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• • 04 Nov 05
  • 10:27 pm

  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 …

  Posted to Democrats: It's the War

• • 05 Nov 05
  • 12:38 pm

  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

• • 06 Nov 05
  • 8:02 pm

  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

• • 19 Aug 05
  • 6:44 pm

  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 …

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• • 21 Aug 05
  • 2:51 pm

  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