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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:06 PM
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Get your torches and pitchforks out people...
The FINAL, (really they mean it this time) FINAL report of the Iraq Survey Group says what we've been saying all along:

Iraq had no WMD's after 1992, and no WMD's were shipped out of country.

Now we've got 1574 DEAD SOLDIERS! Tens of thousands of wounded soldiers, and their families forever destroyed.

Now we've got 100,000+ DEAD innocent Iraqis

Now we've got a fertile terrorist recruting ground where there once was none, and Bin Laden's got all the recruting propaganda he could ever hope for.

Bin Laden is still free.

Real threats have gone unchecked.

And Bush is frenching the Saudis while he FUCKS the world.

Where are the people who've had enough?

April 26, 2005

CIA/Pentagon: No WMD in Iraq
In an addendum to its September 2004 report, the head of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) has announced that the search for WMD has "gone as far as feasible" and found no evidence that WMD were moved to Syria. According to Fox: "After more than 18 months, the WMD investigation and debriefing of the WMD-related detainees has been exhausted." Vice President Cheney disagreed with its conclusions last year.

http://uspolitics.about.com/b/a/165336.htm
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:10 PM
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1. "Where are the people who've had enough?"
Certainly not in the White House. They've just approved 81 billion more dollars out of the Treasury and into their own pockets. So the Iraq/WMD thing is going just fine, thank you.

Someone posted on DU today that Cheney managed to save Halliburton with the Invasion or some sort, might have been in a link to Halliburton protests..
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:20 PM
Response to Reply #1
5. You know the Ukranians shut down their country after their rigged
election...

Do we not have the balls to take a stand?
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Andy_Stephenson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:30 PM
Response to Reply #5
14. I hear
crickets.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:53 PM
Response to Reply #14
19. I"m screaming at my computer right now.(nt)
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 02:52 PM
Response to Reply #5
96. And our tax dollars paid for that.. 65 million if I recall!
Wake-up, Dem leaders!

Wake the hell-up, Repuks.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:01 PM
Response to Reply #1
35. Could we
put pressure on them maybe?? There has to be something we can do.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:03 PM
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36. Canada and Europe, if they are lucky
The unlucky ones are here, trying to be heard.
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brettdale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:11 PM
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2. The Freakin media
Is too busy doing front page stories on how a terrorist was NEARLY CAUGHT. THE WHOLE COUNTRY SHOULD BE UP IN ARMS AT THIS.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:55 PM
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20. Heard that before...remember how they "nearly caught" bin laden
a bunch of times? That's just something they say when things go to shit.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:15 PM
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3. Iraq Survey Group: Donald Rumsfeld's al Qaeda
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:21 PM
Response to Reply #3
6. I know Bob...should I change the link in the OP to yours? I'm cool
with that.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:23 PM
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10. Of course not, just get the names of these fuckers out front.
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Al-CIAda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:20 PM
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4. 9/11 was an inside job too.
Edited on Tue Apr-26-05 09:20 PM by Al-CIAda
...and is more on point. EVERYTHING begins and ENDS with the TRUTH of 9/11.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:21 PM
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7. kick for your post...(nt)
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:22 PM
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8. But 9-11 Changed Everything!
The real purpose of going to Iraq was to keep the terrorists in the Middle East instead of letting them come here!

Don't you love America?
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:55 PM
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21. I love the country...I hate what it's becoming.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:22 PM
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9. Who cares? MIchael Jackson is on trial ! Now, that's important !
But this report? Who cares?

THis is what I want to do to every * lover:






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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:44 PM
Response to Reply #9
18. Dead soldiers aren't news, they're Cannon Fodder, as 41 used to say.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:05 PM
Response to Reply #9
40. I know how you feel
Of course they'll still play dumb and claim they're being persecuted. :eyes: Jon Stewart did a great skit on that tonight.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:26 PM
Response to Reply #40
51. missed that one...I'll catch it tomorrow.
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frogbison Donating Member (699 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:26 PM
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11. Call To Action
sounds to me like one
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:43 PM
Response to Reply #11
17. ACE hardware's got hay-forks on sale...
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Andy_Stephenson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:28 PM
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12. Dude...
you seem a bit riled...
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:42 PM
Response to Reply #12
15. I forgot to take my medicine...*nt*
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:28 PM
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13. 50% of those surveyed in a recent Gallup poll realize they were lied to
50% know that Bush is a liar. I wonder what percentage merely suspect they were lied to.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:43 PM
Response to Reply #13
16. doesn't matter, because bush is a "moral" person. He knows jeebus
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Andy_Stephenson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:57 PM
Response to Reply #16
22. I thought it was
Jaysus...that he knew...Who knew?
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:58 PM
Response to Reply #22
23. Knew who? Who's what now? I don't know, who are we talking about
fuck!
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renaissanceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:21 PM
Response to Reply #16
27. And gays can't get married
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:06 PM
Response to Reply #27
41. how many times have you heard that since the election....
0
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:07 PM
Response to Reply #13
42. So I wonder what's going to happen now
Are they going to call for his head yet?
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 09:58 PM
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24. Sadly most americans are dumb, lazy and just dont care.
I for one am outraged!
As long as we have our malls, fast food, cell phones, American Idol and SUV's(that we now cant aford to fill up IMA), we're content to let fascism run rampant and unchecked.
Can we organize a "Day of Outrage" demonstration day?
This shit has got to stop!
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:00 PM
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25. You're preaching to the choir, get out on the street and tell people
Come to my meetup in COlumbus on may 7th.,,,andy stephenson will teach you how to do an audit of your elections..

http://democrat.meetup.com/832/
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Daphne08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:50 PM
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32. Americans are neither dumb nor are they lazy.
Most are overworked, overstressed, underpaid and worried about bills (and this is exactly where the elite wish them to be).

The news upon which most Americans rely is 'non-news' but most people don't even realize this... they simply don't have the time or energy to read indepth news pieces which will give them a true understanding of what is going on in this country today.

The media is supposed to be the watchdog of our republic, and an honest media is crucial to an informed citizenry!

If anyone is dumb and lazy, it is the corporate fat cats who control our media!!



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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:20 PM
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48. Americans who helped re-elect the mudering monkey are dumb.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:19 PM
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26. WHY AREN"T YOU PEOPLE FUCKING PISSED? AND WHY
aren't you doing something about it?
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flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:44 PM
Response to Reply #26
30. i am pissed real pissed and i sent this out today..
to every republican i know..i wrote a note above tha article i sent with it...i will snip the article..

to all my republican friends...
and to think..those of us who read foreign papers or watched foreign news knew this all along..and they called us liars!!but those who only watched fox or so called main stream media had no clue!! and now the bush lies come home to roost..since the cia... finally...told those who were fooled about the syria connection that that was a hoax as well yesterday..and we know the saddam /9/11 connection was all a lie..because bush finally admitted it last fall..so why are we in a war?? why has it cost us our kids lives?? why has it cost iraqi's now close to 150,000 lives?? why did we destroy another nation to nothing but rubble?? and how many lies are you willing to believe for bushes next war in iran..before you read the " plan" of pnac?? and world dominance?? how many lies and lives will it take before some wake up to the truth of bushes fascism?? You can not pray these lies away..you can not pray the lives to come back because it was all a hoax...you can not put childrens faces back that have been blown off or burned with napalm..you can not give the iraqi's potable water with no shit in it..or remove the depleted uranium from their soil and stop all the cancers the children will get..as well as our troops! how long before many will wake the hell up?? how long before some will see the evil in this bush bunch of murderers??what will it take before people wake the hell up??? 90% of the worlds people have been screaming this at you..and you look the other way!
how long before we are in the same situation we were in vietnam..?? how many of you are willing to give up your children to the military for these lies??
and how stupid and ignorant are you willing to be for the next war in iran coming soon ( like late june or during summer??) will you be willing to be bushes sucker still?? how many gay male prostitutes running through the white house
( for bush propaganda) are you willing to tolerate before you "get it"?

and to think many of you were the same ones in knots about a blue dress and a blow job lie...so how many lives were lost for that lie?? seems rather stupid doesn't it??
compare the one lie.. over the hundreds bush has told ..and the difference in the lies...after all, many of you told us..it wasn't the blow job ..it was the lie...well how many lies have we all had to endure since you "swallowed" all the bush lies?? i am not angry..as many americans believed...but please promise me for now on you will listen to your fellow americans , and educate yourselves to what is really happening..before its too late for our children..and their future...how many more 9/11 do we have to have before you educate yourselves..turn your tv news off ...its nothing but propaganda..and bullshit!
ask me i will send you pnac and bushes plan for world dominace and fascism..read it..know whats coming..and its not the rapture.. thats just more propaganda!


