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One of the issues that most concerns working families is the ongoing war in Iraq. The United States has lost more than 3,000 lives, with thousands more injured, and the conflict has cost nearly $430 billion. How would you advise the presidential candidates to change the course in Iraq?
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May 29th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
We owe the people of Iraq a great debt. Acknowledging
that debt would go a long way
toward making our countyr safer, if, that is,
it obvious to the world that we were not reconstructing
Iraq for our benefit.
We must restruture our tax base to pay down
our foreign debts.
We must come to terms with those super patriotic
corporations that leave America for foreign cheap labor
while keeping the Unitied States as a market for their
goods. If we are fighting for our life as a nation, than
it is not unthinkable that we might close our markets to
them.
We must restructure our industry so that we do not
become a producerless nation.
We muct not trade off the benefits of our Constitution for a (false) measure of security.
John M Giannone
May 29th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
The Bush admininstration was criminal to lead the American people into Iraq; the Congress was derelict in its duties to follow the administration.
There is no “right” way to win at an unjust war, just as there is no “right” way to starve the poor. The exit door is the only right course. Support the troops? Save them. Purchase plane tickets for all and evacuate every military base A.S.A.P.
May 29th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
My advice to any of the candidates is: LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE! The Republicans were defeated last November because the people of the United States are fed up with Bush and his corruption and the illegal, immoral, unjustified war in Iraq! If you do not have the cojones to stop this mad man from continuing to send funds and troops to Iraq, then you are just as guilty of war crimes as he is! DO THE RIGHT THING, BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
May 29th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
The Iraq war stem from a policy of the neocon strike first strategy when there is a percieved threat. This strategy justifies striking a potential adversary without credible evidence, much less a trail. The results has been a resurfing of angry and real terrorism aimed at western countries including Israel.
The worlds situation is very complicated. There is a need for skilled dialouge as well as strategic military intervention. The United States most however set a different example and begin to dialouge; which happily Condalezza Rice has began to do.
It should be clear by now the force and violence should not be a priority, but a tactic used very spariling at all. This administration should also be investigated for leading this country into a costly war based on false pretenses.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Since this is a war, it should be fought as such as we did in WW11. Tehre should have been at least 400,000 troops. I believe this was drug out because of profit for businesses such as Haliburton.
May 30th, 2007 at 9:56 am
I’m surprised that the Democrats have yet
to figure out Cheney and Bush; they represent
and do the beckoning of the rich. Threatening
that relationship is the only way for
Democrats to force them to take a new
direction in Iraq. You don’t need to impose
timelines or bence marks or added spending to
confront Bush. There are 2 things Democrats
can do to get Bush to end his Cheney/Bush Iraq
War; make him and his very rich pals to pay
for it. The Democratic House and Senate should
easily be able
to advance legislation creating a Cheney/Bush
Iraq War Tax, with most of the burden on the
richest of the rich [including “Big
Oil’s” huge profits], to pay all war
expenses retroactive back to March 2003;
ending when US occupation ends. The 2nd thing
they should do is approve resolutions in both
Houses apologizing to the World Community for
Bush and Cheney for how their nutty policies
have compromised and weakened US global
leadership and made the World more unsafe.
Every effort should be made by the Democrats
to discredit the Bums. This plan would end it!
Have a nice Memorial Day Weekend!
Albert Colone
Oneonta, NY 13820
607/432-4057
June 5th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Somebody mentioned wwII….according to
wikipedia “Estimates for the total
casualties of the war vary, but most suggest
that some 60 million people died in the war,
including about 20 million soldiers and 40
million civilians.[1][27][28] Many civilians
died as a result of disease, starvation,
massacres, genocide. Of the total deaths in
World War II, approximately 85% were on the
Allied side (mostly Soviet and Chinese) and
15% on the Axis side. One estimate is that
12 million civilians died in Holocaust
camps, 1.5 million by bombs, 7 million in
Europe from other causes, and 7.5 million in
China from other causes.[29] Figures on the
amount of total casualties varies to a wide
extent because the majority of deaths were
not documented.”
