What is more scary? Well we showed 'em..
. or maybe not
The reports that a conservative estimate of dead Iraqi civilians since the US invasion is at 100,000: "In 15 of the 33 communities visited, residents reported violent deaths in their families since the conflict started. They attributed many of those deaths to attacks by American-led forces, mostly airstrikes, and most of those killed were women and children.The risk of violent death was 58 times higher than before the war, the researchers reported."
And a says that the U.S.
has no justification for using torture. You mean torture isn't a college prank or a family value?: ""The absolute nature of the prohibition of torture and other forms of ill treatment means that no exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for torture," the report said.
" Bush was so proud during the debates that he didn't sign up for the ICC. I hope that he is charged for war crimes.
Or did we show them?
with Aaron Brown. (you can try to here)
BROWN: Let me ask you then, David, the question I asked Jamie. In regard to the dispute about whether that stuff was there when the Americans arrived, is it game, set, match?Does this mean that the Preznit will quit saying that about the missing 380 tons of dangerous explosives in Iraq. Perhaps Kerry did have the facts and bush didn't. bush: "This week Senator Kerry is again attacking the actions of our military in Iraq, with complete disregard for the facts.Is that part of the argument now over?
KAY: Well, at least with regard to this one bunker and the film shows one seal, one bunker, one group of soldiers going through and there were others there that were sealed, with this one, I think it is game, set and match. There was HMX, RDX in there.The seal was broken and quite frankly to me the most frightening thing is not only is the seal broken and the lock broken but the soldiers left after opening it up. I mean to rephrase the so-called (UNINTELLIGIBLE) rule if you open an arms bunker, you own it. You have to provide security.
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You can of the explosives. "..
..members of the 101st Airborne Division showed the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS news crew bunker after bunker of material labelled "explosives.
" Usually it took just the snap of a bolt cutter to get into the bunkers and see the material identified by the 101st as detonation cords. "
Wow, 150 digital cameras were given to Iraqi's to show who they are. It was made into a movie.
Oh sure, the is being investigated by the IRS for endorsing the preznit. Et tu, IRS? Is there anything that isn't political or racially motivated?
What about the churches? Investigate the churches.
Use to get user names and passwords for some articles.
Just what you expected..
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"She went to Valle Del Norte Community Center in Albuquerque, planning to vote for John Kerry. "I pushed his name, but a green check mark appeared before President Bush's name," she said.
Griffith erased the vote by touching the check mark at Bush's name. That's how a voter can alter a touch-screen ballot.
She again tried to vote for Kerry, but the screen again said she had voted for Bush.The third time, the screen agreed that her vote should go to Kerry.
She faced the same problem repeatedly as she filled out the rest of the ballot. On one item, "I had to vote five or six times," she said."
When did the explosives go missing? Explosives could not be found when U.
S. troops arrived
"The mystery surrounding the disappearance of 380 tons of powerful explosives from a storage depot in Iraq has taken a new twist, after a television news crew embedded with the U.S.
military during the invasion of Iraq reported that the material could not be found when American troops arrived.
NBC News reported that on April 10, 2003, its crew was embedded with the U.S.
Army's 101st Airborne Division when troops arrived at the Al Qaqaa storage facility south of Baghdad.
While the troops found large stockpiles of conventional explosives, they did not find HMX or RDX, the types of powerful explosives that reportedly went missing, according to NBC.
The International Atomic Energy Agency revealed Monday that it had been told two weeks ago by the Iraqi government that 380 tons of HMX and RDX disappeared from Al Qaqaa after Saddam Hussein's government fell.
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The news today, oh boy is a website dedicated to clearing up misinformation about John Kerry.
Because there is no regulation demanding that political candidates speak the truth, many Americans need to get their facts straight.
Try not to be mean to bush supporters as many of them have simply been hoodwinked by all the lies. I for one was very surprised and dismayed that there are no standards when it comes to politics for being honest. I am sickened when I watch tv and see pundits excusing lies as
"simply politics".
There should be no excuse for lies and misleading by politicians. Why do we tolerate this?
Fascist Characteristic 3.
Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause -- The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
Fascist Characteristic 6. Controlled Mass Media -- Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or through sympathetic media spokespeople and executives.
Censorship, especially in wartime, is very common.
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Compassionate, my foot. bush's w is for women campaign is an .
He is supposedly making inroads with women, especially mom's, using a fear tactic. It is reprehensible. Blair and Bush licking for women to support bush.
Characteristic of Fascism 7. Obsession with National Security -- Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
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The Coming Post-Election Chaos:
A Storm Warning of Things to Come If the Vote Is as Close as ExpectedFascist Characteristic 14.
From in
"It does not seem to trouble either Rove or Bush that they are moving us toward a Twenty-first Century civil war -- and that, once again, Southern conservatism is at its core.Only a miracle, it strikes me, can prevent this election from descending into post-election chaos. But given the alternatives, a miracle is what I am hoping for."
Fraudulent Elections
-- Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against (or even the assassination of) opposition candidates, the use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and the manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.----------------------------------------
: Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq:
"The huge facility, called Al Qaqaa, was supposed to be under American military control but is now a no man's land, still picked over by looters as recently as Sunday. United Nations weapons inspectors had monitored the explosives for many years, but White House and Pentagon officials acknowledge that the explosives vanished sometime after the American-led invasion last year. "Get our boys out of that country now.
...The White House said President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, was informed within the past month that the explosives were missing.
It is unclear whether President Bush was informed.
...The explosives could also be used to trigger a nuclear weapon, which was why international nuclear inspectors had kept a watch on the material, and even sealed and locked some of it. The other components of an atom bomb - the design and the radioactive fuel - are more difficult to obtain.
