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Title: GEORGE W. BUSH - The Anti-American President - 45% of Worldnetdaily Readers Want Bush Impeached
Source: Worldnetdaily
URL Source: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47970
Published: Dec 19, 2005
Author: Vox Day
Post Date: 2005-12-19 04:02:37 by Uncle Bill
Keywords: Anti-American, Worldnetdaily, President
Views: 116
Comments: 17

The anti-American president

Worldnetdaily
By Vox Day
December 19, 2005

"Sept. 11 changed everything" has been the mantra of the strong government conservative, the pragmatic dialectoids who are flexible enough to justify any expansion of central government power in the name of the very conservatism that opposes it. Since "we are at war," Republican media whores have repeatedly claimed that because of an attack that killed the same number of people who die on American roads every 26 days, the following actions are therefore justified:

1. An undeclared war of indefinite end against an undefined enemy.

2. Invading two sovereign nations without a congressional declaration of war.

3. The anti-American Patriot Acts I and II.

4. The suspension of habeus corpus.

5. Torture.

These acts have all been justified under the guise of imminent national peril, despite the fact that the peril is so non-perilous that it has not been deemed necessary to expel foreign nationals, let alone enforce the wide-open national borders or existing immigration laws. If federal agents were to begin shooting innocent and unarmed civilians on the street, would that too be justified?

Unfortunately, we already received the answer to that question in Los Angeles last week when federal agents murdered Rigoberto Alpizar, with the post-facto support of the White House.

The frustrating truth is, no matter what happens, Three Monkey Republicans around the country will nod their heads and intone mindlessly: "It was necessary, it was unfortunate, it was an accident." They will cling to the official story no matter how absurd or overtly biased – if an air marshal heard a bomb threat, then a bomb threat there must have been, even if none of the dozens of other witnesses will corroborate the claim. At this point, it's not hard to imagine supporters of the administration defending an executive order sending B-2 bombers to carpet-bomb the Cotton Bowl. In this, they echo the Clintonistas in their unthinking and furious defenses of all acts Clintonian.

America was founded on the principle that it is right to sacrifice blood for liberty. It is telling that the Bush defenders make precisely the opposite argument, that it is right to sacrifice liberty in order to avoid the shedding of American blood. In this they are, like the Dear Leader, avowedly anti-American.

That George Bush is in open and repeated violation of his oath to uphold and defend the Constitution is no longer debatable. In keeping with his many anti-constitutional actions, he has publicly declared that he has no way of knowing what is, and what is not constitutional.

This attitude, while hardly unique in Washington, should be absolutely anathema to every American of all political stripes. And it appears that Americans are increasingly turning away from the president in rightful disgust. A recent poll here on WorldNetDaily showed that 45 percent of WND readers – who tend to lean strongly Republican – believe that George Bush deserves to be impeached.

I find it interesting to note that a 2003 Elliott Wave report predicted that if George Bush was re-elected, his second term would likely follow the pattern of Richard Nixon's. Given the recent reports of George Bush's personal authorization of domestic spying and more revelations yet to come, this seems entirely possible. After all, Richard Nixon merely spied on his political opponents, while George Bush is spying on the American people.

For this and other crimes against the American people and their Constitution, George Bush must resign. Failing that, he should be impeached.

I have little doubt that this column will infuriate many Republicans and conservatives, millions of whom twice voted enthusiastically for George Bush. It is always painful to realize that one has been betrayed, and even more painful to discover that one has been made a willing accomplice in the destruction of that which one cherishes. You can continue to believe that George Bush is a patriotic American, though he is not. You can dismiss me as a liberal, a left-winger or a lunatic, though I am not.

But as you do so, try to keep in mind that railing against the messenger does not make the message any less valid.


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#1. To: Uncle Bill (#0)

Bump.

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” President Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-12-19   4:59:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Jhoffa_ (#1)

“The American people expect me to do everything in my power under our laws and Constitution to protect them and their civil liberties.”
George W. Bush, Radio Address December 17, 2005.

