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(General Odom Says) 'Supporting the troops' means withdrawing them
Post Date: 2007-07-07 16:57:32 by Red Jones
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'Supporting the troops' means withdrawing them COMMENTARY | July 05, 2007 Gen. William Odom writes that opponents of the war should focus public attention on the fact that Bush’s obstinate refusal to admit defeat is causing the troops enormous psychological as well as physical harm. By William E. Odom diane@hudson.org Every step the Democrats in Congress have taken to force the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq has failed. Time and again, President Bush beats them into submission with charges of failing to "support the troops." Why do the Democrats allow this to happen? Because they let the president define what "supporting the troops" means. His ...
Demography is Destiny
Post Date: 2007-07-07 00:54:36 by Tauzero
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Demography Is Destiny ared Taylor, American Renaissance, August 2005 I have been asked to speak on the subject, “Demography is Destiny.” The phrase is attributed to the 19th century French mathematician and philosopher, August Comte (1798–1857), who is known as the “father of sociology.” By it he meant that as a rise or fall in birth rates works itself out over the decades, it affects everything in a society. He would therefore have understood immediately the significance of something now happening in many nations of the West: The average number of children each woman has is closer to one than to the 2.2 necessary to maintain the population. When a society does ...
GOP Defections on Iraq: Who's Next?
Post Date: 2007-07-06 23:27:28 by tom007
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GOP Defections on Iraq: Who's Next? Friday July 6, 2007 8:01 PM AP Photo NMALJ101 By ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - After the recent defection of prominent Republicans on the Iraq war, the big question in Washington is who might be next. More than a dozen Republican senators who are running for re-election next year head the list of lawmakers to watch. But others, too, have expressed concerns that the GOP has grown increasingly vulnerable on the issue. As the clock ticks toward Election Day, voter pressure is building against any lawmaker still standing with President Bush on the war. Potential wildcards include members up for re-election who have ...
Senator, You Used to Be a Pot Head -- Now You're Talking Like a Narc
Post Date: 2007-07-06 23:26:19 by Dakmar
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A letter to GOP Sen. Norm Coleman from a former college friend asking why he supports brutal drug laws when he was an avid pot smoker as a young man. Tools email EMAIL print PRINT 134 COMMENTS Share & save this story: Digg iconDelicious iconReddit iconFark iconYahoo! iconNewsvine! icon Also in Top Stories Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More? Michael Schwartz, After Downing Street Is Texas Now Greener than California? Kate Galbraith, Grist Magazine Impeaching Dick Cheney: The Tide is Turning [VIDEO] Robert Greenwald, AlterNet Union Heavy Embraces Green Energy as Crucial Vision for the Future Joan Hamilton, Sierra Magazine More stories by Norman ...
The missing people-shredder
Post Date: 2007-07-06 10:40:10 by tom007
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The missing people-shredder The horror of one of Saddam's execution methods made a powerful pro-war rallying cry - but the evidence suggests it never existed Brendan O'Neill Wednesday February 25, 2004 The Guardian Forget the no-show of Saddam Hussein's WMD. Ask instead what happened to Saddam's "people shredder", into which his son Qusay reportedly fed opponents of the Ba'athist regime. Ann Clwyd, the Labour MP who chairs Indict, a group that has been campaigning since 1996 for an international criminal tribunal to try the Ba'athists, wrote of the shredder in the Times on March 18 last year - the day of the Iraq debate in the House of Commons and ...
A Bloody Media Mirror (Warmonging US Press)
Post Date: 2007-07-06 10:10:55 by tom007
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A Bloody Media Mirror by Norman Solomon Many of America's most prominent journalists want us to forget what they were saying and writing more than four years ago to boost the invasion of Iraq. Now, they tiptoe around their own roles in hyping the war and banishing dissent to the media margins. The media watch group FAIR (where I'm an associate) has performed a public service in the latest edition of its magazine Extra. The organization's activism director, Peter Hart, drew on FAIR's extensive research to assemble a sample of notable quotations from media cheerleading for the Iraq invasion. One of the earliest quotes to merit special attention came from ace New York Times ...
How Scooter Skated (Pat Patrick J. Buchanan)
Post Date: 2007-07-06 10:00:29 by tom007
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How Scooter Skated by Patrick J. Buchanan Why did Bush do it? Why did he suddenly barge into the legal process and erase the entire 30-month sentence of Scooter Libby? For, from his own statement, Bush found the act deeply distasteful. In that statement, Bush calls Libby's crimes "serious convictions of perjury and obstruction of justice." He praises Patrick Fitzgerald as "a highly qualified professional prosecutor who carried out his responsibilities as charged." Bush indicated no disagreement with the verdict. "[A] jury of citizens weighed all the evidence and listened to all the testimony and found Mr. Libby guilty of perjury and obstructing justice ...
