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A first grade teacher explains to her class that she is a liberal Democrat. She asks her students to raise their hands if they were liberal Democrats too. Not really knowing what a liberal Democrat was, but wanting to be like their teacher, their hands flew up into the air. There was, however, one exception. A girl named Lucy had not gone along with the crowd. The teacher asks her why she has decided to be different.' Because I'm not a liberal Democrat.''Then,' asks the teacher, 'What are you?''Why I'm a proud conservative Republican,' boasts the little girl.The teacher, a little perturbed and her face slightly red, asked Lucy why sheis a conservative Republican.'Well, I was brought up to trust in myself instead of relying on an intrusive government to care for me and do all of my thinking. My Dad and Mom are conservative Republicans, and I am a conservative Republican too.'The teacher, now angry, loudly says, 'That's no reason! What if your Mom was a moron, and your dad was a moron. What would you be then?'She pauses, and lets out a smile. 'Then,' Lucy says, 'I'd be a liberal Democrat.' Kerry calls up Bush and says, "Hey, let's settle this Australian Style." Bush asks, "How's that?" Kerry says, "First you stand there, and I kick you in the nuts as hard as I can." Then it's your turn. Whoever quits first is the loser. Bush says, "OK, stands there," and is completely knocked over by Kerry. After 10 minutes, Bush stands up, and groans, "Alright, my turn." Kerry then replies, "It's all right, you can be president." "President Bush spoke with the Amish. He didn't want to, but it was the only group he could find that wasn't upset about the high price of gas." —Jay Leno Republican Beliefs Things you have to believe to be a Republican today: Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony. The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq. A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation. Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex. A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies, then demand their cooperation and money. Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing health care to all Americans is socialism. HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart. Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools. A president lying about an extramarital affair is a impeachable offense. A president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet. The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's drunk driving record and cocaine arrest are none of our business. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness, and you need our prayers for your recovery. You support states' rights, which means Attorney General John Ashcroft can tell states what local voter initiatives they have the right to adopt. Clinton's business interests in the 1970s in which he lost money are of vital national interest, but Bush's activities in the 1980s in which he made money under questionable circumstances is un-important. Republican National Convention Schedule 06:00 pm - Opening Prayer led by the Reverend Jerry Falwell 06:30 pm - Pledge of Allegiance 06:35 pm - Burning of Bill of Rights (excluding 2nd amendment) 06:45 pm - Salute to the Coalition of the Willing 06:46 pm - Seminar #1: "Getting your kid a military deferment" 07:30 pm - First Presidential Beer Bash for Bush 07:35 pm - Serve Freedom Fries 07:40 pm - EPA Address #1: "Mercury: how to ignore the 14 states litigating against the U.S. government" 07:50 pm - William Safire on the dangers of non-Protestant religion 08:00 pm - Vote on which country to invade next 08:05 pm - Trent Lott recognizes/salutes the KKK contingent 08:10 pm - Call EMTs to revive Rush Limbaugh 08:15 pm - John Ashcroft Lecture: "The Homos are after your children" 08:30 pm - Roundtable discussion on reproductive rights (MEN only) 08:50 pm - Seminar #2: "Corporations: the government of the future" 09:00 pm - Condi Rice sings "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" 09:05 pm - Second Presidential Beer Bash for Bush 09:10 pm - EPA Address #2:" Trees: the real cause of forest fires" 09:15 pm - Roundtable discussion on the best way to bankrupt the federal government. 09:30 pm - Break for secret meetings 09:35 pm - Dick Cheney on why we must invade Canada and find their weapons of mass destruction. 10:00 pm - Second prayer led by Pat Robertson 10:15 pm - Lecture by Karl Rove: "Doublespeak made easy" 10:30 pm - Rumsfeld demonstration of how to squint and talk macho 10:35 pm - Bush demonstration of his trademark "deer in the headlights" stare 10:40 pm - John Ashcroft demonstrates new mandatory kevlar chastity belt 10:45 pm - Clarence Thomas takes a minute to read the list of black republicans 10:46 pm - Third Presidential Beer Bash for Bush 10:50 pm - Seminar #3: "Education: a drain on our nation's economy" 11:10 pm - Hillary Clinton Piñata 11:20 pm - Second Lecture by John Ashcroft: "Evolutionists -- the dangerous new cult" 11:30 pm - Call EMTs to revive Rush Limbaugh again 11:35 pm - Blame Clinton 11:40 pm - Laura serves milk and cookies 11:45 pm - Pass the hat for the "Kenny Lay Defense Fund" 11:50 pm - Closing Prayer led by Jesus Himself 12:00 am - Nomination of George W. Bush as Holy Supreme Planetary Leader

Here is something I googled from another board. I thought I bring it here.

"Shoot to kill" ordered by Bush. http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1077495.php Jones said the military first needs to establish security throughout the city. Military and police officials have said there are several large areas of the city are in a full state of anarchy. Dozens of military trucks and up-armored Humvees left the staging area just after 11 a.m. Friday, while hundreds more troops arrived at the same staging area in the city via Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters. “We’re here to do whatever they need us to do,†Sgt. 1st Class Ron Dixon, of the Oklahoma National Guard’s 1345th Transportation Company. “We packed to stay as long as it takes.†While some fight the insurgency in the city, other carry on with rescue and evacuation operations. Helicopters are still pulling hundreds of stranded people from rooftops of flooded homes. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and police helicopters filled the city sky Friday morning. Most had armed soldiers manning the doors. According to Petty Officer 3rd Class Jeremy Grishamn, a spokesman for the amphibious assault ship Bataan, the vessel kept its helicopters at sea Thursday night after several military helicopters reported being shot at from the ground. Numerous soldiers also told Army Times that they have been shot at by armed civilians in New Orleans. Spokesmen for the Joint Task Force Headquarters at the Superdome were unaware of any servicemen being wounded in the streets, although one soldier is recovering from a gunshot wound sustained during a struggle with a civilian in the dome Wednesday night. “I never thought that at a National Guardsman I would be shot at by other Americans,†said Spc. Philip Baccus of the 527th Engineer Battalion. “And I never thought I’d have to carry a rifle when on a hurricane relief mission. This is a disgrace.†Spc. Cliff Ferguson of the 527th Engineer Battalion pointed out that he knows there are plenty of decent people in New Orleans, but he said it is hard to stay motivated considering the circumstances. “This is making a lot of us think about not reenlisting.†Ferguson said. “You have to think about whether it is worth risking your neck for someone who will turn around and shoot at you. We didn’t come here to fight a war. We came here to help.†* It is a crime for the Government to allow people to die because of their race and class. * to treat people like they are the enemy because they are black and poor. * to spend billions on war and cut budgets at home, resulting in death and destruction. By now it is clear who is dying on the streets of New Orleans and throughout the area hit by Hurricane Katrina. Those with the money and resources were able to flee the city in plenty of time, while the poor were left behind to face flooding, and lack of water, food, and medicine. Now they are facing the prospect of being shot down in the street by troops sent in by the government to "restore order." The difference between those who got out and those who were abandoned to die is a difference of class and race. Hurricane Katrina is not the cause of the thousands of deaths in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The system that says poor people and black people are expendable is responsible. The government refused to prepare for the hurricane they knew was coming. They made no provision to evacuate to poor, the elderly, and the handicapped, knowing that more than 100,000 would be left behind. They made no effort to get food, water, or medicine to survivors, while dead bodies piled up on the streets on New Orleans. FEMA actually turned back aid trucks as they attempted to get into New Orleans. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05blame.html?ex=1283572800&en=1d14ebfbd942a7d0&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Rather than mobilizing to provide the aid that should have been in place a week ago, the Bush Administration has sent troops into the streets with orders to "shoot to kill." http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/2/104216.shtml Brigadier General Gary Jones told the Army times, that "[New Orleans] is going to look like Little Somalia, We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.†http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1077495.php