God bless our troops. God bless our
casualties in the Persian Gulf and the World
Trade Center. But we need to cut our losses
and start an ordered withdrawal of troops
before this turns into another vietnam……Tremendous
damage has been done to this
country……Guantanamo and Abu Grayab are
travesties and dishonor this nations past
P.O.W. s. We should never cross the line or
even touch the line on interrogation and/or
torture because we open the door to the
possible suffering of our own troops and
citizens…How long before the government
starts torturing and iterrogating it’s own
citizens in the best “interests of
homeland security”?….Do they want the
world to look at us as
Nazi’s?……….Doesn’t anyone remember
what the Japanese did to our
troops?…..Doesn’t anyone remember what
they did to our troops in
Vietnam?……..This government has gone
absolutely insane…….It is very
interesting that we have over 6,000 work
related deaths “a year”and the
government response is “limited” at
best. Even OSHA and EPAs response the health
hazards at the WTC disaster was
“limited” at best and a failure. The
contamination from dust was widespread and
many workers and citizens were exposed, but
response was slow and limited. What about
the Katrina disaster? How many deaths? How
much suffering because of lack of government
support? THE WELL BEING OF THIS COUNTRY
SHOULD BE THE PRIMARY CONCERN OF OUR
GOVERNMENT! What about the development of
alternative fuels and conservation of the
environment? But, no we are forced by our
government to worry about this corrupt and
unjustified war……..WE DON’T WANT TO BE
ISOLATIONISTS, BUT WE ALSO DON’T WANT TO
BE CONSIDERED “WORLD TERRORISTS!” Yes,
don’t you realize that there are people in
this world refering to us as terrorists now?
The government has placed every U.S.
citizens, especially the troops, in danger.
The WTC was terrible and the rest of the
world understood that, but a knee-jerk
reaction war in Iraq was highly
inappropriate. Many people that were “on
the fence” are now uniting against us.
Its no secret that the Bush administration
has failed. We were attacked by terrorists
and targeted a country in
retaliation….Bush was flyin onto aircraft
carriers like John Wayne, what a joke….its
all ridiculous…….The mission has
failed…..our prime objective should have
been to dismantle Al-Queda (or at least
damage them to a point of ineffectiveness)
and we practically made them heroes to alot
of people in the middle east……Bush
ousted the Taliban, ousted Saddam, since
when is it our foreign policy to conquer
foreign governments we don’t like and
attempt to setup our own puppet governments?
Is this the fruition of George Bush seniors
“New World Order” dreams of world
domination? There is no way that the
middle-east will stand for a western army
occupying their region…..the crusades
should have been a good
example……Everyone should seriously ask
the question of why Al-queda was granted a
get out of jail free card and focus shifted
to Iraq? What is the corruptioin there? Why
didn’t they just use intelligence
gathering and their high tech satellites and
drop a bomb on Osama? It wouldn’t have
anything to do with Osama’s relation to
the Saudi Royal Family and the fact that he
is filthy rich would it? It wouldn’t have
anything to do with the Bush family ties to
oil and the Saudi’s would it? How much
money have the Bush cronies made in
contracting money in the Persian Gulf. This
is all the biggest “high-stakes” CON
GAME in the country’s history! The
corruption stinks up to high heaven……
I would really like to know why the
government has over 400 billion dollars to
wage war but we don’t have universal
healthcare. Our medication costs have
skyrocketed. Our governmental infrastructure
has been stripped down to the bare minimum.
Minimum wage has been moving like a snail.
Our competetive countries have been allowed
to come in and weaken our economy. Our
middle class is deteriorating. Our people
are suffering and struggling paycheck to
paycheck.
It worries me very much that our focus has
been pulled away from the suffering of this
country to worries overseas……What could
billions of dollars have accomplished
overseas with intelligence and diplomacy. I
find it very interesting that many of the
terrorist leaders are highly educated and
rich. I find it very interesting that our
self-serving political leaders are educated
and rich. But it always seems to be the poor
that have to do their fighting for
them…..Why is that? Could it be that the
people are constantly being manipulated and
oppressed for political agendas that do not
serve the best interests of the people?
