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#27 Sep 10 2004 at 4:09 PM Rating: Decent
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Pulse, I just adore you too dearest.
#28 Sep 10 2004 at 5:26 PM Rating: Good
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I just read through this thread, And I think most of us have to agree that any president other then Bush would be better then what he have now. There are the few people that believe Bush is better, and those people dont think for themselves they are just followers, but thats okay. We will never change their mind and they cant change ours, I just really fuc[i][/i]king hope that the majority will vote for Kerry and bush can get the hell outta there.

My real voting Position is: I dont want Bush, and I dont want Kerry, but I would rather have Kerry then Bush. So I vote for Him.

Sometimes I wonder Why a normal person cant be our president already, or a normal person be a politician. The answer is, Because no normal person wants to be a President.
Our presidents are just money hungry, power hungry, and will do anything to get what they want. They are Whiney lil ********
(maybe not all, but many, and most politicians, and Bush)
#29 Sep 10 2004 at 5:51 PM Rating: Decent
I think about half this country is still left undecided, or really don't care about the candidate they're voting for, as long as it's not Bush. I'm surprised Nader isn't getting more coverage. He actually has more than 1:1,000,000,000 chance of winning this time..yet he's doing **** for campainging...So if you are undecided or just don't give a rabid flying monkey ****:

VOTE NADER!!!
#30 Sep 10 2004 at 6:07 PM Rating: Default
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What could he say we have received 3 raises since hes been in office, housing has improved along with Our housing allowence. Weve received an oncrease to hazard amd combat pay. Who can say Bush is a bad military president? Kerry wants to cut all our funding. DOWN WITH KERRY

Good for you, unfortunately that is not the case for many.


"Studies indicate that 30 percent to 40 percent of activated Guard members and reservists lose income when deployed. A Pentagon survey in 2000 found that most troops reported an income loss of $3,750 or less while on active duty. But some, about 7 percent of survey respondents, reported much larger losses, in the range of $37,000 to $50,000 annually." Fortunately, we have Democrats in Congress who will stand up to support equal pay for our troops."

"Over the last two years, Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) and others have pushed various bills that would require federal agencies to make up the difference between civil service and military pay for those on military duty."

"Then there are those GOP broadsides against John Kerry's supposed vote 'against funding our troops.' President Bush, Cheney and Miller faulted Kerry for voting against body armor for troops in Iraq. But much of the funding for body armor was added to the bill by House Democrats, not the administration, and Kerry's vote against the entire bill was rooted in a dispute with the administration over how to pay for $20 billion earmarked for reconstruction of Iraq."
#31 Sep 10 2004 at 6:11 PM Rating: Default
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if i could vote (too young) id vote for bush. This is coming from someone from MA...I find kerry a:

1. Hyporcit
2. Dumbass
3. ******* Moron (ya thats like dumbass i know)
#32 Sep 10 2004 at 6:15 PM Rating: Decent
Nashua wrote:
if i could vote (too young) id vote for bush. This is coming from someone from MA...I find kerry a:

1. Hyporcit
2. Dumbass
3. ******* Moron (ya thats like dumbass i know)


Study Peter Pan. Find a way to stay young. For all of us.
#33 Sep 10 2004 at 6:20 PM Rating: Default
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dude...he said he was against the war on iraq then said he voted for it...i listen to the news...
#34 Sep 10 2004 at 6:34 PM Rating: Decent
Nashua wrote:
dude...he said he was against the war on iraq then said he voted for it...i listen to the news...


Thinking for yourself is the next step.
#35 Sep 10 2004 at 8:23 PM Rating: Good
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dude...he said he was against the war on iraq then said he voted for it...i listen to the news...


Do you mean the war that Bush lied to us all about? The one he said was justified because Saddam was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons and giving them to Al-Qaeda? Is that the war you're talking about?

The one in which we have found NO evidence of weapons of mass destruction?

Frankly you'd have to be an idiot to vote FOR that war twice.
#36 Sep 10 2004 at 9:32 PM Rating: Default
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dude...he said he was against the war on iraq then said he voted for it...i listen to the news...


Do you mean the war that Bush lied to us all about? The one he said was justified because Saddam was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons and giving them to Al-Qaeda? Is that the war you're talking about?

The one in which we have found NO evidence of weapons of mass destruction?

Frankly you'd have to be an idiot to vote FOR that war twice.


Yeah, the U.S. should have waited until Saddam actually did have nuclear capabilities, and then waited even longer for Sadaam to use them before we made a pre-emptive strike.

Oh, right. Then it wouldn't have been pre-emption. I understand now.
#37 Sep 10 2004 at 9:55 PM Rating: Excellent
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Yeah, the U.S. should have waited until Saddam actually did have nuclear capabilities, and then waited even longer for Sadaam to use them before we made a pre-emptive strike.



Iraq is not the only country that may have had nuclear capabilities.

They're just the only one's with oil.
#38 Sep 10 2004 at 10:07 PM Rating: Default
You're kidding me, right?
#39 Sep 10 2004 at 10:47 PM Rating: Excellent
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1. Hyporcit
2. Dumbass
3. @#%^ing Moron (ya thats like dumbass i know)


Funny I find Bush the same things, and much more too. If you listened more closely to some other news you would find that Bush said some worse things than what you recall Kerry saying.