Or a terrorist.... It's plain stupidity baked in ignorance as well as arrogance. It's how they (jingoists) try to stifle free speech, debate and the free exchange of ideas. They talk the talk when they say you have freedom of speech but look out the minute you question authority then it's (obnoxiously) "Shut the fuck up! You hate America! You hate our troops! You're a Communist (or terrorist)! Get the fuck out of the country and join Osama!" The usual tired old rhetoric. It's immature. Look no furhter than igloo. Of course we BOTH know of his insults against anyone who disagrees with him. No surprise there. The way I see it, the jingoists who say we hate America because we don't fall in line, obey, agree with them (by proxy of course) and do as we're told are the same ones who hate the right to free speech because WE disagree with them. If everyone blindly followed despite our views, we'd be a dictatorship. Not a democracy. Upside-down flag = This country is in distress. A part of flag ettiquette. It is true that this flag represents all americans but it is a free speech right to fly it inversed when you feel this country is in distress. This is how I feel and I express it symbolicly.

Now Playing! The Conservative Meltdown September 4 2005 Counterbias.com by W. David Jenkins III My, what a busy summer it’s been! I’ve been away for awhile enjoying time with the family and, during my travels, I’ve noticed something very odd happening out there. People are talking about Iraq instead of “American Idol.†They’re bitching about gas prices instead of bitching about the wrong person being “fired†by The Donald. There are more and more people expressing outrage about what they’re reading and seeing on the media rather than being outraged with the media itself. There seems to be a tsunami of buyer’s remorse sweeping over the land and the size and nature of this phenomenon prohibits the lazy media from engaging in their usual practice of ignoring what’s really going on. Bush is scheduled to emerge from his western hidey hole soon and quite honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if he tries to extend his vacation just a bit longer. Really, who could blame him? Even with the controlled settings of his last two public appearances in Utah and Idaho, Bush came across as a guy who is just not well. After my time off, I’m feeling pretty rested and all but Bush looks and sounds tired, irritated, pale, thin and – well just plain sick. One might speculate that the bubble Bush’s people have tried to keep him in is beginning to burst and I’d think they’d be right. After all, it’s been a busy summer. Bush’s poll numbers are so bad right now that you need the toilet plunger just to get a look at them. Richard Nixon at the height of Watergate had better numbers than Bush does right now. Bill Clinton’s numbers at the same point in his second term were going up – largely due to the public’s support of him during the obsessive right wing witch hunt. Maybe Bush should get himself an intern to help his numbers? Okay, sorry. That grossed me out too. Bush can take some solace in the knowledge that he still has the support of his base but these folks seem to be losing it too. From the super-patriots in Texas firing shotguns and driving their pick ‘em up trucks over makeshift memorials to the war dead (Bush’s war dead) to the wacko right wing televangelists calling for the assassination of democratically elected leaders, Bush’s base is starting to cause the administration to “distance itself†from their most staunch supporters. Then we have Ann Coulter calling New Yorkers “cowards,†Paul Harvey advocating nuclear war in the Middle East, Jerry Falwell supporting “bombing terrorists in the name of the Lord,†and RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman accusing Democrats of being the “party of fearâ€. If you listen real close, you can hear the sound of millions of foreheads being slapped in disbelief. Seriously, would you want to come out of hiding after a season of this kind of behavior done on your behalf in a crippled attempt to somehow defend you? And that’s not the worst of it. There are turncoats in the Republican Party now. Bush must attack the credibility of his fellow conservatives in order to defend his failures. Vietnam vet, Chuck Hagel, has come out and stated that Iraq is beginning to resemble Vietnam on many levels. You have Trent Lott hawking his book while spilling the beans about pre-Iraq invasion meetings with Bush and how predetermined he was to invade days after 9/11. There is also the nuisance of Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) and his determination to get to the bottom of what happened to Operation Able Danger. Then there’s Pat and Bay Buchanan blasting Bush on his Iraq policy while giving Cindy Sheehan a wink and a nod. Oh yes, what about that Sheehan woman? In the tradition of Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Colleen Rowley, Sibel Edmonds, Bunnatine (Bunny) Greenhouse and other remarkable American women, Gold Star Mother, Cindy Sheehan, has done more to irritate the Bush status quo in her quest for honesty and accountability than anyone would have thought possible. What started as a personal desire for answers from the man responsible for the lies that led to her son’s murder, Sheehan’s vigil has blossomed into a national movement so enormous that the mainstream media was forced to take notice. What’s more, her steadfast nature and her visibility have brought out the absolute worst behavior of her detractors, otherwise known as the “patri-idiots.†You know - the Bush people. Bush neighbor, Larry Mattlage, fired off his shotgun in the vicinity of the vigil because he was “getting ready for dove season.†Mattlage told reporters to “figure it out.†Aw, how positively clever, Larry. Of course, we can’t forget Larry Northern of Waco (or is that Wacko) who felt the need to destroy over 500 crosses and 40 American flags which had been set up by Sheehan supporters as a makeshift memorial to American lives lost in Iraq. Really, exactly how does this translate into “patriotism?†Then, right on cue, Rush Limbaugh states that the whole Sheehan saga just “isn’t real†and compares her to RatherGate’s Bill Burkett and then denies he said it the next day. Conservative crackpot, Michelle Malkin, wrote that Sheehan and her supporters were “anti-military, anti-American, terrorist sympathizing agitators†as if anyone with two brain cells to rub together actually took her seriously. Bill O’Reilly said that Sheehan’s behavior was “treasonous.†(Oh, shut up, Bill). Conservative radio host Mark Williams stated on Fox that “Cindy Sheehan is on a mission to figuratively urinate on her son's grave and make his death stand for nothing." And, finally, U.S. News & World Report senior writer Michael Barone claimed that the media is currently devoting substantial coverage to Sheehan because "many in the press ... do not want us to win this war and think that we don't deserve to win this war." And therein lies a large part of the problem Bush and Co. is experiencing; fewer and fewer Americans are buying the b.s. these days. The polls show that most people believe Bush has lied about why we went to Iraq and they don’t support the way he’s handled the subsequent disaster his ideology has produced. Armor is still in short supply while the insurgency is anything but in its “last throes.†The completion of the Iraqi Constitution seems more and more like wishful thinking (not to mention the final draft isn’t what people thought it would be) while the violence in Afghanistan is creeping back into the headlines thus reminding Americans that Bush never finished the job there in the first place. People are tired of staying the course, whatever that means, and they’re tired of Bush constantly getting their hopes up. Remember the months prior to the invasion? Americans were told that Iraq would be a “cake walk†and the oil revenues would pay for everything. When Baghdad fell in less than two months, Bush did his “mission accomplished†strut and everything was going to be okay. But people soon realized, even if Bush Co. didn’t, that the mission wasn’t accomplished and Americans and Iraqis were paying the ultimate price. Then there were the string of events that would bring an end to hostilities or at least make things easier over there. The killings of Hussein’s sons, Hussein’s capture, the passing of sovereignty and the elections were all milestones which were supposed to fix everything. But they didn’t and in some cases things got even worse. Now Americans are supposed to believe that the Iraqi Constitution is going to be another “fix all†yet most of them aren’t buying it. And things aren’t helped when you have Safia Taleb al-Suhail (the purple fingered Iraqi woman who hugged the Marine mom at the State of the Union speech) who now worries that women’s rights in Iraq will be a thing of the past due to the influence of Islamic clerics in the draft of the Constitution. Now, put all this together and throw in the following: Rove and Libby targeted in the CIA leak scandal, the Downing Street Documents, the revelation of Operation Able Danger, John Bolton botching things up at the U.N. already, Social Security reform falling flat on its face, the possible release of more pictures and videos from Abu Ghraib, the steady chipping away in Ohio which continues to expose Republican corruption in high places and to top it all off, Cindy Sheehan is not going away. Just what is the worst president in the history of the United States supposed to do? How does he preserve any sense of legacy? That’s simple. You send Karen Hughes to make America’s image better in the eyes of the Arab States, you promote a “Freedom Walk†(do we really have to pay for that?) to celebrate (?) 9/11 and, just to make you feel better, you flip the press the one finger salute. And if that fails, simply stomp your feet and yell “stay the course.†You know, it’s got to be tough being a Republican these days. W. David Jenkins III is a writer from New York. He can be reached at WDavidJenkinsIII@aol.com. http://www.counterbias.com/392.html

