[Rhodes22-list] Political - Iraq - It is still there!

Steven Alm stevenalm at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 02:52:54 EDT 2007


"These are times when we need great men to step forward with great ides."
-Bob Dylan

Trouble is there aren't any men great enough for this and I certainly have
not heard any great ideas lately.
S

On 6/26/07, Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This latest crap being pulled by Dick Cheney truly frightens me.  This
> clearly shows that both he and the President believe they are above the law
> and can do anything they want.  Some one has got to stop them!  Hilary?
> Obama?  Gore?  No way--they have their own agendas to worry about.  Congress
> can't stop them because they'd just enact policy that contradicts anything
> they want.  The judges  won't stop them because they might get shot in the
> face.  Public opinion is completely ignored because this is a lame duck
> year.  Our only hope is Patrick Fitzgerald and that seems like a long shop.
>
> Meanwhile in Iraq, it appears we've managed to make Saddam look good by
> comparison.
>
> Canada is looking better and better.  The "loony" is up to 97 cents.
>
> Slim
>
> On 6/25/07, john Belanger <jhnblngr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > thanks, i had forgotten.
> >
> > Ronald Lipton <rlipton at earthlink.net> wrote:  Remember, the highest
> > level of government classification is TS/E - Top
> > secret/embarrassing.
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > john Belanger wrote:
> > > i'd like to reply intelligently, but i don't have enough facts. either
> > our leaders have a good idea of what they are trying to do, but can't let us
> > know because its top secret, or they have made so many errors that to really
> > tell the truth they have to all resign and they are not about to resign. so
> > they lie to us in order to gain time. if we really wanted to win,(whatever
> > that means), we would stop this asinine policy of hot spot warfare and go
> > back to frontal war. it was easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys
> > when you have a frontline. we made the same mistake in vietnam and korea. we
> > think we can have, and win in, a local conflict without alarming neighboring
> > states and religions. its like doing surgery without monitoring the life
> > signs.
> > >
> > > Brad Haslett wrote: While we are choosing the cut of our next
> > mainsail, kids are still dying in
> > > Iraq. Mostly, they are killed from IEDs, enhanced with C4 from Iran
> > (semtex
> > > too), but other sources as well. Sorry too spoil your otherwise
> > pleasant day
> > > but twenty-year-old kids have their asses at risk as we speak, while
> > in
> > > cyberspace, we mentally masturbate about defending your right to bitch
> > about
> > > why they are there, OR, we debate the cut of our mainsail. Go sailing
> > on
> > > the 4th of July and forget about all that died to make that holiday
> > happen.
> > > I can't blame you for not having a clue about what is happening in
> > Iraq
> > > right now, why should you care when there is so much more interesting
> > news
> > > happening. Did Paris eat a snatch in prison? Inquiring minds want to
> > > know! I don't know what your plans on the 4th are but I'm taking the
> > > CoraShen out and flying the flag. Why can't we all get along? The
> > Germans
> > > just wanted a little territory and a few less Jews. No problem there.
> > > Right? Sorry for spoiling an otherwise great sail but wake up folks!
> > Your
> > > weekend sailing satisfaction is not guaranteed! The war that is
> > nothing
> > > more than a bumper sticker might just blow-up right in your face.
> > Happy
> > > 4th! (I'll be gone until the 6th of July so the world is your
> > > responsibility. Good Luck!
> > >
> > > Brad
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