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They're just the only one's with oil.


You know that we arent getting any oil from this really. Higher gas prices, and the the Iraqi's keep blowin up **** that would give us oil. So no profit whatsoever, the whole fuc[i][/i]king war is useless.
#40 Sep 10 2004 at 11:11 PM Rating: Excellent
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Yeah, the U.S. should have waited until Saddam actually did have nuclear capabilities, and then waited even longer for Sadaam to use them before we made a pre-emptive strike.


Oh yeah, that's right, I forgot all about the dozens of nuclear warheads that we found in Saddam's outhouse. And the thousands of gallons of biological agents that he was keeping in old 2 liter Pepsi bottles.

Iraq was never a threat to this country, and never would have been a threat to this country.


What Bush did was the equivalent of you going across town and burning down the house of some guy that brews his own beer, on the basis that he might some day have given that beer to someone who might then have driven drunk in your neighborhood and run over the kids you might someday have.

#41 Sep 10 2004 at 11:20 PM Rating: Good
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What Bush did was the equivalent of you going across town and burning down the house of some guy that brews his own beer, on the basis that he might some day have given that beer to someone who might then have driven drunk in your neighborhood and run over the kids you might someday have.


Lol, Good comparison.
#42 Sep 10 2004 at 11:48 PM Rating: Default
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Oh yeah, that's right, I forgot all about the dozens of nuclear warheads that we found in Saddam's outhouse. And the thousands of gallons of biological agents that he was keeping in old 2 liter Pepsi bottles.


I think you missed the point about pre-emption. See, the purpose of that was to prevent him from having them. Don't think for a second the reason he did not have nuclear capability at the time we occupied was because he didn't want to. If there had been no sanctions and inspections for the last ~10 years, he defintely would have had them by now.

Additionally, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Looking for weapons in billions of square miles of nothing but sand is like trying to find a needle in a stack of needles. You are aware that we accidentally found MiGs burried in the sand with thier wings removed and some of the electrical and jet engine components covered in plastic to prevent the sand from destroying them, didn't you? And that the military had been camped within yards of where they were burried for months without knowing they were there? The only reason they were discovered is because the winds had blown away part of the sand covering one of the tail sections of one of the jets. Of course, I'm sure that Saddam was just finished with those MiGs and that was his way of disposing of them.

The military is not in Iraq walking over every square foot of the country with a metal detector.

There's also the issue of the dual chamber mix-in-flight bombs that were found. There are WMDS with sarin gas, and were against the sanctions. They also were not in existance before the sanctions so it's not as if he aquired them before the sanctions. Additionally, even if he had somehow miraculously aquired them before the sanctions, he never declared that he ever had them and that they were supposedly destroyed, which is also against the sanctions.

Yeah, we should have just trusted the man. He was an honorable ruler and served his countrymen well as a fair and just leader. He was always truthful with other countries of the world, and wouldn't even kill a fly, much less members of his own family just for thinking that they might get a tad bit in his way. Newp.

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Iraq was never a threat to this country, and never would have been a threat to this country.


Hmm. Guess the U.S. and quite a few other countries wasted over 10 years debating how to handle Iraq's sanctions, attempting to enforce them, and doing routine inspections. We should have just trusted the man. He had proven his trustworhtiness countless times before, right? Hell we should have even trusted him to have nuclear weapons. Perhaps we should have given them to him also. I mean, he would have surely only used them on his own people as he had done with his other weapons in the past, right?

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What Bush did was the equivalent of you going across town and burning down the house of some guy that brews his own beer, on the basis that he might some day have given that beer to someone who might then have driven drunk in your neighborhood and run over the kids you might someday have.


That's the worst analogy I've ever read. "might haves" are not the same as "has done, and has the propensity to do worse." I won't say Iraq was an "immenant threat," but I will say under that regime, it was an eventual threat, and had been for years. If you can't see that, then you know absolutely nothing about either Iraq or Saddam's rule.

Perhaps you should try to find some more reliable sources of information than Allakhazam's message boards and cnn.com. You're seriously out of the loop on many things.
#43 Sep 10 2004 at 11:55 PM Rating: Good
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Hey Shaedii, let me guess....You voting for Bush?
#44 Sep 11 2004 at 1:08 AM Rating: Decent
I'm not telling!
#45 Sep 11 2004 at 1:45 AM Rating: Default
Ok, I have a question. I really do not understand this list.

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George W. Bush's 50 greatest accomplishments as president:


ok, let's start from the top, shall we?

4. I set a record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
How did Bush set the record for most personal bankruptcies? That doesn't even make sense.

5. I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
How did Bush set the record for the biggest drop in the stock market? Doesn't "setting a record" imply paticipation in the event?

6. I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
Who? Am I out of the loop? Is this an obscure reference, or is it something I should know?

9. After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history on September 11.
How would not having taken a month long vacation the previous month prevented 9-11?