Republicans are Losing in Iraq—and so is America August 22 2005 Counterbias.com by Ted Baiamonte R E P U B L I C A N V I E W The number of trained Iraqi troops, the troops who will take the place of ours, is the single most critical number relative to Iraq. It is the number which determines when our troops can come home. To illustrate the variability in the numbers, Condoleeza Rice, at her confirmation hearings in January, said there were 120,000 Iraqi troops trained, while Democrat Joe Biden claimed there were only 3000. It seemed incredible that there was no agreement at the highest levels of our government on such a basic and absolutely critical piece of data. In the end I assumed Rice was lying when she corroborated her number only by saying, "I have to rely on what I was told," while Biden said he had gone over to Iraq and talked to those who were actually doing the training. Both relied on hearsay but Biden was far closer to the source and seemed far more confident in his number. The number came up again the other night, eight months later, when I saw two retired Republican Generals, still with extensive contacts in Iraq, on TV. They were there to provide the inside scoop on how many Iraqi troops were actually trained to the point where they could operate independently of American troops. They both looked sheepishly and sadly into the camera while admitting that only two battalions were actually trained. At the time it did not mean much to me as I didn't know what a battalion was. It turns out that an Iraqi battalion is only 700 men! This means that thus far we've only trained 1400 of the 200,000 or so men that would be needed to hold the country together in our absence. I assume, if there were 50,000 or even 20,000, the administration would be making it clear, loudly and often, but they are not. It seems that the Administration has no optimistic numbers floating around. There is talk of the Transition Readiness Assessment. This is the latest methodology by which Iraqi troops are now assessed for readiness. Here is the way it seems to turn out: "of 81 Iraqi army battalions assessed, only three were rated green, able to conduct operations independently." By that estimate there are 2100 troops trained, but that too is almost nothing. This means almost certainly that we are losing, and that probably we cannot win—ever. The Iraqi people won't fight for us. When Dick Cheney said very recently, "we are witnessing the last throes of the insurgency," when in fact the insurgency looks far stronger than ever, you had to think this is Vietnam all over again. As much as I love Republican Jeffersonian Libertarian philosophy, it is hard to imagine how such pure delusion can serve that purpose over the long run. When General Casey, once the Pentagon's top man in Iraq, said in January, "we may never be able to train enough Iraqis," he was apparently right. So what do we do now? For starters, where does the tough talking and proud Bush Administration find the courage to change course? After all, we don't want a badly conceived and poorly executed tactic in the war on terror giving the Democrats, who have nothing to offer but anti-Americanism, an opportunity—if only an opportunity by default. Ted Baiamonte is a proud Republican and author of "Understanding the Difference Between Democrats and Republicans". His blog is The Dumb Democrat, and he can be reached at bje1000@aol.com. http://www.counterbias.com/380.html

