It is *'s responsibility to tell all Americans that dissent is not terror!

[kid a]

Every day that passes with him letting hannity, O'lielly, Oxyrush, and the rest of the RW shills call dissenters, peace activists, and war protesters anti-american, terrorists spreads more hatred, division, polarization.

He smiles, grins, and snorts as free-speaking americans are called terrorist, traitors, and anti-american.

Step up to the podium * and tell your pundits to stop demonizing citizens.

[Cats Against Frist]

1. Thanks -- now if only one of our Dem leaders could

find the gumption to demand the same thing. Bush has needed to say this for a looonnnnnnnnnnng time. This is one of the biggest canards of this stupid war -- and Vietnam, too. That people who protest, or want peace, "hate" America.

Bullshit that he lets stand -- but where are Reid, Hillary, Kerry etc.?

[Mr_Spock]

2. This is the main 100% reason why we are dividing as a nation

This son-of-a-fucking bitch ass hole is tacitly promoting the division by not BEING A DAMNED LEADER and taking on friend and foe alike for the betterment of the nation. This FUCKING SELF-ABSORBED PRICK IS GOING TO KILL US AS A NATION!!!!!!!!!!!! What an awful mistake this was - how could something so awful happen to us?

[Booster]

6. Because we don't have a mental test for Pres. candidates, and

we should all agree that we need one.

[kestrel91316]

3. Sorry. He AGREES that dissenters are terrorists, and I betcha he

thinks we are WAY WORSE than the ME terrorists.

He will NEVER back us up. NEVER.

[shraby]

5. Where is the Democratic leadership?

They should be calling those people out and demanding apologies.

[kestrel91316]

7. You really want to know what I think about our "Democratic leadership"?

I think we got infiltrated by a bunch of Ivans from the Christofascist right years ago and they have taken over the Democratic party. They are only pretending to be on the left, only as much as it takes to fool voters.

[converted_democrat]

12. I think you are spot on!!!!!

I left the Republican Party for many different reasons over a year ago. The biggest reasons were that I truly believe that we were all created equal and I don't like the idea of being sold out to corporate interests. Needless to say I joined the Dems hoping to find a party for and by the people. After seeing the votes on the Bankruptcy Bill, CAFTA, and the Energy Bill, I am stunned and afraid. Our country is in real trouble. The "people" of this country have been forgotten.

[emulatorloo]

9. THIS IS BUSH'S RESPONSIBILITY - but you insist on EXCUSING BUSH

and blaming Democrats.

Dems have spoken up about the Bush/Rove tactic of attacking the patriotism of people who criticize the admin. They have said it again and again and again. Does it get media play? No.

That being said, the fact remains that as the President of the United States, and someone who insists that he is a "Uniter not a Divider" needs to step up to the plate and CONDEMN THIS CRAP.

[ThomWV]

4. If You Invoke Terror In Bush's Mind

Then you are indeed terrorist I suppose and I think its clear that Bush is deathly afraid of those who disscent. He will not see them and he will not hear them because nothing frightens him more than a disagreeing voice.

[wli]

8. According to the USA PATRIOT Act, it is.

That's one of the things that's so dangerous.

Ever since Nixon, there's been plotting to avoid similar "civil disturbances" to what occurred in protest of the Vietnam war and other issues during the '60's and '70's. During Reagan's time, it reached a crescendo of corruption with REX 84, which established Pier 57 and other Guantanamo-like concentration camps for US citizens, one of whose specific purposes was smashing protest movements via mass arrest and imprisonment. The sources I've found have not elaborated on any other specifically-stated purposes for the concentration camps.

It gets sicker. The planning was also made for a widespread uprising of black people as one of the "civil disturbances," and the system of concentration camps' planned capacity (then 21 million, now no longer known) was at least partly based on being able to lock up the entire black population of the country.

This information came out as part of the Iran-Contra proceedings and possibly FOIA requests following up to it, but was not widely publicized. The Miami Herald in 1987 is the sole MSM report on the existence and to a limited extent the nature of REX 84 I've ever heard of, and I've only seen that cited, not the original.

This is no longer the '60's. Bushler is literally prepared to incarcerate every last person who shows up at a protest indefinitely.

[emulatorloo]

10. thanks for your post - he is a Divider, not a Uniter

He won't take responsibility or do the right thing, because it doesn't benefit him to do so.

[NightOwwl]

11. Bill O'Reilly called Cindy Sheehan treasonous today

A real man would tell O'Lielley where to shove it. A real man would stand up for the mother of a son who lost his life fighting in said real man's war.

But we know Bush is anything but a real man.

His (non-) actions today put his cowardice on full display. He is a despicable, cowardly human being.