- Last night's news showed Senator Hagel of Nebraska, touting
the draft. Now the good Senator wasn't talking about his own little darlings
going off to war, but ours. His are still young, ages 11 and 13. You can
understand his being generous with your kids lives.
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- I'm really trying to understand all of this. The towers
imploded, and the world according to America effectively ended. Not that
it wasn't decades in the making, but somehow that cloud of ash, chasing
citizens down concrete canyons was the final opening of the nether world.
That and bombing the Cradle of Civilization to smithereens to liberate
them from evil.
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- Within hours of 9-11, all kinds of photographs of hijackers
were shown, when supposedly no intelligence had been at work for months
in Foggy Bottom, D.C? So say the blame game, silly ass 9-11 Commission
Hearings. Everyone is at fault but mostly nobody. Not like out in the real
world, where you're always at fault no matter the event or crisis. Doesn't
matter the travesty. Have you ever noticed that nobody ever gets fired.
Not from Kent State, the Move Bombing, Waco, Ruby Ridge, S&L heist,
Enron etc. They get promoted or raises. Now with supposed intelligence
gathering agencies all over Washington, D.C.; they now need more money
for super-duper improved intelligence! Like super-improved toilet paper.
It's bound to please. Billions upon untold billions have been spent on
defense and intelligence these past decades. Billions, and no planes took
off to stop these "hijacked" planes crashing their way across
America. I want someone on this Commission to ask "Who's minding the
store here?" I don't care what Condi Rice says from some script. I
have no intention of buying any of the recent "insider" books.
Just fluff and nutter distractions. My plumb line is; if they were really
earth shattering and truthful, the authors would be dead in some airplane
crash or another spur of the moment suicide. I just want to know, how
the Super Power of the world, had 19 scruffy looking (so we're told with
no airport photographs) mid-eastern men with box cutters, and a few lessons
on crop dusters, become so proficient? Imagine how we could cut down on
pilot training, seeing how these bozos, with just a few quick lessons,
learned to whip these jumbo jets around like they were hang gliders? I
think the Commission should look into this cost saving.
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- I want to know how tons and tons of massive steel girders,
concrete, steel reinforcing bars, etc., imploded so neatly like a pile
of blocks? Just like TV showings of apartment buildings and stadiums being
brought down. It was uncanny. How, when no large building, until 9-11
had ever done that, and certainly not two times in a row? I want to know
who didn't go to work that day and why? I want to know why all the steel
from a crime scene was shipped to China? Who gave that order?
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- I want to know why Americans are all seen as terrorists
today? With millions streaming across the border (who knows what nationalities)
what looney clown insanity has ordered the searching of children, grandmothers
in wheelchairs and nursing mothers? Hundreds of thousands coming into the
country on work visas, and every other kind, and we (BORN IN THE USA) need
retina scans, fingerprints, triple-ID, pictures etc.? Why don't Attorney
General Ashcoft, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condi Rice,
the Supreme Court etc., have to go through the same degrading, dictatorial
country, indignities? Why should they be trusted more than a three year
old kid or a grandma on oxygen? Why? Me? I got a ticket once for going
through a stop sign (25 years ago) so said the cop (I didn't). So now I'm
at the top of the list as a suspect? Hell the President has more on his
record than me or lots of people I know. I don't see him being searched
before he gets on that helicopter for vacation or weekend getaways every
week.
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- A draft! Betcha you won't see that until the day after
the next 'selection'. And how will that work? Will President Bush who said,
"Bring'em On", drive his daughters to the recruitment center?
How about all the Senators, Congressmen, and Military Industrial Complex
kids? Will they be first to give a good example of "shared sacrifice?"
Well will they?
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- And what if I don't believe in war? That being a "Christian",
I don't want to murder or kill anyone? What if I believe that love of neighbor
means the Iraqi-the Syrian-the Israeli-the Palestinian-and Texans? What
if I belong to the non-warring Christians, that God doesn't talk to every
day? Why should I march off to die in 140 degree heat because bureaucrats
(in air conditioned clubs) can't run a war? I want someone to tell me
what this war is all about anyway? Supposedly 15 guys from Saudi Arabia,
and one from Egypt, and a couple others from who knows where else, did
the 9-11 dastardly deed. And then we go and bomb Afghanistan. That gets
bombed to heck and back, and then all of a sudden it's evil Saddam 'again'.
Still evil since '91. First it was the elusive weapons of mass destruction--then
regime change--then liberation! And so we tried to bomb the people into
democracy, and they didn't get the message. Saddam, with supposedly with
all his billions was found hiding in a hole in the ground! Frankly, if
he was that far gone, that that's the only place he could find to hide
with months of advance warning, he should be in a looney bin! Stupid question
but if he had all these weapons of mass destruction to come and kill us,
don't you think he'd have used a few when Shock and Awe started? Me, no
military person, has been wondering what he was saving them for? His capture
was supposed to solve everything. Where is he, when's the trial, nary a
word. Like he never existed. What about all the people captured from
the silly ass deck of cards? Where are they? Where are the trials?
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- And now there are thousands of mercenaries (that they
call duh, contractors), thousands of reservists and soldiers told; "oops
we don't know what we're doing so you'll have to stay on four, six, who
knows how many more months?" Right, while all those doing the 'ordering',
are off on vacation? Isn't that a bitch? And what if you were one of the
ones scheduled to come home a couple weeks back, and because of ineptness
and incompetence, from a war being run by over the hill CEO's, you end
up losing your arms, your sight or your life? Are any of these tanned politicians
or appointed warmongers going to take care of you or your family? I think
not. I'll most likely find you under a bridge like so many other homeless
veterans I worked with.
