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southernleftylady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:32 PM
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Bush Pledges to Seek Unity in Second Term
WASHINGTON - In a city brimming with pageantry under fortress-like security, President Bush (news - web sites) looked ahead Wednesday to his second inauguration, pledging to seek unity in a nation divided by political differences. "I am eager and ready for the work ahead," Bush declared.
Offering a preview of Thursday's inaugural address, Bush said he would speak about freedom. "This is the cause that unites our country and gives hope to the world and will lead us to a future of peace. We have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom, and America will always be faithful to that cause."

The threat of terrorism prompted what authorities promised would be the tightest inaugural security ever deployed. A half-million people were expected to throng the city for the swearing-in and the traditional parade along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20050119/ap_on_go_pr_wh/inaugural_rdp

hmm.. just like last time right
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:33 PM
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1. Bullshit! When has he EVER
spoken the truth?
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 10:03 PM
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48. If Bush ever tells you 2+2=4, check with a calculator. Twice. (nt)
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jswordy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 01:38 PM
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63. Damn! That's what I was gonna say!
Karl Rove on NPR this morning basically said they want to work with the Dems, as long as the Dems are willing to step up and support GOP initiatives.

ROFLMAO!
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Taragui Junkie Donating Member (62 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 01:43 PM
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65. We'll work with you, Chimp-in-Chief,
When you do what we say and support OUR progressive initiatives.

When you immediately withdraw from Iraq and abandon all your hostile plans to invade and conquer other sovereign nations.

When you raise taxes on the wealthy and make them pay their due.

When you admit that you stole two elections and...okay, this one's not gonna happen.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:33 PM
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2. or else
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:34 PM
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3. A calling from beyond the stars?
He is off the radar screen. What the hell does that mean?

A calling beyond the stars?
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:59 PM
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18. Klingons?
:evilgrin:
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:06 PM
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33. Peggy Noonan will have a religious experience over that remark
She'll have an "o sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you" moment.
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 11:33 AM
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52. LOL
How about "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:35 PM
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4. Pope Gregory Pledges to Seek Unity
By the sword if necessary!
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:35 PM
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5. He is so sickening...
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:35 PM
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6. He was talking about McCain....
And maybe Lincoln Chaffee....
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:35 PM
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7. We are united against him and his ugly ass
Never more so.
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:49 PM
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14. Especially the ugly ass part.
I mean, seriously, did anyone else here get a load of some of his campaign speeches? He bent over backwards to insult anyone who wasn't part of his special base, and his carefully screened crowds screeched insults about Kerry and Edwards.

If you've read Tom Daschle's "Like No Other Time," you'll know that he A) likes to control people and B) projects his own vices onto other people (for example, his command to Tom Daschle that Daschle never lie to him -- and then Bush proceeded to lie to all of us).

Bush is like the abusive husband who promises the wife that things will be different this time.
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ernstbass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 01:33 PM
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62. Hell yes!
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:37 PM
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8. Guess he hasn't been given the news that...
the country is divided or surely he wouldn't say such stupid things, would he? lol
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:39 PM
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9. Ah, the freedom of Abu Ghraib
And Guantanamo. And the death chamber in Texas. Yes, Mr. Bush, we understand your concept of freedom very well. Too well.
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Pam-Moby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:41 PM
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10. The only reason why he is stating he wants to
unite us is because his walls are closing in on him. I think he maybe feeling a little more pressure than usual. Condi got her bottom kicked by Senator Boxer on national TV and now around the globe leaders are speaking out on Condi's statements about them and torture. It has all just began to unfold!
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:53 PM
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44. Oh yes!
Thank you Pam-Moby for saying it "exactly like it is!"