10. I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by an president in U.S. history.
Why is this a bad thing?

11. In my first three years in office over 11.2 million Americans lost their jobs, a new record.
What action of Bush's caused this?

15. I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Which energy crisis, and when? I honestly don't remember. Was this back when California was having rollong blackouts? I can't remember if he was in office then or not. What was the corruption?

16. I cut more health-care benefits for war veterans than any U.S. president.
What benefits were cut, and by how much, and when? Did Kerry vote for these cuts too?

Anyway, it would take me hours to single out all of these allegations and ask specific questions about them, and to be quite frank, I don't have the energy nor the concern.

but seriously, I'm wondering where stuff like this comes from with no supporting evidence, or even a hint at what is being alledged. I'd at least like to know what exactly was done/said/not done/or otherwise for each of the 50 items listed so that I might know if they are true, false, or spun.

As a compromise, I will say this:

41. I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in U.S. history.
Although this is referring to something completely different than what I am thinking about, I don;t believe he has removed more freedoms and civil liberties than any other president, but he's definately working on it.

I don't agree with Bush on a lot of things, especially when it comes to domestic policy. I am far from being a right-wing conservative as well. But, when it comes to Bush's foriegn policy, I agree with 95% of what I know about.

In this time in our world, I'd say that temporarily outweighs a few of the civil liberties and freedoms we have in order to be able to have the ability to keep those civil liberties and freedoms.
#46 Sep 11 2004 at 2:51 AM Rating: Excellent
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In this time in our world, I'd say that temporarily outweighs a few of the civil liberties and freedoms we have in order to be able to have the ability to keep those civil liberties and freedoms.


But if we have to give up the liberties to keep them then we really havn't kept them intact now have we.


And where does this line of thinking end. How many liberties do we have to give up. How close to **** germany do we have to get before we are safe.
#47 Sep 11 2004 at 3:24 AM Rating: Default
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But if we have to give up the liberties to keep them then we really havn't kept them intact now have we.


Depends on what liberties, and why they may be suspended or removed.

Example. I can live with not being able to take knitting needles or pocket knives onto a plane. I can handle my loved ones not walking me all the way to the gate when I take a flight out of town. I can definately understand being asked for identification anytime, anywhere, for any reason by a city, state, or government official. It wouldn't bother me one bit to be questioned about behavior that may seem suspicious to the powers that be.

However, I will not forgo my right to file a legitimate civil lawsuit simply becauae I am not fortunate enough to have an attorney on retainer. I think tort reform is complete and utter bullsh[u][/u]it, considering how many laws and statutes and sanctions are in place against attorneys as well as the plaintiffs in that regard.

So, yes. I think it is acceptable to suspend or eliminate some specific civil liberties and some freedoms in order to remain more secure, if possible. However, I do not agree with being unprotected at home from my own nation.

There are always pros and cons to each side of anything. In this particular topic, there are pros and cons to each political party.

As I said, I believe at this time that it is acceptable to be a little more inconvenienced than dead, or mourning someone else's death.

Is that more clear? sorry if this reads in a rather disjointed manner, but I'm kind of exhausted. I just think it's important enough to post about anyway.

EDIT: Comparing **** Germany to the U.S. shows how very little you know about **** Germany or America. There is no comparison at all.


Edited, Sat Sep 11 04:29:39 2004 by Shaedii
#48 Sep 11 2004 at 6:11 AM Rating: Excellent
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
#49 Sep 11 2004 at 6:30 AM Rating: Good
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That's the worst analogy I've ever read. "might haves" are not the same as "has done, and has the propensity to do worse." I won't say Iraq was an "immenant threat," but I will say under that regime, it was an eventual threat, and had been for years. If you can't see that, then you know absolutely nothing about either Iraq or Saddam's rule.



The entire war in Iraq was based on "might haves". That's why we got virtually no international support for it. The rest of the world could see that Iraq was not a threat. The imaginary link between Saddam and Al-qaeda did not exist.

You can swallow the republican line wholesale if you like, but unless genuine evidence of wmd's is produced (not 20 year old artillery shells that don't even work) then the justification for this war was entirely bogus.

North Korea HAS nuclear weapons, and presents a much, much greater threat to world peace then Iraq ever did. They'll sell anything to anyone. Cheney had a bug up his *** about Iraq, and convinced Bush that it was his god-given mission on earth to put an end to Saddam's tyranny.

If you can't see that, then you know absolutely nothing about America or Bush's rule.

#50 Sep 11 2004 at 9:06 AM Rating: Good
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6. I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
Who? Am I out of the loop? Is this an obscure reference, or is it something I should know?
Yeah it was someone you should know. He caused the greatest act of terrorism on US soil before 9/11, Timothy McVeigh.
#51 Sep 11 2004 at 10:42 AM Rating: Decent
Ok I have to voice my opinion here. I am in the military and I dont get to watch the ads because I am in Iceland, but I am still voting for Bush for one reason. Both presidents are cutting the military in size but the fact is Kerry wants to bring home all the troops. Now think about this If you bring home all the troops how is one supposed to keep friends close and keep the enemy closer.
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