1. Is the United States safer without it's allies?
2. Is the United States safer with it's military decimated and trapped in Iraq losing a batallion a month?
3. Is the United States safer with the entire Arab world enraged on account of an illegal war?
4. Did Bush get Bin Laden?
5. Is the United States safer with the Taliban back in Afghanistan and not enough troops because of Iraq?
6. Was America prepared on September 10th 2001 with Bush explicitly warned and supposedly in charge?
7. Was New Orleans safer with Bush in charge?
8. Do you like being told that if you don't support Republicans, you're "on the side of the terrorists"?
9. Did Bush "solve the middle east problem" or is it now erupting in flames?
10. Do you feel safer when Republicans cut port security bugets?
11. Did it tell you something when Bush tried to turn New York/New Jersey port security over to an Arab company?
12. Does it tell you something that the same Arab company is still in charge of New York/New Jersey port security 6 months after the arrangement was supposedly banned by congress?
13. Do you wonder why Bush opposed the creation of the 9-11 commission?
14. Do you wonder why he immediately hired a personal attorney after 9-11?
15. Do you wonder why Bush and Cheney REFUSED to be sworn in to swear to tell the truth when questioned by Congress about 9-11?
16. Did you liked being lied to 237 times to "justify" attacking Iraq?
I thought there would be more than 34 talking points.
Ever since the patriot act I knew there was a lot wrong with this government.
In fact Bush said yesterday that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, most likly a slip of his tongue.
I am proud to say I have never voted Republican in my life. I'm not to sure about the Dems either. When Kerry ran after being defeated by a 3% lead that he held throughout the day through the exit-polls I wondered if he was just as bad as the Neo-Cons. and the Counsil on Foregein affairs, or the Federal Reserve Bank who control our dumb asses', through fear mongering.
I said it before and I'll say it again "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" FDR.
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anthny (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 39 comments)
on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at 5:47:28 PM
We were down to two allies and there is trouble in paradise. Blair is in trouble in Britain primarily for his support of Bush who is loathed throughout the country. There are credible reports that, having given Olmert a green light to attack Lebanon, Bush urged Israel to go ahead and attack Syria. There were reports out of Israel that Olmert refused. Another "alliance" strained. And Australia? How many troops have they sent to Iraq lately?
Since Bush stole the election of 2000, the US is now the most despised, most reviled nation on earth. Bush is now a recruiting poster boy for Al Qaeda. What if Bush nukes Iran and Iran retaliates by blocking the straights of Hormuz. Turkey will deny egress across it's territory. And, of course, so will Syria. Well, over 100,000 American troops could be completely cut off in Iraq, quite possibly the worst military blunder in history.
It was David Hume, I seem to recall, who wrote that there was a moral imperative to be intelligent. Maybe so! But the PRACTICAL imperative to be intelligent would be GOOD ENOUGH. And that has been sorely lacking since 1980, and especially so, since the year 2000.
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Len Hart (123 articles, 159 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 483 comments)
on Thursday, August 24, 2006 at 4:32:01 PM
