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| Scot -- 05/01/2007, 16:24:46 -- #34816 | |
| Rice says, "We are progression on the fight against terror!" Rice is such a mouthpiece for Uncle Bush that it almost makes me ill. She and the DA should get together and make more stuff up. I think the idea is to eventually make us all believe that the color green is actually blue and that the strings we see on their shoulders are just elongated pieces of lint. | |
| sdm -- 05/02/2007, 08:37:53 -- #34816 | |
| Saw an interesting set of clips -- month on month and year on year of Bush citing "progress" in Iraq. How much "progress" do we have to make before our men and women come home? | |
| knotty -- 05/02/2007, 10:19:24 -- #34816 | |
| Do you guys plan on reading George Tenet's book? Judging by the summary, looks like guaranteed depression. | |
| sdm -- 05/02/2007, 12:29:01 -- #34816 | |
| You know, I don't. I don't need to know much more at this point. Our federal government is broken, period, and it's largely happened in the last 6 years and it's Bush's fault. I follow investigations and such but my goal now is to hold my breath until that idiot and his ilk are run out of town and we can try again (although I've finally come to the point where I'd like to see it done early!). | |
| Scot -- 05/02/2007, 19:15:55 -- #34816 | |
| Read some Hunter S. Thompson, fear and loathing in las vegas comes to mind. He talks about Nixon the same way we talk about Bush, same lies, same problems, same everything, even a war. | |
| Whacky -- 05/02/2007, 21:08:50 -- #34816 | |
| yep...I was watching an old episode of "All In The Family" Archie and Michael were having the very same arguments we're having nowadays... "will it go round in circles?" | |
| sdm -- 05/03/2007, 08:18:29 -- #34816 | |
| Now, if we can only get the same result!! (well, not on the war -- let's do that A LOT sooner) | |
| lepxe -- 05/15/2007, 04:40:33 -- #34816 | |
| one point that the mainstream newspapers conveiniently miss about the "bring our troops home" argument is that there are far more armed security men than soldiers in Iraq, so although there may be a slow withdrawl of American and British troops, the number of privatly employed soldiers is steadily increasing. These security guards (often coming from the military in search of higher pay) do much the same work as the troops their replacing, only diferance is that their not accountable to the american government (did I say government, I meant to say industrial-millitary complex). These security guards (normally reffered to as "millitia" by anyone less hypocritical than the bush regime) are then left to guard the oil fields and other lucrative "developments" being undertaken in the aim to "free" iraq. | |
| Scot -- 05/15/2007, 08:38:04 -- #34816 | |
| Ah, so it's mercenaries then? Wasn't aware of that one! | |
| knotty -- 05/15/2007, 09:04:14 -- #34816 | |
| Take a look at Blackwater (Jeremy Cahill). He was on Jon Steward a month or so back. According to the author, it would be almost 130,000 of them, supposedly some are paid as much as $30,000 a month. They're not military, so they don't have to follow the military code of behavior. Mercenaries sounds like the right word... | |
| sdm -- 05/16/2007, 09:02:34 -- #34816 | |
| Didn't Sec Def Gates actully run Blackwater?? This is memory, not sourced right now. | |
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