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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 07:51 PM
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letter to my Senator, John Warner.....your comments appreciated
Edited on Sun Jul-27-03 08:16 PM by amen1234


Dear Senator Warner,

By using our military to conduct political assassinations, Bush has set a dangerous precedent.

Bush's display of bloated and bloody human heads is unacceptable and WRONG. By gloating over his trophy kill on TV, Bush has lent a very undignified crassness to the White House, and he has lowered the Presidency to the level of street thugs.


With all due respect,

AMEN1234

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revcarol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 07:55 PM
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1. Warner wouldn't be interested in anything regarding international law,
Edited on Sun Jul-27-03 07:55 PM by revcarol
would he? NAW.....

Fine letter.
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 08:02 PM
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2. but each and every congressperson needs to KNOW that we
Edited on Sun Jul-27-03 08:13 PM by amen1234
object to this...some TV people act like this insanity was just absolutely necessary for the nebulous "Iraqi people", and that the display of the bloody and bloated human head trophies is JUST FINE with Americans...this needs to be stopped and the insanity of it noted to our congressional reps...

(I'll send it to Jim Moran, Democratic House rep, too)....

if there's lots of letters on a given issue, these congresspeople notice it....they get reports from their staff about major issues...and I have seen Jim Moran bring that up at the Town Hall Meeting (like: look, I have 1200 letters from my constituents and I must speak up.....)

on edit: Warner is useless...but these reTHUGlicans are BIG on bush* bringing DIGNITY to the White House...that is one of their theme songs...my other Senator, George Allen is also useless, but I am working to get these guys replaced...we elected an entire Democratic council and mayor here in Alexandria, Virginia on May 6th, a historical FIRST, and a Black Mayor..the first Black Mayor EVER in a city whose major industry was the import and sale of human beings, fighting school integration up through the 70's, even refusing to admit Blacks to the library until a big protest in 1968 and the resulting lawsuits....things are changing..and I am proud to be part of the effort, led by "Aggressive Progressives"....

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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 08:10 PM
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3. comma police
Edited on Sun Jul-27-03 08:12 PM by gristy
Bush has set a dangerous precedent, by using our military to conduct political assassinations.

Bush's display of bloated and bloody human heads is unacceptable and WRONG. By gloating over his trophy kill on TV, Bush has lent a very undignified crassness to the White House, and lowered the Presidency to the level of street thugs.


Really good. And it is important that Warner (head of Armed Services Committee) hear from folks like us. I have some suggestions. Try it like this:

By using our military to conduct political assassinations, Bush has set a dangerous precedent.

Bush's display of bloated and bloody human heads is unacceptable and WRONG. By gloating over his trophy kill on TV, Bush has lent a very undignified crassness to the White House, and he has lowered the Presidency to the level of street thugs.

I recommend "A Writer's Reference" by Diana Hacker

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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 08:14 PM
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4. Thanks, I changed it. I really appreciate your input...mostly, I'm
Edited on Sun Jul-27-03 08:19 PM by amen1234
trying not to offend anybody, or get arrested or put on a list....

I usually write down my thoughts....dwell on it...and re-write it to clean up any hate or obscene ranting that I put on the paper...then I hold it for next-day review...and finally, it's here...

the real short letters are the hardest, because they start out as a long long rant...
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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 08:29 PM
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5. there's that fear thing...
trying not to offend anybody, or get arrested or put on a list....

that the * cabal uses so effectively. Ignore it. There's so many more of us than there are of them. They can't come CLOSE to keeping tabs on us all - not even a tiny fraction.

p.s. I hit a trifecta tonight - A deer and two owls in my back yard at the same time (right when I was typing my last note to you). I've never seen a deer back there before, and only one owl at a time. I can still hear the deer making noises back in the woods out my window...

Had to tell someone!
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 08:35 PM
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6. nature is great....hopefully, we'll have some left after we BOOT
bush* in 2004....

keep fighting, don't give up ! (Paul Wellstone)
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 09:06 PM
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7. Bloated and bloody human heads and bodies!
That was too much.

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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 09:17 PM
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8. how else would you describe it ? I'm open to suggestions....
Edited on Sun Jul-27-03 09:25 PM by amen1234

I only used "bloated and bloody human heads"

should I add "bodies?", or change it to another description entirely?

I could add "bullet-riddled bloated bloody human heads...

or

"bullet-riddled bloated bloody humans....
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 09:24 PM
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9. Great alliteration there Amen!
I personally would add "bodies." But, it's your letter and it's a good one. Do what you feel comfortable with.
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 09:46 PM
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10. trying not to exaggerate the photos, but I think it was GROSS
disgusting and uncalled for, and I feel that my description is actually is a conservative description ...worse, I think the trophy display has created a even worse situation for our troops...more attacks and killing...our troops are SITTING DUCKS...someone lobbed a grenade out a second floor hospital window and killed three of OUR soldiers after bush* did this madness.....

it's really a sign of bush* insanity...only a real madman even think up such an idea....bush* has morphed into a very radical killer fueled by the power of the Presidency, claiming that God sent him to Iraq, thrilled with the kill, and gloating about his assassinations...I cry for our country....

thanks for your help...I appreciate it...I'll send my final copy to all three congressional reps in the morning after further changes...
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bigwoody Donating Member (182 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 09:48 PM
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11. Not only that, are you telling me the mighty 101st Airborne was
threatened by a couple of rifles and pistols? Surround them(already done), gas them and attempt to take them alive. If they take their own lives, so be it. What we did looks like an execution to people who already dislike us. Chimpy/Rove would have gotten much more political mileage out of putting these 2 on trial, in that respect I'm glad they fucked up. Like all their decisions, based purely on the short term (they were having a bad couple of weeks,ya know?). I say Saddam's body is in cold storage already, to be "discovered" around.......next October!:wtf:
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 09:59 PM
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12. don't need saddam at all...did you see the great job they did
Edited on Sun Jul-27-03 10:06 PM by amen1234
on those demolished faces?...just waxed them all up until they looked like saddam's sons...they could do the whole wax museum thing with the body laying in state...how about a long long showing of the body, like lenin's tomb ? ....there are art exhibits at the Smithsonian of plastic people that look so real...


like this guy, the BIG man by Ron Mueck, so real you could reach out and hug him....


and the BIG man is totally plasic, he doesn't melt or degrade like wax or humans...so you could leave the saddam plastic image in place for all the nebulous "Iraqi People" to view for years...now that I think about it, how about just a hologram...those are real life-like too...you could surround it with real nice plexiglass....
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