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Thursday, September 1st, 2005 HELP IS ON THE WAY... maybe Help for Katrina survivors Searching for... "I'm Okay..." More resources OFFER HOUSING ...... S.O.S.: New Orleans mayor sends out "a desperate SOS." New Orleans newspaper provides first-hand accounts of the chaos as readers seek help and information. ...... PAT ROBERTSON: Bush uses the tragedy to push government partnerships with faith-based groups -- "Government agencies are working with faith-based and community groups to find shelters for thousands of displaced person." And indeed, FEMA is directing people to donate to faith-based groups, and at the top of their list is Pat Robertson's "Operation Blessing." ...... DEATH TAX: Ken Mehlman, head of the GOP, was busy today crafting an email to Republican activists advocating an end to the death tax. ...... DUCK & COVER: W.H. Press Secretary Scott McClellan claims Bush was ahead of the curve in declaring a disaster, thus enabling FEMA "to fully mobilize." ...... PREPARATIONS: No one can say they didn't see it coming. In fact, Popular Mechanics saw it coming on 9/11/01. ...... FLIP-FLOP: Dennis Hastert says rebuilding New Orleans makes no sense | Later, takes it back... developing. ...... EDITORIAL: The N.H. Union-Leader (not a liberal rag) says: A better leader would have flown straight to the disaster zone and announced the immediate mobilization of every available resource to rescue the stranded, find and bury the dead, and keep the survivors fed, clothed, sheltered and free of disease. A tale of two photos. ...... RUMORS: There are rumors that civil unrest and looting has spread to Baton Rouge, but they appear to be just rumors. ...... HUMANITARIAN AID: One reader, Michael, sent us the following email: Several years ago while watching on TV the coverage of the war in war in Afghanistan (a country thousands of miles away), I remember shortly after we bombed the hell out of the country seeing the military dropping bags of food and water from the helicopter to the refugees below. The people in New Orleans have been without food or water for 4 days. Our own people are starving and babies are dying. What in the hell is this ass hole Bush waiting for? In the first few days of the Afghanistan war -- thousands of miles away -- the Pentagon was indeed coupling its bombing raids with humanitarian food drops. Four days after the hurricane hit, refugees at the New Orleans convention center still have little to no food. ...... GASOLINE: Bush tells country: "Don't buy gas if you don't need it." President will travel to disaster area tomorrow. In Charlotte, NC: "40 stations of the more than 230 stations in Charlotte and the unincorporated areas of Mecklenburg County were without fuel Thursday morning." Bush voter: "The President's got to step up to the plate." ...... More news... The National Guard debacle...

Friday, September 2nd, 2005 Bring Them Home Now Bus Tour (Days 1 and 2) Tired to the Bone/How Does Scotty McClellan Live with Himself? -- a message from Cindy Sheehan Since I was bone tired when I finally got to a bed, I didn't write my blog last night. This will probably be the last time I write for awhile, unless I think of something exciting to say. I am on my way home until the end of next week when I head back for the Bus Tour. Yesterday, we left Camp Casey and it was very emotional for me. Like I said before, I never thought I would feel so badly about leaving Crawford, Texas behind. But I never counted on the Crawford, Texas experience turning into the Camp Casey experience. We actually walked around most of the time with stupid grins on our faces because being at Camp Casey was such a happy experience. However, we are carrying Camp Casey with us to the nation now. I left Camp Casey on the same bus I pulled up in: The VFP Impeachment Tour Bus. It was excruciatingly hot as we rolled into Austin in 100 plus degree heat with no air. When we got into Austin and were still on I-35, our bus was greeted by honks, waves, and cheers from our fellow rush hour motorists. I was afraid we would cause an accident in the go sometimes, but mostly stopped traffic. We arrived safely at Congressman Lloyd Doggett's office and spoke to his aide. It was a great meeting and we are 100% behind Lloyd Doggett and he is 100% behind us. From the Congressman's office, we went to the state's capitol and I received a Texas flag and a proclamation welcoming me to Texas from an Austin state legislator. I thought since I had been in Texas for almost a month it was nice that someone finally welcomed me. We marched from the state capitol to Austin city hall. It was quite a sight as many hundreds of people followed us down Congress Street behind our "Support our troops, Bring Them Home Now" banner. We sang and chanted as we walked. People were joining us for our march from the sidewalks. It was the most remarkable march I have ever been a part of. For the rally at City Hall, we were greeted by easily 2,000 plus people, whom I joked with about moving to Austin and running for mayor. Most of the crowd had been to Camp Casey at one time or the other. We had VFP, IVAW, MFSO and GSFP members speak. My friend, David Rovics played a couple of songs, including: Every Mother's Son about Casey. My friend, Jim Hightower also spoke. It is always a treat to hear him. I spoke and I talked about how George couldn't come out and see me when I was in Crawford, because he didn't have an answer for me: there is no "Noble Cause" so how could he answer me. He admitted the other day that it was for oil. I don't consider that a good enough reason for so many people being dead. Iraq could and would sell us their oil. I really believe immoral criminals are running our country and it is making me even more determined to save it with millions of my fellow citizen's help. This morning, I was watching Scotty McClellan's press conference and the press corps was asking him about the failure in preparations for the hurricane. He kept on saying: "this is not the time to point fingers, lay blame, or for politics." Of course it isn't, when the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of the people he works for. From diverting money to Iraq that was intended to shore up the levees and make New Orleans safer, to sending 70 percent of the National Guard from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama to Iraq in a war that never has made sense, George Bush has failed this country. By his actions in the first few days of the Katrina tragedy, he has also demonstrated that he doesn't care about Americans whether they are in Iraq or in America. We on the Bring Them Home Now Bus Tour really agonized for the last day if we should continue the trip considering what is going on in our country. We came to the conclusion that it is more important for us to "stay the course" and point out the failures of this administration and how this illegal occupation of Iraq is making our country far less safe than it was before. We will "complete the mission" to honor the sacrifices of our fallen heroes. We will strive and not give up until our troops are brought home from Iraq and everyone in both countries are more secure. P.S. Tom Delay's aide said he probably won't meet with me because I don't "comport" myself properly. I told him that we don't think Tom Delay "comports" himself properly and I could probably get a meeting if Casey had a feeding tube in him instead of being dead for his boss's support of a horrible war. His aide said he didn't know what I was referring to... When are these people going to stop thinking I am stupid?

