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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 11:33 AM
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Bush Is Selling Our Border Security To Terrorists
One line is all we need to move '06 over the finish line.

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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 11:35 AM
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1. This all the convincing my father needed...
He is up in FLAMES over this recent development.

This should be one of THE selling points of 2006.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 11:41 AM
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3. I agree. Dems should be hammering this... AND the issues
of illegal immigrants, outsourcing, and the borders and ports in general. You want to know why the criticism is that we are weak on security now? Well, this is it. We need secure borders and an orderly immigration policy. We need to support worker rights in our nation and in other nations. This does not mean that we throw our borders open and have no immigration policy whatsoever. In doing so we support the exploitation of the poor and the worker by creating a permanent underclass. We need to expect corporations who wish to reap the benefits of a consumer society to pay their fair share and not assume that their aggregate wealth entitles them to pillage the nation with impunity.

Pile on.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 11:36 AM
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2. We invaded Iraq and Afghanistan to fight terrorism
so that these bastards can turn around and give our enemies the keys to our ports. They've got to be kidding?

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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 11:52 AM
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6. that's great
he's undermining the mission of our troops. He doesn't honor their sacrifice at all.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 12:38 PM
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11. We didn't invade either of those countries to fight terrorism. We invaded
Afghanistan to stabilize the area for the trans-Afghan-pipeline and to have the Eastern flank of Iran covered. We invaded Iraq to steal, plunder and to have the borders of Iran and Syria "controlled" (theoretically). It's about imperialism and oil.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 12:40 PM
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12. We need arguments that the freepers will understand
Edited on Sun Feb-19-06 12:40 PM by DoYouEverWonder
they don't understand reality, that's too complicated.

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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 02:41 PM
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17. Brit Hume is already backtracking
he said on Fox that this decision by Bush is "unsustainable"

Republican-speak for Bush might have to change his mind due to political pressure.
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Booster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 03:18 PM
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23. Ding, ding, ding. Ya got it right on the money.
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mom cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 12:08 AM
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26. Exactly. And 9-11 was not about terrorists, but about controled demolition
of three sky scrapers, a missle attack on the Pentagon (conveniently on the side under renovation) and a missing plane, all with so many questions that the "official stories" would be laughable if not so tragic.
It is so clear that "terrorism" is a ruse, a fear wrenching catchphrase that is used to manipulate. Terrorism has become the convenient excuse for militarizing the homeland, restricting our freedoms, spying on citizens, justifying aggressive wars of domination for resources and geopolitical advantage and for making administration friends, fabulously filthy rich.
If Homeland Security were really a concern, we would have drastically improved security at our ports, not sold them to a company from a country with too many terorists connections, we would have captured the so called terrorist leader, found the anthrax killer, protected our refineries, had a real investigation of 9-11, mounted a cooperative international police action to go after the "terrorists" instead of indiscrimanately bombing large civilian sectors, seriously interviewed the binLadin family members before giving them a fer ride out of the country. The administration's policies reveal the truth about their real concerns about terrorism. They only take it "seriously" in speeches and when they want to fatten the bank accounts of their buddies in the military-industrial-media complex.
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happynewyear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 11:43 AM
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4. kicked and recommened
:kick:

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GrumpyGreg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 11:43 AM
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5. Goerge Bush is stark,raving mad !
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 11:57 AM
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7. K & R
... though we'll probably need a more sensitive talking point on a national level, it's exactly what THEY would be saying in unison!
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 12:07 PM
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8. The bucks stops there. This has got to be the #1 election point
When the criminal GOP has sold our country in pieces to the enemy, then they'll move to Switzerland with all our tax money we put in their pockets. They are evil. This is our last chance to stop them.
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 12:42 PM
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13. The BUSH stops here! :)
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 10:23 PM
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24. Exactly! :) nt
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 12:10 PM
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9. Why to supports the Troops and keep us safe. I have never believed in
MIHOP more than I do right now.
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Raffi Ella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 12:27 PM
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10. Yeah,this is a HUGE issue that both sides can agree on.
I cannot believe they would do this to our country.God Damn.

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO PROTECT US AT HOME???Nothing!They are making us MORE at risk for attack with this shit.

The Republicans in the House and Senate better stand up and do their JOB;Protect and serve the American Public!THEY are in power.They better DO SOMEHTING!!!This isn't a Party issue this is a NATIONAL issue that involves ALL our security!







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Generator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 12:45 PM
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14. AND he wants more nuclear power plants
What part of this equation makes sense? Tell me. I must be missing something. Anytime Bush supports something I get nervous. Between the incompetence, the cronisism, and the malfeasance that we can't totally prove but everyone suspects it's enough to make you need a drink or something.
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Angry Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 12:58 PM
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15. That's a GREAT talking point. We need to repeat it over and over again.
We need to ask radio talk shows and the other corporate echo chamber propagandists asking, "Why is Bush selling out border security to countries that fund terrorists, especially terrorists directly involved in 9/11?"
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 01:05 PM
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16. Look you guys, part of me is indigenous part of me was european
All of me is American, I feel we, the european part of me believe they/I we are occupiers to this day. nothing more/nothing less. What we are doing in the middle east is wrong, no matter how you slice it. we have a miss leader as a leader. I, madokie, is sad today. I was lied to so many years ago, today I am still being lied to today.
May I add, I'm mad as hell, pissed isn't good enough.
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 02:46 PM
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18. Dream on... if this deal doesn't go through it will go to the
Singapore company that wants to buy P&O

They are definitely a dictatorship... also have ties to terrorism and financing...

You see, we were sold don't the river already. If not the UAE, it will be some other multi-national who will want to the security as CHEAPLY as possible.
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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 02:52 PM
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20. No one's saying it's not going to go through
the point is that it's an enormous political issue with which to stir up swing voters. Hell, even Republicans are pissed off about this and turning on Bush over this.

It's a nice, hand wrapped gift that has fallen in our laps.
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AntiFascist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 02:58 PM
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22. If it does go through, then all the better for the Democrats n/t
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 10:39 PM
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25. You want to base the Democratic platorm on Islamophobia?
IF that's the case, the swing voters you are taling about are bottom-line racists!
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Lindsay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 02:52 PM
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19. I've always thought it was odd that BushCo paid no attention
to port security when Dems were yelling about it in Congress.

This is the ultimate proof that they are really not concerned about security at all - just about lining the pockets of the "right" people.

And this IS an area where left and right agree, and only the kool-aid drinkers and the beneficiaries of BushCo largesse support the sale.
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 02:54 PM
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21. Bush is selling our ports to (insert Ms Coulter's term here)
On hate-filled, ignorant jingoism away BABY!
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