Letter to the Editor
Memorial Day doesn't seem any different than any other day because under Bush every day is Memorial Day.
Letter to the Editor
You would think that news that Bush stole the 2004 election too would make the news. It did. But not here in America. The BBC broke the news as the top story about "voter caging" in the 2004 election. Caging is a way of massively disqualifying voters. It's a go to jail felony that was revealed last week when Monica Goodling testified that the justice department was involved in rigging the 2004 election.
Similarly just a few days ago Bush signed a directive granting himself extraordinary powers in the event he declares an emergency. The orders designated NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, gives Bush the powers of a dictator. Yet you won't see that story in America's news.
What we do know is that Paris Hilton is going to jail, Britney Spears is a tramp, and Lindsay Lohan crashed her car DUI. That's why we need to have a Clinton as president again because when Clinton was president if the presidents 5th cousin worked for the government it was a major scandal. With Bush as president the news is suppressed. If not for the Internet we wouldn't know what's happening in our own country. We think it's bad when Hugo Chavez takes over the media in Venezuela but the same thing has already happened here. America has a dictator and the media is his state run propaganda machine.
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The Democratic candidates claim to be against the Iraq war, but now they are facing the test. How are the going to vote on funding the war? Funding the war is the same as reauthorizing the war. You can't be against the war and vote to fund it. And to give Bush the money without conditions is to not only be stupid, but to be both stupid and cowardly. If the Democrats are to prove themselves worthy of our vote they are going to have to show that they can fight and win. If Democrats can't win against the Republicans when they have both houses of Congress then how are they going to win the war on terror?
It's time for Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama to step up and show us what they have. America needs leadership. We need a president who has the strength to do the right thing. This is where we see who is strong and who is weak. If we are going to stop this war and embrace reality we need a leader who can make it happen.
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Democrats and Republicans are both losers in this new agreement to fund the Iraq war. The Democrats are losers because the voters sent them there to end the war, not fund it. They are failing to do the one thing the voters wanted and failed to distinguish themselves from Republicans on the one issue that matters. The Republicans are getting what they want but if the voters hated Republicans in 2006 it's going to be far worse in 2008. The real losers are the voters who demanded that Congress accept reality and we aren't getting what we voted for. We can win a war where the enemy and the people who we are liberating are the same people.
I suppose that it's time to add "Impeach Harry Reid" and "Impeach Nancy Pelosi" stickers next to my "Impeach Bush" sticker. If Hillary votes for it she'll have some 'splainin to do.
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Network news channels like ABC and CBS are wondering why they losing to war on news to the bloggers. The can't understand why it is that their market share is dropping. Maybe it's because they don't know what news is.
For example ABC and CBS have yet to report the power struggle between the Gonzales and then Attorney General John Ashcroft over the warrantless domestic wiretapping, Acting Attorney General James Comey testified before Congress that he prevented Gonzales from pressuring Ashcroft in his hospital bed from reauthorizing Bush's illegal wiretapping. This is news that is all over the blogs but is being ignored by ABC and CBS.
Network news has been focused on what they consider more important issues like Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears. Anna Nichole Smith got more news coverage when she died than Presidents Reagan and Ford put together. Instead of covering how many soldiers died in Iraq we have to hear about what's happening on American Idol. So people like me are turning to the bloggers for real news and leaving the network news to those who are more interested in celebrity gossip than what is happening in the world.
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With the passing of Reverend Jerry Falwell a lot of people are saying a lot of different things. Some people really liked him. Some people really hated him. But in this time of reflection on his life I think one thing that everyone can agree on is that Jerry Falwell is in a better place.
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I think the reason that Tony Blair is resigning is that he can see that the Iraq war is about to melt down and he wants to be out of there so that it doesn't happen while he is in charge. If Bush wants the war to not fail while he is president then maybe he should do what Blair is doing and resign before Iraq melts down.
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Bush and the Congress are talking about authorizing funding for Iraq based on "benchmarks" which require Iraq to accomplish certain feats to get continued funding. But on the eve of the Iraqi parliament starting a two month vacation we already know that Iraq isn't going to meet the benchmarks. So why bother?
This is all about stalling. Bush wants to stall because he wants to stick the failure on the next president. The Democrats want to stall because they are too chicken to cut off funding and a bad war helps them in the next election. And the Republicans have an adverse relationship with reality and are trying desperately to hold on to their denial. But the real problem is with the American people because if we aren't going to accept reality as a nation then our leaders won't either. If we continue to elect leaders because they lie and tell us what we want to hear, then who are we to complain when we believe it?
The war was fatally flawed to begin with. So if we win the war then we succeed at a failed plan. Maybe a better way to win is to fail to accomplish the failed mission. This is a war where losing is actually better than winning and the sooner we lose this war the quicker America can get back to reality. Reality is reaching out to tap America on the shoulder. The time has come to listen to the voice of reality.
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Republicans are in between a rock and a hard place when it comes to their war in Iraq. With the Iraqi parliament about to take a 2 month vacation it's rather doubtful that they will be meeting the benchmarks that they seem to favor. On one hand Republicans don't want to lose the war. But it's not a matter of if we lose but when and the longer we wait the bigger we lose. The only things that all Iraqis agree on is that Americans should get out.
America is still in denial about the war but the denial is wearing off. If Americans didn't like the war in the 2006 elections they really won't like the war in the 2008 election. One thing that might be useful about the war is that the Republicans own it and the longer it goes on the more the Democrats get to rub their noses in it. It will be interesting to see how long the Republicans will support a war that is dragging them down.
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In 2006 America elected the Democrats to shut down the war. We didn't elect them to create political theater pretending to oppose the war while still passing the funding to sustain it. Now is the time when we'll see if the Dems have what it takes to do what the voters want. We want it shut down now. This should be easy. They don't have to give Bush something that he'll agree to. All they have to do is nothing. Don't fund the troops. Let the war starve.
Bush wants the war to continue and I wonder if the Democrats want it to continue as well. The worse things get the better it is for them in the 2008 elections. Democrats have shown no political courage to do the right thing. They sat silently as Bush passed laws authorizing torture, domestic spying, secret prisons, and the shredding of the Constitution. They didn't oppose the war until opposing the war was cool. Now Democrats have to show they have what it takes to lead, that they are not the party of the weak and stupid. This is their test. This is where they earn their paycheck.