Doesn’t our military commonly recruit in
the ghettos and economically challenged
neighborhoods? Don’t the terrorists
recruit from the economically challenged
also? The desperate, the weak, the people
with no voice or choice in life………
I tell you what should be another primary
concern……The rattling of sabers over
“Iran”……All of the “WAR MONGERS”
haven’t had enough, now we gotta go start
trying to pick a fight with Iran also? Why
don’t we just create another WW III while
we are at it? Another Allied vs. the axis of
evil world war…..while the rich continue
to plunder this country and set up there own
families for generations with blood
money!!!!! We have had enough! SAVE OUR
TROOPS! SAVE OUR COUNTRY! SAVE OUR WORKING
PEOPLE! GET A GRIP POLITICIANS!!!!! WHILE
YOU ARE SQUABBLING, SIDESTEPPING, AND SECOND
GUESSING EVERYTHING PEOPLE ARE DYING!!!!!!
But it’s not your sons and daughters
right? Is that why your dragging your butts
and dragging this country right down the
tubes?
Why is it we are forced to only vote for the
corrupt politicians with enough campaign
money to run for office. Isn’t that
setting the stage for corruption? What about
the popular vote being countered by the
electoral college? Doesn’t our vote really
count? Or are we gonna have some more
manipulated DIEBOLD voting machines choose
our leaders for us?!!!! Why isn’t
political office like a job interview? Where
are the resume’s? Where are the
qualifications? Why are televised political
debates considered our nations leaders
“proving ground”? Where are the job
interviews? lol ….There is alot more to
leadership than hot-air and empty
words……..Empty promises that are
forgotten after elections…….
Maybe we need some more boston tea parties
in america? What happened to the true
patriots? Oh yeah, I’m sorry they are all
too busy trying to scratch together a living
off what the rich have left for us……or
sweating their life away in the scorching
heat of the Persian gulf……POWER TO THE
PEOPLE!!!!!! LOL ….GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY WE
ARE GONNA NEED IT FROM THE LOOKS OF
THINGS!!!
……
June 6th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
The victory declaration is now overdue in Iraq. The military objectives of: 1) Verifiable inspections for weapons of mass destruction 2) Removal of Sadam 3) Supervision of Free Elections 4) Establishment of Democratic Government 5) Execution of Sadam 6) Rebuild workable infrastructure; have been acheived, already. Much has been asked of our troops…and they have delivered all that has been asked. What else do they need to do in order to get a hero’s welcome back? Declare victory, return most of the troops, redeploy the others, and celebrate their accomplishments. Let us redirect our military assets and refocus our attention toward the perpetrators of 9-11. If I were one of those responsible for 9-11, Iraq is the last place I would be looking to go. The baddest military force the planet has ever known is located there. The War on Terror needs to continue in places other than Iraq. Should our withdrawal cause terrorists to fill the vaccum; then I say good. We can redeploy the troops that are already in the nearby theater to re-engage. Surely, there are brighter minds that have thought out all the conceivable possibilities.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
The sentiments put forward by Brian R. are essentially the same as mine. What bothers me the most, besides the enormous debt that we have been saddled with and funds unaccounted for, are the huge cuts made to domestic programs, (education, health, infrastructure etc) that we cannot now fund as we should and at the same time pay off the national debt. Plus low skilled jobs that went to blacks and poor whites, who are now being laid off and the jobs given to Mexicans at a lower wage level with no benefits. Where are we headed, and when are we going to bring the jobs sent out back. Remember Halliburton (Dick Cheney) is moving to Dubai.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Working class and poor people must understand that this so-called war on terror is fundementally a war against all those who are not a part of the ruling and pose a threat to the hedgemony of the radical right wing corporate interest.
Quite a few democrat who recieve compaign contributions from this corporate interest have been bought and as a result owe their allegence to this corporate interest instead of to the American people.
Taking back our government demand that the citizens of this country put all politicians on notice that the system of selling out the people as prostitutes to this corporate interest will no longer be tolerated. The people must demand clean elections.
We then must demand that lobbying groups like the Israeli lobby AIPAC; not exercise an exadurated influence on our elected representatives on behalf of the Israeli government. America is fighting this war mainly because of the lobbying efforts of this group.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Iraq is worse then Vietnam, it is causing the whole middle eastern region to take sides and from the looks of things none of them are on ours.
