Crisis in America

Have you noticed in the last couple of years how many crises there have been here in the U.S.? The fires in California, hurricane Katrina, flooding in the Northwest...why is the country that at one time raced around the world saving others, now so incapable of saving ourselves?

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that over the past 4 to 5 years we've spent over 400 billion dollars to wage a war in the Mid-East that we don't need, and nearly no one in this country wants. Imagine how much better this country could be prepared for disaster emergencies if we were to spend that money on improving the infra-structure of this nation. American tax dollars are being poured into other nations coffers, and the pockets of C.E.O.'s of defense contractors.

Bush makes meaningless gesture...

President Bush today has announced that by next summer, he intends to cut U.S. troops in Iraq by 30,000.

This is basically a meaningless gesture since all he's really doing is recalling the "surge troops", which will just reduce the number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq to pre-surge numbers (130,000 - 140,000 troops). Good luck selling this "troop reduction" to the American public whom are becoming overwhelmingly sick and tired of U.S. involvement in the Middle-East.

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Watch out...

Bush has initiated a new step in the U.S. governments strategy to make American citizens become indentured servants.

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After causing conditions that would cause Americans to buy, buy, buy using risky, variable rate mortgages, then causing a huge slump in the housing market, Bush is now suggesting a move for the government to step in and "help" indebted borrowers. Effectively making them indentured servants!

What the citizens of this country really need is for the neo-conservative's trying to manipulate the economy and citizens of the United States to step down and let the chips fall where they may. The United States economy and infra-structure have become a wasteland thanks to these handful of Americans who think they have all the answers.

Iraqi PM says America "leave when you want to..."

I say "Fantastic!" If the legal Iraqi leader that "we" put in power says American forces can leave Iraq anytime we want to, then I say we leave! We're obviously not wanted there, I don't want us to be there, and most Americans don't want to be there.

What more is there for Bush to get the hint that it's time to abandon the ship, a ship that never really had a Captain at the wheel and never really had a course set for it.

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Bush commutes Libby's prison sentance

Well, who didn't see this one coming. President Bush has commuted the prison sentence for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was found guilty of obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case, and was to sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.

Once again, Bush shows how little regard he has for the legal system in the United States. I guess we should all care so little about justice.

Maybe the next time Paris Hilton goes to jail, Bush will commute her sentence as well!

Terrorist's aren't enough, Bush wants "cold war"

President Bush isn't satisfied with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now he'd like to ressurect the Cold War with the former Soviet Union. Bush isn't concerned with Russia's very verbal concern over his plan for a "missle defense shield" to be put in place in European countries.

Russia's leader, Vladamir Puttin, has stated that they will be forced to point nuclear missles at Europe in response to this missle defense shield.

We've spent years taking missles out of Europe, trying to reduce nuclear tension, and make the world a safer, saner place. Now it looks like all those years of work will be for nothing as every nuclear country will feel it necessary to step up their "defensive" capabilities.

I'm sure Mr. Bush doesn't see this as too much of a problem, after all, how much time does he really spend in Europe?

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Yes, he has the gall...

Remember a few months ago when President Bush announced that he would be sending an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq? Remember what a big stink the Democrats made about it and promised that they'd do something to stop it.

Well, President Bush is not only in the process of still sending out those 21,500 troops to Iraq with nothing more than a token resistance by Democrats, now he's announced that he's sending an additional 4,700 troops to Iraq to "support" the other troops!

I figure in a couple more months he'll announce that he'll be sending a few thousand more troops to "support" the "supporting" troops! I don't know if I'm more pissed with Bush for what he's doing, or the Democrats for what they're NOT doing.

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Where would you like your tax dollars to be spent?

According to CNN today, Rep Peter King, R-New York, the ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee is finding fault with the bill passed January 9th enacting the 9/11 commission recommendations which will reportedly cost around $21 billion over five years.

He says that it is ridiculous to spend that kind of money, and that if the legislation hadn't been rushed through by Democrats during their "first 100 hours", it never would have passed. Yet on the same day, George Bush announced that he'll be proposing his budget for the war in Iraq which will cost American taxpayers $250 billion for the next year and a half!

Where would you rather see your tax dollars being spent? Iraq, or here in the United States, making our borders and ports safer? We've already spent $400 billion + in Iraq and now our President wants to spend another $250 billion. Yet this idiot Republican Peter King is having a cow at spending $21 billion dollars within the borders of our own country! Get a grip on reality Mr. King! We need to stop spending money we don't have in Iraq, and spend it on our own country. Let the Iraqi's take care of their own!

State of the Union

Tonight will be Bush's sixth State of the Union address, and expect more of the same...

...more lies about how our economy is strengthening...

...more lies about how increasing troops in Iraq will strengthen democracy there...

...more lies about how making health insurance taxable will help lower income Americans...

...more lies, lies, lies, lies etc...

Bush's administration has been based on nothing but lies, and that's all we can expect from him. So don't think having a Democratically controlled Congress and Senate makes any difference. Bush doesn't care what they think or do, anymore than he cares about what 63% of Americans think of his polocies. It doesn't matter what the "majority" of this country wants...he's only going to do whatever it takes to insure his legacy...whatever the HELL that is!!

President Bush's "new strategy", AGAIN!

Tonight, President Bush will address the nation on his "new strategy" for the war in Iraq. Of course the gist of what he's going to say has already been know for quite some time. 20,000 more boys and girls from the U.S. being put on the line to die.

Of course, our brave Democrats that we put into office late last year are putting together a "non-binding resolution" saying that they oppose a surge in U.S. troops in Iraq. What they're actually saying is, "We don't like what you're doing, but we're not going to stop you." What cowards...step up to the plate and tell the President "NO, no more troops going into Iraq!" If 140,000 troops, with the most advanced weapons available to wage war with can't stop the violence in Iraq, what good are 20,000 more troops going to do? None!

The problem is, it's OUR presence in Iraq that's causing 90% of the violence that's going on. Because we've put the minority religious sect in charge of the country. Watch over the next few months as the violence in Iraq continues to increase, and our casualties continue to increase as well.

President Bush says that, "leaving Iraq in defeat is not an option." What he's actually saying is, "leaving Iraq in defeat under MY administration is not an option." Here's what's going to happen. Bush is going to drag this war on throughout the rest of his tenure as President, leaving a huge mess for whoever follows him to clean up. When THAT President pulls U.S. troops out of Iraq, Bush will point his finger at THAT administration and say "look, they've bungled the war in Iraq, and humiliated the U.S.!" Don't think we're all blind Mr. President! You just think if we're still embroiled in Iraq when you leave office, that no one can say YOU lost the war! Well, we see you for what you are, and we are ashamed!

Anyone can start a war...It takes a man of character and courage to end a war.

Mr. Bush, that is not you...