Jim Sagle
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Sun Feb-29-04 05:38 PM
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Bush's Haitian gambit is a message to Dems: "Lose or we'll KILL you!" |
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To me the paramount question is Why Now?
And why such an open use of force now? There would appear to be no pressing need and not much to gain.
So I think it was this - a shot across the American Political, media and opinion elites' bow. As Bush unravels, and the media drift off message, what better way to tell the Democrats and the media to shut up and get back in line than a coup just off our doorstep?
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Sun Feb-29-04 05:40 PM
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1. Honey, they'll kill us anyway. Didn't you get that? |
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That's what Homeland Security is for.
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Sun Feb-29-04 05:40 PM
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2. methinks it's just that military action is all that works for them anymore |
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Sun Feb-29-04 05:50 PM
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4. Yes indeed--they are all obsessed with it |
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it is all they have. The attack on 9-11 clinched it for all the people. They must have been having many toasts and martinis on AF1 that day as they rejoiced in their "trifecta"
It is a group of sick people, using religion as an anchor, relentlessly pursuing death and destruction in order to establish their power--Bush is just the poster boy. He is really too dumb to really understand the nuances behind the real power and what it is attempting to do.
All Bush knows is that his name gets to be in the headlines like "Bush sends the Marines into HaitI" Instant orgasims for the stupid, little twerp. He loves the military, the killings of civilians--he loves it--and all the while he is covering up his own AWOL service.
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Sun Feb-29-04 05:54 PM
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8. or, all that they know. |
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I don't know. Looks like this situation called for some intervention. Earlier might have saved a few more lives, but, Bush has us engaged elsewhere and only needs one war at a time to look cool.
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Sun Feb-29-04 05:46 PM
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3. We thought the next country was going to be Venezuela, Syria, or Cuba... |
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they are definitely marching. How can they kill us when we pay for it all...with $, lives, limbs, and minds? Dem or not. They can't eliminate Dems - but they can try to keep the WH.
The all out assault is definitely on us and other little people.
The message they are sending is against democracy - plain and simple. This is a takeover.
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Sun Feb-29-04 05:51 PM
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5. I don't mean US - I mean our "leaders" in DC. |
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Sun Feb-29-04 05:52 PM
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6. hey! didn't you steal that from somewhere? |
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you should give that person credit for his idea
ha
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Sun Feb-29-04 05:58 PM
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Sun Feb-29-04 05:54 PM
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7. While most Americans were surely horrified at the sight |
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of boatloads of Haitians being turned away, I fear it is/was red meat to *'s base. No?
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Sun Feb-29-04 06:06 PM
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10. But people from Cuba get automatic asylum |
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even though conditions in Haiti are a hundred times worse. At least Cuba has a government, and at least Cuba has an economy.
Why the blatant discrimination based upon national origin? Is Haiti somehow bin Laden's headquarters or something?
It is sad that such discrimination is necessary to placate the FL freeper base.
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Sun Feb-29-04 06:19 PM
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11. that's very very easy |
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Florida=CANF+Jeb Bush+Ileana Ros Lehtinen+thousands of other deranged ACCs
partial equation, but it covers most bases
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