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- I don't believe polls, I don't believe anything on the
corporate owned media. Zero. What stupidity has these lackeys from public
relations firms, all spiffed up, like pet nanny goats off to the fair,
pontificating on the logistics of war? What? These jokers, who get no further
than the firm where they pick up their lucrative paychecks, and then
to some bar in Georgetown, are going to elucidate on war!! Ah!
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- I do. I feel like I fell into some mad cartoon on TV
and I can't get out. This Nebraska Senator, all sparkling and dressed to
the nines, was yakking on about war and war and more war. Why war for 20-30-maybe
40 years! Iraq-Iran-Syria-Cuba-Korea--hey, maybe if it lasts long enough
we'll get to Nebraska. Just like the novel 1984. We were always at war.
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- We're spending approximately $4.7 Billion a month on
WAR! Does anybody think this is nuts? People can't afford medicine (thank
you Medicare bill, funding insurance-pharmaceuticals-HMOs). Can't afford
hospital care? Too bad, if you're not Cheney, the President, or the Senators
and Congress people, with their several plans. Pay raises, bonuses, exotic
trips abroad (called fact finding missions), months off, health club, sumptuous
laden dining rooms etc; they take care of themselves. Us, their employers?
Dead or cutting pills in half, selling our blood to eat.
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- Unemployment in the millions, unemployment benefits exhausted,
and what do these dunderheads do? Why endorse Right to Work (for less)
and cut out overtime (not theirs) the only thing that keeps people from
starving. No matter, it won't be them or theirs. Jobs? Let's see? Wal-marts,
McDonalds, a casino, a prison, Home Depot (part time) or driving a garbage
truck. The choice is too tough. Now there's a vibrant economy for you.
But then, there's the military, for all those farm kids, ghetto kids, and
rural America, with it's boarded up shops and mills. Can't compete with
someone in China in a slave sweatshop making pennies an hour. That's what
you get in Trade Deals worked out by CEO's, the World Bank, the International
Monetary Fund, and World Leaders. NO...no representation of the people
permitted at the table.
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- I get nauseated every time I hear some ignorant hooper,
who hasn't got past the fourth grade in history, spout off about American's
should work for less money and benefits! Really? Well, let's start with
the robber baron corporations getting billions in tax breaks and subsidies.
Let's cut out those midnight yearly raises in Washington, and all the family
lobbying jobs. What these uneducated Republicans are saying is, we should
all aspire to be Third World countries, with the hucksters working people
to death, and robbing the lands of gold-minerals-timber-coal-gas-OIL-and
Water. Then give them off-shore banking privileges so they needn't pay
any taxes. It really is scary how dumb people can get from watching wrestling,
home shopping, football, basketball, and these shyster TV evangelists demanding
money for some rag they'll mail out to you for healing. True. Yes-people
are mind-numbed beyond learning.
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- The American Dream? I've heard people yammering, "Ah
things have always been rotten you just haven't seen it. There was never
good times." Well I'll tell them one thing. Sure there were robber
barons--find two men and most likely one was a thief. But they were influencing
government, they weren't the cabinet. And I remember when the mills were
open and the men went off with their lunch pails. No nursery schools raising
kids. Mothers could stay at home and cook real meals. No cameras watching
your every move, no triplicate ID, no searches at airports, or road blocks.
Mexicans (because of failed NAFTA) weren't streaming over the border by
the millions.
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- People didn't have to leave their hometowns to look for
work. An auto worker, could send his kid to college. Rents were affordable,
as was food and gas. No Sherwin William Color Coded fear days, and no need
to keep that plastic and duct tape handy. Duck and Cover did the trick.
No robot voices on the phone, when you call for service, and no talking
to someone in India about a service problem. Drugs didn't saturate neighborhoods,
and the worst offense in town was drunk driving. People sat on their porches,
went on picnics together, and didn't need to worry about some predator
kidnapping their kid. Milk wasn't filled with growth hormones and antibiotics.
A tomato was a tomato, and not part fish, part gorilla. There were real
farms and real farmers. Hogs didn't live in factories, and huge manure
lagoons didn't poison whole rivers. Big machines didn't destroy a mountain
in a day down in West Virginia, and nobody wore designer anything. Sneakers
for $150.00. Cost probably a couple bucks to make in China. This shows
you that herd thinking is real. Same with $1000.00 bikes, designer jackets-designer
vacations etc. Who needs four homes? Only greedy, self-indulgent-hogs.
Best of all, doctors weren't technocrats, taking orders from some HMO
drone, in a cubicle hundreds of miles away. He came to the house and you
could afford the medicine. I never thought doctors would give up their
dignity and concern for their patients so easily.
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- I want to know why crazy people who know nothing of war,
nothing of hometown America, nothing of working for a living, nothing of
people in foreign lands, nothing about the non-war God, and nothing about
protecting the environment, are being allowed to ruin one beautiful jewel
of a planet, that is irreplaceable? I want to know how much money does
a man need? I want to know if perverse power is so deranged that it can't
think or care of what it's doing to future generations? I want to know
how we can escape from this mad cartoon world before these deranged clowns
with hatchets kill us all? I sure hope there are aliens and I hope they
know we're not all nuts! I hope when they come they let us point out the
real crazies. Let's keep our fingers crossed that they're not related to
the clowns on the midway ruining the fair for everyone.
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