Sadr bloc joins Sunnis in rejecting Iraq oil law
Post Date: 2007-07-06 09:56:45 by tom007
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Sadr bloc joins Sunnis in rejecting Iraq oil law by Joseph Krauss Thu Jul 5, 8:25 AM ET BAGHDAD (AFP) - Followers of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday joined a growing chorus of Sunni Arab, Kurdish and Shiite opposition to a draft oil law backed by Washington. ADVERTISEMENT His opposition, apparently motivated by anger at the idea of US and British oil firms snapping up contracts after their countries invaded Iraq, promises to feed a fierce debate but will not necessarily derail the legislation. "You cannot have both the Kurds and the Sadrists on the outside," said Joost Hiltermann, Iraq analyst at the International Crisis Group. Nevertheless, "the oil law ...
The illuminati pt1 blair's biggest secret
Post Date: 2007-07-06 07:17:22 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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The illuminati pt1 blair's biggest secret
Lost Dog
Post Date: 2007-07-05 19:58:07 by tom007
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I know most of you are dog lovers and will help us. My neighbor has lost her Chihuahua and is desperate to find him. She does a lot of traveling and always takes her dog with her. Yesterday, she was sitting on the couch watching TV. She called out for her puppy with no response, and the back door was open. She has been putting up signs everywhere. If you see this dog, please let me know and I will notify her. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Better Dead Than Rude
Post Date: 2007-07-05 17:41:09 by Tauzero
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Better Dead Than Rude Political correctness began as a reasonable adjustment of manners, but as an ideology, it corrupts language and dulls thought. by John Derbyshire Cant, n. The expression or repetition of conventional, trite, or unconsidered ideas, opinions or sentiments; especially: the insincere use of pious phraseology My household favors the brand of iced tea that has little believe-it-or-not factlets printed on the inside of the bottle caps. The other day, my son opened a bottle of this stuff, turned over the cap, and reading from it, asked the room: “What was the first human-made object to break the sound barrier?” Dad: “First what object?” Son (not very ...
GOP Senators Who Voted For Clinton Impeachment Dead Silent On Libby
Post Date: 2007-07-05 12:14:18 by Brian S
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July 5, 2007 GOP Senators Who Voted For Clinton Impeachment Dead Silent On Libby By Bob Geiger Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) was aghast. He was indignant as hell about how having a high public official involved in something like perjury and obstruction of justice can damage the very foundation on which our nation was built -- and he had the harsh words to show for it."By his words and deeds he chose to place himself above the law. By his words and deeds he has undermined the rule of law in America to the great harm of this nation," the Kansas Republican said. "By his own words and deeds, he has undermined the truth-finding function of the judiciary, at great harm to that ...
What do Dick Cheney, Paris Hilton, "The Sopranos" and colon spasms have in common?
Post Date: 2007-07-04 19:51:17 by tom007
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What do Dick Cheney, Paris Hilton, "The Sopranos" and colon spasms have in common? Find out here! Scooter Libby In Hell Wednesday, July 4, 2007 So there you have it. Bush shrugs and smirks and then commutes the easy soft-focus sit-on-your-ass-all-day-and-knit white-collar prison sentence of a hollow political lackey who, in turn, took a bullet for his sneering mafia thug of a boss, Dick Cheney, who in turn was complicit (along with lead flying monkey Karl Rove) in the appallingly illegal outing of a CIA operative, which itself was a tiny but particularly nasty link in the giant chain of lies and deceptions undertaken to lead our wary and tattered nation into an unwinnable ...
Vanity On International Air Travel Help tom007 if you can
Post Date: 2007-07-04 19:32:01 by tom007
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I need to fly to Brisbane Australia, with my daughter, in August to visit my elderly father. I have not flown much at all in quite awhile. I am a airliner ignoremous. (Bad when you can't even spell ignoremous correctly, but that is another issue). I have spent a lot of time looking at the internet sites and as you might expect most of the flights from LAX stop somewhere else (Aukland, Korea, Sydney etc) before connecting to Brisbane. And, naturally, they put you on the very next flight to your destination. I don't want that. If I am going to be in Soel, Fiji or Aukland, I would very much like to spend a few days to see the damn place - then continue to Brisbane. Can anyone here ...
General Butt Naked
Post Date: 2007-07-04 11:21:48 by tom007
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General Butt Naked On October 11, Liberia will hold elections. The country is mired in poverty, the electorate is largely illiterate, but despite a few problems, elections look set to happen without too much chaos next week. Liberia sure has come a long way since the days of General Butt Naked. Who the hell is that? Ahha, you haven’t heard of General Butt Naked! Liberia produced the most outrageously wild characters in its decade of war: General No-Mother-No-Father, General Peanut Butter, General Fuck-Me-Quick, General Dragon Master, General Housebreaker, and perhaps the most famous, General Butt Naked. This guy was particularly… erm… “visible.” He fought ...
