i am sick of bush, his glorification of blood and gore and war ...

[flordehinojos]

this shallow, smallness of a man who sits at the oval office because his poppy put him there and i am sick of the vomit on earth which all of these bushes are.

:puke:

[acmejack]

1. Especially considering he has never been intimate with it.

The good Lt Gen Greg Newbold had it exactly right when he stated "The commitment of our forces to this fight was done with a casualness and a swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions - or bury the results."

[flordehinojos]

3. wow!

why haven't newbold's words been headline news in every newspaper, or repeated in every broadcast media over, and over and over again?!

as far as consipiracies go, i venture to say, there is a conspiracy by the media to keep bush in power.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. And he is exactly right with that statement.

Bush can't or won't greet the dead when they return home or attend their memorial services. He has wrapped himself and his policies in the flag and is blind to everything else. That is his legacy.

[FuzzyDicePHL]

2. Blood and gore and war

are glorified by far too many yahoos in this country IMO (no disrespect to the search engine/portal service intended). I see kids "playing army" and feel nauseous.

[flordehinojos]

4. yes,

you are right...and i do too.

[Union Thug]

5. dead on... not to mention the glorification of the military in general...

The military is a necessary evil. It shouldn't be celebrated. The planet should be embarrassed that such things are necessary when clearly we have the capacity for cooperative living and the resources to make sure that a just, safe and peaceful world becomes a reality. Instead, we throw away billions of dollars on stealth bombers and fighters that live most of their lives in secret desert hangars, and plan for new generations of nukes.

What a sick herd of animals we are...

[acmejack]

6. Hear, Hear!

What good we could do with a SINGLE years defense budget (not even counting the hidden secret black budget items) if we could apply it to social programs! Despite the constant bitching of the right our obscene expenditures on weaponry outstrips the rest of the entire world and is the sole reason there is any poverty in this Country. It is the single reason that there is not universal health care in this Country.

Guns YES, bread NO, our priorities are ass backwards!

[flordehinojos]

8. if only the rest of the people could hear us---but they won't while bush

keeps up with his fear planting and others continue to make money out of wars and blood and killings.

[genie_weenie]

7. You can always hear the people

who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously.
They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead.
Hmmmm.
But what do the dead say?

And take decency. Everybody said America was fighting a war for the triumph of decency. But whose idea of decency? And decency for who? Speak up and tell us what decency is. Tell us how much better a decent dead man feels that an indecent live one.

No sir anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar.

- Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo 1939

As timeless now as it was then...

[flordehinojos]

10. i wonder why truth is always so hard to listen to ...

socrates got the hemlock cup. joan or arc was burned at the stakes. christ was crucified.
bush imprisons people at worst, at best he puts them in "free speech"???? pens where they can't be heard, or seen, or spoken to. his goons go on witch hunts after those who speak truth to power, i.e. valerie plame and joe wilson and, many others.

[genie_weenie]

11. Oh, * isn't doing anything new

He's following the standard playbook for all State rulers. It's just he's more in the open about it and in the computer age his verbal goofs and gymnastics can't be covered.

I mean * has simply recycled some arguments Woody Wilson used for the US entry into WWI and I think Woody was more open about jailing War opponents and stiffling the underground newsletters (again computers make it harder to stifle news sources).

That's why people of conscience need to continue to speak out! :thumbsup: flordehinojos!

[flordehinojos]

12. i love your signature line...

and you are right bush is using recycled arguments, but what about bush is not recycled?