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Joe Biden nailed Rudy Giuliani during Debate
January 10, 2008 | Filed Under Elections, News, War | Leave a Comment
Classic moments of the Democratic Nomination primary
In a jovial moment during one of the Democratic debates, this has to be one of the best ideological zingers of the primary season. Joe Biden said that all Rudy Giuliani knows is three words, “a noun, a verb, and 9/11″.
Joe Biden on Rudy Giuliani’s candidacy
John McCain on the issues
January 6, 2008 | Filed Under Elections, Government, News, War | Leave a Comment
The implication: he flips and flops like the next politician, can he be trusted?
Support the troops, bring them home
December 19, 2007 | Filed Under Government, News, War | Leave a Comment
War is hard on everyone, not a single rational American believes that bringing the troops home is in any way a knock on the military. The propaganda machine often suggests that if we leave Iraq, we’re conceding defeat. If we bring the troops home, we’re “not supporting the troops”. The logic is unbelievably stupid and Americans have had enough of carrying out a political agenda that is unsound and irrational.
The bottom line is this: BRING THE TROOPS HOME, NOW.
Ron Paul sounds a lot like Ronald Reagan
December 6, 2007 | Filed Under Elections, News, War | Leave a Comment
You know, Republicans like to invoke the spirit of Ronald Reagan, but only one candidate sounds like the former President.
Ron Paul for President, 2008
Alberto Gonzales, executioner of Liberty
November 21, 2007 | Filed Under Government, News, Scandals, War | Leave a Comment
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was instrumental in helping President Bush send Americans off to get butchered in the middle east. He, like President Bush, is complicit in crimes that not only violate federal and international law, but do a number on the Constitution.
There is nothing about this administration that is good for America. We’ve lost so much of our essence to these murderers, and they sit around and smile. The smug look on their faces is enough to make any American gag. In the end, justice will prevail. Good WILL triumph over evil, it’s unfortunate that the rhetoric about good and evil is now best focused on our own country. Blood is on their hands and God will be the ultimate judge.
President Bush and Attorney Gonzales better come up with a better plan around the divine than “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and “God told me to invade Iraq” because lying won’t be an option.
if you say “support our troops” then do it
November 17, 2007 | Filed Under News, War | Leave a Comment
Support the troops by protecting their children, support them and bring them home
Anti-War advocates often raise the issue of family and friends who have lost their lives due to illegal Iraq war and Bush administrative policies. Pro-War advocates often counter the anger by calling these anti-war Americans “unpatriotic” or “unAmerican”. In the end, it’s a bickering session by two interests that are forgetting the most important people of all: the children.
We’ve become accustomed to using children as props. Whether it is SCHIP or combating terrorism, children have become the face of “the future” and we often forget just what kind of affect our political sparring is having on the young. It isn’t even the psychological affects that come with such a negative environment in America, it is the War itself and the ramifications of constantly fragmenting families in order to continue the war. The children in the video above had to see their dad taken away more than one time, they expect daddy will never come back home. What does that do to a child if the same problem can severely affect the mind of a person three times or even ten times their age?
Waterboarding is torture, says Harry Reid
November 14, 2007 | Filed Under Government, News, Scandals, War | Leave a Comment
“Any human being would admit anything under those circumstances.”
Harry Reid’s suggests that a person on the verge of death will admit to anything, even when it isn’t true.
This argument is used to support arguments against coercion and duress by law enforcement officials during their investigations. The argument counter to Reid’s assertion, of course is the Jack Bauer scenario. If a terrorist has information that would lead to saving the lives of thousands of people, then would “torture” be acceptable? I’m as liberal as the next guy, and I’d have to say that under a life or death situation, torture does and will happen. We should allow the law to play this out, instead of accepting ‘torture’ as a tactic, deny it under the Constitution as it previously has.
IF the Jack Bauer scenario actually happens, then the agent will likely make a moral judgment, thus, providing a defense in a court of law. What this does is makes sure that we preserve the integrity of our constitution, and continue supporting our “innocent, until proven guilty” system of jurisprudence. To remove torture from the ‘debate’ and insist that it is criminal, as it should be, would remove the heinous activity of torturing individuals and retrieving information under duress from among a laundry list of reasons for foreigners to hate the United States. This would go a long ways in restoring our reputation and significance in the world as a major political and international player.
Reid makes a very important point, historically, the United States has executed and jailed people for committing the crime of water boarding. During the Nuremberg trials, the use of torture was an issue that was not escaped by propaganda and clever political rhetoric. If President Bush were ‘on the other side’ of the Nuremberg debate, he would have surely been hanged for his sponsoring of such illegal activity (if it is proved that he is indeed guilty of promoting torture and terrorism to achieve political ends).
the Nexus of Politics and Terror
November 11, 2007 | Filed Under Elections, Government, News, War | Leave a Comment
Politics, particularly on the GOP side has gained a nasty reputation for being propelled by ‘fear-driven’ propaganda. If I hadn’t heard it with my own ears, I might call the claim of ‘fear-driven’ politics a false claim or one based on propaganda itself. However, our President and current GOP leaders who are front-runners in the primary nomination, make no apologies for using the kind of rhetoric that has pinned the GOP in a corner over the Bush years.
What is most fascinating to me, is that they don’t see how detrimental this “fear-mongering” is. While, I recognize that “fear-mongering” is a propaganda driven statement, what they do is frighten Americans into submission. The problem that they seem oblivious to, is that people who have their backs against the walls (un-American liberal pussies) are in a fight or flight situation. If you take a look at the liberal movement right now, they are in fight mode.. they aren’t running away from anything no matter what GOP strategists would have you believe.
In the eyes of most liberals, the GOP is a bigger threat to America than any 3rd world terrorist ever was. They believe, and I to a certain extent, that the far right has harmed our nation far more than Al Qaida did on September 11th. It seems like an extreme and irrational statement to be made and even more difficult to defend, but the current ‘feel’ in America is that the GOP is the party of ‘evil’ and anything or anyone would make for a better candidate than another Bush-clone. Oddly enough, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney have done their best impressions of President Bush and are trying to run on the ‘fear-driven’ agenda that has brought the GOP to its knees.
Not this time, my Republican friends, not this time.
James Blake Miller, Marlboro Marine
November 11, 2007 | Filed Under News, War | Leave a Comment
Times photographer Luis Sinco made James Blake Miller an emblem of the war.
The image would change both of their lives and connect them in ways neither imagined.