Uncle Bill  posted on  2005-12-19   5:09:38 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Uncle Bill (#2)

I notice he's been talking allot more about that "Constitution" we've supposedly got since Thompson's article came out.

Probably an attempt to make himself appear to be the kind of guy who'd never, ever, ever, even dream of calling it a "GD piece of paper"

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” President Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-12-19   5:17:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Jhoffa_ (#3)

Yep. The next you know he'll be talking about a Constitutional Republic instead of a Democracy.

I was thinking about making a banner stating:

Impeach Bush, With A Single goddamned Piece of Paper
Sign up here: http://w ww.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml

Uncle Bill  posted on  2005-12-19   5:27:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Uncle Bill (#4)

LOL! I'd put the "GD paper" part in quotes..

Heaven forbid someone think you coined the phrase yourself.

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” President Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-12-19   5:32:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Uncle Bill (#0)

Excellent article - and to add number 6 to that list: They now justify illegally spying on the American people without safeguards or warrants.

Considering that this administration was fraudulently helped into office by Diebold and the Supreme Court, which means our democratic process has been nullified, how many more things have to happen before we understand that we are now living under a dictatorship?

mehitable  posted on  2005-12-19   16:59:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: mehitable (#6)

"how many more things have to happen before we understand that we are now living under a dictatorship?"

I think an endless amount, apparently. At this point, this spoiled, helpless, blind, lazy, ignorant, apathetic zombie-like Constitution trashing socialist sycophant parasites have no love of the Constitution, freedom, liberty, independence, the founding fathers, the founders vision, free enterprise, or the pursuit of happiness. If you gave these people 160 acres and a mule, they would mortgage the acreage for depreciating Wal-Mart crap to facilitate the communist Chinese and our destruction and shoot the mule because they're a Republican, not a Democrat.

Uncle Bill  posted on  2005-12-19   21:41:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: OKCSubmariner (#7)

BTTT

Uncle Bill  posted on  2005-12-22   4:39:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: christine, robin, OKCSubmariner, rowdee, JHoffa, aristeides, Red Jones, BTP Holdings, Jethro Tull (#8)

"Congress [must] be called [if there] is a justifiable cause of war; and as the Executive cannot decide the question of war on the affirmative side, neither ought it to do so on the negative side by preventing the competent body from deliberating on the question."
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1793. (*) ME 9:33

"The question of war being placed by the Constitution with the Legislature alone, respect to that [makes] it [the Executive's] duty to restrain the operations of our militia to those merely defensive."
Thomas Jefferson: Draft for Presidential Message, 1792. (*)

"Considering war as one of the alternatives which Congress may adopt on the failure of proper satisfaction for the outrages committed on us,... I have thought it my duty to put into train every preparation for that which the executive powers, and the interval left for their exercise, will admit of."
Thomas Jefferson to John Nicholas, 1807. ME 11:332

"Considering that Congress alone is constitutionally invested with the power of changing our condition from peace to war, I have thought it my duty [as President] to await their authority for using force [against aggression] in any degree which could be avoided. I have barely instructed the officers stationed in the neighborhood of the aggressions to protect our citizens from violence, to patrol within the borders actually delivered to us, and not to go out of them but when necessary to repel an inroad or to rescue a citizen or his property."
Thomas Jefferson: Confidential Message on Spanish Spoilations, 1805. ME 3:400

"[I] opposed the right of the President to declare anything future on the question, Shall there or shall there not be war?"
Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793. ME 1:404

"The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non- intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many."
Thomas Jefferson to George Clinton, 1807. ME 11:258

"The making reprisal on a nation is a very serious thing. Remonstrance and refusal of satisfaction ought to precede; and when reprisal follows, it is considered as an act of war, and never yet failed to produce it in the case of a nation able to make war; besides, if the case were important enough to require reprisal, and ripe for that step, Congress must be called on to take it; the right of reprisal being expressly lodged with them by the Constitution, and not with the Executive."
Thomas Jefferson: Opinion on the Capture of a British Vessel, 1793. ME 3:250

" [Montesquieu wrote in his Spirit of Laws, X,c.2:] 'The right of natural defense carries along with it sometimes the necessity of attacking; as, for instance, when one nation sees that a continuance of peace will enable another to destroy her, and that to attack that nation instantly is the only way to prevent her own destruction. Thence it follow that petty states have oftener a right to declare war than great ones, because they are oftener in the case of being afraid of destruction.'"
Thomas Jefferson: copied into his Commonplace Book.

