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    • 12 Aug 05
    • 4:47 am

    What a lot of people seem not to realize is that the more countries that have nuclear weapons and pose a threat to America, the more domestic tax dollars end up eventually in the pockets of the rich. Here's how it works... For the super rich in this country probably the greatest way to transfer dollars from the pockets of ordinary working people to those at the top is via government spending on the military and related industries. We spend so much on the military in this country, many times more proportionally than any other nation on earth. But the fact …

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    • 13 Aug 05
    • 4:41 am

    IsThisThingOn, Saddam is not a mad man, sorry, we are actually the aggressors, and you can thank God all you like, he doesn't exist. Am I the only person in America with the guts to admit that ordinary Iraqis were better off under Saddam than they are now? Cold-blooded murderer that he was he doesn't have half the blood on his hands that we do. A hundred thousand dead and civil war on the horizon, what thanks does Iraq really owe our 'brave' boys. Maybe in a decade or two ordinary Iraqi people will benefit from the removal of Saddam, or …

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    • 13 Aug 05
    • 5:19 am

    Another thing, democrats did not start world war two, I was always under the impression that was Germany and Japan. And yes, any democrat who acts like a conservative is as bad as a conservative. The democrats in our country are actually a center right political party, in opposition to an extremist far right political party. Real liberals often support the democrats because the alternative is the murderous republicans. Unfortunately the democrats are often half in bed with the ultra right wing in this country, so what can ordinary people do? Republicans have the moral values of fascists, just without the …

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    • 14 Aug 05
    • 4:45 am

    Glad I made you laugh HenryB. You are just a stupid guy, but hey, it won't be the last time someone on the far right will be called stupid, so take heart. There is no real left wing in this country, and of course people who think Bill O'Reilly is fair and balanced are going to consider the democrats to be on the political left. Anywhere else in the world the democrats would be considered a center right party and the republicans would be considered neo-fascists. But it is totally wrong to compare the American conservatives to the Nazis, I mean …

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    • 14 Aug 05
    • 5:16 am

    Also, HenryB, I am sorry to hear you are so afraid of Iran, it must be quite tiring to have to live in constant fear, and how dare our government only spend $400 Billion on defense a year. You sound to me like a bit of a coward, shaking in your boots over such a small country. Stand up straight and find some backbone, only cowards strike first out of fear. Or does the thought of thousands of people being blown to bits in the Persian Gulf kind of turn you on? The only reason our ultra right wing government doesn't …

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