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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 10:42 PM
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Niagara Falls Reporter: "We may have lost our national soul in Iraq"
DETROIT -- Privately, President George W. Bush is having a political panic attack as he retreats to his cocoon, seeking comfort from his nannies. Babs, his mommy, wife Laura, Condi Rice and Karen Hughes serve as his ladies in waiting, assuring our courageous leader that the boo-boos he gets on his head will get better and those bad boys criticizing his war are just meanies who don't like him.

Vice President Dick Cheney, whose bum advice has cost him his male-nanny status, still is called upon for political valet duties. He made a pitiful attempt to quiet Iraq war critics and rewrite history. Cheney, the Lord of the Lies, still sticks to the bogus script he, more than anyone else, crafted: that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous threat to our security and war was the only way to save the republic....

You know the Busheviks are deep in desperation when they drag Cheney from his bunker to denounce critics who dare to say "the president of the United States or any member of this administration purposely misled the American people on prewar intelligence." The intelligence was cooked and the only way that could be done was with purpose and premeditation. Only blind partisans and fools argue otherwise....

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney want us to stay until they declare victory. We have already lost the war in Iraq and we also may have lost our national soul there.
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Bill Gallagher, a Peabody Award winner, is a former Niagara Falls city councilman who now covers Detroit for Fox2 News. His e-mail address is gallaghernewsman@sbcglobal.net.
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ailsagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 10:44 PM
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1. I can see why Gallagher is a Peabody Award winner.
He certainly called that one right. I think I'll send him
an email.

:patriot:
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 10:46 PM
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2. Didn't Bill O'Reilly win a Peabody Award too?
:rofl:
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ailsagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 10:49 PM
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3. Yikes!! You scared me there for a minute!! LOL
:)
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 10:54 PM
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5. I'll ask Al
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 10:51 PM
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4. Cheney, the Lord of the Lies
:rofl:
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GreenArrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 10:57 PM
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6. Our "National soul"
was lost in Vietnam, if not long before; we are only now realizing it.
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chaumont58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 11:23 PM
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9. Our National Soul?
I have little to do with this. I had nothing to do with decisions made to fight the War in VietNam. This whole idea is overblown. Did we, as a nation, still have a 'National Soul' after 400 years of black slavery? The destruction that was done to Native Americans was sure as hell not very soulful to them. After all the god damn hell this citizens of this country have done to each other and to others, the idea of a 'National Soul' is a stretch at best.
Anyway, I am an atheist. I don't believe in souls, not the biblical way.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-22-05 01:05 AM
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10. I don't think the writer meant in the Biblical way
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 11:02 PM
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7. what a way with words...
I can certainly picture Cheney....with his 'male-nanny status':rofl:
wait a minute...is that sbc Sinclair?
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 11:05 PM
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8. No, we lost our national soul in December 2000.
We're now a nation of cowards, each tallying how many deadly sins we can wallow in. One for each day of the weak: Anger, Pride, Envy, Greed, Gluttony, Lust and, on the seventh day, Sloth. (After all, He rested, right?)
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