Sending a high five you're way!
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:41 PM
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11. Check out this picture of a bridge in Brooklyn I have to sell you...
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 07:42 PM by BrklynLiberal
I do not think that man has told the truth in his entire poltical life. (I cannot vouch for his personal life, but I would be surprised if it was any different.)
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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:45 PM
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12. Oh goodie! Is he announcing his resignation?
I sure hope he remembers to take his Dick with him. :evilgrin:
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hector459 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:49 PM
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13. I would rather he sought "competence" and "honesty"
Division is not our problem, it's our salvation!
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Anakin Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:52 PM
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15. Mista Preznit, Unity or Man Date?
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 07:52 PM by Anakin Skywalker
Make up your mind, dumb ass! Or is Rovey telling you to lie some more?
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Megahurtz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:53 PM
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16. Oh yeah well, good luck on that one,
dude.:headbang:
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Matilda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 07:59 PM
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17. Beyond the stars?
Does that mean he's an alien?
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:05 PM
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19. Tell me this is an article from The Onion. Please.
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paulie5 Donating Member (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:26 PM
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21. What ever he says
What ever the chimp says you can expect the opposite. Every single time.

Bush must be from a different planet. Either that or they think most Americans are stupid. Sadly that might be true.

P5
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:24 PM
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20. talking about "freedom" while he pushes Patriot I and II
--you #(%*^ hypocritical lying sack of #%(^*!!
what a clueless twit you are, a disgrace to the human race, a huge waste of protoplasm, a sick, twisted individual with no conscience.

"freedom" is such a nice easy feel-good empty concept, what a load of crap!! tell those people you've got in your secret gulags in hoods and chains, with no charges yet filed against them, about your brand of freedom you disgusting piece of dog dung.
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Massachusetts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:29 PM
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22. The boy king has NO CLOTHES!!!!!
See you in Hell Georgie boy!!!!!!:evilgrin: O8) :evilfrown:
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spotbird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:31 PM
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23. He says stuff like that so he can say he tried.
The right admires him for his openness.
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:31 PM
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24. Unity with his little black girlfriend. Is Laura jealous, yet?
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Massachusetts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:47 PM
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28. The truth shall set you free!
:thumbsup:

Oh, but where is the blue dress?
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:37 PM
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25. The US has no leader
There are only criminals.... who is left to talk to?
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nookiemonster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:38 PM
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26. My ass!!
n/t
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:39 PM
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27. Har har har! He thinks he's a wit but he's only half right. eom
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Lostnote03 Donating Member (850 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:50 PM
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29. And to think there are Dems that will believe him.....
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ilovenicepeople Donating Member (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 01:09 PM
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59. That doesn't surprise me,considering that
both the "Dem's" and the "Repug's" are state sponsored,acceptable voting choices.I have a good idea,how about a party that represents US instead of THEM?(just kidding)
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Chalco Donating Member (817 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:51 PM
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30. barf big time nt
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 08:54 PM
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31. liar, NO,, bullshit, absolutely not
Bush is a criminal liar and will use all "reasons" as to why people
should cooperate with his criminal adgenda... the simple answer is
"Just say no." (thanks nancy)
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:02 PM
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32. That's what he said in 2000...Blah, Blah, Blah!
:puke:
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:07 PM
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34. That's the punchline, right?
Cause I know I'm laughing
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Bozvotros Donating Member (394 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:24 PM
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35. Let fly with LTTE's now
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 09:26 PM by Bozvotros
Let him and his citizen zombies know, let the MSM know, that he is NOT OUR PRESIDENT, that he is still a liar, still a fraud, still incompetent, still a corporate shill, still a menace to our safety and security. Remind them of his criminal family, criminal past and the thousands of dead and maimed veterans who have paid the price of his malfeasance. Let him and the Democratic party know that there will be no compromise, no trust, no bargaining and no unity with this gang of thugs, until a whole lot of them are held criminally accountable.

Watching Condi smile through that hearing, knowing she would be confirmed no matter what she said or did, just made me furious..

-edited for spelling
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:59 PM
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46. She LIED straight through those Teeth
of hers! What teeth she has! The most painful part of watching that circus show was having to look at her as she smiled to one side, and frowned the other way.