The Hurricane and Bush’s Criminal Negligence: Bush Slashed Flood Protection * Bush sent emergency personnel and equipment to Iraq* Bush’s role in global warming * Oil Profiteering * Bush failed to develop an evacuation plan * No emergency relief program, even now With every hour that passes, we see and hear new stories of the horror and devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. What makes these images more shocking is the realization that much of the death and destruction could have been prevented. Almost all of the death and destruction arising from the hurricane is the direct result of criminal neglect by the Bush Administration. This crisis was predicted in numerous reports and news articles and little, if anything, was done. While natural disasters are beyond our control, the preparation for expected and predicted disasters is something that we can control. Natural disasters do not have to be catastrophes if plans are made in advance to protect people and their homes, but these plans were not made. We cannot discuss the effects of this catastrophe without noting that those who have suffered most are people of color. Seventy percent of New Orleans’ residents are Black, as are a major part of the population of the surrounding area affected by the hurricane. The fact that absolutely no preparations were made for their evacuation, that no thought was given to meeting their basic emergency needs in the wake of the storm, and that even now they have been abandoned and ignored by the government, lays bare the racism at the core of U.S. society and at the heart of the policies of George W. Bush. The criminal negligence displayed by all levels of government preceding and during this crisis sends a clear message that, to those in power, the lives of poor people, especially poor Black people, are of absolutely no concern. President Bush has diverted funds that were needed to prepare for this type of natural disaster to fund a war of conquest in Iraq. He did this despite being warned of the potential for danger by FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) as early as 2001. The Houston Chronicle reported on Dec. 1, 2001: “New Orleans is sinking. And its main buffer from a hurricane, the protective Mississippi River delta, is quickly eroding away, leaving the historic city perilously close to disaster. ...So vulnerable, in fact, that earlier this year the Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked the potential damage to New Orleans as among the three likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing this country.†The Bush Administration knew of the danger and they knew how to prepare for it. But they chose to do little or nothing – they actually slashed funding for preventative and emergency measures, leaving the people of the region helpless to deal with the inevitable disaster. Now, with the destruction of New Orleans and numerous surrounding communities, tens of thousands of people are without food, water, or electricity. Thousands of homes are destroyed and the death toll continues to climb. This is a disaster of unprecedented proportion. It is poor and working people, particularly people of color, who are suffering the most from this disaster. No preparation It was clear from watching the disaster unfold that no real plans had been made for evacuating the region, even though everyone, including Federal authorities and meteorologists, knew that a hurricane of enormous magnitude was descending on the area. For the elderly, the handicapped, the poor, there was no provision for evacuation or shelter. It was “everyone for themselves,†and those who didn’t have the ability to flee or the means to finance their own evacuation were left to perish. There were no arrangements for more than 100,000 people in New Orleans - 20 % of the population and overwhelmingly the poorest part of the population. Those with out cars, credit cards, and hotel reservations had few alternatives but to stay home and face the coming deluge. The death toll continues to mount, and it becomes more and more apparent how little the government is concerned for human life, particularly the lives of poor and working people. There were many obvious things that could have and should have been done if the government were concerned about the lives of the people. Trains, airlines, buses, and other transportation could have been put to use evacuating people. Convention centers, hotels, and college dormitories throughout the region could have been used for shelter. The government uses eminent domain to take working people’s property for the benefit of corporate developers; this would have been an excellent opportunity to use eminent domain in a way that actually benefits people. Because there was no plan for evacuation, more than 20,000 people were herded into the Superdome without adequate food, shelter, water, or medical care for days. The New York Times said, “By Wednesday, the stench was staggering. Heaps of rotting garbage in bulging white plastic bags baked under a blazing Louisiana sun on the main entry plaza, choking new arrivals as they made their way into the stadium after being plucked off rooftops and balconies. The odor billowing from toilets was even fouler. Trash spilled across corridors and aisles, slippery with smelly mud and scraps of food.†Videos of the situation (see below) show just how desperate the situation is—people are without food, water, and medicine. Bodies are piling up on the streets. The people have been absolutely abandoned by the government. Only massive immediate Federal intervention can relieve the situation. The government has access to stockpiles of food and medicines and it has cargo planes and helicopters to deliver them. Yet the Administration has chosen not to act while people are dying. Slashing emergency preparations to fund war and tax cuts for the wealthy Knowing that a hurricane of this strength was eventually inevitable, the Bush Administration slashed the budget of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the area by $71.2 million. This cut eliminated hurricane and flood protection projects as well as a study to determine ways to protect the region from a Category 5 hurricane. This cut was part of the Bush policy of slashing essential programs to pay for a tax cut for the wealthy and for the occupation of Iraq. Comparing the cuts of more than $71 million for flood protection to the $1.7 billion taken from the people of Louisiana for the war in Iraq yields one more example of how the Bush policy of endless war endangers the population here. The Aug. 30 Editor and Publisher revealed that $250 million in crucial projects planned by the Army Corps of Engineers in the delta for shoring up levees and building pumping stations could not be carried out. “The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security—coming at the same time as federal tax cuts—was the reason for the strain. “The 2004 hurricane season was the worst in decades. In spite of that, the federal government came back this spring with the steepest reduction in hurricane and flood-control funding for New Orleans in history.†Emergency Specialists and Equipment sent to Iraq The National Guard, who would normally be deployed to aid in evacuation and disaster relief, is unable to respond adequately because 40% of the Mississippi National Guard 35% of the Louisiana National Guard is in Iraq. So is much of their equipment, including dozens of high water vehicles, humvees, refuelers and generators that are essential to dealing with this type of emergency. According to the Washington Post, "With thousands of their citizen-soldiers away fighting in Iraq, states hit hard by Hurricane Katrina scrambled to muster forces for rescue and security missions yesterday -- calling up Army bands and water-purification teams, among other units, and requesting help from distant states and the active-duty military." Many of the members of the National Guard are also emergency medical technicians and firefighters. They should be at home helping their neighbors recover from this disaster, not in Iraq maintaining an illegal occupation. Contempt for Environment exacerbates disaster The flooding is exacerbated by the elimination of wetlands, which provide a natural buffer. The Bush Administration has removed Federal protection from as much as 20 million acres of wetlands. The Bush Administration has demonstrated utter disregard for human life and contempt for international law by refusing to abide by the 1997 Kyoto accord, a treaty signed by the United States and 54 other nations. The agreement is designed to limit emissions that cause