...The International Atomic Energy Agency publicly warned about the danger of these explosives before the war, and after the invasion it specifically told United States officials about the need to keep the explosives secured, European diplomats said in interviews last week. Administration officials say they cannot explain why the explosives were not safeguarded, beyond the fact that the occupation force was overwhelmed by the amount of munitions they found throughout the country.
Our government is oblivious.
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Want proof that your government doesn't give a shit about our soldiers?
Iraq war veterans are speaking out.
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[Boetcher, a soldier] presented the audience with statistics showing how veterans are losing service benefits at a rapid rate. With lowered funding for support programs and the rising trend of soldiers being reactivated for a second tour of duty, there is little incentive to remain in the service.
[Jennifer Giese of the 826th Ordinance ]While the unit suffered no fatalities in Iraq, they were plagued the entire time by supply chain glitches.The unit never received body armor, and had to resort to stealing scrap metal for vehicle armor. Bottled water had to be rationed due to shortages, but Giese later filled a swimming pool for a general's use.
"This was a complete, chaotic mess," Giese said."In my opinion there was no plan ...
no one knew where we were going."
If you are watching tv supposed news, you would get the impression that everything going wrong with our country is . The media allows this.
Our media is corrupt and must be challenged. CNN, MSNBC, FOX should not be allowed to use the word "news" in their slogans or their titles. "News" insinuates reporting of facts.
Americans are being misled by faux news and faux reporting.
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Rampant Sexism
Can you believe it? Well I can believe it because women, sorry guys, are intuitively more intelligent than men are, generally speaking.
Women can easily see through the lies and distortions of the current republican party. We can see that their so-called "pro-life" stance is just a political ploy. The bush administration's actions in every other situation clearly show a disregard for human life and a deep hatred for women.
For a neocon republican, the only good woman is a barefoot and pregnant woman.
Moderate republican women are calling for a return to the original republican party. A group called "Republicans Who Want Their Party Back".
It's about time.
Characteristic of Fascism 5. Rampant Sexism -- The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated.
Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and antigay legislation and national policy.
Is he gay?
An astute reader sent me a link to a article today showing a very compassionate side of bush..
maybe a bit too compassionate...
He [preznit] said, 'If it's OK with you, we'll take care of the prayer right now. Would you pray with me?' I told him yes, and he turned to the staff that remained in the office and hand-motioned the folks to step back or leave.This made me wince (oh and the reader sent a of this handsome man bush was hugging) and then it made me from January where bush met a man named Scott in Canada and compared him to Scott McClellan:He said, 'Bruce and I would like some private time for a prayer.'
"As they left, he turned back to me and took my hands in his. I was prepared to do a traditional prayer stance, standing with each other with heads bowed.Instead, he reached for my head with his right hand and, pulling gently forward, he placed my head on his shoulder.
...With his left arm on my midback, he pulled me to him in a prayerful embrace. He started to pray softly.
I started to cry...
My body shook a bit as I cried, and he just held tighter. "
"Well, you got a pretty face," he told the surprised Mr. Reid.claims bush uses the word fabulous too much for a man.He wasn't done. "You got a pretty face," he said again. "You're a good-looking guy.
Better looking than my Scott anyway."
I dunno.
How about some homosexuals pipe in here and give your opinion on this.
posted by Blondesense
Kerry on a wild goose chase?
What's wrong with CNN? They are whining on and on about John Kerry who went hunting today. They said he is pretending that he won't take away gun rights.
If John Kerry is really a hunter, I can't imagine that he would try to stifle hunting. Canada geese are a nuisance. As much as I thinking hunting in this day and age is ridiculous, if hunters rid us of pests, I don't mind that much.
Ohh what a horrible thing for me to say. I must not be a liberal at all.
And regarding the hunting trip (and cheney is pissed cause he would rather go out and shoot birds than go to rallies):
Cheney said Kerry's new camouflage jacket was "an October disguise - an effort he's making to hide the fact that he votes against gun owner rights at every turn.Kerry is not against gun owner rights. He is for the assault weapons ban. Bush said he was for the assault weapons ban too."
Who uses assault weapons to go hunting? Who needs an assault weapon for self defense? Kerry's voting recond on gun rights was not against people owning guns.
He just wanted assault weapons off the streets and a waiting period for new gun owners. I don't have a problem with that at all. What the hell is the matter with cheney?
"My fellow sportsmen, this cover-up isn't going to work," Cheney said, speaking to supporters in a well-to-do Toledo suburb that borders the Ohio-Michigan state line. "The Second Amendment is more than just a photo opportunity."WTF?
But didn't cheney go faux hunting birds last year with scalia? Wouldn't real hunters be insulted that cheney considers himself a hunter?
Kerry has denied claims that he wants to "take away" guns.Boy is he grasping at straws.
Cheney pointed out that Kerry bought a new jacket for the hunting trip in Youngstown.
"Which did make me wonder how regularly he does go goose hunting," the vice president said with a smirk.
That was the best slam, he could come up with? Maybe Kerry didn't have his fucking hunting jacket with him. And so what if he never went goose hunting before?
And why the hell is this crap making the news?
There has got to be a new law made, and I am not really a person who likes a lot of laws, but we need a new law. The new law is this:
Candidates for the highest office in our country are not allowed to lie about their opponent, nor are they allowed to mislead or exaggerate.
Candidates must stick to what they will do , what they have done and stick with facts. Period.
If a company wants to market and advertise a product, there are laws in place that say that the advertising must not be misleading.
They are called to task for misleading the public about their product. They have ethics in advertising! How come presidential candidates are not called to task or just simply outlawed from misleading about what they have done or what their opponents have done?
They steered the plane directly into the building? Forget about Kerry, forget about everything bush says about Kerry.
Just remember 9/11. You know exactly what you were doing and how you felt when the news hit. You remember that day very clearly.
The president doesn't.
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