Uncle Bill  posted on  2005-12-22   5:26:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Uncle Bill (#0)

1. An undeclared war of indefinite end against an undefined enemy.

2. Invading two sovereign nations without a congressional declaration of war.

3. The anti-American Patriot Acts I and II.

4. The suspension of habeus corpus.

5. Torture.

For this and other crimes against the American people and their Constitution, George Bush must resign. Failing that, he should be impeached.

Even a judge resigned over this regime's illegal activities. Anyone in the Pentagon have the guts to do anything?

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

~George Orwell

robin  posted on  2005-12-22   7:52:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Uncle Bill (#9)

3. The anti-American Patriot Acts I and II.

Great stuff, Uncle Bill. Thanks for the ping. It’s encouraging that readers to a fish wrap like the WND seem to be getting it.

And to anyone who asks the question, "Who has the Patriot Act hurt", I say we simply don't know. Given the CIA's use of rendition, this nation now has the ability to "disappear" people. So a question back to those war flacks is prove that people *haven’t* been damaged by the Patriot Act. But a reply I like even more is how will they feel about this abuse of authority when a Hillary-like president is elected?

Jethro Tull  posted on  2005-12-22   8:13:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Uncle Bill, Khoffa, robin, Jethro Tull, All (#0)

Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?
MSNBC Poll

51041 responses

Yes, between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there
is plenty to justify putting him on trial.
88%

No, like any president, he has made a few missteps, but nothing
approaching "high crimes and misdemeanors."
4%

No, the man has done absolutely nothing wrong. Impeachment would just be a
political lynching.
7%

I don't know.
1%

The mind once expanded by a new idea never returns to its' original size

Itisa1mosttoolate  posted on  2005-12-22   8:22:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Uncle Bill (#4)

Impeach Bush, With A Single goddamned Piece of Paper

ooooohhhh, ziiiinnnngggg!!!!

War is good for business. Invest your son.

christine  posted on  2005-12-22   8:49:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Itisa1mosttoolate, Uncle Bill (#12)

Yes, between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there is plenty to justify putting him on trial. 88%

whoa. i heard aj say the other day that his approval rating went up from 38% to 45%???

War is good for business. Invest your son.

christine  posted on  2005-12-22   8:53:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: christine (#14)

He got a bump right after the Iraqi elections.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

~George Orwell

robin  posted on  2005-12-22   8:58:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: robin (#15)

'Depleted Uranium' - Radioactive US Tanks come limping home

HR: Leuren Moret & DU - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ctud9

"In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war babies were born with severe birth defects. [Url.: http://tinyurl.com/84dbp] - They were born with missing legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune system and blood diseases. In some veterans’ families now, the only normal or healthy members of the family are the children born before the war." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6o4na

Radioactive Tank No. 9 comes limping home

Url.: http://www.sf bayview.com/110905/radioactivetank110905.shtml

by Bob Nichols

"RADIOACTIVE" is stenciled on Abrams tanks in these pictures taken Oct. 13, 2005, in Topeka, Kansas. - Photo: Chris Bayruh (via Url.)

ACROSS THE PLAINS OF KANSAS, destroyed, radioactive Abrams tanks, perched on railroad flatcars, rolled towards an uncertain future. Only one thing was certain. They would be radioactive forever. This would be their everlasting death mask. The Pentagon deceptively calls it "depleted uranium."