global warming. Sir David King, the British Government's chief scientific adviser, says that global warming may be responsible for the devastation reaped by Hurricane Katrina. "The increased intensity of hurricanes is associated with global warming. We have known since 1987 the intensity of hurricanes is related to surface sea temperature and we know that, over the last 15 to 20 years, surface sea temperatures in these regions have increased by half a degree centigrade. So it is easy to conclude that the increased intensity of hurricanes is associated with global warming." Loss of life is avoidable – Cuba a U.N. model The massive loss of life in Louisiana and Mississippi was avoidable, if those making decisions were interested in funding emergency measures rather than spending money on war and occupation. Cuba lies directly in the path of many hurricanes, and yet the loss of life is usually minimal, because the government has systems in place to aid orderly evacuations, provide emergency shelter, and look after the elderly, the handicapped, and the poor. In 2001, when Hurricane Michelle, a level-4 storm, hit with sustained 125-mile-per-hour winds and widespread floods, more than 700,000 people were evacuated. Only five Cubans lost their lives in the storm. In September 2004, Cuba endured Ivan, the fifth-largest hurricane ever to hit the Caribbean, with sustained winds of 124 miles per hour. Cuba evacuated almost 2 million people--more than 15 percent of the total population. One hundred thousand people were evacuated within the first three hours. An incredible 78 percent of those evacuated were welcomed into other people's homes. Children at boarding schools were moved. Animals and birds were moved. No one was killed. The UN declared this to be a model of disaster preparation. Cuba, a country blockaded and isolated by the U.S. for 45 years has been able to evacuate millions of people in an orderly fashion without loss of life. Natural disasters do not have to be catastrophes. Oil profiteering Beyond the horrific loss of life and homes in the region, working people everywhere will suffer as the pay more than $3.00 per gallon for gas, as oil companies rake in record profits. In some places, gas has reached as much as $5.00 per gallon. Releasing oil from the Strategic Oil Reserves could easily offset the loss of oil refineries in the region. Nearly 700 million barrels of oil are stored in underground salt caverns along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. This reserve was established to cushion oil markets during energy disruptions or other emergencies, and sitting on the oil rather than releasing it only keeps the price of gas high and ensures greater profits for the oil companies. While George W. Bush and his friends at the Big Oil companies are growing rich from escalating oil prices, while working people, who are already suffering from the economic policies of the Bush Administration, have to spend more of their shrinking paychecks to pay for gas to get to work and school. Venezuela offers to help while Washington refuses to act President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has demonstrated more concern for working and poor people in the U.S. than George Bush has. Chavez has announced that Venezuela will be offering poor people discounted gas through its Citgo chain. He has also offered to send more than $1 million in oil, food, and and equipment to the region. In addition, the Venezuelan government is offering two mobile hospital units, each capable of assisting 150 people, 120 specialists in rescue operations, 10 water purifying plants, 18 electricity generators of 850 KW each, 20 tons of bottled water, and 50 tons of canned food. A senior U.S. State Department official said he was not aware of the Venezuelan offer, and then dismissed it as "counterproductive." The real looting: Bush Administration steals from working people to fund war and corporate greed Rather than focusing on criminal neglect by the Federal and State governments, the corporate media is reporting that the real danger is looting. In an attempt to shift blame from the policies of the Bush Administration, the news networks are demonizing the victims. In a blatant appeal to racism, those being portrayed as “looters†on the news are without exception black males. Tens of thousands of poor people have been stranded by a policy of neglect. Many are without food, fresh water, baby formula, and medicine, and the government has refused to provide even basic relief. The real looters are not the hungry people taking what they need from an abandoned corporate superstore. The real crime is that they were left in this situation by a government that puts war and corporate profits ahead of human needs. The Bush regime has looted billions of dollars of the people’s money, slashing programs that provide basic necessities and robbing from agencies that are tasked with preparing for natural disasters in order to fund a war of conquest against the people of Iraq. There are dangerous looters, but they are Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, not the poor people of New Orleans trying to feed their families. It is clear that the Bush Administration is increasingly putting the entire population of the country in growing danger by relentlessly slashing every social program, infrastructure maintenance program, and environmental protection program. Money for Human Needs not War! It is the Bush Administration, and the Big Corporations it serves, who are directly responsible for the disaster, and they, not the working people of the region, should be responsible for rebuilding and providing relief. In a speech on Wednesday, President Bush said, “our hearts and prayers are with our fellow citizens along the Gulf Coast who have suffered so much from Hurricane Katrina.†But the people of the region need food, clothing, shelter, and jobs, not hearts and prayers. He grinned as he said, “Recovery will take years,†but offered no plan to assist in that rebuilding. The people of the area need, and are entitled to, more than empty rhetoric and vacant smiles. The crisis demands a massive national mobilization to meet emergency needs and facilitate rebuilding efforts. The disaster is beyond the scope of local authorities or private charities to handle; the Federal government must devote its ample resources, which are now being used to wage war, to provide immediate and long-term relief. We call on the Bush Administration to: * Stop funding war and occupation. Use the money instead to fund emergency relief and rebuilding. * Erase the debts incurred by working people who had to pay for gas and emergency shelter because of the government’s refusal to plan for evacuation. * Provide emergency unemployment relief to the tens of thousands who have lost their jobs because of the devastation. * Immediately exercise eminent domain to use all available space to provide emergency and long-term shelter to those left homeless. * Provide a massive jobs program at union wages for rebuilding. Millions of unemployed workers could be hired to help construct housing, schools, and other public facilities. * Food, water, clothing, medical supplies, and other necessities should be immediately commandeered for the emergency from agribusiness, supermarket chains, and pharmaceutical companies. Government food storage supplies in warehouses throughout the country should be made available immediately. Watch a video from the Convention Center in New Orleans: "Desperate Struggle" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9156612 click on “Launch†under Free Video <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]--> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 10 Emergency Strategy Meeting organized by the Troops Out Now Coalition Lang Center at the New School University 55 W. 13th St. in Manhattan (between 5th & 6th Ave.) 1:30 - 6:00 pm <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]--> Now, more than ever, it is clear that we need a massive people's movement to stop the Bush agenda of endless war and cuts in vital services. Join us on September 10, from 1:30 to 6:00 pm for a National Strategy Meeting to help build a movement to Bring the Troops Home Now and demand "Money for the Gulf States, not for War!" Topics will include: Hurricane Katrina : A campaign for emergency action. Help plan national actions to demand Money for Hurricane Relief, Not for War! Mobilizing for the September 24 National March on Washington DC Counter-Recruiting Campaign The Millions More Movement Dec. 1-3 National Boycott to Shut Down the War Donate to help organize against endless war.

