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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 11:55 AM
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W keeps saying he would do whatever is required to "keep us safe"
spying on citizens... ok if it keeps us safe.

torture - and reclassifying terms used for prisoners to allow torture... that could be used against captured US GIs... ok if it keeps us safe.

starting elective wars based on fraudulent evidence... ok if it keeps us safe.

But there is ONE thing that W thinks is off-bounds... lifting his tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans (or the wealthy oil companies or any other mega corporations)... that is NOT ok, even if it the $ was used to shore up US security to keep us safe.

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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 12:10 PM
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1. IF it keeps us safe...
Edited on Sun Sep-17-06 12:12 PM by Amonester
Warrants would help keep us safe, but a lack of legal warrants R crimes: since when are crimes keeping anyone safe?

Torture (another crime) never produced any reliable information, especially when being committed against individuals who never did anything wrong (yes, that happens too, and when it does, who's to defend these innocent victims?).

Starting any war against defenseless human beings in order to enrich the already obscenely rich is another crime and it only produces more anger and creates more 'enemies' ('terrahwhists' in this case like others before, re: Vietnam) than reduces their recruiting arguments.

Besides: just walking across the street here doen't keep us safe...



Ed: typos :(




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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 12:14 PM
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3. I agree.... just using his own mantra
because some folks in the public, still seem to buy it.

Btw, your arguments are very succint and compelling. :thumbsup:
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 12:13 PM
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2. Please please stop protecting me, George!!
The Bush Administration is more like a protection racket--in reality the protection is a form of assault and exploitation.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 12:16 PM
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4. Maybe we should just start calling it what it is: The Bush Syndicate
rahter than the administration. Plus the WaPo article this morning on the hiring and running of the CPA based on 'loyalty' with no concern with any qualifications rather makes the term "administering/administration" not seem to apply to bushco.
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Lusted4 Donating Member (558 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 12:20 PM
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5. If you were going to a gang fight would you pick * to be in your gang?
maybe for cheerleader.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 12:22 PM
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6. Resign
I'd feel a hell of a lot safer if this lunatic* would just go away, hell at this point I wouldn't even lock his ass up, just go away georgie*.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 12:24 PM
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7. Tell that to the victims of Katrina
that he refused to lift a finger to help.

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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 12:27 PM
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8. I think he wants to keep us safe like the gimp in Pulp Fiction--
locked up in a trunk until he needs us.
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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 01:10 PM
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9. if he were telling the truth our ports and nuclear power plants would have
been properly secured years ago.
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