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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:39 PM
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Is this the NAIL in Bush's coffin?

What do you say? Will this missing explosives story finish him off?

How's it playing, for those of us who can't see the news right now?
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Stuckinthebush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:40 PM
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1. With 8 days to go?
You betcha!

It is bad news for Bush. His only thing...I mean his one and only thing that he runs on is security. Now that he has flubbed that up big time, he is screwed.
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nodictators Donating Member (977 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:15 PM
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31. Can you say: "October Surprise"?
This October Surprise has come to bite Bush-boy in the ass.

It'll be interesting to see if slimeball Bush-apologists such as Brokaw and Jennings try to spin this story away this evening on their "news" programs.

Bush hasn't Protected anyone but himself
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BillZBubb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:41 PM
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2. Every week it seems like another nail goes into Bush*s coffin.
So far none has been final. The guy is harder to finish off than a roach on speed.
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LiberteToujours Donating Member (737 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:44 PM
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5. Exactly
It sure seems to take a lot of nails to keep his coffin shut. I think that this story has the potential to do some damage to Bush, depending on how the media spins it, but I think DUers who think it's going to finish Bush off completely are being a bit naive and/or too hopeful. In a race as close as this it has the potential to be the tipping factor, but calling it a nail in the coffin is a bit much I think.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 03:25 PM
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46. That's why screws are better and include liquid nails.
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indie_voter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:05 PM
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25. LOL!!! Apt. n/t
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Brucey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:42 PM
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3. I'm cynical, but I think
shrub could murder a hundred children and he would still have support of the prolife, wealthy, war-mongers, idiots, and low tax nuts. I don't think this story will change anything. All the other horror stories, and his hideous record, did nothing to bring him down. About half the voters want him, and the Congress, most States, media, Supreme Court, and most corporations want him in power.
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:46 PM
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8. See, this would be the same thing if it had happened in July
But each one of those "horror stories" did give Bush a dip in the polls -- except he always came back later to the steady slow declining trajectory he's been on since 9/11. The "dips", however, lasted anywhere from a week to a month or more. This "dip" won't have worn off by Nov 2nd -- and also, I think that this close to an election, all news like this is magnified simply because people are paying more attention than is the case usually.
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vi5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:49 PM
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13. I'm 100% with you on this one...
That is exactly my opinion. The people who support him are going to support him no matter what. That percentage that he is at will never turn on him. Never. They would follow him over a cliff.
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:03 PM
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24. this is true!
My mother has finished off her cup of kool-aid and she didn't even complain about the bitter taste.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:11 PM
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27. He has murdered hundreds and hundreds of children.
But they're Iraqi children, so they don't count with the wingnut "Christians" who worship a "culture of life" as long as it's white fundy embryo life.
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lanparty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:11 PM
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28. A hundred ???

Try again. Bush has murdered THOUSANDS of children through his war of revenge.

But you're right, those who have drunk the GOP Kool-Aid are unreachable in their world of bullshit!!!!
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PermanentRevolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:28 PM
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36. I think he was using CNN counting... n/t
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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:43 PM
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4. yes absolutely!!!!
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:45 PM
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6. Let's ask the wolves!
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:49 PM
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12. LOL!
Send to Kerry!
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Claire Beth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:45 PM
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7. It sure ought to be!
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:46 PM
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9. it's one more
they all help
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bush equals idiot Donating Member (757 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 03:02 PM
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41. Junior should have never insisted
Allawi come to Washington for his planned photo op. That's when they got the explosives. lol.
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Dob Bole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:47 PM
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10. Not yet....get ready for the roller coaster ride!!
The voters who decide these elections are wishy-washy. They'll bounce back and forth all week before they finally decide on the challenger.

And I expect the same attitude to be reflected on DU: "Yay!" "Oh NO!!" "Rejoice!" "Holy Crap!" "We're winning early voting!" "We're all gonna die!!!!'

And so on, if the past is any indicator of DU behaviour...
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GregD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:48 PM
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11. CNN interviewees
are casting this as a HUGE problem.

Think about it:
- there were (supposedly) extensive teams who were supposed to search and destroy WMDs. Why didn't they get this stuff in the process?
- IAEA knew where the shit was located (since 1991), 30 miles from Baghdad.

