they've done it again. Why else would the "Downing Street Memo" http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/memo.html be off the front page. This is damaging news for this administration because it confirms that Bush was determined to go to war at least 6 months before we did. I can't understand how we can be so easily manipulated. This country is guilty of torture and guilty of lying about it. We need to do something about it now.
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
No Problem, Just Change the Rules
Tom Delay should be brought up on ethics charges according to the ethics rules. This administration's solution change the rules. Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist vows to blow up the Senate (the nuclear option) to outlaw any filibuster against Bush's judicial nominees. Democrats have approved 218 nominees, but are blocking 10 as too extreme. That is unacceptable to Frist.
So, instead of Bush defusing the situation he nominates the same 10 judges that had been blocked before, essentially ordering Frist to blow up the Senate. Just like it was in the run-up to the war in Iraq, Bush is just intent on winning, with little or no sense of the costs or consequences of what he's driving this country into. The fight here is over the judges and the direction Bush will take this country if he has free reign. It's not about an assault on "people of faith"by blocking 10 of 200 nominees. Is Bush so infallible that to question 10 of 200 nominees is to risk eternal damnation?
Bush is not nominating conservative judges, he's nominating radicals that will push his agenda through the courts. We're talking about women's rights (Roe v Wade), segregation (Brown v Board of Education). He has a different take on other issues such as the environment, global warming, defending workers and corporate accountability. STAY AWAKE ! ! !
So, instead of Bush defusing the situation he nominates the same 10 judges that had been blocked before, essentially ordering Frist to blow up the Senate. Just like it was in the run-up to the war in Iraq, Bush is just intent on winning, with little or no sense of the costs or consequences of what he's driving this country into. The fight here is over the judges and the direction Bush will take this country if he has free reign. It's not about an assault on "people of faith"by blocking 10 of 200 nominees. Is Bush so infallible that to question 10 of 200 nominees is to risk eternal damnation?
Bush is not nominating conservative judges, he's nominating radicals that will push his agenda through the courts. We're talking about women's rights (Roe v Wade), segregation (Brown v Board of Education). He has a different take on other issues such as the environment, global warming, defending workers and corporate accountability. STAY AWAKE ! ! !
Newsweek or the Downing Street Memo -- priorities and importance
I can't believe this administration's incompetence and how it is not reported in the mainstream media. There was a story that broke in a London newspaper on May 1st concerning a memo that outraged the public in the UK. It broke here a couple of days ago on the blog Tomdispatch.com. It has been reported here today without much outrage or concern.
On the other hand Newsweek reports on a flushing of the Quran, which caused riots and outrage around the world. Who gets all the heat . . . Newsweek. The story has not been proven wrong. The source now is uncertain of the accuracy of the reporting. Many other stories of the Quran being disrespected have been reported, an example -- by spraying it with black paint. Anyway, this story is not the one that should be taking front page status, especially if the blame for all the abuses doesn't fall on this administration, as it should.
The story that needs to be out front is the Downing Street Memo. According to an article in the Chicago Tribune:
A British official's report that the Bush administration appeared intent on invading Iraq long before it "fixed" intelligence to fit its intention -- has caused a stir in Britain. But the potentially explosive revelation has proven to be something of a dudin the United States. The White House has denied the premise of the memo, the American media have reacted slowly to it and the public generally seems indifferent to the issue or unwilling to rehash the bitter prewar debate over the reasons for the war.
Analogy -- let's say someone murders someone, and he's a likely suspect but there is not enough proof to convict him. But things just keep surfacing little by little. Do we just get tired of hearing about it and just let the guy off rather than rehash the same old crime over and over.
Bush wanted to invade Iraq 6 months before he did it. That's the point of this memo. While he was telling us, just before he got the okay, that this option would be a last resort. He would only do it if it was absolutely necessary. He got the okay. What people don't remember is that he got the okay only after all other options failed. He got the okay and he was on his horse and gone to war.
Another form of manipulating the public came out earlier this week when Tom Ridge said that against his better judgement, the terror threat level was raised and lowered for obvious political reasons. How do you think this guy got back in office. He kept that fear factor high with the premise that changing leaders would hurt our safety.
The new Star Wars movie comes out this week and I've heard hints about parts of it being compared to this administration. At a news conference, George Lucas was asked if the movie Republic's collapse into an evil Empire was directed at the Bush administration.
Lucas said he originally wrote Star Wars during Vietnam era and the Nixon administration and that he studied democracies that turned into dictatorships. "As you go through history, I didn't think it would get quite this close," he said. "I hope this doesn't come true in our own country. Maybe the film will awaken people to the situation and how dangerous it is."
One line in the movie has drawn a lot of attention: "If you're not with me, then you're the enemy," Darth Vader says. The line echoes Bush's ultimatum after the Sept. 11 attacks, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
Maybe the force is against you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On the other hand Newsweek reports on a flushing of the Quran, which caused riots and outrage around the world. Who gets all the heat . . . Newsweek. The story has not been proven wrong. The source now is uncertain of the accuracy of the reporting. Many other stories of the Quran being disrespected have been reported, an example -- by spraying it with black paint. Anyway, this story is not the one that should be taking front page status, especially if the blame for all the abuses doesn't fall on this administration, as it should.
The story that needs to be out front is the Downing Street Memo. According to an article in the Chicago Tribune:
A British official's report that the Bush administration appeared intent on invading Iraq long before it "fixed" intelligence to fit its intention -- has caused a stir in Britain. But the potentially explosive revelation has proven to be something of a dudin the United States. The White House has denied the premise of the memo, the American media have reacted slowly to it and the public generally seems indifferent to the issue or unwilling to rehash the bitter prewar debate over the reasons for the war.
Analogy -- let's say someone murders someone, and he's a likely suspect but there is not enough proof to convict him. But things just keep surfacing little by little. Do we just get tired of hearing about it and just let the guy off rather than rehash the same old crime over and over.
Bush wanted to invade Iraq 6 months before he did it. That's the point of this memo. While he was telling us, just before he got the okay, that this option would be a last resort. He would only do it if it was absolutely necessary. He got the okay. What people don't remember is that he got the okay only after all other options failed. He got the okay and he was on his horse and gone to war.
Another form of manipulating the public came out earlier this week when Tom Ridge said that against his better judgement, the terror threat level was raised and lowered for obvious political reasons. How do you think this guy got back in office. He kept that fear factor high with the premise that changing leaders would hurt our safety.
The new Star Wars movie comes out this week and I've heard hints about parts of it being compared to this administration. At a news conference, George Lucas was asked if the movie Republic's collapse into an evil Empire was directed at the Bush administration.
Lucas said he originally wrote Star Wars during Vietnam era and the Nixon administration and that he studied democracies that turned into dictatorships. "As you go through history, I didn't think it would get quite this close," he said. "I hope this doesn't come true in our own country. Maybe the film will awaken people to the situation and how dangerous it is."
One line in the movie has drawn a lot of attention: "If you're not with me, then you're the enemy," Darth Vader says. The line echoes Bush's ultimatum after the Sept. 11 attacks, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
Maybe the force is against you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Osama bin Back
According to the Asia Times finding Osama bin Laden may be imminent . . . I'm not sure what it would mean at this point. I guess, if he's still the head honcho, it would be a blow to his cause. But I think this whole thing has gotten so diluted, that you have mini-bin Ladens all over the place that might see him as a martyr. Anyway click on this link for the story.
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