Friday, September 2nd, 2005 Dear Mr. Bush: Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag. Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with? Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her! I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike? And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ! On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that. There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland. No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this! You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit. Yours, Michael Moore MMFlint@aol.com www.MichaelMoore.com P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.

* Hussein's brutality against his own people has been greatly exaggerated by our government, purely for propaganda purposes. Bush officials never tire of repeating the following stories as justification for their policy: 1. Hussein gassed his own people. 2. Hussein tried to assassinate George Bush, Sr. 3. Hussein's soldiers took babies out of incubators during the invasion of Kuwait. These stories make for great propaganda, but none of them are true, and the Bush administration knows it. * Saddam Hussein did not gas his own people. Supposedly Hussein gassed Iraqi Kurds at Halabja in March 1988 during the closing days of the Iran-Iraq war. But it isn't true. In 1990, the U.S. government found that the Kurds died by cyanide gas. It was the Iranians who used cyanide, while the Iraqis used mustard gas. This means it was the Iranians who accidentally killed the Kurds during battle. Hussein had nothing to do with it. (Source: Army War College, Stephen Pelletier & colleague) In a related lie, Hussein is also said to have committed genocide in August 1988, killing 100,000 Iraqi Kurds with machine guns, then burying them in mass graves. U.S. intelligence services have uniformly dismissed this story. According to Stephen Pelletier of the U.S. Army War College, no such mass graves have ever been found because none exist. The incident never happened. Human Rights Watch, which originally reported the story, has since retracted it, but the lie lives on. * Saddam Hussein did not try to assassinate George Bush, Sr. Bush, Jr. loves to tell the story of how Hussein "tried to kill my dad." But it's not true. Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh debunked the story in a December 5, 1993 article in The New Yorker titled "A Case Not Closed." The bomb was actually miles away from Bush, Sr. and was likely a set-up by Kuwait to keep Clinton from easing sanctions on Iraq. * Saddam Hussein's soldiers did not remove babies from incubators in Kuwait. A New York public relations firm hired by the Kuwaiti government created this story to win American public support for U.S. military action against Iraq. The fiction was based on the tearful testimony of a Kuwaiti woman before the U.S. Senate as it debated war in 1990. The woman claimed to have witnessed the incubator incident with her own eyes, but she was really the daughter of the Kuwaiti Information Minister, and hadn't even been in Kuwait on the day the alleged atrocity took place. (See csmonitor.com/2002/ 0906/p01s02-wosc.html.) In conclusion, Bush's claim that we should go to war because Hussein (our former client) is a brutal dictator is blatant hypocrisy. Our politicians have been the great creators and patrons of dictatorships around the world. They have… * Toppled the legitimate government of Iran for the benefit of U.S. oil companies, eventually leading to the Islamic revolution and its related problems, * Installed dictatorships in Central America for the benefit of the United Fruit Company, * Installed the current government of Iraq, * Destabilized a working democracy in Lebanon, leading to decades of civil war, * Assassinated the elected President of Chile, * And on and on and on… (See Endless Enemies by Jonathan Kwitny, The Fifties by David Halberstam, and The Price of Power by Seymour Hersh for details about the above list of CIA interventions.) If our politicians really want to adopt an anti-dictatorship policy they can start by… * Renouncing any future use of the CIA to topple or impose governments on other countries, * Apologize to the people of the world for past such activities, * Cease propping up existing dictatorships with foreign aid and/or pretending we're putting pressure on them with counterproductive trade sanctions. * Stop fulminating war against Iraq. http://www.truthaboutwar.org/

"We're dealing with one of the worst national disasters in our nation's history" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9132021/ "National disaster"? Isn't that supposed to be natural disaster? Hurricane Katrina is one of the "worst natural disasters in our nation's history". Bush is one of the worst NATIONAL DISASTERS in our nation's history.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/31/bush_gives_new_reason_for_iraq_war/

From The Washington Post today: Slightly more than half of the country says President Bush should meet with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed last year in Iraq, who is leading a protest against the war outside Bush's ranch in Crawford, Tex., according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey found that 52 percent of the public says Bush should talk to Sheehan, who has repeatedly asked for a meeting with the president, while 46 percent said he should not. Fifty-three percent support what she is doing while 42 percent oppose her actions, according to the poll. Sheehan began her protest three weeks ago, four days after Bush began a five-week vacation at his Crawford ranch. She has repeatedly demanded that Bush meet with her to discuss the war. The two met last year at an event for military families, and Bush has repeatedly declined another meeting. Recently Sheehan announced plans to embark on a bus tour after protesters break camp later this week. The bus tour will end in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24 with a 24-hour vigil. Like the war and Bush's overall handling of the situation in Iraq, attitudes toward Sheehan divide along sharply partisan lines. Seven in 10 Democrats say they support Sheehan's position on Iraq while an equal proportion of Republicans oppose her. In the three weeks since she began her protest, Sheehan has quickly become the most visible symbol of the anti-war movement. Fully three in four Americans say they have read or heard about Sheehan and her protest. The survey also suggests, however, that Sheehan's anti-war vigil has failed to mobilize large numbers of Americans against the war. If anything, her opposition has done as much to drive up support for the war as ignite opponents, the survey found. Eight in 10 Americans -- including overwhelming majorities of Democrats, Republicans and political independents -- say Sheehan's protest has had no impact on their attitudes toward Iraq. While one in 10 say she has made them less likely to support the war, the same proportion say she has made them more likely to back the conflict. A total of 1,006 randomly selected adults were interviewed by telephone Aug. 25 through 28 for this national survey. The margin of sampling error for the overall results is plus or minus 3 percentage points. Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/30/AR2005083000302_pf.html

Translation: So, are you going to invite your new friends over for coffee? Iggypoo, the #1 resident chickenhawk of CP land. Remember this? You posted this on another thread. Well, I thought I trash your propaganda whore's bullshit with something that OWNS what you posted there: First I am going to display your moronic article from the world's worst law and history student, then below I have posted the rebuttal thrashing the vomit spewed from the cunt of your right wing "useful idiot". Here you go yellowboy.... Cluck Cluck.... Chickenhawk in Whine Sauce Young Ben Shapiro, fondly known to some as America’s Worst Law Studentâ„¢, has had it, had it, just had it with being called a chickenhawk. So Ben whipped up a new column — “In Praise of Chickenhawkery: Part I†— to defend himself: The favored ad hominem attack of the left these days is “chickenhawk.†The argument goes something like this: If you believe in any of the wars America is currently fighting, you must join the military. If you do not, you must shut up.Of course, nobody is telling Ben to shut up — least of all people like me who devote a weblog to ridiculing what people like Ben say. We’re just calling Ben a hypocrite. It’s Ben who’s telling people who are calling him a chickenhawk to shut up: The “chickenhawk†argument is dishonest. It is dishonest because the principle of republicanism is based on freedom of choice about behavior (as long as that behavior is legal). . . .Um, unless of course we’re talking about legal homosexual behavior which Ben thinks is all icky: The rise of the homosexual movement is a textbook example of societal amorality devolving into societal immorality. The rationale behind societal amorality is the myopic question: “How does my immoral behavior hurt you?†The answer is: It may not, in the short term. But when society sanctions your immoral behavior, that does hurt me.Ben now pulls out what he thinks are his big guns, so to speak: The “chickenhawk†argument also explicitly rejects the Constitution itself. Go get ‘em, Tiger! Argue that calling you a hypocrite is unconstitutional!! (Now you know why we like to call Ben America’s Worst Law Studentâ„¢.) Ben, of course, saves his best argument for last: By the leftist logic, here are some other “chickenhawksâ€: John Adams [and] Benjamin Franklin . . . . At the time of the Revolutionary War, Adams and Franklin were, respectively 41 and 70, both a bit long in the tooth to be expected to enlist in the army. Ben, however, is 21. I don’t think its unfair to say that Ben may also be America’s Worst History Student. *...And America's worst chickenhawk next to yourself, yellow boy....* I don’t know about you, but I just can’t wait for “In Praise of Chickenhawkery, Pt. II.†------------------------- PWN3D!!11!!!11!1!1111111111!!!!!!!!11111111111 R3515T4NC3 15 FUT1L3!1!!1111!!1111!!!!1!!!!!11111111 So, when are you going to sign up to...... 1. Help the war effort with your contribution by helping in fulfilling the required quota recommended of your recruiter who desperately needs people like YOU to enlist since there is a shortage of enlistments, lose your yellowboy chickenhawk status and join your relatives and friends who are already there and... 2. Fight the same unjust and illegal war you happily support?? Yes Igloo, Join the fuck up or shut the fuck up! This is YOUR freedom of choice. One or the other! You made the bed, you must sleep in it! Take this advice literally, yellowboy. Ba bak, cluck cluck cluck ba BAK..........