The Abrams tanks are constructed with a layer of radioactive uranium metal plates. The big tanks fire a giant uranium dart at 2,100 mph, much faster than an F-16 fighter aircraft, mach III to airplane pilots and very, very fast to the rest of us.

American taxpayers paid to ship the tanks to Iraq and to return them for disposal or re-building in the United States. The tanks are 12 feet wide and weigh a stout 70 tons, or 140,000 pounds.

The enduring vigorous stupidity of the U.S. military pretends that radiation is one of those things that if you can't see it, it can't hurt you. They are thoroughly delusional, of course. A National Academy of Sciences report released June 30, 2005, finds that there is no safe level of radiation. Any radiation is bad.

This radioactive tank sitting exposed on a flatbed railroad car in Topeka, Kansas, should have been "encapsulated," according to U.S. Army Regulation 700- 48, which has the force of law. Photo: Chris Bayruh

From America to Iraq and back, these giant radioactive hulks can only sicken and kill Americans. On top of the sheer, unrelenting stupidity of playing with radiation with unsuspecting soldiers, now the neo-con government is involving everyday Americans in their radiation madness.

The Pentagon can't even follow simple radiation hazard mitigation instructions. Their own rules and regulations have the force of law throughout the world. Yet they are ignored in the United States.

Dr. Doug Rokke

Dr. Doug Rokke is the Pentagon's former director of the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Project. When contacted on Oct. 22, he viewed Chris Bayruh's photographs and made this statement about the radioactive tanks in Kansas: "The radioactive damaged Abrams tanks that were left unsecured on a Kansas railroad track are a perfect example of exactly how not to ship damaged radioactive equipment and how not to protect our Army's Abrams tanks from possible sabotage and compromise of classified battle systems."

On Oct. 10, prior to the discovery of the radioactive tanks, Dr. Rokke made the following statement. It is eerily predictive of what would happen in Kansas three days later. "U.S. Department of Defense officials continue to deny that there are any adverse health and environmental effects as a consequence of the manufacture, testing and/or use of uranium munitions to avoid liability for the willful and illegal dispersal of a radioactive toxic material - depleted uranium."

This is another of the destroyed radioactive tanks in Topeka, Kansas. Children were playing around the tanks. - Photo: Chris Bayruh

Dr. Rokke continued, "They [the U.S. military] arrogantly refuse to comply with their own regulations, orders and directives that require United States Department of Defense officials to provide prompt and effective medical care to all exposed individuals." (See Note 1 below.)

"They also refuse to clean up dispersed radioactive contamination of equipment as required by Army regulations." (See Note 2.)

"Specifically, they are required (see Note 3) to accomplish four things:

1) Military personnel must 'identify, segregate, isolate, secure and label all RCE' (radiologically contaminated equipment).

2) 'Procedures to minimize the spread of radioactivity will be implemented as soon as possible.'

3) 'Radioactive material and waste will not be locally disposed of through burial, submersion, incineration, destruction in place, or abandonment' and

4) 'All equipment, to include captured or combat RCE, will be surveyed, packaged, retrograded, decontaminated and released.'

"The past and current use of uranium weapons, the release of radioactive components in destroyed U.S. and foreign military equipment, and releases of industrial, medical and research facility radioactive materials have resulted in unacceptable exposures."

Dr. Rokke added, "Therefore, decontamination must be completed as required by U.S. Army Regulation 700-48 and should include releases of all radioactive materials resulting from military operations.

"The extent of adverse health and environmental effects of uranium weapons contamination is not limited to combat zones but includes facilities and sites where uranium weapons were manufactured or tested, including Vieques, Puerto Rico, Colonie, New York, and Jefferson Proving Grounds, Indiana.

"Therefore, medical care must be provided by the United States Department of Defense officials to all individuals affected by the manufacturing, testing and/or use of uranium munitions. Thorough environmental remediation also must be completed without further delay.

