Politics - 10 September 2007

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2007-09-10 13:03:57 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-10 13:03:44 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know he is doing very poorly
I know he is disliked by many
I am also aware that he is the worst president in history

But enough is enough. Isn't it getting old?

How much longer do I have to keep hearing about it?

2007-09-10 12:58:44 · 16 answers · asked by I hate Hillary Clinton 6

I think the people who support it. This gives big business an unending supply of basically what amounts to slave labor, they can pay them pittiful wages with no benefits and who are they going to tell? No one for fear that they will be deported. It also allows drug smugglers, and coyotes (trafficers in humans) to keep a brisque business. How humanitarian of them.

2007-09-10 12:57:40 · 11 answers · asked by Ethan M 5

after all how many deaths and tortures has Yahoo been responsible for by turning over the internet records of Chinese dissidents fighting against the iron yoke of communist rule. Makes me glad that my ancestors burned down the whitehouse during the war of 1812.Yahoo stifles freedom, as does the US of A.

2007-09-10 12:48:16 · 11 answers · asked by thegunner 1

2007-09-10 12:46:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

in the United States Army General Betrayer. Who is the true betrayers of this country?...A General who is fighting a war the the congress asked him to fight??..or the congress who turned their back on our troops and want us to lose?

2007-09-10 12:44:29 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

and berating the Dems for not being able to get the US out of Iraq as OBL wants, putting Dems and OBL on the same side of that issue; insuring that the Dems won't keep pushing for that...... JUST as General Petraus (sp?) reports to Congress that all is going well...we just need a little more time. Oh MY, isn't that just an amazing coincidence of timing? What a bunch of right wing, pro war, misguided BS. For six years the most amazing military in history can't find one guy running around the hills of Pakistan....BS. So where do you suppose he is? How 'bout Langley, Va. making tapes for his boss' JUST when they need a political boost. If you can't see what's happening, you're a moron!

2007-09-10 12:43:27 · 8 answers · asked by amazed we've survived this l 4

2007-09-10 12:43:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-10 12:39:25 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-10 12:39:06 · 17 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

My only fear is fear itself and of coarse the occasional spider lol

2007-09-10 12:38:48 · 20 answers · asked by Mike G 2

If that isn't exploiting personal and national tragedy what is?

2007-09-10 12:23:07 · 25 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

I figured the smarter ones would have bailed after a year or so. Figured the mentally challenged would have bailed after about 2 1/2 years. Seems a lot of Bushbots are still in Denial about Iraq after 4 years.

2007-09-10 12:17:15 · 11 answers · asked by Remember the GOP? 2

Because of the Democrats?

2007-09-10 12:12:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-10 12:12:46 · 8 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

- whys there a rebel army? and what the point? is there a war and if then with who ? who the gov. or president of if theres one?

please all the information you have and websites Please

2007-09-10 12:11:49 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-10 12:11:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

The guy is in a wheel chair saying "we have to stay". At least this time they did not show the Twin Towers ablaze in the background.

2007-09-10 12:03:37 · 11 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

There are people out in America that are happy with what these people are doing to us, who are you people, and why are you doing this to America?

2007-09-10 11:59:54 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

How many Generals did Bush replace to find one that would support his views?

2007-09-10 11:54:23 · 13 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

So now we har having debates in the language of the invaders who are not even eligible to vote. How is this not a bad idea????

2007-09-10 11:48:57 · 18 answers · asked by Ethan M 5

How great is the decider?

2007-09-10 11:46:57 · 1 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

Does she realize that a truck in Mexico just killed 34 people and China is importing poisonous products?

Why speak out against safe drugs while remaining silent on deadly products and transports?

2007-09-10 11:42:02 · 12 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

Can someone please tell me what is wrong with Ann Coulter? Why do republicans associate with this really not so nice individual?

2007-09-10 11:36:14 · 32 answers · asked by ssyed90318 1

And why?

2007-09-10 11:33:22 · 4 answers · asked by Livia L 1

pretty catchy! What do you think?

2007-09-10 10:57:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

We have taken down the government of another Sovereign nation (no argument that it was evil and corrupt) without a declaration of war from congress is this legal or have simply made it legal. Let's go back to the Constitution people.

2007-09-10 10:45:46 · 9 answers · asked by Ethan M 5

if i dont agree with this war on terror, and want to use my rights as an american citizen to stop it however possible. Does it mean i hate my country?
what if i dont even support the troops? is that hating america?
is voting non republican hating america?
Do any republicans hate america?

2007-09-10 10:42:50 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Oh, it’s a long, long while from September to September. This year, the anniversary falls, for the first time, on a Tuesday morning, and perhaps some or other cable network will re-present the events in real time — the first vague breaking news in an otherwise routine morning show, the follow-up item on the second plane, and the realization that something bigger was underway. If you make it vivid enough, the JFK/Princess Di factor will kick in: You’ll remember “where you were” when you “heard the news.” But it’s harder to recreate the peculiar mood at the end of the day, when the citizens of the superpower went to bed not knowing what they’d wake up to the following morning.

