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President Bush has claimed more than once that he is divinely led by God and is doing God's will. But the proof is in the pudding. Look at the people who surround and advise our president and see how Godly their influences are:His very top advisor, Karl Rove, is being investigated for possible treason,Cheney's no-bid contract with Halliburton is plagued with over charging the gov't by millions of

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Troubled Waters War, storms, leak probes—and a growing array of ethics clouds. Dark days for the Republican Party.By Howard Fineman and Eleanor Clift Newsweek"...But it took the Republicans only 10 years to become yet another ruling party beset by charges of profligate spending, bloated government and corruption—a party led by two Texans, Bush and DeLay, who don't particularly care whether they

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Troubled Waters War, storms, leak probes—and a growing array of ethics clouds. Dark days for the Republican Party.By Howard Fineman and Eleanor Clift Newsweek"...But it took the Republicans only 10 years to become yet another ruling party beset by charges of profligate spending, bloated government and corruption—a party led by two Texans, Bush and DeLay, who don't particularly care whether they

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For those of you who believe that ethics is the base for the GOP, I urge you to inform yourself on one of its most powerful men, Senate Majority Leader Tom DeLay. His fall will not be the end of the GOP Corruption as House Speaker Dennis Hastert appointed Rep. Roy Blunt, the Republican whip from Missouri and a disciple of Delay, as the new majority leader. Democrats aren't saints, and Lord knows

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Is This March Mainstream or Radical? Read the Numbers.Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 2005-09-24 08:37. Mediahttp://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htmAssociated Press/Ipsos poll conducted by Ipsos-Public Affairs. Sept. 16-18, 2005. N=1,000 adults nationwide."As you may know, the U.S. Congress has appropriated 260 billion dollars to fight the war and help rebuild Iraq. What best describes how you

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Donald Rumsfeld is giving the President his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed". "OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!" His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the president sits, head in hands. Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

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If tomorrow we pay gotta pay 10 bucks for a gallon of gasolineThe rich get richer, the poor get worse, like the weather in New OrleansStill I’ll thank my God and his Son who speaks directly to meRemember its all just intelligent design, God Bless the GOP.I’m proud to be a Republican, at least I know I’m rightAll you Godless Dems go “F “yourselves, just shut up and see the lightThen you’ll proudly

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September 17, 2005Names of the DeadThe Department of Defense has identified 1,893 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:SILVA, Alfredo B., 35, Sgt., Army National Guard; Calexico, Calif.; 40th Infantry Division.SWANBERG, Shane C., 24, Lance Cpl., Marines; Kirkland, Wash.; Second Marine Division.

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"...Our vulnerability is not just about dealing with terrorists or natural disasters. We are vulnerable and unsafe because we allow one in eight Americans to live in horrible poverty. We accept an education system where one in six children never graduate and most of those who do can't string a coherent sentence together. The middle class can't pay the mortgage or the hospital bills and 45 million

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'Almost everyone I've talked to says, "We're going to move to Houston." What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this -- this is working very well for them." --First Mother Barbara Bush on the Katrina refugees in Houston.

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Mr. Bush's performance last week will rank as one of the worst ever by a president during a dire national emergency. What we witnessed, as clearly as the overwhelming agony of the city of New Orleans, was the dangerous incompetence and the staggering indifference to human suffering of the president and his administration. -- BOB HERBERT

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Native American Wisdom about living life:Only when the last tree has diedand the last river has been poisonedand the last fish has been caughtwill we realizewe cannot eat money.

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Bush's motorcade alone costs thousands in transporting it to texas and back. let alone the hundreds and hundreds of $$$ to fuel it. And Mr. Bush asks us to conserve on gasoline. What is he doing to conserve on his spending of our resourses and money? read on...washingtonpost.com.Tuesday, August 30, 2005; A15The rising cost of fuel is hitting taxpayers in a way they probably don't think about:

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Friday, September 2nd, 2005Dear Mr. Bush:Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers

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August 27, 2005Names of the DeadThe Department of Defense has identified 1,868 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:CHAPIN, Chris S., 39, Master Sgt., Army National Guard; Proctor, Vt.; Second Battalion, 124th Regional Training Institute.KATHIRIA, Hatim S., 23, Specialist, Army; Fort Worth; Third

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August 25, 2005Names of the DeadThe Department of Defense has identified 1,866 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:DÍAZ, Carlos J., 27, First Lt., Army; Juana Díaz, P.R., Third Infantry Division.HUNT, Joseph D., 27, Sgt., Army National Guard; Sweetwater, Tenn.; Third Squadron, 278th Armored

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"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.""Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.""I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."

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Pat Robertson's statement show how little Christian fundamentalist thinking differs from any other extreme religion. They think they have God on their side and they can plot the murder of anyone who disagrees. Frightening.-RL Freeman

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"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with...You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him,

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"This constitution is full of mines that are going to explode. The articles stipulated in this constitution will have grave consequences if they are submitted to a referendum. This constitution will lead to a weak Iraq that is unable to defend itself."Saleh Mutlak, one of 15 Sunnis on the charter panel, told reporters.

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"The U.S. involvement in Iraq has destabilized the Middle East. This administration should start figuring out how we get out of there." Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.) said on ABC's "This Week"

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"Good morning. I'm former Senator Max Cleland. "My fellow Americans. My friends. I’m a veteran of the Vietnam War. Having left three limbs on that battlefield, I've seen the toll that war can take on our troops and on our country. We are now engaged in another war - a war in Iraq. However, the Bush Administration's plan for victory is not working."There is no strategy to win. The President

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I more than suspect already that he is deeply conscious of being in the wrong - that he feels that blood of this war, like the blood of Abel is crying to Heaven against him. That originally having some strong motive - what, I will not stop now to give my opinion concerning - to involve the two countries in a war, and trusting to escape scrutiny, by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding

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Hypocrites and LiarsBy Cindy Sheehant r u t h o u t Letter Saturday 20 August 2005The media are wrong. The people who have come out to Camp Casey to help coordinate the press and events with me are not putting words in my mouth, they are taking words out of my mouth. I have been known for sometime as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a

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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign

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LA Blog Talk I started writing a blog after I witnessed first hand the North Tower go down on that infamous day and saw our government use that horrific tragedy as an opportunity to manipulate the fear, pain and sorrow of the American people for their purpose. That heinous event was used as an opportunity to set in motion the neo-conservative agenda of oppression, aggression and unconstitutional

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