Reply #233: so, I'd like to know if you voted for Bush twice [View All]

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An army ethicist who committed suicide in Iraq wrote before he died that there is no honor-that we had invaded Iraq to steal their oil,basically giving the oil corporations and the war profiteers carte blanche over Iraq. And, to me that is the key word "HONOR". I see no honor in the past seven + years, just blind obedience and loyalty. For those Republicans who have honor, like the US attorneys and congresscritters who were thrown under the bus by your party, they put honor, justice and conscience over blind loyalty. The Iraq war is no football game, to be won at the expense of our citizens or Iraqi citizens--as it has been based upon a grievous lie. I'll never forget Bush looking under a desk for WMD's as a joke, nor will I forget him stating he hit the trifecta after 9/11. 9/ll which still has not been properly investigated nor an accounting as to why four planes could be highjacked-one, yes--four no--remember, we had airport security before 9/11. And yet, I hear those on your side stating that Republicans will protect us-yet, they didn't on that day. Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater-all war profiteers making a killing in the Iraq War, while giving our soldiers substandard food and tainted water for a buck. Blackwater murdering civilians thus making it harder for our soldiers. I'm sure you've heard of the Senate hearings of our tax dollars supporting slave labor--companies hiring laborers, telling them after they get on the plane they're going to Iraq and kidnapped by gunpoint. Not one of these corporations have been held accountable by law!!!!

Maybe you should read up on the Keating 5. Deregulation has hurt this country and it's people. I'm sure you've read about the savings and loan scandal? One of the biggest rip offs in the history of the world (until now)-Senior citizens, working people lost their money-now there were some Democrats involved, but to whom did Charles keating contribute to the most--John McCain. And, John McCain has been promoting deregulation to this day. Now, look where we are now. Who is hurt by these actions? We are--we pay, our children pay, for the greed of others. Abramoff, Charles Keating, Cunningham, all in prison-oh and don't forget Enron. But, keep believing the little lies--or as Bush stated "catapulting the propaganda." And, again, another election, and I hear the slimey lies getting uglier and uglier. Nothing much about policy, just lies. So what, if Obama was on a committee with Ayers to help the needy-the Annenberg Foundation that just so happens to have donated to the McCain camp. So what, if Khalid shared a meal with Obama, yet Khalid received approximately one half million dollars from McCain. So what, if Obama's father was from Africa, he has a valid BC from Hawaii, yet McCain was born in Panama. Obama, a community organizer, taught Constitutional law (oh my God, actually knows about the Constitution) and was head of the Harvard Review. You call him an elitist? Born of hardworking grandparents and a mother--worked to put himself in college and he's an elitist? Well, how about someone who's family, since their grandfather was in the military hierarchy, someone who cannot remember how many houses he has? What do you think they are, if not an elitist. I'm familiar with military hierarchy and I know how the distance is maintained between officers' families and the rest of the unwashed. (or at least when I experienced it).

Since you are obviously male-you don't have to worry about choices-but I'll never forget one of my professor's said back in the eighties--he said that if the fundies overturn roeVwade, they will go after all birth control. Well, it seems that they're not waiting for that--some ministers are trying right now. There are various belief systems in this country--and no one has the right to inject their beliefs on others!!! The decision is between the person involved, their family, their physician and maybe their clergy. You know, Hitler outlawed abortion, Ceusceu from Romania not only outlawed abortion, but required women to have at least five children. Now tell me, do you think that it was because they believed in the sanctity of life or for some other sinister reason? I find it amazing that most of the same people decrying abortion and wailing about the sanctity of life, have no problem murdering other people's children or are full supporters of capital punishment.

So, welcome to DU and I hope and pray for a peaceful transition after the election-and, may justice, compassion and honor be restored.