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7634313/

Go to Original

CIA's Final Report: No WMD Found in Iraq
The Associated Press

Tuesday 25 April 2005

Recommends freeing detainees held for weapons knowledge.
Washington - In his final word, the CIA's top weapons inspector in Iraq said Monday that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has "gone as far as feasible" and has found nothing, closing an investigation into the purported programs of Saddam Hussein that were used to justify the 2003 invasion.

"After more than 18 months, the WMD investigation and debriefing of the WMD-related detainees has been exhausted," wrote Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group, in an addendum to the final report he issued last fall.


from fly
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:05 PM
Response to Reply #30
39. that's awesome! Good for you! The country owes you bigtime!
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:26 PM
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28. But, but, we got Saddam, and he was an evil Dictator...
And we know that Bush does not take shit from evil dictatorships. Its Bush's goal to spread democracy, and democracy is on the march. If a nation doesn't love freedom the way we do, they are cut off...


Surely you wouldn't catch Bush holding hands with a dictator, the head of an oppressive dictatorship.

And he is serious about the war on terror. You will never find him holding hands with the head of a nation that attacked us on 9/11...
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:12 PM
Response to Reply #28
43. and how many people did the saudi's behead publicly this year?
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:29 PM
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29. Well I'm just back from another protest...now let's have one on this issue
Sick of people who are dying for lies! Sick of all the bureaucratic bullshit being doled out about this war. We need some serious pitch forking and torch hold'n. Can't believe people are so stupid!
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:13 PM
Response to Reply #29
44. I guess we don't have enough dead soldiers yet...america's asleep.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:33 PM
Response to Reply #44
57. They are just used and forgotten... don't forget who they are...
for the most part: uneducated, poor, minorities and no more than children who have been brainwashed by someone they look up to, very sad.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:35 PM
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58. Our soldiers should not be dying for this collassal fuckup. Bush should
be impeached and thrown in jail with all the rest of them
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:36 PM
Response to Reply #58
61. Not going to happen. They own all the machinery.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:44 PM
Response to Reply #61
65. why shouldn't the military families be up in arms about this>
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:53 PM
Response to Reply #65
70. They should be!
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 01:44 PM
Response to Reply #70
90. BUSH IS KILLING THEIR KIDS!!!!!!!!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:47 PM
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31. I don't think our people are stupid.
They've been deliberately traumatized for five years. This is how trauma victims act. They avoid, they deny, they ignore. They have no energy or concentration. And this state of being is promoted by our lovely Free Pass every hour of every day.

I believe in the American people (putting on my flame retardant gear), but I gotta know who I'm talking to so I can say something they can hear.

Know what you're up against.

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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:04 PM
Response to Reply #31
38. Exactly!
It's like Stockholm Syndrome.

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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:31 PM
Response to Reply #38
52. I was going to say, lol, I'M NOT CLICKING THAT LINK!
But, it came up in the reply thingy. Yeeeooooouuuuuwwwwwwwwww!


We really can't blow off what everyone has been through or, how it affects what they (we) notice, think, feel, see. What folks can hear. If you mess with someone enough, they go deaf. They get taken out.

Here's at least a step we can take that is manageable -- not giving up the outrage but, keeping in mind the context:

www.missionnotaccomplished.us
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:31 PM
Response to Reply #52
53. great site Pat...thank yoU!
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:52 PM
Response to Reply #52
69. Yeah, I went to PDA as soon as I saw Will's thread.
:thumbsup:

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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:13 PM
Response to Reply #31
45. So It's kinda like the Stockholm Syndrome?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:32 PM
Response to Reply #45
55. Massively just like that.
Growing up, a lot of us read about Germany and wondered, how did all those people agree to all that?

This is how.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:45 PM
Response to Reply #55
66. but we get chastized for comparing Hitler to Bush...wait, switch that.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:55 PM
Response to Reply #66
71. I don't think Hitler was an alien lizard.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 07:52 AM
Response to Reply #71
85. that's really creepy.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 12:00 AM
Response to Reply #66
74. Right. And, Hitler was elected. . . . .
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neverforget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:57 PM
Response to Original message
33. What happened on American Idol tonight? War? What war? It
doesn't affect me.:sarcasm:
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:14 PM
Response to Reply #33
46. If you're paying 2+ bucks a gallon, it's affecting you...
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:00 PM
Response to Original message
34. Will we hear about this on the news?
Unless not then nobody's going to get outraged. It's up to us to spread it around. Who's going to get mad and call for Bush and his cabinet's impeachment?
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:14 PM
Response to Reply #34
47. FINALLY! The word I wanted to hear: IMPEACHMENT!
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:46 PM
Response to Reply #34
68. We must all become more vocal. Here's what I do:
I am polite and do take into considerations other people's limits--but I am persistent, very persistent. Over the past few years, especially since 9/11 but before then as well, I've become increasingly vocal to my friends and coworkers about the REAL THREAT posed to us by the fascist criminals who have hijacked our country. Of course, I'm talking to people who know me--not total strangers for the most part --although that also happens occasionally. All my friends have heard me be quite outspoken and, although only one of them has become as outspoken as myself, all of them have learned to listen even when I say things they would rather not hear.