Shrub is toast!
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kokomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:54 PM
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19. Talk up Bush securing the oil FIRST, letting all else go to hell!
We knew where these dumps were upon moving into Iraq; they should have had top priority. The looting and lawlessness that was allowed to happen right away caused the Iraqi people to take a different look at our "liberating" them.
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The Wielding Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 03:20 PM
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45. Bush book __ How I screwed up the US without even trying________
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Kierkegaard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:49 PM
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14. This is the backhoe throwing the dirt over his box.
His coffin has long since been nailed shut.
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:51 PM
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15. The missing explosives is being reported .... and
President Kerry looked good when he talked about it. Ex-president Bush looks as authentic as the Simpson girl on SNL when he avoids the topic.
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George_S Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:52 PM
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16. Yes n/t
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kwolf68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:52 PM
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17. No its not
This will somehow either be blamed on Kerry voting against a missile system, or possibly Clinton’s penis had something to do with it.
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:53 PM
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18. If we didn't go into Iraq to secure its weaponry, then WHAT WAS THE POINT?
And since there clearly were no WMDs to be concerned about, why wasn't this taken care of? How did our strategists not realize that this could be a liability? It leaves us with only two conclusions.

1) The leadership is incompetant and must be replaced.

2) The leadership is willfully dangerous and must be replaced.
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:59 PM
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21. It seems quite obvious now WHY the US went into Iraq.....
OIL! Now let's see if any freepers can figure that one out.
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:00 PM
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22. Well, yes, naturally.
I just like asking rhetorical questions and feigning outraged confusion, thus forcing people to answer the obvious question with a response they might not otherwise want to formulate in their own mind.
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hippiegranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:54 PM
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20. if we had an honest press
his final nail would have been driven in 35 issues ago. That being said, this story is definitely not good news for the boy king.
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tomfodw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:00 PM
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23. Nothing is going to "finish him off"
Sorry to pour cold water on your enthusiasm, but in any rational universe, Bush would have been finished off months ago. Since that hasn't happened yet, it follows that we are not in a rational universe and therefore nothing is going to do it. There's no "magic bullet," folks. Bush has somehow gathered an irreducible core of about 45% of the people who will back him no matter what, folks. God knows why, but it's there and it ain't going away.

We can't count on the press to do our job for us or Kerry's job for him. We just have to keep on fighting, slogging away, state by state, voter by voter. Nobody's going to win this but us.
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lanparty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:16 PM
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32. You cannot kill the undead!!!!

Bush is evil and unholy. He cannot be killed. He must be DESTROYED!!!! Immersion in "fact water" and destroying his coffins of Crawford dirt in the White House is the preferred method!!!!
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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:21 PM
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33. I agree. In 1974 Nixon had to resign ONLY because of the......
infamous "smoking gun" tape and because Congress was getting ready to impeach his ass. TIME magazine and many newspapers called for his resignation. I vividly remember that era. Bush took lessons from Nixon, I'm sure. The ONLY way to get rid of him, short of defeating him, would be for him to admit that he had molested somebody's daughter the previous night and it was all on video tape.
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Wind Dancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:55 PM
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39. The fundies would forgive him.
He has such a cult following that they would follow him into the gates of hell believing it to be heaven.
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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:57 PM
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40. omg lol we are in trouble :-)
n/t
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milkyway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:08 PM
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26. It might be. Kerry's momentum and the Iraq massacre had bush back
on his desperate heels. Now this. Mainstream media is not reporting the full story yet (the coverup, and that these explosives might have already killed a lot of our troops). This story could drip out all week. Kerry in a landslide.
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lanparty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:12 PM
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29. Kerry needs THIS line !!

Our soldiers are now being murdered by the explosives that Bush failed to secure!!!!
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meow2u3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 03:15 PM
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42. I was at the Philly rally
and I heard Kerry mentioning the explosives killing our soldiers--the ones Bush didn't bother to secure.
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Clinton Crusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:14 PM
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30. Nope - all forgotten in a day or so
he's the teflon resident. MSRNC not even covering the story. Had it on since 12:45 and they havent mentioned it ONCE.

NOT ONCE

It will all be forgotten in a day or so..

Clinton would be in prison already
:mad:
:kick:
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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:24 PM
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34. yes Clinton would be smoking from the burning at the stake
and they would be hauling off his ashes
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 03:15 PM
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43. But Clinton
had other ways of getting his ashes hauled.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:28 PM
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35. Love how you posted those pics!
They look great.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:47 PM
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37. Clinton looks fantastic
It's like he's getting younger.
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captain disgruntled Donating Member (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 02:55 PM
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38. The Freeper take is that this crap was hauled off
*BEFORE* the invasion, and when U.S. troops went in, the IAEA seals were absent, so, uh, they didn't bother glancing behind door #3.

I still think this backfires on them, as Shrub was the one who'd called off the inspectors--before the invasion.
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devinsgram Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 03:16 PM
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44. No this guy is a vampire
You'll need a stake.
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