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by James C. Moore
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 10:14 AM
I hate Mr. Bush and what he is doing to my country. I cannot believe the range of duplicities involved in his administration; the gratuitous lying to serve profit and political purpose.
When President Nixon died, I was assigned to travel to California and report on the funeral for a group of television stations. Although Yorba Linda is beautiful, with the kind of appeal that has drawn millions to Southern California, I was not interested in being a journalist at the funeral. Sure, this was history, but I despised Richard Nixon. His lust for power, and his absolute distrust of the public, nearly destroyed our countryís Constitution. I think God even had some feelings about Nixon. For the first time in Yorba Lindaís recorded history, hail fell, a half a foot in a few minutes, just before the eulogies were to begin. After our satellite trucks had been rattled, and our rental cars dented, the historical revisionists began to march to podium to try to find good things to say. Every man, of course, should have friends to speak of him at his passing. But they should speak the truth. Let the opinions of his enemies also be heard. None of Nixonís was spoken for, and they were many and manifest, all across America. Another reporter, knowing that I had come of age during the Vietnam and Watergate eras, asked me what I thought about the former president being gone. I tried to remain ambivalent. But it wasnít easy. "Itís not a good thing to be happy about someone elseís death," I told her. "But I certainly will not miss him. Nor do I think will our country. And I know a lot of very patriotic people who, if they were here, would ask to open the casket so they could drive a stake through his heart to make certain he was dead." I gave into dark, tasteless humor. But it was true. Nixon had scared and angered people in a way no president before him ever had. I was not certain my country was going to survive his lies until I heard the reassuring timbre in Congresswoman Barbara Jordanís voice as she said, "My faith in the Constitution is whole." But I only despised Richard Nixon. I never hated him. I have never known what it is like to hate anyone. Until now. Until George W. Bush became president. I hate Mr. Bush and what he is doing to my country. I cannot believe the range of duplicities involved in his administration; the gratuitous lying to serve profit and political purpose. As the president lies about Iraq, lies about the economy, lies about the environment, lies about his tax cut, lies about the education bill, lies about the budget, lies about his real interests in Africa, lies about Halliburton; he is destroying the American publicís faith in the democratic process. Mr. Bush has done things in my name, and yours, which repulse me. I have no doubt that Saddam Husseinís two sons needed to be brought to justice. But I was disgusted that my country gave sponsor to the notion of showing their dead faces on television, as though that might reassure the Iraqis. This was the modern international equivalent of brutal tribes placing their conquered foes heads on a spike in the town square. I despise the way Mr. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and all of the neo-cons, had developed a military plan that sent our brave soldiers to secure oil fields, rather than protecting the people of Iraq, the institutions of their culture and commerce, which Saddam Hussein had been misusing for decades. The president, and his cynic-in-chief, Karl Rove, are using a manufactured war to keep Americans scared. And it is working. But I am ashamed that the president of my country would go back to the United Nations, the very organization he ignored when he launched the war, to ask for help in securing Iraq. Mr. Bush grew up in West Texas, where billboards dot the Permian Basin landscape with the message: "U.S. out of U.N." And because Rove wants to keep the fundamentalist right happy, Mr. Bush made clear that he would act without the imprimatur of the U.N. And now he has the audacity to seek its help. I am repulsed by my president. He allowed the drums of war to get hammered over aluminum tubes, which were never meant for anything more deadly than the making of rockets. The whole notion of the tubes being part of the construction of a centrifuge had been refuted by several international organizations, including Americaís own Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, fourteen months before the story was leaked to a compliant, lazy U.S. media. The tubes were for the construction of Medusa 81 rockets, an Italian-designed weapon. Everybody in the intelligence community knew it, and Rove and the White House Iraq Group sent down orders that government intelligence experts were to keep their mouths shut about dissenting information. I am ashamed of the actions that my president has allowed to take place in our democracy. Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife have spent most of their lives in service to our country. When he was asked by the State Department to check on claims that Iraq had tried to acquire uranium from Niger, Ambassador Wilson came back to report the documentation was completely fake. The White House ignored his intelligence and the president put the claim in his speech. Wilson, who has devoted his life to the truth, wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times, and not too many weeks later, discovered that columnist Robert Novak was revealing his wifeís name and her undercover responsibilities for the CIA. Novak has long been Karl Roveís favorite leak. During the presidential campaign, when reporters began talking about Mr. Bushís time in the Texas National Guard, Rove suggested, "You guys shouldnít make too much of a few missed meetings." A few days later, during a discussion of the issue on "CNNís Crossfire," Novak told other commentators they were getting carried away over "a few missed meetings." He is Roveís conservative hand puppet. By leaking Ambassador Wilsonís wifeís name to Novak, and by Novak writing a column about her, Karl Rove has committed treason, violated the National Security Act, and should be brought to justice, as surely and swiftly as Osama bin Laden ought to be. All of the undercover operatives Mrs. Wilson dealt with during her career overseas, many of them Americans, are now at risk of being killed by the arms dealers, who thought they were something other than CIA agents. There are too many lies, too many transgressions to list. Richard Nixon, in a less cynical era, told only one. And we were all supremely affronted by what he did to our democracy. George W. Bush, and Karl Rove, has told dozens, each one of them more damaging than lying about a break-in of a political headquarters. And yes, Bill Clinton lied. But nobody died. He told an all too common male lie about consensual sex. But he did not send the sons and daughters of America marching off to war wearing the boots of a well-told lie. George W. Bushís one term will mark a low point in our countryís history. But if we all pay closer attention, and vote, we can recover. I love my country. But I hate my president. - James C. Moore is co-author of 'Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W.Bush Presidential' Unless otherwise noted, all original content and headlines are © BuzzFlash. http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/09/08_moore.html
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by Bush Lost
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 10:23 AM
Bush is an illegitimate figurehead of the U.S. at the moment, placed in power by a judicial coup, and backed up by the spectre of terrorism. He lost the election, both the majority and the Florida recount, which the Supreme Court decision overruled. He's not our President, merely the puppet-in-power at the moment. Democracy died when the Supreme Court decided the 2000 election.
votetoimpeach.org/
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by just wondering
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 10:26 AM
"He lost the election,......and the Florida recount"
And your proof of this is...................?
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by KOBE
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 10:28 AM
"He's not our President, merely the puppet-in-power at the moment."
Really. So, for the last THREE YEARS, there has been an imposter in the White House? You mean to tell me that Al Gore has been voluntarily shirking his responsibility as our true President? BWAHAHAHA! I suppose that your theory also explains why this "illigitimate President" lives in the White House and is wielding the power of the world's most powerful military. Cmon...lets have a chant of "Bush Lied. Soldiers died.", shall we?
You need to be getting prepared for the next election, and how to use your vote to change things, not whining about who is the President. That is already self-evident.
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by Hex anon w/ encryption
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 10:40 AM
Gore won the electon by over 500,000 votes a recount paid for by media giants revealed.
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by KOBE
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 10:43 AM
Regardless of what you post:
George W. Bush is the President of the United States. PERIOD.
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by Gore Won, Bush Lost
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 10:48 AM
Media suppress the news that Bush lost election to Gore
By Charles Laurence in Washington
The most detailed analysis yet of the contested Florida votes from last year's presidential election - with the potential to question President George Bush's legitimacy - is being withheld by the news organisations that commissioned it.
Results of the inspection of more than 170,000 votes rejected as unreadable in the "hanging chad" chaos of last November's vote count were ready at the end of August.
The study was commissioned early this year by a consortium including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times and the broadcaster CNN. The cost was more than $A2million.
Now, however, spokesmen for the consortium say that they decided to postpone the story of the analysis by the National Opinion Research Centre at the University of Chicago for lack of resources and lack of interest in the face of the enormous story after the September11 attacks.
Newspapers were saying last week that the final phase of the analysis, counting the 170,000 votes, had been postponed.
"Our belief is that the priorities of the country have changed, and our priorities have changed," said Steven Goldstein, vice-president of corporate communications at Dow Jones, owner of The Wall Street Journal.
Catherine Mathis, a spokeswoman for The New York Times, said: "The consortium agreed that because of the war, because of our lack of resources, we were postponing the vote-count investigation. But this is not final. The intention is to go forward."
