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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:26 AM
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Botanical rhetoric is all the rage
It is true that the seeds of freedom have only recently been planted in Iraq but democracy, when it grows, is not a fragile flower. It is a healthy, sturdy tree.

(APPLAUSE)
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:28 AM
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1. Apparently. Anyone got some weed-killer??
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laruemtt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:31 AM
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6. how about some killer weed........ n/t
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:28 AM
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2. One of his speech writers must have read "Being There" recently
:shrug:
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:28 AM
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3. slashing and burning the forests of democracy across the word...
is more like it
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:28 AM
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4. "If the roots are not damaged, all is well, and all will be well . . .
. . . in the garden."

"First comes spring and summer, then fall and winter, then spring and summer again."

"Network" and "Being There". Not movies. Prophecies.

Sheesh.
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Bernardo de La Paz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:29 AM
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5. Bush is a plant.
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:32 AM
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7. Not sure but he has the intellect of a plant. n/t
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:34 AM
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8. a little ecology for bush .....
Edited on Thu Oct-06-05 11:35 AM by Botany
Iraq is worse then Vietnam because of ???????
crickets crickets .....

Iraq is a not a tropical jungle like Vietnam .... so where do the
"bad guys hide?'

they have to be hidden by the local population. And their means "they"
(the other side) has considerable support.

BTW outside of oasis's, mountain tops with snow, and river valleys trees
and Iraq not so much ....
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marions ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:34 AM
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9. TREES
Edited on Thu Oct-06-05 11:34 AM by marions ghost
healthy sturdy ones a month ago...are lying with the corpses of Katrina.
The Democracy Tree might be in there somewhere...maybe it's still standing. We haven't been able to get in and see yet.

Democracy is No Bush
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:48 AM
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12. photo of Bush nurturing the Democracy Tree
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marions ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 12:28 PM
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13. oops
was that the Democracy Tree? I cannot tell a lie...

He'd better watch out for those Aspen Clusters turning...
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:37 AM
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10. You cannot graft Democracy onto a Theocracy. Democracy can only
Edited on Thu Oct-06-05 11:38 AM by cryingshame
grow to bear fruit when it's developed from it's own rootstock in appropriate soil.
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Theres-a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:37 AM
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11. Strike the root
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil,to one who is striking at the root.--Henry david Thoreau
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