Republicans during the Clinton-Gore administration stated repeatedly that the United States shouldn't put our men and women in harm's way unless it was absolutely necessary. So, it is interesting that neither party addresses the real problem with any sincerity which is the astonishing ineptness of the 15 intelligence agencies which were providing such "unequivocal proof" as far back as 1998 concerning Saddam Hussein's possession of W.M.D. It wasn't until Bush-Cheney ascended to the White House via judicial fiat and not until after the tragedy of 9/11 that we were told that if we didn't take out Saddam Hussein immediately we would …
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Jay Cline, you state, "For example, the only reason Bush Sr. didn’t go all the way to Baghdad was because the vast majority of people didn’t want to believe that what happened over made little difference to our lives." Not true at all. George H. W. Bush and military analysts in 1991 believed that going into Baghdad would inflame the entire Middle East Arab countries and decided that it was not worth risking the lives of more American soldiers to continue the war. The main objective then was to kick out Iraq's army from Kuwait. Many believed that Saddam Hussein would …
Posted to Democrats: It's the War
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Well Jay Cline, as Ronald Reagan once said to Walter Mondale in one of their debates, "There you go again." By catapulting the propaganda and using poll numbers that supposedly show Iraqis supporting our presence in that country is exactly the party line that the Republicans keep repeating. But, the American public clearly doesn't buy that anymore. As a matter of fact, recent polls now show a deep distrust in Bush & Company and have serious doubts about his entire administration's probity as can be seen with the criminal-minded Dick Cheney, Lewis Libby, Bill Frist, Tom DeLay and Bush's Svengali, Karl …
Posted to Democrats: It's the War
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Richard Rodriguez must have lived a fairly cloistered life if he thinks that Hawaii or Southern California (think East L.A.) are ethinc melting pots where exclusivity doesn't exist. For that matter, the tropical islands' native populations are not all that enamored with seeing an influx of any other races, white or otherwise. Anyone from the mainland U.S. who has spent enough time in Hawaii often gets the message, "O.K. haole, come here, spend your money and then go home." There are less kind words than "go home" but I won't use them here. There is a lot of clanishness among the …
Posted to Here Comes the Neighborhood
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Liberal, I'm not sure I took lbyland's comments as a dig at you at all. Actually, it sounded to me like you were being complimented. Maybe I'm the one that took this a different way. As to the rather risque, teaser picture with the dancing hula girl, I don't see that as particularly germaine to the article written by Richard Rodriguez. As a matter of fact, I found it pretty dumb since I don't see any connection with the caricature to the article at all. Besides, if you've been to Hawaii you certainly know that it is not some pristine island …
Posted to Here Comes the Neighborhood
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Just in case it slips by anyone's attention regarding the above NaderRaider's usual commentary, 95% of it is is mostly lambasting Democrats and liberals. Raider's comment, "Dear Lefty and all of your little cronies whom worship the Democratic party and feel they do no evil" says it all. Throwing in a little poke at the other party, the Republicans, can hardly be disguised as nothing more than an anti-Democrat harangue and a feeble attempt to appear "fair and balanced," with about as much honesty as one can expect from Fox News Network. Please, spare us the patronizing b.s.! I intend to …
Posted to Addressing the State of the Movement
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NaderRaider's bonding with the Green Party and Ralph Nader would have more credibility were it not for the fact that Nader ran as the Reform Party candidate in 2004, not the Green Party. As most of us who have done a modicum of reading know, Pat Buchanan, one of the most virulent anti-Semitic candidates in recent time, ran as the Reform Party's nominee in 2000. The Southern Poverty Law Center which documents the various hate groups in the U.S. defines the goals of the Reform Party in these words: "Right-wing extremist organizations promoted his (Buchanan's) candidacy on their Web sites and …
Posted to Addressing the State of the Movement
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Slavoj Zizek makes a lot of valid points regarding Iran's attempt to be included into the nuclear armed states. Clearly, Pakistan and India will be tempted to use their own nuclear weapons if border conflicts rage out of control and the issue of Kashmir escalates further. Besides, once Bush announced his policy of preemptive strikes against countries that may or could be threats down the road, it makes perfectly good sense that other nations, whether we like them or not, can justifiably use the same rationale to attack their perceived opponents as well. A convincing argument can be made that anyone …
Posted to Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
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Lefty, yup, all that and more I agree with you. But, I had to pare down my rant since I pushed beyond my allocated word count re ITT limits. Oh, how wordy I can be. Ha, ha.
Posted to Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
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According to some financial publications, the revaluation of China's currency is only about 1/4 of a penny. That's hardly a serious revalued currency, especially if you think of the trade imbalance that the U.S. has with the rest of the world. Making Wal-Mart products produced in China will hardly help this trade imbalance. If anything, once inflation begins rearing its ugly head seriously, the U. S. consumers will pay more regardless of cheap imports. And, with rising inflation, there is no way that U.S. can compete on a level which will make exports rise. It's just not in the cards, no …
Posted to A New Standard?
