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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 09:45 AM
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Rumsfeld press conference, 11AM - live on CSPAN
:puke:
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 09:46 AM
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1. Today's
serving of lies, bluster and intimidation, lapped up by a spineless press....
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 09:51 AM
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5. Things deteriorating at home and in Iraq and within two day, Chimp &
Rummy giving press conferences... Think they can still work that old "Black Magic" of "Terra...Terra...Terra?" Or are they a cracked CD at this point. hmmmmm.
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Dying Eagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 09:48 AM
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2. OMG!!
I JUST GOT THE VOMMIT IN MY MOUTH THING!

:puke:
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 09:50 AM
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3. Are we doing badly in Iraq? You bet---Do we know how to fix it?
No, but we are thinking of blowing everyone up, that way we got the insurgents......
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 09:51 AM
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4. LOL
Gotta laugh to keep from crying. :-) Perfect summary of what I'm sure he has/will say.

What a goober.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:08 AM
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11. Fixing it? An unknown unkown.
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 09:53 AM
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6. so tired of the puppet shows....
except for KO's Puppet Theater!
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 09:55 AM
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7. Will the press actually be there?
Or will it just be Rumsfeld, passionately in love with the sound of his own voice, mesmerized by his own brilliance, posing questions to himself and answering them in that impatient tone that indicates he thinks the questioner is mentally deficient?
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 09:57 AM
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8. ET??
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 09:58 AM
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9. Resignation?
He said with hope.

What on earth could he possibly have to say?

If they caught Ossama it won't be Rummy telling the world, you can absolutly bet on that.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:10 AM
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13. He'll say "we're dissembling Al Queda in Iraq" duh.
Edited on Wed Jun-01-05 10:10 AM by elehhhhna
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insane_cratic_gal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:25 AM
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27. It's About the OIL Dummy!
I'm just waiting for that line.
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 09:59 AM
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10. Nooooo! no more! I beg of you!!!
After yesterday's blabba dabba do press conference, we gotta hear Rummy's serpentine responses to questions like "Don, what time is it?"

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

:scared:
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:09 AM
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12. Starting now~
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:11 AM
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14. fuck you, reprehensible? fuck you, gitmo is a nazi hell hole asswipe
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:15 AM
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15. Rummy is really blaming the media for not printing US guidelines on
humane treatment.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:18 AM
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16. seems that this administration is gearing up to attach the media for their
failures. Hope it backfires.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:19 AM
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17. Rummy is 'educating" the media as to what is really going on!!
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:20 AM
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18. Myers says incidenses of attacks down since last November but
now more lethal. He got that right.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:21 AM
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19. myers says insurgents want to divide Iraq but the Iragi not buying this.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:22 AM
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23. asked if deep throat is a hero?--Rummy says he was in Belguim at the
time and really has not followed that.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:57 AM
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62. He's been in Belguim for 30 years?
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:29 AM
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31. In other words, the attack rate for the Iraqui rebels is improving
and our defense is becoming less effective at stopping them. That's what he said, right? Though he said it in double speak...
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:57 AM
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61. So, less IS more.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:56 AM
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60. They already "attached" the media. Ya mean "attack".
:)
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Kool Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:21 AM
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20. "...lots of good things happening,
along with the periodic deaths, which of course are regrettable..."

Yup.

Unreal.

And now, on to the "Deep Throat" revelation.....
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:22 AM
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21. All I hear is "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah".
That's what happens when one is subject to repetitive lies and bullshit,...it just becomes background noise.
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:22 AM
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22. hardy har har, rummy is so fucking funny
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:23 AM
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24. now Rummy is being 'folksy"
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:24 AM
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25. This is an Iraqi inititive (the 40,000 ) and we will help them says meyers
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:25 AM
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26. yes, we have heard this all before--
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:26 AM
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28. Rummy--the current assumption is that zarqui is in Irag and says it would
hurt neighboring countries if they assisted him.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:27 AM
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29. Rummy--it is not clear how they are entering Iraq. Saudies are entering.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:28 AM
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30. "its a very dangerous thing to civilize societies" says Rummy. Geech
rummy=ever hear of diplomacy??
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:32 AM
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34. Did he really say that?!?!! What a freakin' asswipe!!!
EW!! :grr:
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:39 AM
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46. yes, I see it as the "quote of the day"---what a dumbo
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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:35 AM
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38. He obviously meant 'vaporize them' because that is what they are doing.
http://www.peacecandy.com/gwbush/remindus/

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:59 AM
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65. "its a very dangerous thing to civilize societies...a big moneymaker, too
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Juice45 Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:30 AM
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32. Are they actually asking questions?
The tanker question caught them off guard.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:31 AM
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33. yes, some lame, some ok. but they just get talking points
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Juice45 Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:32 AM
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35. Rummy is very "reflective"..how nice
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:33 AM
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36. reporter asking --what think of WH plan not to apply Geneva Convention
??--says we have opened a Pandora's box.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:35 AM
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37. rummy says that because the terrorists are brutal--the WH made the
decison not to diminsh the Geneva conventions (is that what I heard--he runs around the question so much i get confused).
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:35 AM
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39. Myers--now answering the question--rummy flunked the question.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:36 AM
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41. "one shift" only says Rummy--the bad apples logic.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:37 AM
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43. rummy says people have been pushed for abuses at Gitmo (he forgot
the upper branch was ommitted --from this punishment.
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Juice45 Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:36 AM
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40. Im really tired of "the war on terra"
"different kind of war", and other such nonsense. I want to wage a war on verb.