Agree w/you're entire post!
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:28 PM
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36. He said that about his first term as well
I seem to remember the comment, "I'm a uniter, not a divider." With all the lies he's been telling for all these years, I can't believe that there are people who still believe him.
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jmatthan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:38 PM
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37. Buzzflash Headline summed this up best

Bush pledges to seek unity in 2nd term "There's an old saying in Tenenessee........- you can't be fooled again" 1/20

Jacob Matthan
Oulu, Finland
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:42 PM
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38. seek unity among...
Gun nuts, homophobes, evangelical extremists and warmongers. Welcome to the Fourth Reich.
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:44 PM
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40. Exactly
And those who aren't in his "base" can pack salt.

Belated welcome to DU, btw! :hi:
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 10:08 PM
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49. Thank you

It's great to be surrounded by the like-minded! We will prevail.

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow, it'll soon be here...

:headbang:
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:44 PM
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39. Ha ha ha frigging ha.
Cute. Bet he and KKKarl had a good little chuckle over that one.

I'm getting the hell out of this country.
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:46 PM
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41. It's a whole lot too late...
for this lady! I'd tell you what he can do w/his pledge but as I just mentioned, I'm too much a lady to do so out here.
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:49 PM
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42. From Beyond the Stars?!?
He's speaking in tongue about the heavens with that packed agenda from the holier-than-thou's! Rev Rob must be rejoicing in ridiculous rapture right about now.
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Amich Donating Member (235 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:50 PM
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43. didn't he say that last time that he wanted to unite the country?
Edited on Wed Jan-19-05 09:52 PM by Amich
Is he using the same speech from last time just edited to add war on terror?


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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:55 PM
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45. Didn't Uncle Dicky explain that the word unity means he can't throw
a temper tantrum and get his way.
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no_to_war_economy Donating Member (962 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 10:00 PM
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47. go ahead * - reach out to me
and let me use your hand to wipe my ass

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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 10:15 PM
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50. Unite with someone who is destroying our country?
No thanks.
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Thor_MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 11:16 PM
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51. He means unity as in "Get over it, see it my way, or else. There. Unity"
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 11:34 AM
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53. Bush pledges a lot of things
:eyes:
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Magleetis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 11:36 AM
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54. Unity this
f&ck you bush.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:43 PM
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55. Well...
freedom is something that unites us, but not under Shrub.
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:46 PM
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56. bwahahaaaaaaaaa!!
Good luck, a**hole. Mr. Divider not a Uniter spent 4 years being unilateralist and divisive and NOW he wants unity?!

Bwahahhahaaaaaaaaaa!

Welp. I want a million bucks in my bank account by tomorrow, too but it ain't likely to happen, is it?

:evilgrin:
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:50 PM
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57. He Said "Immunity", Right?
I'm SURE that's what he said....
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LiberalPersona Donating Member (679 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:55 PM
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58. That has to be one of the biggest lies he's ever told
He says that being re-selected validates everything he's done, then claims that he's going to seek unity? BULL SHIT.
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genieroze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 01:14 PM
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60. Lying sack of _____(fill in the blank). eom
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Puglover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 01:30 PM
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61. When oh when
will our wonderful country be free of this beyond horrid parasitic family known as Bush?
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 01:42 PM
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64. Keep in mind y'all...
This guy ain't so good with words...

He may get "unity" and "homogeneity" mixed up.

He may decide to eliminate the different to achieve unity.

:scared:
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V Lee Donating Member (136 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 06:56 PM
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66. Maybe he should seek wisdom first? eom
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wrate Donating Member (376 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 06:58 PM
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67. How? By turning the other half of Americans into Born Again Idiots? n/t
Edited on Thu Jan-20-05 06:59 PM by wrate
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SlavesandBulldozers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 07:07 PM
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68. last time he was just kidding.
this time he's going to shuffle in an era of peace and unity.

:D
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