pieface wrote:
> Hobbes wrote:
> > Powell would take the minority vote. Speaking of McCain (who I also had
> > respect for until recently) - turns out he is a dirtball of Clintonesque
> > proportions. Go on google and check out "John McCain + Charles Keating".
> > Turns out McCain was the scumbag that was at the center of the Savings and
> > Loan scandal that cost taxpayers billions upon billions. McCain, Keating,
> > and three others were called the Keating Five. Here is a decent overall
> > article on MSN. Hope that it is informative for you:
> > http://slate.msn.com/id/1004633/#ContinueArticle
> Very informative, thanks.
You just now learned that McCain was involved Reagan's
S&L deregulation scam which cost taxpayers tens - maybe
over a hundred BILLION dollars, eh? Better very, very late
than never, I suppose, but the ignorance level of the typical
U.S. citizens never ceases to amaze me. That was probably
the most costly and blatant example of taxpayer theft in
our history.
Now you should read up on bu$h's war profiteering scam
in Iraq. Remember, it's YOUR money....
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0223-08.htm
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=21
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http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/pol/80315675.html
Ever wonder who benefits from the 150 MILLION
U.S. taxpayer dollars spent each DAY in Iraq?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0223-08.htm
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=21
"They are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And
there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to
take... men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons
who are capable of any atrocity... they respect no laws of
warfare or morality."
-bu$h describing his own war crimes in Iraq.
http://www.robert-fisk.com/iraqwarvictims_mar2003.htm
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things
that matter." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them. And then
he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did."
-- George W. Bush
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the
will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the
Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."
-- Adolf ******
"Brutal and sadistic? By what girly-man standards? Compared
to how Saddam treated his prisoners, a bit of humiliation was
a walk in the park. AFAIK, No one died or even lost any blood."
-Albert Nurick, a usenet kook, on the rape, torture and murder
at bu$h's Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
(
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0512-10.htm)
George W. Bush: "Intelligence gathered by this and other
governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues
to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever
devised." March 17, 2003.
http://www.commondreams.org/
http://www.truthout.org/
http://counterpunch.org/
http://thirdworldtraveler.com
http://responsiblewealth.org/
http://globalresearch.ca/
http://www.wsws.org/
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"You know, when bu$h said that he's against nation building,
I didn't realize that he meant only the United States"
-- Al Franken
Don't let bu$h do to the United States what his very close
friend and top campaign contributor, Ken Lay, did to Enron...