"I am amazed," exclaimed Dr. Rokke, "that 14 years after I was asked to clean up the initial DU mess from Gulf War I and almost 10 years since I finished the depleted uranium project, United States Department of Defense officials and many others still attempt to justify uranium munitions use while ignoring mandatory requirements.

"But beyond the ignored mandatory actions, the willful dispersal of tons of solid radioactive and chemically toxic waste in the form of uranium munitions just does not even pass the common sense test.

"Finally, continued compliance with the infamous March 1991 Los Alamos Memorandum (see Note 5) that was issued to ensure continued use of uranium munitions cannot be justified.

"In conclusion," Dr. Rokke urged, "the president of the United States, George W. Bush, and the prime minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair, must acknowledge and accept responsibility for willful use of illegal uranium munitions - their own "dirty bombs" - resulting in adverse health and environmental effects."

"President Bush and Prime Minister Blair also should order:

1) medical care for all casualties,

2) thorough environmental remediation,

3) immediate cessation of retaliation against all of us who demand compliance with medical care and environmental remediation requirements,

4) and ban the future use of depleted uranium munitions," Dr. Rokke concluded.

A little old lady in tennis shoes

Leuren Moret is a world famous scientist and radiation specialist who formerly worked at the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, where she became a whistleblower in 1991. She has spoken out about the danger of uranium munitions to humanity in more than 42 countries.

Moret has appeared in four documentaries about uranium munitions (depleted uranium). "Beyond Treason" debuted in August 2005 and won the Grand Festival Award at the Berkeley Film Festival. The newest film, "Blowin' in the Wind," was nominated during its debut the first week of November in Australia for an Academy Award.

Moret was an expert witness at the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan and serves as an adviser and expert witness in court cases regarding radiation exposure. Her statement, made Oct. 24, about the dead tanks in Kansas follows:

"Sally Devlin, a little old lady in tennis shoes, went to a public meeting several years ago, held by the Air Force in Pahrump, Nevada. Two officers told the citizens of the town that the Air Force would be moving 80 old target practice tanks and tons of old depleted uranium munitions through their town.

"The radioactive bullets had been picked up off the Nellis gunnery ranges by order of the state of Nevada and were being transported to the Nevada Test Site [a nuclear weapons test site] to be buried as radioactive waste.

"When Mrs. Devlin politely asked them how they would prevent the residents of the town from being contaminated by the radioactive dust on the tanks and bullets, the officers said, 'We're wrapping them in Saran Wrap.' She told them that would be unacceptable and stopped the Air Force dead in their tracks," Moret concluded.

Whether it is Saran Wrap in Nevada or nothing at all in Kansas, the Pentagon just doesn't get it when it comes to uranium radiation dispersing weapons. It is way past time to take all their nuclear weapons and uranium munitions away from them and send them home to get real jobs. They are clearly incapable of protecting this country from all dangers, including those created by our own U.S. military.

The U.S. military shows so little regard for Americans in Kansas, one wonders what on earth they have done to Iraq. The U.S. military has distributed an estimated 8 million pounds of weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas, aerosols and dust on a practically defenseless little country of 26 million people (see Note 6), according to an estimate by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

What is this lethal radioactive weapon supposed to do? Why was it used? Ceramic uranium oxide gas is a genocidal weapon, for God's sake. It persists in the environment forever. In Leuren Moret's pithy words, "The Iraqis are uranium meat."

The politicians, Pentagon staff, generals, commanding officers and others responsible for this war crime must be arrested, tried, convicted and appropriately punished for their crimes against humanity.

There is another explanation

Another explanation is that the U.S. Army and other branches of the military are far from stupid. They are, in fact, the most lethal and carefully planned military in the history of the world. The extensive use of weaponized uranium oxide gas, aerosols and dust is not an accident or an oversight. They did it on purpose.

If this is true, they purposely used a genocidal weapon over at least a 15-year period. No, this is not a callous mistake of empire; it is a calculated act of genocide to weaken the oil- and gas-rich countries of Central Asia, including Iraq. Take your choice: they are either stupid or genocidal monsters.

