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Fri Jul-13-07 03:06 PM
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It's not about democracy, it's not about terrorism, it is not about oil. It |
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is about power. During war time the president has extraordinary powers. He can do things a peace time president cannot do. They can also use fear and patriotism to advance their agenda.
What the neo cons are about is power. They are about pushing their Straussian views on America. If the war ended tomorrow, bush would lose his war time powers.
Expand on this train of thought.
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Fri Jul-13-07 03:08 PM
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seems as how I've been asking wtf for some time now.
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Fri Jul-13-07 03:11 PM
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bankrupting this country would be a great way to dismantle all social programs (bye-bye New Deal).
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Fri Jul-13-07 03:18 PM
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4. Finish what Reagan started. The middle class is a threat to absolute power. |
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it wasn't the working poor that overthrew England, it was educated tradesmen who lead the charge for freedom.
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Fri Jul-13-07 03:23 PM
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And they are succeeding beyond our wildest nightmares.
A fight for our very future against these global elites.
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Fri Jul-13-07 04:27 PM
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9. This is the first time I have ever feared for my country. |
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Fri Jul-13-07 07:15 PM
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They hit their trifecta, my friend.
Power backed by corporate fascists.
Decimation of the nation's middle class & New Deal/transfer of taxpayer funds to the ruling elite.
Dismantling of the Constitutional rights.
With all of their power, I often wonder whether they'll build ovens to get rid of the unwanted, unwashed slaves or just let them die on the streets.
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Fri Jul-13-07 08:14 PM
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15. I lived in a Christian theocracy. They let them die in the streets. |
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Fri Jul-13-07 04:35 PM
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12. But Wat Tyler was their role model. |
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Fri Jul-13-07 04:54 PM
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13. Wat Tyler got killed and his followers hung. |
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Fri Jul-13-07 03:14 PM
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3. It has always been about the two psychopaths and their need to show........ |
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WHO has the power. More recently, it has been about the abomination of a legacy they are BOTH going to have and trying to improve their image with this nation and the rest of the world. They might as well forget it!!
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Fri Jul-13-07 03:22 PM
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5. Yes, they needed the war to assume power. 1984ish. |
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But they also have this idea of empire. Of America being merely the "homeland" and all these tributary states of smiling serfs throwing flowers and bringing wealth to the Great Leader.
The New York Times Magazine article pegged it totally. These people have complete contempt for the reality-based. They live in a rarified atmosphere of spectacular ranches and homes and Bohemian Groves where they tell themselves they are the only real human beings and nobody else's lives are worth spit unless they really know how to shine shoes.
Cute how they used the Nazi playbook for all this. Prescott Bush wasn't the only traitorous American funding those bastards while millions died.
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Fri Jul-13-07 03:57 PM
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8. We need leaders who look to Jefferson, not Strauss for their philosophy. |
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Fri Jul-13-07 03:28 PM
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7. Now, it's about Bush believing he's fulfilling Biblical prophesies of The End Times. |
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To Bush, "Mission Accomplished" will come in the form of total global inhalation.
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Fri Jul-13-07 04:28 PM
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10. Of course first all Jews must convert or die. Sick stuff out of the |
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Fri Jul-13-07 04:34 PM
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11. Power AND oil--it's a TWOfer! |
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