We are stuck in the middle of moving armies from all sides, which is going to eurpt into a Holy War. This volcano of religeous discord has been bubbling for centuries and thanks to Our stubborn President and gutless congress it is going to explode. We need to get out now.
I voted for the party I thought would have the guts to get us out, instead, they buckled to this mad man that is our President.
If we get out of this with our skin still intact our President, Vice President, Rumsfelt and others should be brought up on war crimes. Bush has the mind set of a dictator and he needs to be stopped by someone.
June 7th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Several Points Must be
Understood by Both Politicians as
well as
“WE THE PEOPLE”. First: Go To
Congress.org and Read the “OATH
of OFFICE” Each Elected
Politician Must SWEAR to UPHOLD
and then determine IF They have
BEEN OBEDIENT TO THAT SWORN OATH.
Then Read the Terms for
“IMPEACHMENT”, “RECALL”,
“CENSURE” of Elected Political
Representatives, Senators,
Executive and Appointed OFFICERS.
Also Read The “Articles of
IMPEACHMENT” Already FILED BY
and FOR The HOUSE of
REPRESENTATIVES By a Member of the
House against the VICE
PRESIDENT several Months ago. Look
at The RECALL Of the Governor of
California and Removal from OFFICE
and Resulting ELECTION of a NEW
Governor. Look at The Process Used
by the
CONGRESS against the “Then
Serving President” prior to OUR
PRESENT PRESIDENT. ALL This
haveing Been Done, and with the
“TERM”, ( DUE DILAGENCE ),
Proceed
June 7th, 2007 at 11:05 am
The Bush administration,,,including the Democrats had no idea of what they were getting America into. The Bush administration would make a good bunch of USED CARS SALESMEN,,,,,,,they sold us a lemon and neither the Republicans or the Democrats know how to turn that lemon into a cherry. Good luck to the next president however he or she may be,,,,,they are going to need the luck and a lot more. HOPEFULLY THE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL BE AN “INDEPENDENT”
June 7th, 2007 at 11:28 am
We cannot end the war in
Iraq. We were led to believe
the Democrats would end the
wat but, as we found out, they
are more interested to keep
their jobs. Bush is using the
troops as the pawn. If funding
is withheld he says we put the
troops in more harms way. If
we bring the troops home, Iraq
will fall into the hands of
the Insurgents, namely al
Qiada. Both excuses freighten
the public and make them feel
guilty. There are still too
many Republican’s that will
stick with bush, overturning
his Veto can’t be done.
This leads us to removing bush
and cheney from office via
Impeachment. Bush and Cheney
must be removed from the
equation.
June 7th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Asking the Presidenial
candidates what they should
do to end the war in Iraq,
are we not conceding to
extend the war until January
2009?
The war can be ended sooner.
Impeach Bush and Cheney now,
remove them from office.
With both gone, the Veto is
also taken out of the
equation.
Impeachment will take care
of Two situations, we can
end the war sooner and make
Bush and Cheney accountable
for all their crimes against
the State.
June 7th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
If a CEO of a major corporation spent unlimited funds, could not insure the safety of the participants and had no time line for reaching goals–if he had goals, he would be out of a job in short order. Why does this ‘ceo’ in the whitehouse get a blank check for money and human lives? He has used 911 sympathies and misplaced patriotism to back this fiasco. His failure to serve the people of this country in his foreign and domestic policies is worthy of impeachment.
June 7th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
It is past time for the US to bring all troops out of Iraq and that means closing military bases there as well. Resources that are now being squandered in that war need to be brought to bear on the pressing social needs in our country rather than lining the pockets of Halliburton and the other war profiteers. We ought to be providing real concrete support to the Iraqi trade unions, a real force for establishing civil society in that country. A good place to start is support for the oil workers, who struck this week against the proposed oil law which was written in the interests of the multinational oil giants, not the Iraqi people.
June 7th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
“The Bush administration was criminal to lead the American people into Iraq; the Congress was derelict in its duties to follow the administration.”
That’s what Haywood !!!
