The 'Send this article to everybody you know!!' Thread:

[truthpusher]

Please use this thread to attach any articles you have found that we should be getting out to everybody we know. Here's mine: This Pat Robertson Artcle is a doosey:


http://cnn.allpolitics.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=CNN.com+-+Robertson%3A+I%A0warned+Bush+on+Iraq+casualties+-+Oct+19%2C+2004&expire=-1&urlID=12006066&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2004%2FALLPOLITICS%2F10%2F19%2Frobertson.bush.iraq%2Findex.html&partnerID=2001

Robertson: I warned Bush on Iraq casualties
President's response: 'We're not going to have any'

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The founder of the U.S. Christian Coalition said Tuesday he told President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq that he should prepare Americans for the likelihood of casualties, but the president told him, "We're not going to have any casualties."

Pat Robertson, an ardent Bush supporter, said he had that conversation with the president in Nashville, Tennessee, before the March 2003 invasion U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. He described Bush in the meeting as "the most self-assured man I've ever met in my life."

"You remember Mark Twain said, 'He looks like a contented Christian with four aces.' I mean he was just sitting there like, 'I'm on top of the world,' " Robertson said on the CNN show, "Paula Zahn Now."

"And I warned him about this war. I had deep misgivings about this war, deep misgivings. And I was trying to say, 'Mr. President, you had better prepare the American people for casualties.' "

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/19/robertson.bush.iraq/index.html

[JanLip]

1. Amazing....

""Even if he stumbles and messes up -- and he's had his share of stumbles and gaffes -- I just think God's blessing is on him," Robertson said.

Bush has lied and lied...I don't think God heaps blessings on a liar. This man (Robertson) is sick!

[truthpusher]

4. The sad thing is...

...this article has so much significant insight into the way Bush is fucking things up beyond all that has been fucked up before...and nobody is listening. I just sent this to a coworker who read the Robertson article and basically said 'so'. She then sent me this e-mail circulation item about how Americans are no longer allowed to say 'Merry Christmas' to each other and immigrants need to learn how to speak english...she thought this was genius and started getting all worked up and mailing it to everybody. I am sorry to say this, but honestly, we are dealing with some royally stupid people in this country.

Good luck to all of you reality warriors out there.

[truthpusher]

2. Edited

[louis-t]

3. 'the most self-assured man'

please insert the word 'delusional' instead of 'self assured'.

[chrislrob]

5. "Kerry's the One" by a disgusted right winger

This article by right-winger Scott McConnell on why Bush must be defeated--TO SAVE CONSERVATISM(!)--is a gem. McConnell is one of the editors of "The American Conservative" magazine, along with Pat Buchanan. But he goes further than most conservatives. He doesn't jsut say stay home or write in Ronald Reagan.

He says VOTE KERRY.

And McConnell seems to be saying more than just "hold your nose" and vote for Kerry. He seems to be saying do it even if it makes you have dry heaves!

Here's one right-winger that KNOWS we can't win the war on terror alone!

"But this election is not about John Kerry....
It is, instead, an election about the presidency of George W. Bush."

"Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation’s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy."

"These sentiments mean that as long as Bush is president, we have no real allies in the world, no friends to help us dig out from the Iraq quagmire. More tragically, they mean that if terrorists succeed in striking at the United States in another 9/11-type attack, many in the world will not only think of the American victims but also of the thousands and thousands of Iraqi civilians killed and maimed by American armed forces. The hatred Bush has generated has helped immeasurably those trying to recruit anti-American terrorists—indeed his policies are the gift to terrorism that keeps on giving, as the sons and brothers of slain Iraqis think how they may eventually take their own revenge. Only the seriously deluded could fail to see that a policy so central to America’s survival as a free country as getting hold of loose nuclear materials and controlling nuclear proliferation requires the willingness of foreign countries to provide full, 100 percent co-operation. Making yourself into the world’s most hated country is not an obvious way to secure that help."

It can be found at: http://www.amconmag.com/2004_11_08/cover1.html

[truthpusher]

6. I think these sentiments are finally hitting home.

[Moderator]

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[truthpusher]

9. Will do - just learning

:shrug:

[TexasSissy]

8. Top O' the World, Ma! Top O' the World! (eerily Oedipus like)

and my favorite quote from that article. Just think, while the world was aghast and some horror stricken at the soon-to-be war, Bush was "On Top of the World," according to Pat Robertson. VERY SCARY.

[lfs5]

10. BUSH REJECTED PLANS TO GO AFTER TOP TERRORIST

Subject:
Bush Rejected Plans to Go After Top Terrorist
From:
The Daily Mislead <[e-mail]>
Date:
Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:35:16 -0400 (EDT)
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In his effort to claim he is the strongest candidate on national security, President Bush has lately been speaking a lot about how he is doing everything possible to track down terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi<1> - the man thought to be responsible for escalating attacks on U.S. soldiers in
Iraq.<2> But according to NBC News, it was Bush who in 2002 and 2003 rejected three plans to strike and neutralize Zarqawi because he believed a successful strike would undermine the public case for targeting Saddam Hussein.

As NBC News reported, "Long before the war, the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself - but never pulled the trigger." In June 2002, the Pentagon drafted plans to attack a camp Zarqawi was at with cruise missiles and airstrikes. The plan was killed by the White House. Four months later, as Zarqawi planned to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe, the Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, yet "the White House again killed it." In January 2003, the Pentagon drew up still another attack plan, and for the third time, the White House killed it.<3>

According to NBC, "Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi's operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam."<4>

Zarqawi is thought to be at least indirectly responsible for hundreds of U.S. casualties. Just yesterday, Zarqawi's terrorist group beheaded an American civilian in Baghdad.<5>

Sources:

1. "President's Remarks to the General Conference of the National Guard Association of the United States," The White House, 9/14/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3346952&l=56809.
2. "Going after Iraq's most wanted man," The Christian Science Monitor, 9/21/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3346952&l=56810.
3. "Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind," NBC News, 3/02/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3346952&l=56811.
4. Ibid, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3346952&l=56811.
5. "Zarqawi Group Beheads U.S. Hostage Armstrong," Reuters, 9/20/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3346952&l=56812.


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