Just some more random thoughts:
- I wrote my article about Mosul being relatively quiet about and being a model for other cities. That's apparently no longer the case now that the money has run out and people are mad. Two soldiers were brutally murdered and savaged. My heart breaks for the men and more for their families. Especially this close to the holidays.
"Dear Ma'am I regret to inform you that my stock options were not doing well, so I sent your husband into harms way, so that he may die for oil revenue. I hope you understand and have a blessed Thanksgiving. Sincerely, George W. Bush." - To further show how much Bush is everyone's buddy, Bush is working pre-empt the State's power to determine its citizen's privacy rights and create a single federal standard which favors large companies like banks and other lenders which will use and sell your private information without your consent. Again, have a blessed and meaningful holiday season.
- But wait Johnny! There's MORE! George Bush and John Ashcroft have asked the counter-terrorism wing of the FBI to investigate anti-war protestors. George Bush of course claims to support freedom of speech, but only as long as that free speech speaks sunshine up his butt, like it does from Ann Coulter, or David Horowitz, or the other Neo-Con pundits that run around foaming at the mouth barely able to stop themselves from falling prostrate at the feet of the President while demanding that he be canonized.
- Oh shit, why stop there? Congress recently expanded the powers of the FBI, greatly expanded their powers, without any debate, or public oversight, by sneaking the new powers into some spending bills that were for intelligence spending. These expanded powers give the FBI the ability to get your phone and internet records without a judge's order or subponea, or your bank records, or many other records, and THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. You probably won't even know it happened. Welcome to George Bush's America. Have a nice day. Unreasonable seach and seizure? Do you have something to hide? Then why are you complaining?
- Oh, but I've saved the best for last...Bush signed a $401 billion Defense spending package into law today. If you heard much about it today at all, you heard it included a pay increase for soldiers and an increase for disability pay for some soldiers, which is great. What, our media failed to cover is that Bush authorized a return to nuclear weapons research after a 10 year break and a 17% spending increase in ballistic weapons defense. Why do I need to look overseas to have any oversight into what my own government is doing? Again, welcome, to George Bush's America.
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