George Bush @ MindSay

askjesse reports via Reuters:

"The nonbinding, symbolic measure, passed in Brattleboro and Marlboro in a state known for taking liberal positions on national issues, instructs town police to "extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them."

Vermont, home to maple syrup and picture-postcard views, is known for its liberal politics.

State lawmakers have passed nonbinding resolutions to end the war in Iraq and impeach Bush and Cheney, and several towns have also passed resolutions of impeachment. None of them have caught on in Washington."

Maybe it's time for Vermont to secede from the US?  Earlier this week, we learned the state is also considering lowering the drinking age to 18.

That was a line from a great piece that The Onion did back in January of 2001 (who knew that The Onion employed psychics?). I was reminded of that line while reading about what President Bush said during his speech a this years Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC):

Are you proud of what you have done TO this country..as well as the rest of the world? Are you proud of denying people their rights? Are you proud of sending young men and women to fight a war that cant be won just so you can keep your precious oil? Are you proud of ignoring your own country and your own people so that you can devastate other countries? Are you proud that you are one of the most hated men in America. Are you proud that you have single-handedly fucked over our country? Are you proud of the fact that most Americans in their right minds want to move out of the country? Are you proud that Americans have to lie about where they come from when they visit other countries? (when i went to France we were instructed to tell people that we were from Canada..thats right..its better to be Canadian than to be American as far as other countries are concerned) Are you proud that you are eliminating the middle class and causing the poor to become poorer and the rich to become richer? Are you proud that you have made Americans ashamed?

 

i have never had so much hatred for one human being in my entire life.

 

 

I watched some college football on Saturday. There was a great game between my Kansas Jayhawks and the Texas A&M Aggies. Before the game started, it was announced that George H.W. Bush and Robert Gates were in attendance.

 

In southeast Asia we'd call that type of thing bad karma. 

 

I knew immediately that Kansas would win the game just for the simple fact that the Aggies let those two into their stadium. KU ended up winning 19-11. It was a nice "screw you" to those globalist thugs.

 

Rock Chalk Jayhawk  

redwoodpecker  brings up a good point. You have to stand somewhere. A lot of people have died. People not entirely unlike you and I. Human beings, spiritual, cultural, beings who loved, ate, played, listened to music, and then died prematurely because of the continued involvement of our military in their country. There is no place for pride or ego here, there is only right and wrong now.

Here I stand, making it clear that I still don't support the destruction our country has caused. Where do you stand now?


According to the ORB poll, a survey of 1,461 adults suggested that the total number slain during more than four years of war was more than 1.2 million.

ORB said it drew its conclusion from responses to the question about those living under one roof: "How many members of your household, if any, have died as a result of the conflict in Iraq since 2003?"

Based on Iraq's estimated number of households -- 4,050,597 -- it said the 1.2 million figure was reasonable
 
It was the highest estimate given so far of civilian deaths in Iraq. Last year, a study in the medical journal Lancet put the number at 654,965, which Iraq's government has dismissed as "ridiculous."

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There's the approximately 1 million killed according to the best epidemiological research conducted by one of the world's most prestigious scientific institutions, there's the 75,000-80,000 (based on news reports) the Washington Post and other commercial media allow, and there's the clean and antiseptic blood-free war the administration claims to have fought (recall that they dismissed the Lancet findings out of hand and yet offered no numbers of their own).

Americans were asked in an AP poll conducted earlier this year how many Iraqi civilians they thought had been killed as a result of the invasion and occupation, and the median answer they gave was 9,890. That's less than a third of the number of civilian deaths confirmed by U.N. monitors in 2006 alone.

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