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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:20 PM
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I honestly had no idea Bush had made us so vulnerable!
What if there was a major biochemical terrorist attack in D.C. tomorrow? We would be fucked!!!

:scared: National security? What national security?
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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:23 PM
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1. People have been saying it for a long time. This is the pudding the proof
is in.
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hwmnbn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:25 PM
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2. Yes, I believe that is the technical term...........
that best describes our predicament. :headbang:
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:26 PM
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3. The Repubs have left us vulnerable
in a hundred different ways. Our economy, infrastructure, defense, and services are extraordinarily fragile. If terrorists want to nail us to the floor right now, it'd be easy, with a series of attacks on oil pipelines and infrastructure in the mideast.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 12:06 AM
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26. They are too oriented around "winning" rather than "service".
They have proven that they are too weak in character to handle power.
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BlueJac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:28 PM
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4. The truth is everyone that voted for Nero made us more vulnerable!
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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:28 PM
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5. What did they do with all that money they were given?
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:29 PM
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6. They spent BILLIONS on "Homeland Security"
WHO GOT THE MONEY?
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:37 PM
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13. Indeed,...where is the money, where are our resources,...
,...oh, that's right, it was shipped to Iraq. :eyes:
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:53 PM
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19. I saw on CNN earlier that FEMA has been spending
$500,000,000.00 a day since Monday. ON WHAT? Half a billion dollars a day and there is no food or water till the Chimp manages to stop vacationing and get down there?
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 05:17 PM
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25. Since they basically dismantled FEMA,...
,...I can only guess a good portion of that money is going somewhere else,...Iraq, maybe? :shrug:
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cami715 Donating Member (155 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:29 PM
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7. Look at all of his appointees
He has placed idiots like himself in all the key positions - people who are not qualified for their jobs and who have no experience. The tragedy of Katrina has just given us a sample of what could happen to any of us in any city. We are definitely working without a net. Hope all those who voted for him are proud of themselves!
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Sewsojm Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:34 PM
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11. That's how,
you guarantee getting your Ass Kissed by all of your subordinates, hire idiots such as yourself.
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 04:04 PM
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22. Cronies before prudence.
Welcome to DU
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:29 PM
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8. Remember the debates?
Bush was indignant that Kerry said he wasn't doing enough, and cited how much money he spent.

Kerry said it's not the amount of money, it's getting it done that counts.

too bad not enough americans listened...
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:30 PM
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9. Anybody that is as preoccupied with appearance over
substance as he and his crew are could do nothing else but make cosmetic changes. Anybody as preoccupied with investing in the family trust funds of the wealthy as they are cannot be expected invest in our infrastructure or security.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:31 PM
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10. The * familiy trust and Cheney family trust
as well as all the family trusts of those loyal foot soldiers they've incorporated under the Carlyle group.
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Verve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:34 PM
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12. This was just talked about on MSNBC.
We would be screwed if there was a terrorist attack. Chris Matthews was saying that the prez can't blame it on no warning this time. (like 9/11). He also predicted a great backlash against the prez and his administration after their lack of response.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:38 PM
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14. None of us are safe from these EVIL BASTARDS!
They'll LIHOP to all of us if it fits their EVIL AGENDA. Doesn't matter Red State or Blue State! Red State Blue Gov, Mayor and Sen.=blame local gov. Screwed Big Time!
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:39 PM
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15. All for Iraq.
All so we can get stuck in that quagmire over there and so our boys could die, and so thousands of Iraqis could die. But the biggest most important reason is this: So Cokehead Bush and his buddies could line their pockets.
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:40 PM
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16. You're Not Alone
Most of the people in this country have no idea either. That is why we must keep spreading the message. I really like that you said this.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:50 PM
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18. I thought the exposure of a CIA WMD operation was bad.
I mean, risking our national security for revenge and control is traitorous.

But, DAMN, the BushCo/neoCON regime has weakened our national defense, seriously weakened our national defense. We are COMPLETELY ill-prepared for any terrorist tragedy. This regime should be removed for putting our nation and our people directly in a position of such vulnerability.
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:59 PM
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20. It Is So Bad
that here in New Year our own terrorist command center has been set up. It is very high tech and was done because we know we can't depend that B***co will not, and has done nothing to, protect us. Apparently the feds don't like the fact that the city is running their own shop, but we could care less.
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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:46 PM
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17. Wyoming should be safe
per capita - they got huge amounts of Homeland Security $$
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 04:01 PM
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21. Since these people stole the government in 2000
Look how low we've fallen. We've gone from the super power in the world, defender of democracy to a school yard paper tiger bully. We've shipped our industries out of the country, about the only thing we export these days is death.
We're off in another quagmire to line the deep pockets of the already wealthy, and to satisfy some Oedipal complex that the chimp* has.
We've squandered our national surplus for debt that generations will pay for.
Now, we've been exposed, and a halfway strong wind will finish us off, I'm just so damn ashamed right now.
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 04:10 PM
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23. This is exactly why you do not send the military 6,000 miles away
on a wild goose chase snipe hunt! There are some thing that MUST be fought HERE!
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 04:29 PM
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24. I read that about half of our guardsmen and supplies have been,...
,...re-directed to Iraq. That leaves us incredibly vulnerable. Who is going to protect us, help us?
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 12:25 AM
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27. This is where we really suck. Defending against Domestic enemies.
Okay so on 9/11 we learned that America could be infiltrated and attacked from within. But what if our Government was infiltrated? Traitors slowly killing America from within our heart under the guises of Mismanagement it incompetence?
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 12:42 AM
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29. The BushCO/neoCON regime has decided to leave us vulnerable.
Why? Is profiteering so important that they sacrifice the safety of their own people? Why did they expose a CIA operation that infiltrated WMD proliferation? Why did they cut funding to the Army Corps and FEMA? Why have they diverted our National Guard beyond our protection? Where is all those tens of billions of dollars to fund the new "Homeland Security" gone? Where's the fucking "security"?

Do they HATE Americans? Nope. They just SPEND Americans, exploit them and spend them and abandon them to poverty, oppression and death. Those leaches TAKE and TAKE and TAKE!!! :mad: :mad:
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 12:31 AM
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28. They did a good job of fudging things last year during Florida's 4
hurricanes. Took awhile to meet people who were helped. But they seemed to do a lot.
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