A British group has estimated the weaponized ceramic uranium oxide will account for an additional 25 million cancers in Iraq in the next several years. There are only 26 million Iraqis to start with, minus the nearly 1.7 million killed by war or sanctions since 1991, plus some live births.

A National Academy of Sciences report released June 30, 2005, finds that there is no safe level of radiation. The committee dismissed the idea that any radiation could be harmless or beneficial.

The radioactive tanks in Kansas and Iraq are the same. They are placed there at great expense by the senior American political and military leadership, with premeditated malice. The bottom line purpose of a 140,000-pound radioactive tank is to kill people.

Uranium munitions a war crime

Dennis Kyne, noted speaker and writer, is a former drill instructor (DI) and a 15-year veteran of the Army as well as a Gulf War vet (see http://www.denniskyne.com). Kyne makes a point of how "hot" or radioactive the tanks in Kansas would be if they were hit by "friendly fire" to get beat up so much. They could be contaminated with as much as 30,000 times background radiation. That is what uranium munitions do to a tank, bunker or building.

Karen Parker, a prominent U.S. international human rights lawyer, says there are four rules derived from humanitarian laws and conventions regarding weapons:

1. Weapons may only be used against legal enemy military targets and must not have an adverse effect elsewhere (the territorial rule).

2. Weapons can only be used for the duration of an armed conflict and must not be used or continue to act afterwards (the temporal rule).

3. Weapons may not be unduly inhumane (the "humaneness" rule). The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 speak of "unnecessary suffering" and "superfluous injury" in this regard

4. Weapons may not have an unduly negative effect on the natural environment (the "environmental" rule).

"DU weaponry fails all four tests," Parker states. "First, DU cannot be limited to legal military targets. Second, it cannot be 'turned off' when the war is over but keeps killing.

"Third, DU can kill through painful conditions such as cancers and organ damage and can also cause birth defects, such as facial deformities and missing limbs. Lastly, DU cannot be used without unduly damaging the natural environment.

"In my view, use of DU weaponry violates the grave breach provisions of the Geneva Conventions," Parker concluded, "and so its use constitutes a war crime, or crime against humanity."

Notes

1. "Medical Management of Unusual Depleted Uranium Casualties," DOD, Pentagon, 10/14/93, "Medical Management of Army Personnel Exposed to Depleted Uranium (DU)," Headquarters, U.S. Army Medical Command, 4/29/04, and section 2-5 of AR 700-48 .

2. AR 700- 48: "Management of Equipment Contaminated With Depleted Uranium or Radioactive Commodities," Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., September 2002, and U.S. Army Technical Bulletin TB 9-1300- 278: "Guidelines For Safe Response To Handling, Storage, and Transportation Accidents Involving Army Tank Munitions or Armor Which Contain Depleted Uranium," Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., July 1996, http://traprockpeace.org/du_pam_700-48.pdf.

3. Section 2-4 of United States Army Regulation 700-48 dated Sept. 16, 2002, specifies these requirements.

4. IAW Technical Bulletin 9-1300-278, DA PAM 700-48. Maximum exposure limits are specified in Appendix F.

5. http://www.tv.cbc.ca/n ational/pgminfo/du/doc1.html

6. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark's estimate, http://www.covertactio nquarterly.org/demonize.html

© Copyright Bob Nichols. Copying permitted if you credit the source and leave everything intact, including notes. Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award winner and lives in California. He formerly lived in Oklahoma. He is a contributor to http://OnLineJournal.com, http://AxisofLogic.com, http://DissidentVoice.com and other online publications and is a correspondent for the San Francisco Bay View newspaper. Nichols is a former employee of the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant. He can be reached by email at bob.bobnichols@gmail.com.

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Itisa1mosttoolate  posted on  2005-12-22   9:16:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#16)

This is intentional. They are trying to breed us out of existence. Look at who joins the military and more importantly, look at who does not.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

~George Orwell

robin  posted on  2005-12-22   9:18:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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