Bill Cooper on 911
Post Date: 2007-07-04 10:56:49 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Republic to Empire
Post Date: 2007-07-03 06:45:17 by Ada
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When President Teddy Roosevelt attended the funeral of a member of British royalty, he declined the offer of a gilded carriage for the funeral procession. Roosevelt told his British hosts that it would be inappropriate for the head of a republic. He would therefore walk. One of President Franklin Roosevelt's favorite things to do was to pack a lunch, drive up into the Pine Mountains, pull off the road, spread a blanket and enjoy a picnic lunch with two or three of his friends. In 1933, an assassin opened fire on Roosevelt during an appearance in an open car in Miami. The mayor of Chicago, however, was in the way and took the bullets. The Secret Service members immediately started to ...
Ron Paul: Recapturing the Spirit of Independence
Post Date: 2007-07-02 20:31:38 by Brian S
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Recapturing the Spirit of IndependenceJuly 2, 2007 This week Americans will gather around the grill, attend parades and watch fireworks displays, all in the celebration of the signing of our Declaration of Independence. At the same time, we will have thousands of bureaucrats, troops and agents stationed in countries across the globe being paid by American tax dollars. On the anniversary of our declaring our own independence from the British, it is certainly appropriate that we reflect on the nature and spirit of independent nationhood. While our founding fathers were individual men in a historically unique situation, they posited that the principles upon which they rested our national ...
Bush's Five Big Lies That Led to the Iraq Quagmire
Post Date: 2007-07-02 19:48:45 by tom007
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Bush's Five Big Lies That Led to the Iraq Quagmire These are the five lies Bush told that Ralph Nader documented to impeach him. * Weapons of Mass Destruction. The weapons have still not been found. Nader emphasized, “Until the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam Hussein was our government's anti-communist ally in the Middle East. We also used him to keep Iran at bay. In so doing, in the 1980s under Reagan and the first Bush, corporations were licensed by the Department of Commerce to export the materials for chemical and biological weapons that President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney later accused him of having.” Those weapons were destroyed after the Gulf War. ...
The End of the GOP; Political and Intellectual Bankruptcy
Post Date: 2007-07-02 19:39:47 by Brian S
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"Endism" has been a favorite neoconservative theme over the years: every once in a while the neocons announce the death of some commonly assumed idea that the rest of us take for granted– during the 1950s, for example, they wrote the obituary of ideology itself, proclaiming that their own self-satisfied complacency was the apotheosis of human achievement. In the early 1990s, we heard all about the purported "End of History," similar to "the end of ideology," except extended to the four corners of the earth. No one thought it at all unusual or alarming when Irving Kristol welcomed Hegel and his contemporary doppelgänger into the pages of The National ...
"Bring Them On" Day (JON SOLTZ)
Post Date: 2007-07-02 16:55:31 by aristeides
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"Bring Them On" Day Posted July 2, 2007 | 02:33 PM (EST) For those of us in the military, and Americans in general, there are many anniversaries which swell your heart with pride. World War I had Armistice Day, which later became Veterans Day. World War II had V-E Day and V-J Day. Of course, July 4th marks the official beginning of our first military, and it's fight to give generations of Americans freedom. For me and more than a tens of thousands of others who served in Iraq, unfortunately, today marks a day which sums up the failure of our Commander in Chief in the current war -- the anniversary of "Bring them on." Today, in 2003, President Bush declared his ...
There are quite a few posts on Freerepublic about the North American Union
Post Date: 2007-07-02 10:21:50 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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I haven't looked at any of them yet but this could be a good place to watch the wheat being separated from the chaff. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=north%20american%20union
Poster Comment:if the S and B were behind the Communist Revolution in 1917 and we now have a family running this country that are members...... SKULL+BONES+FOSTERED+RUSSIAN+COMMUNISM well, you ask the question
The most wonderful thing in the world.......
Post Date: 2007-06-29 22:04:18 by richard9151
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I sometimes forget just how blessed I am..... and let petty little problems swell into something that is just, well, non-sense. I do go outside in the morning, early (got to let the dogs out!), and thank God for such a wonderful world. After all, it is not His fault what we are doing to it. Or with it. I walk over to the new tomato plants, and touch the green tomatos, I look at the other plants and the vegtables and fruit thereon, gaze on the fruit just beginning to size up on the trees, and I can not help but smile. Yes, it is a wonderful world, and if we are not getting out of the world what we wish, then perhaps we are wishing for the wrong things; and that is one of the most profound ...
The State Breeds Social Conflict
Post Date: 2007-06-29 20:45:48 by Dakmar
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The political season brings promises to "bring us together as a community" and "heal the divisions between us." Here is what the political class won't reveal: their laws, programs, restrictions, subsidies — the whole panoply of interventionist measures they love and of which they promise ever more — are the main source of social division. In contrast, markets draw people into peaceful social relationships, and encourage and reward harmonious interaction among people. Free trade, for example, brings polar opposite countries together. Only a few decades ago, we were in an arms race stand off with communist China. Today we trade, extensively bettering each ...
Moore's Sicko and Video Cips
Post Date: 2007-06-29 14:45:30 by gengis gandhi
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http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809723348/video/2900247/20070601/137/2900247-700
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