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crimsonblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:44 PM
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I hate this country right now...
How anybody could use horrific acts of violence for sheer political gain is beyond disgusting. How anybody could reduce the thousands that died to props and excuses for hatred is pathetic. How anybody could clap for jingoism and allowing ourselves to become as fueled by hatred as those that oppose us is disgraceful.

How my country could forget that George Bush's failures allowed 9/11 to happen is unforgivable.
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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:48 PM
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1. what they always fail to address
is WHY they are pissed at us.

it's as though we are to believe they hate us for our life style -


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Madam Mossfern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:49 PM
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2. What happened?
I was busy melting my brain watching O'Reilly.
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doublethink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:58 PM
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11. RNC just ran a video on the twin towers, 911 .... boom again ....
exploited it for like the 9,879,987,002,822 time. Yeah I've been counting.

note: their exploitation tonight didn't have a mention or clip of 'Bush' .....
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npk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 08:00 PM
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13. They were showing footage of the plains hitting the towers on 9/11
And using the slogan to "protect America".
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npk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 08:00 PM
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14. They were showing footage of the plains hitting the towers on 9/11
And using the slogan to "protect America".
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:49 PM
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3. Sarah and Todd Palin hate America more than you do. They want to secede. n/t
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Middle finga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:49 PM
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4. The Pols on our side seem to be afraid to say that.. So the repubs
continue to exploit it because they haven't been called on it.
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Tesibria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:50 PM
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5. Please don't
Please LOVE your country.

Love it enough to FIGHT for it.

Love it enough to FIGHT back at this sickness, which has infected the fringes and is trying to move into the middle.

LOVE IT.

FIGHT FOR IT.

We need a whole lot more love. Love as a VERB. Fighting Love.

And a whole lot less hate.
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:50 PM
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6. For the first time in my life, I'm not proud of my country.
bush took it right out of me, I guess.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:50 PM
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7. if we didn't have the present MSM we would hear the real truth
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nc4bo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:52 PM
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8. It's not much to be proud about is it? I hear ya, I do - truly. nt
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melody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:55 PM
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9. Why? Most of the country hates his guts n/t
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crimsonblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:57 PM
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10. Looking back at my own reactions to that day 7 years ago..
I am disgusted at myself. I joked with some friends about it. We laughed about nuking the "sand niggers" back to the stone age. I eviscerated Gore, and praised Bush for providing strong leadership. Myself from 7 years ago is disgusting. Whenever I think about that event now, the images of desperate men and women leaping hundreds of feet to their death haunts me. We allowed, I allowed, our country to become incoherently enraged at anybody to blame. The terrorists won. They destroyed our democracy, not with their destruction of buildings, but with the eradication of our will, our resilience, our dedication to freedom. What we have done in the aftermath of that day far surpasses. God... what have we become?
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book_worm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:58 PM
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12. I love my country but hate republicans who try to exploit 9/11
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silverojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 08:28 PM
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15. Don't hate our country--just the 29% who still support Boosh
Oh, yeah...and any fucktard who even entertains the thought of voting for McSame.
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