Six years on, most Americans are now pretty certain what they’ll wake up to in the morning: There’ll be a thwarted terrorist plot somewhere or other — last week, it was Germany. Occasionally, one will succeed somewhere or other, on the far horizon — in Bali, Istanbul, Madrid, London. But not many folks expect to switch on the TV this Tuesday morning, as they did that Tuesday morning, and see smoke billowing from Atlanta or Phoenix or Seattle. During the IRA’s 30-year campaign, the British grew accustomed (perhaps too easily accustomed) to waking up to the news either of some prominent person’s assassination or that a couple of gran’mas and some schoolkids had been blown apart in a shopping centre. It was a terrorist war in which terrorism was almost routine. But, in the six years since President Bush declared that America was in a “war on terror,” there has been in America no terrorism.

In theory, the administration ought to derive a political benefit from this: The president has “kept America safe.” But, in practice, the placidity of the domestic front diminishes the chosen rationale of the conflict: If a “war on terror” has no terror, who says there’s a war at all? That’s the argument of the Left — that it’s all a racket cooked up by the Bushitlerburton fascists to impose on America a permanent national-security state in which, for dark sinister reasons of his own, Dick Cheney is free to monitor your out-of-state phone calls all day long. Judging from the blithe expressions of commuters doing the shoeless shuffle through the security line at LAX and O’Hare, most Americans seem relatively content with a permanent national-security state. It’s a curious paradox: airports on permanent Orange Alert, and a citizenry on permanent …well, I’m not sure there’s a homeland-security color code for “Gaily Insouciant,” but, if there is, it’s probably a bland limpid pastel of some kind. Of course, if tomorrow there’s a big smoking hole where the Empire State Building used to be, we’ll be back to: “The president should have known! This proves the failure of his policies over the last six years! We need another all-star Commission filled with retired grandees!”

And that would be the relatively sane reaction. Have you seen that bumper sticker “9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB”? If you haven’t, go to a college town and cruise Main Street for a couple of minutes. It seems odd that a fascist regime which thinks nothing of killing thousands of people in a big landmark building in the center of the city hasn’t quietly offed some of these dissident professors — or at least the guy with the sticker-printing contract. Fearlessly, Robert Fisk of Britain’s Independent, the alleged dean of Middle East correspondents, has now crossed over to the truther side and written a piece headlined, “Even I Question The ‘Truth’ About 9/11.” According to a poll in May, 35-percent of Democrats believe that Bush knew about 9/11 in advance. Did Rumsfeld also know? Almost certainly. That’s why he went to his office as normal that today, because he knew in advance that the plane would slice through the Pentagon but come to a halt on the far side of the photocopier. That’s how well-planned it was, unlike Iraq.

Apparently, 39-percent of Democrats still believe Bush didn’t know in advance — or, at any rate, so they said in May. But I’m confident half of them will have joined Rosie O’Donnell on the melted steely knoll before the Iowa caucuses. If Iraq is another Vietnam, 9/11 is another Kennedy assassination. Were Bali, Madrid, and London also inside jobs by the Bush Gang? If so, it’s no wonder federal spending’s out of control.

And what of those for whom the events of six years ago were more than just conspiracy fodder? Last week the New York Times carried a story about the current state of the 9/11 lawsuits. Relatives of 42 of the dead are suing various parties for compensation, on the grounds that what happened that Tuesday morning should have been anticipated. The law firm Motley Rice, diversifying from its traditional lucrative class-action hunting grounds of tobacco, asbestos, and lead paint, is promising to put on the witness stand everybody who “allowed the events of 9/11 to happen.” And they mean everybody — American Airlines, United, Boeing, the airport authorities, the security firms — everybody, that is, except the guys who did it.

According to the Times, many of the bereaved are angry and determined that their loved one’s death should have meaning. Yet the meaning they’re after surely strikes our enemies not just as extremely odd but as one more reason why they’ll win. You launch an act of war, and the victims respond with a lawsuit against their own countrymen. But that’s the American way: Almost every news story boils down to somebody standing in front of a microphone and announcing that he’s retained counsel. Last week, it was Larry Craig. Next week, it’ll be the survivors of Ahmadinejad’s nuclear test in Westchester County. As Andrew McCarthy pointed out, a legalistic culture invariably misses the forest for the trees. Senator Craig should know that what matters is not whether an artful lawyer can get him off on a technicality but whether the public thinks he trawls for anonymous sex in public bathrooms. Likewise, those 9/11 families should know that, if you want your child’s death that morning to have meaning, what matters is not whether you hound Boeing into admitting liability but whether you insist that the movement that murdered your daughter is hunted down and the sustaining ideological virus that led thousands of others to dance up and down in the streets cheering her death is expunged from the earth.

In his pugnacious new book, Norman Podhoretz calls for redesignating this conflict as World War IV. Certainly, it would have been easier politically to frame the Iraq campaign as being a front in a fourth world war than as a necessary measure in an anti-terrorist campaign. Yet who knows? Perhaps we would still have mired ourselves in legalisms and conspiracies and the dismal curdled relativism of the Flight 93 memorial’s “crescent of embrace.” In the end, as Podhoretz says, if the war is to be fought at all, it will “have to be fought by the kind of people Americans now are.” On this sixth anniversary, as 9/11 retreats into history, many Americans see no war at all.

2007-09-10 10:37:52 · 19 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2