Plucked from another board: Actual text of Gov't website: Government is basically telling us what to believe And they actually tried to say Depleted uranium wasn't harmuf. BULLSHIT!

Your point is.... Oh wait...... You have none. Funny this rhetoric comes from someone whose agenda is into pro killing for oil. Funny this comes from the same people like yourself who tell us it's war people die get over it. You know, when one of your own sibs gets killed I'm gonna use that same line you throw at us against you to show you how it feels. Guaranteed you will get pissed and go into a tizzy as much as other parents who lost their kids in this lie based war who used the same line you right wing bootlicking pro killing anti peace warmongers throw around at them. That mouth of yours is going to get you beat up one of these days assclown and hopefully it does. In fact, I hope that mouth of yours gets you shot and killed. Our intentions are to get them out and bring them home before Bush continues getting his "revenge" by killing more of our kids to justify the killing of our kids. It's murderous and sick. Especially when it's in a war based on lies. It is also true we intend to push for his impeachment and also have him tried for treason as well as for war crimes. Crimes which he knowingly committed. It's funny you say you support her and at the same time you post propaganda that bashes her and Casey and then post a fake letter written by one of your propaganda slutting moronic right wing by-products. It only solidifies the fact you are contridicting yourself and only proves that your rants that I don't give a shit about her and the troops is another one of your sick twisted lies especially when my dad was a war veteran. Then you say I did not give a fuck about him either is testimony that you would go as low as bash my own father who so ahppens to be dead. It must be easy for you to bash dead people knowing they can't fight back. It's sick, it's testimony that you have no respect for the dead and because of that you crossed the line. Bring your Wall Street cowardly ass here and say that to my face. It's also ironic that you say nothing and not complain about the man in the pickup truck which sported a bumper sticker that says, "Support our Troops" goes running their makeshift memorial is testimony that you support his sickly deed and is testimony that YOU don't give a fuck about the troops and is your testimony you support the war only to support Bush and nothing more only to enrich your sick pro killing agenda.

Exhaustion by CindySheehan Sat Aug 27th, 2005 at 06:51:02 PDT Exhaustion Day 20 The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford I finally figured out George Bush's NEW reason for staying in Iraq. This reason has also been co-opted by the Move America Forward (forward to what: Fascism?) and the poor mothers who would be honored if their sons were killed in George Bush's war for greed and power. * CindySheehan's diary :: :: * Since the Freedom and Democracy thing is not going so well and the Iraqi parliament is having such a hard time writing their constitution. Since violence is mounting against Iraqis and Americans and since his poll numbers are going down everyday, he had to come up with something. I have continually asked George Bush to quit using Casey's name the name of the other Gold Star Families for Peace loved ones to justify his continued killing. He continues to say this: "We have to honor the sacrifices of the fallen by completing the mission." So the mission is now this: WE MUST CONTINUE KILLING AMERICANS BECAUSE AMERICANS HAVE ALREADY BEEN KILLED!!! How can anyone, anyone in their right minds support this line of reasoning? I have been silent on the Gold Star Moms who still support this man and his war by saying that they deserve the right to their opinions because they are in as much pain as I am. I would challenge them, though, at this point to start thinking for themselves. Iraq DID NOT have WMD's; Iraq WAS NOT linked to Al Qaeda and 9/11; Iraq WAS NOT a threat or danger to America. How can these moms who still support George Bush and his insane war in Iraq want more innocent blood shed just because their sons or daughters have been killed? I don't understand it. I don't understand how any mother could want another mother to feel the pain we feel. I am starting to lose a little compassion for them. I know they have been as brainwashed as the rest of America, but they know the pain and heartache and they should not wish it on another. However, I still feel their pain so acutely and pray for these "continue the murder and mayhem" moms to see the light. I didn't do my blog last night because I was so exhausted. I am now lying awake at night thinking and worrying about a couple of things. First of all, how can we keep the momentum of Camp Casey going? Our first step is a bus tour consisting of three buses going through 3 different parts of the country, stopping at various places to do rallies and "visit" Congress people's offices. I had a brainstorm during my press conference yesterday...our first stop will be at Mr.Tom Delay's office. I just opened my mouth and the words came out and the Bus Tour organizers re-worked the bus schedule so we could make that happen. But before we even issued the invitation to Tom Delay, his office had released a statement saying that he was "too busy to meet with me." In taking Camp Casey to Congress we are creating problems for the very people who voted to give George the authority to invade an innocent country and cause the deaths of so many people. We will eventually target every Congress person, pro-peace or anti-peace alike, Republican or Democrat, and ask them the same questions we are asking the president. Except with Congress, we are going to add one more thing: "Since there is no Noble Cause, you need to develop a speedy exit strategy and bring our troops home as soon as humanly possible." Check out www. BringThemHomeNowTour.org for more info on our bus tour and how you can be involved. The second thing that worries the crap out of me is the almost icon status that I have achieved. I never set out to become the "Rosa Parks of the Peace Movement." I ventured out on August 6, 2005 to hold George Bush accountable and to raise awareness about his lies and misuse and abuse of power. I didn't set out to become anyone's hero. I am a regular mom who just wants peace and no one else to be murdered for the deceptions of our government. I love the love and support of America: it is what sustains me through these very difficult times and the reich-wing smear campaign. I am blown away and humbled that people are coming from all over the world to meet me and have their pictures taken with me. I am honored when people ask me for my autograph and I love meeting the little ones. I think we really need to focus our energies on the cause of peace, though...and the message, not the messenger. I am not a perfect person. I am strong and I do have the cajones to tell the world that our "emperor" has no clothes, but it is done out of love of Casey and the others who have died and who are in harm's way and out of the simple fact that at the end of the day I have to look at myself in the mirror. If I didn't do everything in my power to end this monstrosity of an occupation in Iraq, how could I do that? I promised my boy that I would make the world a better place for his unborn nieces and nephews, and I mean to keep that promise. We are going to have an eventful day at Camp Casey. We are holding a big rally and so are the "pro-continue the killing because Americans have died already" people. I am a little apprehensive about this. We know that the Sheriff's know that the other people are coming to stir up trouble and provoke us into violence. Well, that is not going to happen on the Camp Casey side. We will not resort to the same tactics as their leaders. Camp Casey is a place of peace and love and we won't let ignorant citizens bring us down. At this point the smears are amusing me, rather than hurting me. I will keep you all posted about today's events. Please pray for us that everyone keeps a cool head. Peace!!!!