M/T

Educational? You bet.

There's need for more women in govt. to say "NO"

It would solve a lot of problems.;)


BB@YA'
Dory

The Middle East is funny. You fight 'em now or fight 'em later. What do you do with people who have one desire: wipe you and every other infidel off the face of the earth?

If my wife or daughter was next in line for Sodomy Insane's rape room, I wouldn't care what reasons GWB came up with to go in.

What amazes me is the number of people who actually believed, and still believe, the laughably transparent lies. And even more, it's remarkable to think that there are people who don't care about being lied to. Who don't care about people being slaughtered on a pretext. Pitiful.

Are there bad guys in the world? Criminals? Sure. Big surprise. Wars and killing innocent people and devastating whole regions isn't an effective way to deal with them, let alone moral. Some crook from Brooklyn holds up a liquor store in Newark, so New Jersey's got the right to carpet bomb all the way from the Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island. Right.

The shrub and his gang have pretty much adopted P.T.Barnum's philosphy - there's a sucker born every minute. Actually they've updated it -- what they count on is that there's a cowardly sucker born every minute. Whatever happened to "Give me liberty or give me death" ?

The One Percent Doctrine is also sometimes called The Cheney Doctrine, and although Cheney hasn't apparently put this forward to the press, it's apparently been very clearly articulated to policy makers all over government. And that is: if there's even a 1% chance a country or group might cause harm to the US, it's cause for action against that group or country.

Think about that for a second. That 1% doesn't actually have to be verifiable or based on anything other than: we've got some rumors that says...

It becomes justification to do things like invade Iraq, which was already under a no-fly zone and embargo and UN inspections when we went in and took over the country, making it into our unofficial 51st and grumpiest state. (Think about that fact we have about 110,000 troops in that country for a moment. The township I live in has a population of about 20,000 people.)

Well, anyway...

To be logical and rational about the Bush Administration, one of the things that most frustrates me is how this administration appears to be circumventing our own laws, and congress (Motto: If I Only Had a Spine.) just shrugs and says, "Yeah, but can we get re-elected?" Both Cheney and Rumsfeld came to power during Watergate, or more specifically, just post-Watergate, and it seems clear that they both learned some things from that debacle. Unfortunately, what they learned was that it wasn't what Nixon did that was so bad, it was that he managed to get caught doing it.