However David Podvin, an investigative journalist who runs an independent Web page, Make Them Accountable, said he had been tipped off that the consortium was covering up the results.
He refused to disclose his source other than to describe him as a former media executive whom he knew "as an accurate conduit of information" and who claimed that the consortium "is deliberately hiding the results of its recount because [former Democrat vice-president Al] Gore was the indisputable winner".
He also claims that a New York Times journalist involved in the recount project had told "a former companion" that the Gore victory margin was big enough to create "major trouble for the Bush presidency if this ever gets out".
"The goosiness, the sensitivity, that the press which organised this analysis is now showing to publishing the results and the persistence of questions about the Florida ballots raise questions," said Dr John Mason, a professor of political science at William Paterson University, in New Jersey.
"There is a sensitivity over the legitimacy of this president."
National Opinion Research Centre staff have been puzzled by the idea that the media would lack the resources because, they said, they had computer programs already designed and fitted for the final count.
The Telegraph, London
old.smh.com.au/news/0110/22/world/world14.html
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by votes
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 10:53 AM
>The Telegraph, London
I specifically requested "Reasonable Documented Links." This does not fall into that category.
>Gore won the electon by over 500,000 votes a recount paid for by media giants revealed.
If you are speaking of the popular vote, the President is not chosen by the popular vote, but rather by the Electoral College.
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by Hex anon w/ encryption
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 10:56 AM
Why bother ? It's just a waste of time anyway - as soon as "reasonable" proof is posed it's right back to the "well bush is pres anyway"...
shallow games
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by yes it is
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 11:06 AM
>He also claims that a New York Times journalist involved in the recount project had told "a former companion" that the Gore victory margin was big enough to create "major trouble for the Bush presidency if this ever gets out".
That's enough to convince me it's bogus anyway. The NYT would like nothing more than to hang GWB by his neck until he's dead.
The whole story is, "They did a recount, Gore won, but they're covering it up so we can't actually document what we're saying."
These types of things are only stories on IMC's and other similar conspiracy ridden websites.
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by Hex anon w/ encryption
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 11:12 AM
I've a better idea - do the damn search yourself - then post your proof the recount did NOT reveal Gore won...
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by don't work like that
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 11:56 AM
Burden of proof is not on me. You claim Gore won the vote, then doc the sources that show the results of the recounts they did. I don't believe you will find any. Just a bunch of bitching on the World Socialist Web Site and CommonDreams and Fair.org and other anti-Bush sites like them who are claiming all sorts of foolishness. Every recount made by reasonable, non-partisan organizations showed that Bush won. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html
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by this is how it works...
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 1:24 PM
The Miami Herald and USA Today are not non-partisan organizations. And "Reasonable Documented Links" is subject to interpretation.
At any rate, 94,000 people -- over half of them African American -- were on a "scrub list" in Florida, which means they were blocked from voting in the 2000 election. And Al Gore supposedly lost by "537" votes. So one of the following must be true. Either you,
A. know the truth that Gore really won and just believe that rousing posters here to prove truth is true gives you a false sense of empowerment, or you
B. truly are stupid enough to believe that Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary of State who was also co-chair to Bush's campaign, and Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida who is also W. Bush's brother, did not rig the election.
Either way, you need to wake up and get a life.
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by this is how it works...
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 1:24 PM
The Miami Herald and USA Today are not non-partisan organizations. And "Reasonable Documented Links" is subject to interpretation.
At any rate, 94,000 people -- over half of them African American -- were on a "scrub list" in Florida, which means they were blocked from voting in the 2000 election. And Al Gore supposedly lost by "537" votes. So one of the following must be true. Either you,
A. know the truth that Gore really won and just believe that rousing posters here to prove truth is true gives you a false sense of empowerment, or you
B. truly are stupid enough to believe that Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary of State who was also co-chair to Bush's campaign, and Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida who is also W. Bush's brother, did not rig the election.
Either way, you need to wake up and get a life.
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by this is how it works...
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 1:24 PM
The Miami Herald and USA Today are not non-partisan organizations. And "Reasonable Documented Links" is subject to interpretation.
