{"article":{"id":101008,"heading":"State of the Union address","author":"inca bunny","created":"2004-01-22 05:38:57","modified":"2005-08-15 02:48:33","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:48:33","article":"<p>Bu$hco made a defiant defense of the occupation of Iraq and urged Americans to stick with his unelected regime in an election-year State of the Union address that offered a point-by-point rebuttal of his DEMONcratic challengers (Photo by Abbie Hoffman\/Alternative Lies Network<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Vice resident Dick Cheney applauds resident George W. Bu$hco as he makes a point while delivering the State of the Union address from the House Chamber in the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2004. ","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2004\/01\/state_of_the_union.jpg","filesize":"17.7 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2004\/01\/101008.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2004\/01\/state_of_the_union.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2004\/01\/state_of_the_union.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":101012,"heading":"THE STATE OF THE UNION","article":"Forget the speech full of empty promises, forget the media platitudes and ersatz adulations, forget wishful thinking. If you want to know the real state of the union, take a good look with your eyes. \r\n\r\nSee the millions of unemployed, many with advanced college degrees? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the high-paying jobs flowing to other countries? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the dollar in decline and nothing left to arrest the fall? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee corporate executives looting their own companies and then walking free? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the schools that lack basic supplies? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the closed emergency rooms? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the holes in the roads? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the rolling blackouts? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the defense budget bloat to half a trillion dollars? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the new nuclear weapons the US Government is building? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the billions in tax dollars pouring out to foreign governments? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the American women and children sleeping in alleys and eating out of trash dumpsters? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the empty storefronts and commercial vacancies? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the closed factories, the rusted foundries, and the abandoned mills? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the soaring bankruptcies and foreclosures? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nSee the poverty and starvation? THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nAnd then there are the things you don't see. \r\n\r\nYou don't see those nuclear weapons Iraq was supposed to be building. But we invaded Iraq anyway. THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nYou don't see chemical or biological weapons we were all assured Saddam had. But we invaded Iraq anyway. THAT is the state of the union. \r\n\r\nAnd most of all you don't see the United States looked up to as a bastion of freedom, law, and democracy any more. You don't see the United States looked upon as a moral leader any more. You don't see the United States looked on as a leader in technology any more. \r\n\r\nAnd THAT, my fellow Americans, is the real state of the union. ","author":"Whatreallyhappened","parent_id":101008,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-01-22 05:56:01","modified":"2004-01-22 05:56:01","fileurl":""}]}