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caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 05:31 AM
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Almost 500 dead troops. Yeah, Happy New Year!
What is it w/ me? When I think about all those young troops dying in Iraq, I feel so sad. For what, I ask you Mr. pResident, for what?

You, Mr. pResident, think that you are going to look good next November. I beg to differ w/ you. If the stocks are up - great, but it just means that rich people are investing. No trickle-down here. You have lost close to 3 million jobs and we will not FORGET. Where are the jobs?

We will not forget WMD as the reason we invaded, yes invaded Iraq.

We will not forget how you have alienated our beloved country from the rest of the world.

We will not forgot ALL the lies and during the presidential campaign, they WILL be brought up. The pink tutus have come off.

We will not forget how you spent the surplus.

There is only one thing that we will remember and that is our troops in the f*cking shooting gallery, you call Iraq.

Pass the rubber drumstick, please.
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SodoffBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 06:52 AM
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1. Are you optimistic about the New Year?
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INTELBYTES Donating Member (881 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 08:51 AM
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7. Looks like the poll has already been freeped.
How can so many people be so optimistic when we have chimp in office? Not to add to the doom and gloom of the new year, but everything seems to go his way. I'm glad everyone is safe this new year, but I can imagine the lap-dog press today spinning that shrub was the reason we didn't have any attacks last night. The new year is already lining up in his favor. Wake me in 2008.
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 02:09 PM
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15. call me an idealist, but I'm optimistic about the 2004 election
I'm hoping this time next year Bush and Co will be in jail.

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Cheesehead Donating Member (344 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 02:16 PM
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16. We can be optimistic that we will be successful and sanity
will prevail. 2004 could be a very bad year for Whistle Ass and his regime as the truth about his real motives and lying, secretive, scandalous administration become more widely known during the election campaign.

The question in the survey is very ambiguous. One can either be optimistic that their "Fearless Leader" (think Rocky & Bullwinkle) will prevail, or optimistic that sanity and Justice will prevail. I'm sure it was intentionally constructed that way to give the whores something to shout about as we go to hell in a hand basket under the guise of making the world a safer place.
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sujan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 07:38 AM
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2. yep, Happy New Year
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 07:50 AM
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3. I won't forget.
I was never fooled to begin with. I saw it coming. WE saw it coming.

I hate to say it but ... okay, I won't say it.

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Mairead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 08:15 AM
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4. And then there are the thousands who are maimed for life
People who will spend the next 50 or 60 years trying to make do without legs, without arms, without eyes or jaws or lungs or the ability to live without help for the most trivial functions.

And for what will they have sacrificed their wellbeing? A few more dollars in the pockets of people who already have far too much, and a few more years of people being able to drive their SUVs to the mall.

Support Dennis Kucinich, the guy who's pledged to end all that.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 08:38 AM
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5. Today my stepson leaves for Iraq
no joy here.
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 09:02 AM
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8. I'm so sorry.
I pledge to you I will continue to work to bring them home and make sure this murderous administration is held accountable.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 09:55 AM
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10. I too pledge this
and I am furious...Im tired of being tired, Im tired of watching everyone I love suffer.
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caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 01:35 PM
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13. Mari - my cousin's son just left too. They live near Denver Colorado
Where you be? I wonder if my cousin's son and yours are in the same regiment (or whatever they are called) He's in the Army. I can find out what reg.
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 08:43 AM
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6. this is 500, multiply this by 30 or more ? for an idea of Iraqi dead
Edited on Thu Jan-01-04 08:57 AM by G_j
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NOVEMBER 11, 2003
NEW REPORT ESTIMATES UP TO 55,000 DEATHS ON ALL SIDES FROM IRAQ WAR;
Physicians and Health Workers Document "Continuing Collateral Damage"
http://www.medact.org/tbx/pages/sub.cfm?id=775
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 09:53 AM
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9. Until that lying sack of shite in the White House
and his whole goddamned administration is frog marched out of the Goddamed White House in handcuffs for treason, I wont be satisfied.
I watch the news and the smiling lying faces and all I see are LIES LIES LIES and distortion upon distortion.
they dont care...no one does
My husband is 120 lbs now..hes lying in bed vomitting and sweating, he is sick and terrified and I have no way to help him..
Nothing I can do.
I am trying to talk him into going to the hospital.
THATS because of his terror over his son going to Iraq. Thats what families are going through..
Tonight we say goodbye to him
How much longer can we all live like this????????????????????????????????
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 04:18 PM
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17. I plan on
actively advocating that these people be prosecuted for their crimes whether they manage to steal another election or not.
If they remain in power in '04 I would love to see a million people become tax resisters.
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persianwarrior Donating Member (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 10:01 AM
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11. ..
The real threat was never Saddam.. One of the worst regimes in the world is the Islamic Clerical regime in Iran who holds its 70 million people hostage while bathing in great oil deals with Europe..
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 10:07 AM
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12. The real threat is PNAC
and the neocons who are making billions of dollars off of the death of our children
www.newamericancentury.org
The only Terrorists I see are Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Perle, Wolfowitz, and all their little minions and cronies that lie lie lie lie lie lie
add to that the corporate media who dont tell truths
add to that Democrats who are spineless when it comes to throwing these Neocons OUT on their ear and demanding they be held accountable for a WAR BASED ON NOTHING BUT GREED AND LIES.
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-01-04 02:02 PM
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14. if you count those killed due to "non hostile gunshots" I'm sure
it's way over 500
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