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Reader Comments (4)Page 1 of 1 pagesEuro-Americans and America - their nation - have let their hypocrital Cat out of the Bag on the Immigration and Iraqi Conflict issues through their efforts to stir Citizenship Opportunity with Iraq Military service enlistment in the same deceitful pot. To be sure, there are MILLIONS Mexican and Euro- Americans who have no problem with this foul ‘Witches’ Brew’.
Yet the harsh reality is this nation has ‘Drunk the Koolaid’ and permitted its president to conjured up an ILLEGAL CONFLICT in Iraq merely to STEAL THAT NATION’S OIL. Now he and his cabal find they have wasted so many Euro-American lives in their mismanagement of this affair that they are fast exhausting sufficent ‘bodies’ to throw into the Chaos they have created.
Stateside, Mr. Bush and his cohorts have fouled up the ‘Immigration Issue’ trying to figure out what to do - from a ‘Citizenship’ perspective - about the 10-12 MILLION UNDOCUMENTED Mexican-Americans who are and have been here - and continue to come. BushCo. has figured out it just can’t send them back or even implement a ‘back and forth’
documentation process. The Solution? Give those appropriate to serve in the US Military a trade-off - Service to America in Exchange for Citizenship. What an Insidious Karl Rove-like stroke of Genius!This Faustian Deal with NON-VOTING Mexican-American men appropriate for the Military takes Euro-American pressure off the Bush Boys (reduced Casualties and Potential Angry Voters) and solves a BIG portion of the ‘Immigration Problem’! Yes, send the Non-Citizen Mexican-Americans into the foul and deadly Iraqi and Afgani Meat-Grinders in exchange for Citizenship when - better, IF - they end 2 15-month Tours! Why 15 months? Well, that will give BushCo. sufficient ‘Fresh Troops’ to stay in Iraq and Afganistan through Election 2008 - even with continued horrendous and inappropriate losses! Such a Deal, says Mr. Bush, Mexican-Americans & my Wealthy Republican Henchmen can’t refuse!
Bush thinks, ‘I’ll Solve the Immigration, Troop-Shortfall, Iraqi-Occupation and OIL THEFT MISSION all at once! Even more importantly, I’LL KEEP THE DISORGANIZED, GUTLESS DEMOCRATS QUIET; AND THE OIL FLOWING TO MY BUDDIES AT NICE HIGH PRICES! Ain’t I a @#$%^& GENIUS?! No…
Euro-Americans are just to Cowardly to PROTECT THEIR DEMOCRACY AND STOP HIS EVIL PLOTTING!!
Oh, by the way. Osama bin Laden is indeed near death at a US Military Hospital in Qatar and he really had NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11!
(Then WHO DID, LONE RANGER????)
Posted by Joseph Conrad on Jul 25, 2007 at 10:07 AM Can you say crazy? I think you can. . .
“Oh, by the way. Osama bin Laden is indeed near death at a US Military Hospital in Qatar and he really had NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11!”
“Euro-Americans” - why don’t we just stick to Americans (drop the Euro, Afro, whatever)?
“about the 10-12 MILLION UNDOCUMENTED Mexican-Americans”
So what fraction ya think are going to join the military and go to war?
“solves a BIG portion of the ‘Immigration Problem’! “
Yeah, sending off a few thousand Mexicans to war will solve all our immigration problems! Sure it will.
“even with continued horrendous and inappropriate losses! “
Yeah, 3500 dead. If we stay in the conflict for a few thousand years, maybe it can solve the immigration problem. . .
No more drugs for you, Mr Joe!
Posted by wolf on Jul 25, 2007 at 11:08 AM It is not very hard to mislead the concepts of the American people, one example of that is how much we hear about immigrants from Hispanic south of the border countries but the media rarely addresses the illegal immigration from Canadians, German and Irish undocumented immigrants that flood the upper part of the country. Another case of manipulation of information took place in June 28, 2007 when a bill for immigration reform was not passed because the phone system on Capitol Hill “crashed” with all the calls they were receiving to opposed an immigration reform bill. Very well-intended Americans, called to oppose the reform. It is very unlikely that every person that called that day knew that by opposing this laws they were choosing to leave all of these people in anonymity. Now, undocumented immigrants are driving without a license and insurance because even though most would have met the requirements to have both, they are not untitled to one. It doesn’t mean they are going to stop driving to work, it only means they are going to be driving without an ID and insurance. And for those who commit crimes (there are some in every creed and nation in the world), we also need to know them, find them and bring them to justice. But how are we going to do it if we do not approve the necessary laws?
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