For example, someone (not me) expressed disgust at the way the Republicans are threatening the Judiciary and I came back with, "You are right. It IS disgusting--and here is the thing: This situation is not going to get better all by itself. The extremists who have taken over the Republican party are not going to stop until WE stop them." There was dead silence in the room. I was being completely serious and they knew it--but it frightened them a little to hear it said.

Deep down they know it is true and it frightens them. And, indeed, why wouldn't it? For if what I've been saying is true--and day after day the evidence makes it all the more clear--it means the dawning recognition that WE ARE PRISONERS in our own country.

We, the citizens of the United States, are a captive people. Our government has been manipulating us for a very long time--deluding us into believing that we had real power to change things, peacefully, and as a result of civil discourse. Many of us, and more each day, have come to see that THE WEALTH OF OUR NATION IS SYSTEMATICALLY BEING LOOTED by a rogue band of elitists interests; all under the banner of a completely fallacious "war" predicated on a socially traumatic historical event which, at the very least, the ALLOWED to occur. We are talking about people who we are told we must respect and yet more and more evidence comes to light every day indicating that they are traitors and murderers--criminals of such a high order that we have no name STRONG ENOUGH to represent the rage and disgust that we would rationally and reasonably express toward those WHO WOULD DARE to rule over us without our willing and knowledgeable consent!

Yes, pitch forks, torches. We should be making our presence felt WHERE EVER THEY GO. Peacefully, of course; but they must not be allowed to think, ever, for even one moment, that we will allow them any longer to continue this charade without cost.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 12:07 AM
Response to Reply #68
78. I agree
Maybe if we start talking about it with people we can get the idea out there. Make people realize what's going on. It's going to be a one-one thing and then we can work on putting on the pressure of impeachment hopefully. We have to show people that the republican party has been hijacked by neocons and they don't care about anybody but themselves. They need to realize they're being used emotionally and spiritually for their own gain.
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:04 PM
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37. My outrage burns!!!

A DU Oldie 2002

Time for Another Corporate Media Mea Culpa

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:08 PM
BY STEVE BREYMAN
- Rahul Mahajan provided a typically fine public service with his piece “We Told You So” about the findings of government commissions on “intelligence failures” leading up to the US war on Iraq. As Mahajan argues, “Wade through the more than 3000 pages and one conclusion is inescapable: those of us who opposed the invasion of Iraq were right on every count.” No WMD, no Al-Qaeda connection, no yellow cake uranium from Niger, no nuclear weapons-related aluminum tubes, no mobile biological weapons laboratories, no “unmanned aerial vehicles” that could threaten the US. Instead, the President and his aides slyly relied on amazingly inaccurate (mis)informants like “Curveball” and Ahmed Chalabi, forged documents, distortions and fear-mongering, to both drag the country to war, and to place the blame, once their lousy occupation plans went awry, on intelligence agencies.

The anti-war movement knew all this long before the US invasion. The evidence was overwhelming. Appeals to the facts appeared futile. The whole post-9/11, post-war-gone-wrong “review” process is surreal given the baldness of this same mountain of facts readily available to any and all of us. We knew this was an administration bent on war with Iraq years before it came to power (as evidenced by PNAC), and eager for a pretext once it took office (as claimed by Richard Clarke and others).

“We told you so,” satisfying as a comeback on the playground, is however cold comfort for those suffering from the still accumulating damage of the war. Yet there may be something of value here after all: highlighting the role of the corporate media in playing Bush handmaiden and peace movement disciplinarian.



