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December 16, 2007 at 05:54:35

Americans, Democrats & Republicans, Want Change

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Rep. John J. Duncan on March 6, 2003 made a speech on why the United States should not go to war against Iraq. For the full speech click here: http://www.antiwar.com/orig/duncan1.html Partial quote:

"The Congressional Budget Office estimated that a very short war followed by a five-year occupation of Iraq would cost the U.S. $272 billion, this on top of an estimated $350 billion deficit for the coming fiscal year. It is a traditional conservative position to be against the U.S. being the policeman of the world. That is exactly what we will be doing if we go to war in Iraq. "

Few in the Knoxville. Tennessee area are old enough to remember when “Jimmy” Duncan or his father before him did not represent the 2nd District. Wouldn’t it be nice to thank him for what he has done and then ask him to consider signing on for impeachment of Dick Cheney?

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Christopher is a retired Mayflower family, Navy Vet, flower child, Mensan and a long-time rural Alaskan with a lifetime or two in Social Sciences and cross-cultural endeavors. He has a terminal graduate degree and is heading into his terminal years with full speed ahead.

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Christopher WrightChristopher is a retired Mayflower family, Navy Vet, flower child, Mensan and a long-time rural Alaskan with a lifetime or two in Social Sciences and cross-cultural endeavors. He has a terminal graduate degree and is heading into his terminal years with full speed ahead.

His idols are those wonderful people who can take a complex subject and make it meaningful and understandable to those not specifically trained in that field but none the less affected by it.

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Thank You

Thanks, Mrs. Bassett,

We so need the perspective and the thoughts of our elders, most of whom feel powerless to resist or even speak of the problems that are becoming as unavoidable as they are unthinkable. Keep on writing to us.

Christopher Wright

by Christopher Wright (16 articles, 2 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 29 comments) on Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 9:38:36 AM

Margaret Bassett is an 86-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political conumbrums. She hopes to hold out for one more presidential election. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboa...

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Margaret BassettMargaret Bassett is an 86-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political conumbrums. She hopes to hold out for one more presidential election. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboa...

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All of us are in this together

Impeachment on the horizon and a filibuster in the Senate against the FISA giveaway are more important than MSMs' need to discuss snow in Iowa between now and Jan 3. If we'd had the internet in Viet Nam days, things would have been a lot easier.

This time around, we are more snowed with information than lacking it. Use the newspapers and TV when it helps, but remember we can be effective also by rallying fence sitters on the blogs.

Even in East Tennessee things are changing. Our hometown paper is ahead of the longtime county and city officials. They wrote to express their dissatisfaction with the news. I hope my Letter to the Editor gets published soon.

As for Jimmy Duncan, I've been rattling his cage for four years. He's a decent sort and I'll let him know what I'm up to.

It's like a bucket brigade in a big fire. To put out the destruction of the government, pass off to Congress, and then the people (who are the ones bailing the water) can save the conflagration.

Thanks for writing.

by Margaret Bassett (25 articles, 1651 quicklinks, 29 diaries, 996 comments) on Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 10:46:05 AM