I think Haywood was
right on the money.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld,
Gonzales, and Military
Leaders that turn a
blind eye to the the
war
Profiteering,Contractors
like Haliburton and
Blackwater and all the
Mercinaries SCUM that
work for them reaping
3 and 4 time what our
Troops earn, building
Torture Camps and
Murdering and
Torturing Iraqis( Some
who are so preverted
they made Videos of
their carnage.) This
whole lot should be
tried by International
Courts as War
Criminals for Crimes
against Humanity .
Also, We as American
who support the
Democratic Principle
of Justice cannot
stand by and allow
Bush and his cronies
to go unpunnished for
their many violations
of our own laws and
our Constitutional
Rights. We must
Impeach these
criminals and if their
term end before this
is done, we must be
ever vigilant and
continue to bring to
Justice everyone of
these Scoundrels.
We must also recover
every red cent that
these scoundrels got
from our taxes.
June 7th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
AT THIS MOMENT AS YOU ARE READING THIS, TOP EXECUTIVES OF “BIG OIL ” AND “OUR” DIPLOMATS ARE USING THE TACTIC OF GANGSTERS AGAINST MEMBERS OF THE IRAQI PARLIMENT !
They have been
offered Bribes, and
their lives have
been threatened if
they fail to agree
to a proposal that
turns the IRAQI
NATIONILIZED OIL
TRUST INTO A SWEET
DEAL FOR BIG OIL !!!
OUR TROOPS ARE
BEING KILLED NOW,
AND WILL CONTINUE TO
BE KILLED….
Because the
IRAQI’S HAVE
REFUSED TO ACCEPT
THE OFFERED
BRIBE’S
DEMAND NO BASES !
HANDS OFF THEIR OIL
TROOPS AND
CONTRACTORS OUT
JESSBOY
June 7th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
We should have
never allowed our
President to take
our Military and
use it for the
Corporate take
over of Iraq.
The problem is
that we now have a
Fascist Federal
Government that is
looking out for
its Rich
Constituents and
doesn’t give a
damn about the
general population
of the U.S.A. or
Iraq.
The Bush/Cheney
Administration is
simply in it for
the Money (Oil).
We need a complete
overhaul of the
Federal
Government, as
President Dwight
Eisenhower said
“Beware the
Military
Industrial
Complex”. It may
be too late,
I’ll be happy if
I can just hold on
to a good career
’til I retire,
since I’m in no
position to change
the B.S. in the
White House or
Congress or the
Pentagon, etc.
The only thing I
can do is Vote and
hope that it
counts for someone
that still has
personal integrity
enough to change
the pile or crap
that our Federal
Government has
become.
Can we really
trust any of them
to the Office of
President?
June 8th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Why are you
guys trying to
reinvent the
wheel?
This has all
been worked out
already by
Dennis Kucinich.
See: http://kucinich.us/iraqplan.
If you are
waiting for war
supporters/flip-floppers/apologists
to come to your
rescue, don’t
hold your
breath!
June 8th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
The U.S. should never have gone to war against Iraq. I say bring the troops home. Money for jobs, education and health care. Reparations to the people of Iraq for the damage the U.S. did in the name of Oil and Power.
June 9th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Americans
sure like to
feel
victimized.
As I recall,
back then a
vast
majority of
Americans
supported
invasion of
Iraq. To
oppose the
war was to
be
“unpatriotic.”
Now many of
those same
people
complain
that
they’ve
been duped
and
exploited by
their
elected
representatives,
big
business,
and even the
Iraqis. Why
didn’t
people take
the time to
do the work
of
citizenship
by
investigating
such things
as the
admistration’s
claims about
Iraqi WMDs,
our history
in the
region, the
history of
Iraq -
including
Saddaam’s
relations
with Islamic
groups like
Al Qaida,
and
especially,
how many
troops it
would take
to occupy a
country like
Iraq after
its armies
were
defeated.
Skimming
Newsweek
would have
provided all
the
information
a person
needed to
see that the
war was
going to be
a horrible
mistake.
Unfortunately,
Americans
seem to
think of
invasions as
an event to
make us feel
good about
being an
American and
don’t want
to puncture
our sense of
national
pride and
solidarity
with facts.