Read the rest here:
Newtopia Magazine
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flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:38 PM
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62. your link is not working and i would love to send out this article!! n/t
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:58 PM
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72. Its working for me.
Try this one:

http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=24&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

or go here:

http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/

click on "Opinion/Editorial"
and you'll see:
"Time for Another Corporate Media Mea Culpa"
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Krist Donating Member (121 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:21 PM
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49. Its all a part of a bigger plan
The Christian Talebaan who seek evangelizing this country, couldnt care less if a 100 million non-white folks are slaughtered by US troops......
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:22 PM
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50. what's the plan?
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Krist Donating Member (121 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:32 PM
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54. Ze Plan
Their ultimate objective is to establish a fascistic Christian Zionist state in this country, propagate a one-party system in the country by persistently scaring people by the threat of terrorism and depicting their opponents as dangerous to national security..
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:35 PM
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59. that's what I wanted to hear...welcome to DU.
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Krist Donating Member (121 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 01:29 AM
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82. thanks !
Incidentally, are there any discussions on evolution ?
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SlowDownFast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 01:43 PM
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89. all the time -
Edited on Wed Apr-27-05 01:45 PM by utopiansecretagent
here in Discussions and also in the Religion and Theology forum.

DU Religion and Theology forum:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=214

edit:
and don't forget the DU Science forum:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=228
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Krist Donating Member (121 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 08:11 PM
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99. kool
If there is one thing that makes me loathe conservatives/republican fascists even more is their utterly ridiculous emphasis that their creationism is a "science" !
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 01:45 PM
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91. yup...
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 12:22 AM
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80. Exactly
Why else have they been trying to get rid of the democrats? To them we're only good to be blamed for things and not working together. They've wanted to be the one party rule for a couple of years now. They started working on that, I think, when Nixon took office when they got Kennedy out of the way. Bastards.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 09:25 AM
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87. Hi Krist!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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Krist Donating Member (121 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 02:19 PM
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95. thanks again
Ms. New York, than Q very much for the warm welcome :)
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Al-CIAda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:33 PM
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56. Why the FUCK aren't the Demochumps in charge up in arms?
Why do they HIDE the truth of 9/11?
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:36 PM
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60. because the truth would bring them all down...
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 07:53 AM
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86. Sibel Edmonds...
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 01:45 PM
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92. and they're stonewalling her at every step...(nt)
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 02:15 PM
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94. TRUTH. WILL. OUT.
Such "interesting times" we live in, eh? ;-) Most days I do find them quite surreal.
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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:41 PM
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63. MNA, May 2 2005. A time to stop and reflect on ALL THE LIES, and THEN...
...to prepare for what we are going to do to STOP THE ATROCITIES.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us (The.Day.WE.BEGIN.............)
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:43 PM
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64. Could we now say that the Iraq War is...
the biggest crime in modern history of warfare?
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:45 PM
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67. Biggest crime in history.
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:59 PM
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73. We are ALL VICTIMS OF A HOAX.
Edited on Wed Apr-27-05 12:43 AM by Beam Me Up
A masive hoax on an international level. I believe the events of 9/11 were orchistrated from within the national security state infrastructure. I think the evidence points strongly in that direction. At the very least there is complicity--and to whatever extent that complicity is of a criminal order, it is of such a magnitude I can find no words to express it. This is 'maniacal' in the most insidiously evil sense of that word. And they have put us all on notice: THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO MAINTAIN AND EXTEND THE REACH OF THEIR WEALTH, PRIVLIDGE AND POWER.

Edit, spelling, grammar.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 12:02 AM
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75. Disgusting isn't it!
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 12:26 AM
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81. Yep
You're right all the way. All the hijackers were Saudi's. Bush and his family are close with the Saudi's (like really close). The plan was to get Iraq's oil and privitize it and probably share it with the Saudi's. Now that the oil companies didn't go for that they lost support and they're not getting the oil from Iraq. So Bush calls in his Saudi friends to beg on his knee's for help. I wonder what he owe's them now.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 12:02 AM
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76. So does that mean they're going to send Saddam home now?
Oops, Sorry, Iraq - here's your dictator. Pretend we weren't here.
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 12:03 AM
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77. I'm full on ready.
I've had it.

Where and when do we meet?
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 12:13 AM
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79. Meet who what when where? Blind date? Date the blind? What?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 01:44 AM
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84. HERE!
www.missionnotaccomplished.us
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okieinpain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 01:40 AM
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83. stupid clinton and his penis....
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 01:29 PM
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88. they both should come toO! (nt)
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 01:51 PM
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93. why isn't this an impeachable offense n/t
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 03:31 PM
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97. because the pukes control everything...(nt)
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-27-05 04:20 PM
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98. Hey military families, Bush is lying to get your kids killed!
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