Also..."Humane WAR".....fuck
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:37 AM
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42. a FEW bad apples ------------ --------- ---------> MP3
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:38 AM
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44. rummy speaks in bable tongue.
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Juice45 Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:39 AM
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45. I think the tag team was very effective for their purposes n/t
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:40 AM
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47. what is the tag team please?
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Juice45 Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:41 AM
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48. General Myers and Rumsfeld just passing questions and then bableing
much like you said. Hard to follow
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:42 AM
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51. oh00ok--thanks (think I get it now).
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:41 AM
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49. asked about todays headline--Iraqi concerned that we might pull out
prematurely.
Rummy bable again--liberation,.. it is an imperfect world. says Rummy.
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:41 AM
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50. he's very good at it... especially the UNKNOWN-KNOWNS
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:43 AM
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54. quanity is not all--it is the quality (of Irai troops that is important).
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:47 AM
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57. they got 'military metrics' on it
the numbers are all over the place but so are the rebels... the crazies will kill everyone if the 'have-to'


:nuke:

peace
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Juice45 Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:43 AM
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52. And now million dollar homes are sliding. n/t
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:43 AM
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53. well over 165,000 Iraqi security forces... each day it gets better
LIAR-LIAR-PANTS-ON-FIRE :argh:

rummy "the progress is SIGNIFICANT" :puke:

peace
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:46 AM
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55. It was the criticize of the media that Rummy spouted off at the beginning
that I find interesting. He chastised them for not printing the guidelines that the Miliary has in place to prevent abuse.
so he is saying he wants them to publish these handbooks/guidelines.
Sounds like a Scotty thing--as he wanted the media to do certain things also.
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Juice45 Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:48 AM
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58. I can hardly watch scotty...
Anyone who questions the admin he talks down to them as if they were an annoying child.

Did I catch something about Al-Queada attacking Saudi Arabia, or I am hearing things?
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:46 AM
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56. asked rummy if he "was gonna BRUSH UP on that WATERGATE thing" - lol
they all yucked it up, too...

rummy replied... "only off the record"

this is gonna blow up on'em as this gets recycled by the M$MWs

peace
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anarchy1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:58 AM
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64. I'm so glad I missed it. Sado-masochism is one thing..........
Edited on Wed Jun-01-05 10:59 AM by anarchy1999
this is too much!

Where oh, dear God where are our real journalists?

Where oh where has our 4th estate gone.......

Sounds like it could be a song.

bpilgrim, we keep waiting, we keep believing, this one is it, this will be the one to bring them toppling down. I've lost faith, I'm far to cynical, just when and what is going to bring this house of cards down?

For heaven's sake, Clinton was impeached for lying about Monica going down in the Oval Office, why oh why is Bush, Inc. not going down for countless deaths based upon lies and more lies?
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 11:13 AM
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66. eternal vigilance
we have no choice but to keep going thats what weTHEpeople do best and eventually we will win.

these days are certainly dark and long but we have each-other and there are BILLIONS of us all around the world.


more...
http://news.globalfreepress.com/gallery/index.php?cat=5

good to see you as always anarchy1999 :loveya:

peace
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anarchy1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 12:12 PM
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70. Thank you, sweetie, these days are indeed dark and long., but with
all our special friends at DU they are not so dark and hope stays alive.

Love you back!

:loveya:

:woohoo:
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:55 AM
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59. So ends Todays Catapult Of Progaganda, with Don Rumsfeld, sponsored
by Halliburton.
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 10:58 AM
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63. rumsfeld - the master of of corporate psychobabble
"unfortunate periodic deaths"

The bastard prides himself on this bullshit.
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Nothing Without Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 11:17 AM
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67. Horrible. How can ANYONE believe him? n/t
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joanski0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 11:31 AM
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68. Rummy said that anyone doing something
wrong in the Government should be reported to the Justice Department, not the Washington Post. Yeah, right. The Justice Dept. will get on it right away!!!
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 11:42 AM
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69. Like the Gitmo thing?
nt
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-05 12:15 PM
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71. "Oh, Goodness, Gracious, Great Googely-Moogely!"
Did that pretty much sum up the WarSec's comments?
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