Please learn
from this.
Imperialism
and
miltarism
aren’t
just
government
policies;
they are
ways of
seeing the
world that
exist in the
hearts and
minds of
most
Americans.
We need to
change so
that
tragedies
like the one
that we’ve
inflicted on
the Iraqi
people
won’t
happen
again.
June 10th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Haywood hit the hammer on the nail. But let me go farther by stating that the whole deal going to war with Iraq was a sham. We saw 9/11, we saw and heard Bush accused Alkaida. We heard and saw an investigation into the 9/11 threats and heard that Ashkroft or Condo Lisa Rice did not want to hear any threats and dropped the ball. We saw and heard Colon Powell say that there is no reason to attack Iraq and changed his mind. Who made him change his mind. I don’t believe it was Bush Jr. Now Bush wants to take away our civil rights in the name of terrorism. No thanks. I think he should be impeached or turn out in a vote of no confidence. Thank you. P.S. Whatever personal wealth Bush has promised people in Congress, he will not get it nor would anyone else in his cabinet.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
FIRST:
Better
Manage
Media,
The 430
Billion
IS NOT
ALL
dumped
into
Iraq.
50% is
Spent
Inside
the US
with
Defense
Contratcors,
Manufacturing
Vehicles,
Ammunitionm
Arms,
Medical
Supplies–
House
Appropriations
IS a
JOKE.
The 50%
Spent
Inside
Us Goes
to
Payroll
of US
Companies
and
Busineses,
with
SS with
held/
IRS
Income
Tax,
Medical
Insurance
Premium,
UnEmployment
Compensation
Tax. and
Then To
Raw
Material
Suppliers
and
Factory
Construction,
Security,
Clerical
etc. SO
GET THE
PICTURE
! !. The
Aircraft,
Tanks,
Humvees,
Supply
Trucks,
Equipment
for
Individual
Soldiers,
Communications
which
Will
remain
AFTER
THE
WAR— A
N D
There
Will be
AN
AFTER–
Are
Assets
that
REMAIN
Useable
and
Necessary
to keep
and
bring
back to
the US,
SO THE
430
BILLION
IS a
BOGUS
Amount
of
Direct
Cost of
the WAR.
THIS
Promotes
Deception,
DisTrust,
False
Association,
BIAS,
Predjuice,
BY
Congress,
Administration,
Department
of
Defense,
Branches
of
SERVICE,
Waste
and
Squander,
as well
Undue
Influence
by Civil
and
Crimnal
Action.
Sorry
for
Calling
a SPADE
a SPADE,
but
Politicians
are NOW
Thought
of as
The
Lowest
Level of
Human
Endeavor
even
below
Car
Salesmen,
Teachers,
School
Boards,
Lawyers,
Judges,
LA
Police
Department,
Illegal
Immigrants,
Diplomats
and
More.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Every
Viewer
that
Follows
this
PAGE
of
Blogs
and
Thoughts
MUST
GO and
Look
at
House
RES HR
333 It
is the
HOUSE
Documentation
OF the
FILED
IMPEACHMENT
OF
Vice
President
Richard
Cheney
as
FIled
by
House
Representative
Dennis
Cuscninich
(?)sp
Look
Him Up
at ((
Congress.org
))
Page.
and
Look
for HR
#333
He
Authored
That
Document
A MUST
SEE
it is
only
about
3
pages
Long
But
Suggest
PRINT
IT OUT
make a
dozen
Copies
and
give
to
Every
One
you
Know–
To
Include
School
Children
to
take
to
school
as
HISTORICAL
PUBLIC
DOCUMENT.
The
House
must
Endite
and
The
Senate
TRY–
DO YOU
REMEMBER
What
Happened
to
Pres
Bill
Clinton–
Less
we
Forget
BUT
LONG
Remember
Depends
on
what
“IS
! —
IS?”
