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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 04:45 PM
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Must read, kick ass article from Joe Wilson

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/16/wilson_iraq/index.html

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"Those who parade like schoolyard bullies operate in the tradition of the founder of the breed: Donald Segretti, the political trickster of the Nixon administration, who called his cadres "ratfuckers." The current "ratfuckers," like those in Watergate before them, have loyalty to ideology before country and believe in the politics of personal destruction instead of democratic debate. But like schoolyard bullies everywhere, they must be confronted.

No more will we stand idly by while the president hides from the 9/11 commission. We will learn what he knew and when he knew it. We have already learned that it was the Bush White House that gave the orders to fly Osama bin Laden's family and a suspected al-Qaida go-between out of the country in the days after 9/11 even as Americans were grounded.

No more will we stand idly by while the administration manipulates intelligence, like the Niger uranium fraud, or worse yet, uses manufactured intelligence from discredited sources to circumvent the necessary channels of government, forcing lies instead of facts to become the basis on which policy decisions are made. And we will not accept attempts to scapegoat the intelligence services when it is abundantly clear that the main problem is the perversion of the system by a few at the top, not the system itself. We will not accept the lies by Bush and his pack of surrogates that John Kerry is not committed to proper intelligence, when in fact it is this administration that has politicized and deranged intelligence to an unprecedented degree. "
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Tarheel_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 04:51 PM
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1. YEEEAAAAHHHHH!
per The Magistrate: 'LET'S GO GET THOSE BASTARDS'!

great article BTW :bounce:
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 05:05 PM
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3. almost got it
It's actually "Let's get those Bush bastards".

You failed the audition. Next!


Julie--managing the sycophant try-outs
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 05:14 PM
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5. "the sycophant try-outs"
How dare someone praise another DUer!

:eyes:
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 08:22 PM
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7. You are correct, Ma'am
:D
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seaglass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 05:03 PM
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2. WOW!
I love Joe Wilson, great article.
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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 05:12 PM
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4. Kaboom! Kapow, crash, bang, blam . . . . . . KABLOOIE!
Ouch!

Poor things.

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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 08:12 PM
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6. The Pinocchio presidency
Thanks, blm!

A MUST READ for good DUers and good AMERICANS.




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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 08:29 PM
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8. Justice
Will there be justice for his wife?
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 09:06 PM
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9. We'll know in the next couple months.
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KYDEM Donating Member (213 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 11:35 PM
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10. Kick
n/t
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 11:44 PM
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11. Great article, except the Afghanistan war was just another con job
courtesy of the fossil fuel industry. Completely inappropriate response to a criminal act by a handful of suspects. Funny how people turn their brains off on that one. Tens of thousands of innocent people murdered to catch a handful of unrelated criminals. Still no investigation into 9-11 and we have no idea who pulled that off, but we murdered tens of thousands.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 10:57 AM
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13. I disagreed with it, too. It should have been a more targeted campaign
against Al Qaeda - not a full blown carpet bombing war, fer chrissakes.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 11:49 PM
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12. that's terrific
he'd be a great asset for a Kerry Admin.

... and a terrific documentary topic for a film when this all blows over.
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Sliverofhope Donating Member (858 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 06:48 PM
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14. kick n/t
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 06:54 PM
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15. Kerry will start using talking points llike this...
...come closer to election day...

He is kicking ass already and has not even gotten to the "good stuff" yet!!

I am excited as hell and I cant wait to officially sign on to the Kerry campaign and GET TO WORK!!!! (I have not done so already 'cause I'm busy with school)....
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 08:44 PM
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16. yep...the time will come.
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Killarney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 08:52 PM
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17. This really fired me up!
YES!

LET'S GET THE FUCKERS OUT OF OFFICE!
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