At any rate, 94,000 people -- over half of them African American -- were on a "scrub list" in Florida, which means they were blocked from voting in the 2000 election. And Al Gore supposedly lost by "537" votes. So one of the following must be true. Either you,
A. know the truth that Gore really won and just believe that rousing posters here to prove truth is true gives you a false sense of empowerment, or you
B. truly are stupid enough to believe that Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary of State who was also co-chair to Bush's campaign, and Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida who is also W. Bush's brother, did not rig the election.
Either way, you need to wake up and get a life.
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by this is how it works...
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 1:24 PM
The Miami Herald and USA Today are not non-partisan organizations. And "Reasonable Documented Links" is subject to interpretation.
At any rate, 94,000 people -- over half of them African American -- were on a "scrub list" in Florida, which means they were blocked from voting in the 2000 election. And Al Gore supposedly lost by "537" votes. So one of the following must be true. Either you,
A. know the truth that Gore really won and just believe that rousing posters here to prove truth is true gives you a false sense of empowerment, or you
B. truly are stupid enough to believe that Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary of State who was also co-chair to Bush's campaign, and Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida who is also W. Bush's brother, did not rig the election.
Either way, you need to wake up and get a life.
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by this is how it works...
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 1:24 PM
The Miami Herald and USA Today are not non-partisan organizations. And "Reasonable Documented Links" is subject to interpretation.
At any rate, 94,000 people -- over half of them African American -- were on a "scrub list" in Florida, which means they were blocked from voting in the 2000 election. And Al Gore supposedly lost by "537" votes. So one of the following must be true. Either you,
A. know the truth that Gore really won and just believe that rousing posters here to prove truth is true gives you a false sense of empowerment, or you
B. truly are stupid enough to believe that Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary of State who was also co-chair to Bush's campaign, and Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida who is also W. Bush's brother, did not rig the election.
Either way, you need to wake up and get a life.
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by this is how it works...
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 1:24 PM
The Miami Herald and USA Today are not non-partisan organizations. And "Reasonable Documented Links" is subject to interpretation.
At any rate, 94,000 people -- over half of them African American -- were on a "scrub list" in Florida, which means they were blocked from voting in the 2000 election. And Al Gore supposedly lost by "537" votes. So one of the following must be true. Either you,
A. know the truth that Gore really won and just believe that rousing posters here to prove truth is true gives you a false sense of empowerment, or you
B. truly are stupid enough to believe that Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary of State who was also co-chair to Bush's campaign, and Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida who is also W. Bush's brother, did not rig the election.
Either way, you need to wake up and get a life.
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by this is how it works...
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 1:24 PM
The Miami Herald and USA Today are not non-partisan organizations. And "Reasonable Documented Links" is subject to interpretation.
At any rate, 94,000 people -- over half of them African American -- were on a "scrub list" in Florida, which means they were blocked from voting in the 2000 election. And Al Gore supposedly lost by "537" votes. So one of the following must be true. Either you,
A. know the truth that Gore really won and just believe that rousing posters here to prove truth is true gives you a false sense of empowerment, or you
B. truly are stupid enough to believe that Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary of State who was also co-chair to Bush's campaign, and Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida who is also W. Bush's brother, did not rig the election.
Either way, you need to wake up and get a life.
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by this is how it works...
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 at 1:25 PM
The Miami Herald and USA Today are not non-partisan organizations. And "Reasonable Documented Links" is subject to interpretation.
At any rate, 94,000 people -- over half of them African American -- were on a "scrub list" in Florida, which means they were blocked from voting in the 2000 election. And Al Gore supposedly lost by "537" votes. So one of the following must be true. Either you,
A. know the truth that Gore really won and just believe that rousing posters here to prove truth is true gives you a false sense of empowerment, or you
B. truly are stupid enough to believe that Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary of State who was also co-chair to Bush's campaign, and Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida who is also W. Bush's brother, did not rig the election.
Either way, you need to wake up and get a life.
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by the walls
Sunday, Sep. 14, 2003 at 3:25 PM
As we constitute your only audience, we just wanted to say hi in case you may feel a palpable disregard for your opinions.
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by Monkey trainer
Sunday, Sep. 14, 2003 at 3:34 PM
Good one, walls. You ever wonder why BAA doesn't donate his wisdom to Houston IMC? maybe it's because you never shit in your own nest.
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