June 12th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
I think it’s important to show the American people and the rest of the world that our national leadership will once again stand for all the things that people want us to stand for. Bush and Cheney aren’t going to do it, but candidates should show their intent, with the understanding that they will be held to task. The Bush policies are in the latrine (I’m a vet and that’s a military term, but y’all know what I’m talking about) so it’s time for candidates to show that they have a vision to solve problems that affect the whole planet. You think a big car or an SUV burns a lot of gas? How about a jet fighter or an aircraft carrier !
Bring ‘em home, take care of them when they get here. Conyers Universal Health Care HR 676.
June 14th, 2007 at 6:27 am
……blah blah blah…….i just hope i live to retire considering there are approximately 50,000 to 60,000 deaths related to occupational diseases every year……..but yeah thats all good……whatever………maybe we would be alot happier if we were just a bunch of mindless lambs being led to the slaughterhouse…..we just keep on and do the best we can right?……..all this b.s. is never gonna change……..they gonna keep screwin us over bottom line……why?…….because they can and have for a long time……….yeah there might be a few sacrificial lambs from the elite ranks to sate the public occasionally…….but its gonna keep happening……thats what trips me out about all this impeachmen grandstanding and cries for justice……..is it really gonna make a big difference now?…shoot half the country is brainwashed and misinformed/disinformed anyway…..and the other half is workin to hard to freakn worry about it………..who cares?…..i deployed to the persian gulf twice and to be honest i m really just glad i m not sweating my butt off over there right now………yeah so what what if i have witnessed firsthand the billions of dollars we have poured into keeping troops deployed in the gulf for years and years and years……what do i know?……….even bein a union rep feels like a losin battle most of the time……..half the time the same members you try to represent are selln out, tryn to make their own little side deals and stabbn you right in the back…….we gotta swim thru an ocean of redtape and b.s. alot o times just to get a fair shake……….i think the saddest thing is that there are alot of good and nice and friendly people in the gulf and in this country who are suffering because of all the b.s………i dont know, ya know you see a blown up car in a street in iraq on the news with a beautiful innocent little child looking outside the house….and it just strikes you that nothin about any of this could ever be right….
June 14th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Cheney/Bush
would
end
their
Iraq
War
tomorrow
if
they
knew
the
bill
for
their
nutty
war
would
be
charged
to
America’s
richest;
the
people
they’ve
represented
for
the
past
6
years.
These
2
lunatics
have
based
every
policy
issue,
foreign
and
domestic,
on
what
would
be
best
for
their
very
rich
backers.
To
that
end,
the
Democrats
should
unite
behind
a
plan
to
create
a
Cheney/Bush
Iraq
War
Tax,
to
pay
all
war
costs
retroactive
back
to
March
2003;
the
greatest
burden
falling
on
the
very
rich.
I
think
the
Democrats
could
find
enough
Republican
support
to
get
the
legislation
through
and
indeed,
be
able
to
ward-off
a
Bush
veto.
The
Iraq
War
is
not
about
winning
or
losing,
Shiites,
Kurds
or
Sunni,
not
about
spreading
democracy,
it’s
about
the
rich
making
money
on
death
and
destruction.
In
that
Democrats
are
not
committed
to
cutting-off
war
funds,
while
also
recognizing
that
Cheney/Bush
can
drag
this
out
through
the
end
of
their
term,
the
least
the
Democrats
can
do
now
is
to
produce
legislation
to
put
this
endless
fiasco
on
a
pay
as
you
go
basis.
Can
you
imagine
the
Congressional
debate,
particularly
in
the
Senate?
Albert
Colone
Oneonta,
NY
13820
607/432-4057
June 16th, 2007 at 7:54 am
The US should leave Iraq within the 2007 year making sure that our toops are protected as the disengagement proceeds. That we help to forment the current situation should not be the criteria for this disengagement. We cannot in any way predict what the end results will be. Thusly using specters of doom and gloom only serve to keep us bogged down in a situation for which we have little to no understanding.
The real patriots are those that continue to question why and what we are doing there. It’s time to get over the trauma of 9/11 for which we, the American people, allowed the current Administration to use to launch a disaster. No, everyone didn’t believe their initial premise about WMD and Al Qaeda nor have we believe the subsequent changing rationales.
We cannot predict the outcome in Iraq any better than a parent can predict the life of a child. Disengage post haste and bring our young people home.
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