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Although Salim Muwakkil has the correct idea that the Voting Rights Act should be renewed it's a moot argument because of the ability to hack into voting machines plus the proof that the voting process and the counting of votes are all controlled by Republican operatives, not the American citizens. When nine judges who get to vote twice for the president of the United States, once in the general election, and again in their personal meddling in the democratic voting process, then all the sugar-coated laws on the books amount to nothing but a comic exercise. I personally don't think we'll …
Posted to Keep the Voting Rights Act Alive
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Natalie's comments "If I’m wrong about this being the leading American communist website or at least one of them, I guess I’m just not that up on communists in America. The followers and fans of this pathetic ideology—who declined to put up a candidate—voted for whom do you suggest? George W. Bush?" I'll respond to that. This tiresome drone may keep the Republican Party faithful from sinking totally into the abyss of unwelcome news which keeps pouring forth from Iraq where U.S. military commanders are looking for at least a partial exit in time for the 2006 election which G. W. …
Posted to Keep the Voting Rights Act Alive
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Liberal, you are right that "Gore still won Florida if the recount authorized by the Florida Supreme Court was allowed to contunue. Your castigation of the Nader crowd is disingenuous and overlooks the election fraud that took place with plenty of evidence to all those interested." Out of the 67 Florida counties 40 were majority Democrat registration, some even by 80%, yet mysteriously votes shifted from Kerry to Bush in the 2004 election. In some counties, Bush received almost twice as many Republican votes as there were registered Republicans. Here are two graphic examples to prove how easy it was for …
Posted to Democratic Dos and Donts
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Jan Shakowski's optimistic message is a shot in the arm. "I am optimistic; history is on our side. Rather than the beginning of a right-wing shift, I believe we are enduring its last gasp. This is a moment of opportunity for progressives; change is in the air." As buoyant as that message is, the biggest obstacles I see are right there in black and white. According to past election statistics about 95% of the incumbents are returned to office. Few, if any experts, believe that Democrats can take back the House in 2006 or 2008, again because of incumbency preference by …
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I agree with all three comments above and especially Lefty's comment which implies correctly that Joe Lieberman does not fit the mold of either liberal or Democrat. After subscribing to The New Republic magazine for over 15 years I cancelled my subscription following their editor's endorsement of Joe Lieberman for president. That was the final straw which was a compilation of other past editorials which wee segueing more than ever in supporting Bush's disastrous war in Iraq. Again, in a incredulously worded editorial they described the failure to find WMD in Iraq a "great embarrassment." Ugh! But, as I have stated …
Posted to The Case for a Democratic Marker
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Susie Q, you wrote, " Air America yesterday the guy who was sitting in for Ed Schultz was talking about if Roe v Wade is overturned. Both he and the caller were opining that act would doom the GOP, as most Americans, while not actually pro-abortion, are pro-choice. What do you think?" First of all, I'm not pro abortion but like many Americans who fit somewhere in the middle of this issue, I'm for the right of a woman or her entire family, in discussion with medical doctors, to make that choice and decision to have an abortion for themselves. I …
Posted to The Case for a Democratic Marker
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Joesph, you wrote, " Apparantly, you guyz believe that the system, tho twisted, even broken, can be fixed, and that the Democrats are the “tools” we’ll need to use to do so. I just don’t see how this can be true." And later you add, "Moreover, though the Bushistas are particularly savage, there’s no reason to think that things would be better with Kerry or Gore or any Democrat - except, perhaps, Mr. Feingold, or a few members of the Congressional Black Caucus." Well, that certainly is a long dissertation which I read as an apology and an endorsement for the …
Posted to The Case for a Democratic Marker
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Joseph, well there you go again as Ronald Reagan once said of his Democrat opponent Walter Mondale. It's the same not-so-subtle bit of casuistry you employed earlier in highlighting the past failures of past presidencies in an attempt to disguise and soften the criticism and disastrous record of the Bush administration's sorry and devastating 4 ½-year legacy of war and ruin of our country. You stated: "Enron made most of its money, did most of its dirty deeds, Richard, under Clinton. Clinton described the “social security problem” as real (though, of course, it is nothing of the sort), then attacked the …
Posted to The Case for a Democratic Marker
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Liberal, I think you should know by now as I learned earlier that the appallingly fractured logic that that some use is the same method used over and over by the Bush apologists to deflect from the problems we are faced with here and now, all of which are the result of policies pushed by G. W. Bush and his complicit, corrupt Republican-controlled U.S. Congress. All I hear from the Right Wing echo chamber is Clinton did this and Clinton did that or that Kennedy was responsible for napalming citizens of Cuba, ad nauseam. Citing the numbers of deaths of both …
Posted to The Case for a Democratic Marker
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It's interesting to note that when Bush was booed last year at the Martin Luther King memorial day observance, Bush's immediate reaction to this personal rebuke was to use his executive recess appointment authority to install Judge Charles Pickering, one of the most anti-civil liberties and racist judges who was recommended by none other than Mississippi's U.S. Senator Trent Lott. Mr. Pickering eventually withdrew his name, preferring to avoid the filibustering by the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings of his permanent installation. Bush's and the Republican's hostility to blacks in this country is well-documented if anyone cares to follow the paper trail …
Posted to So Very Sorry
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According to an article which appeared today in the Los Angeles Times "Prosecutors could have an easier time winning a conviction under another law that makes it a crime for officials with security clearances to disseminate certain information. According to that statute, it could be a crime to have confirmed that Plame was a CIA agent if she was operating undercover." The main focus of Justice Department investigator Patrick Fitzgerald may still be on Karl Rove but additionally the perjury statements of both Rove and Irv Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, are equally important because it is now clear …
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