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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-04 06:45 PM
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From the man who refused to alter b*sh's National Guard records...
What do you say?

By Bill Burkett
Online Journal Contributing Writer

March 19, 2003—I've sat in total grief for the past three years, watching the institutions of America being spent as if they were lottery winnings.

I don't want to say it, "But I told you so."

In January of 1998 and what seems like a full lifetime ago, I was stricken by a deadly case of meningoencephalitis. I was returning from a short duty trip to Panama as a team chief to inspect the hand over of Ft. Clayton to the Panamanians. I had been 'loaned' from the senior staff and state planning officer of the Texas National Guard to the Department of the Army for a series of these special projects after angering George W. Bush by refusing to falsify readiness information and reports; confronting a fraudulent funding scheme which kept 'ghost' soldiers on the books for additional funding, and refusing to alter official personnel records (of George W. Bush).

George W. Bush and his lieutenants were mad. They ordered that I not be accessed to emergency medical care services, healthcare benefits I earned by my official duty; and I was withheld from medical care for 154 days before I was withdrawn from Texas responsibility by the Department of the Army, by order of the White House.

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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-04 06:46 PM
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1. Yeah I read this before
It's moving and compelling. Bush is such a fucker. Makes my blood boil.
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Taeger Donating Member (914 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-04 06:52 PM
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2. Burkett didn't mention

The major corporations will steal Iraq's oil.

But they will also "privatize" their telephone (MCI), Water (Bechtel), and Electric (Enron) utlities. They will "IMF" Iraq as they've done to so many other countries. The cream of the corrupt crop will have these monopolies HANDED to them so that they can squeeze the Iraqi people into abject poverty.

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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-04 08:38 PM
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3. Bravo for standing up to the Bush cabal.
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Norbert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-04 08:54 PM
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4. I still think this is attempted murder.
I deeply admire him for his integrety.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-04 09:41 PM
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5. All in a day's work for...
...the Texecutioner.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-04 10:50 PM
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6. Worth e-mailing this clip and link to journalists
especially those who are on the trail.

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RedEagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-04 10:53 AM
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7. Worth Kicking Back Up- Give it a Read
Kick!
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