Democrats want to take all our money and return to us one dime out of each dollar.
Republicans want to take all our money and give it to corporations and the wealthy.
Neither is acceptable!
Campaign 2010
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The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.
Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. emeritus Professor of Linguistics
The Democratic spinmeisters will point to their ‘great leadership and decision making’ as the cause. And who knows what the Republican spinmeisters will come up with. [...]
If Cook and the others are the kind of people we are not only accepting into our armed forces but also promoting to the rank of officer, then our standards for accepting people into our military has dropped to a new low. They certainly aren’t the kind of people I would trust to protect my country. [...]
The only ammo was gun powder and pieces of metal & chain. I asked why they needed such a big gun. His answer was “you know us — we’re always fighting with someone”. That’s the nature of those cultures’. They are going to always do battle with someone. [...]
If we thought the old Taliban was a problem, wait until they get a complete nuclear arsenal. They truly believe that returning to the golden age is in their best interest. But to the rest of the world, that would be like living in the stone age. [...]
Bob Woodward’s new book, “The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008″, says “Bush maintained that U.S. forces were “winning”; privately, he came to believe that the military’s long-term strategy of training Iraq security forces and handing over responsibility to the new Iraqi government was failing”. Exerts from the book is quoted in this Washington Post article. According to the book, in 2006 Bush asked Stephen J. Hadley, his national security adviser, to lead a closely guarded review of the Iraq war, but warned Hadley of the upcoming congressional elections. Hadley then told Condoleezza Rice “We’ve got to do it under the radar screen because the electoral season is so hot”. Continue Reading » »
A report surfaced a few days ago that said Iraq had an $80 billion surplus from oil production and sales. That money is being invested, much of it in American banks and businesses, rather than helping in war cost and reconstruction. America continues to spend billions of our own dollars in Iraqi reconstruction. Continue Reading » »
Until about four weeks ago the Bush administration was being arrogantly stubborn about when we would pull out of Iraq. Vice-President Dick Cheney even got a lot of negative press with his “So?” response when he was presented with the facts that the majority of the American people wanted to end the war and pull out. And there are numerous other examples of the administration thumbing their nose at the wishes of the American public. However, during this Presidential campaign season, the Bush administration and the McCain campaign is amending their stance on the issue of pulling out of Iraq. Continue Reading » »
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