Hi - just wanted to say good design and blog -…

I don’t mean to be too in your face, but I’m not sure I agree with this. Anyhow, thanks for sharing and I think I’ll write a post on this on my blog soon….

It appears the extremes of the “right,” will need to completely break the Republican Party of today before enough realize the mockery they are making of what was The Grand Ole Party. And I hope their influence is diminished so the party can return to the ideals that made it grand.

The neocons have no place in a sane world. The religious right should remember the wisdom of, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s.”

I have a delightful Canadian friend who came to America for her doctorate. She graduated Harvard last fall and began a post-doc position at the Salk Institute in San Diego. She described her Dad in almost the same words you used to describe yourself! She also told me he is taking a greater than usual interest in America’s upcoming presidential election and never ceases to be amazed that the current president was elected TWICE! We’ve had many conversations that have helped both of us understand the similarities and the differences in our countries.

You are so correct in knowing that Canadian Conservative is far from neocons who want to bring one-world order using their ideas of what democracy means (and has little to do with anything democracy stands for!), far from America’s religious right who would like the Constitution to be rewritten and more closely resemble The Bible. And if they can’t rewrite the Constitution they want to legislate their morality. It is impossible to understand why either group of extremists who want to completely control can say they stand for less government influence. A real enigma!

Canadian Conservative is closer to what the word used to mean in America - less government, fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility, help with a leg up but not a lifelong handout.

My hope is that once these extremes have completely broken the Republican Party of today the Grand Ole Party can once again be grand.

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NN,

You’re not missing anything worthwhile. Here in America there are a small number of people who share one extremely small brain with a smaller amount of knowledge. There is no room in the shared brain for much more than what it takes to keep themselves alive, plus a few sound bites which include one about the word “liberal” being a dirty word. There are no synapses in this brain so the small amount of knowledge is static and brain signals cannot be transmitted from one to the other, no new knowledge can be shared or used.

Their brain has short circuited! They are armed so be very careful! They are the greatest threat to America, visitors to our country and temporarily to countries who interact with America. We are fast approaching a date when this threat will be diminished. If you plan a trip to America the best advice I can offer is plan to arrive after January 20, 2009.

From: writerdog Apr-1 9:31 am
To: Classof65 (88 of 96)

14435.88 in reply to 14435.84

Powell problem was he is a “good soldier” too good a soldier it would seem. From reading several books few with in the inner circle like Powell. But they needed his creditably, imagine if Cheney had been the one whom went before the U.N. security council. Soldiers are put in that dilemma everyday, given orders that on the face of it may not seem to be wise or well thought out. Its a razor edge concerning the “Nuremberg defense”, Powell had a duty to both the President and the country along with himself.

Yes I too wished that he had put the country above the President, but there is some background that would explain not just Powell’s acceptance but the Congress’s too. The “Special operations planning group for Iraq” that was formed with in the DOD. With the help of several “plants” within the CIA got where they controlled the information that was released. When ever there was a request for information from whomever, it was the Special operations planning group whom would send out the “talking points” to other branches that were to be included in all reports and information briefings. When ever there was a request from the CIA, Congress, the Pentagon even the White house itself. These talking points would be included, when someone becomes the center point that everyone relies upon. That gives license to spread what ever information you choose to. BTW, the Bush comment about the Constitution has turn out to be an example of this. Everyone was quoting it, but the source was a rogue journalist whom few paid attention to until he reported he had a couple of witnesses to Bush saying it. But there was not evidence or further witnesses.
But the remark grows legs and ran throughout the net and finally into the MSM.

In this case, the Special operations planning group had combed through the intel looking for only that which would support the position. The Yellow cake report document had been floated around the intelligence agencies throughout the world. It had been dismissed twice by our own CIA as a forgery a couple of times before it gained legs in the build-up for the invasion. The rumor of a meeting between Iraq intelligence and Atta in Prague, had been deemed unreliable by the German, Italian and the U.S. intelligence several years ago. The source was a known liar and was peddling false intelligence to make money.

But since they supported the Neo-cons within the Administration desires they were taken as a fact.
spread as facts and put into every report about Iraq. Its splitting hairs, but that is why I say that Bush&Co. did not lie. To them it was the truth and if one truly believes even the most outlandish fantasy. Then it is not a conscious lie when they repeat it. One of the biggest reason that what was said accepted as the truth was plain laziness. The question was asked and no one within the Government that was not apart of the plan checked to see if it was fact and just passed it along. This included Powell…

Careful you don’t walk off the end of the earth, there. I’m in your mind, it’s still flat, and the moon’s made out of green cheese. Grill yourself a sammich.

Yada, yada, same shit, different day.

Got any facts to add or?

And they never will be - with or without American firepower.

The Sunni Tribes have their own power centers operating for ages across the region. Likewise the majority Shiites. Bush Senior, on the advise of the Saudi King - did not take out Saddam (a sunni). Sunni Saudia Arabia feared the power the Shia would unfold, and knew the road would be bloody. Iran, on the other side, is supporting their own form of muslim power. The buffer between the two powers is Iraq - and now America pisses off both sides. No win situation. Al-Qaeda, ever the opportunist, takes advantage of hate on both sides for anything US, and weasels their way in.

In short, get us the hell out of there.
And phuck Saudi Arabia.

I was just testing you.

Sorry, you failed.

Who posted the Mr. Cave sonnet recently? It is really good. I’ll go look for it so no one will have to miss the truths of why McCain can’t be trusted.

You do know what a fact is don’t you J M Walker?

ok
so it’s TRUE then that mccain fathered a black child out of wedlock ??

just because bush rove said it was true.

when

John McCain will raise his right hand with his hand on the Bible and takes the oath of office.

well

a couple of years ago bush and rove said mccain fathered a black child out of wedlock and since that was “true” americans couldn’t trust him.

is that still true ??