Posted on 12/27/2002 2:26:41 PM PST by Michael81Dus
Well, a bit lately but funny:
All I Want for Christmas By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Christmas Day -- Wednesday, December 25, 2002
I want to see the proof of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before we engage in a war that will send tens of thousands of civilians to their deaths, enrage the Muslim world against us, grievously wound the American economy, and guarantee more terrorism here at home. I am sure the Bush administration's incontrovertible proof that these weapons exist is a sheaf of shipping manifests from roundabout 1984, when we sent the stuff to Saddam in the first place, but I want to see it anyway.
I want to hear about the endgame for our Iraq war. Who will rule in Saddam's place, and how will that person be an improvement? How will the Shiites and Kurds be represented and protected? How long will American forces have to be there? How much will it cost? Who gets the payout from the oil fields? How much of this war is based upon business decisions? Will we stop at Iraq, or will we move on to Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Egypt in the manner that Richard Perle has often envisioned?
I want to know what happened on September 11th, and why, and who messed up. This does not count as a gift - as a citizen, I am owed this, and so are you.
I want to know what was in the smallpox shot Bush got. Was it distilled water or Maker's Mark?
I want to watch John Ashcroft pet a calico cat with a big grin on his face.
I want to know how Jose Padilla and the Guantanamo detainees are celebrating the season. They are not Christian, true, but they are people being held like cattle with nary a mention of basic rights. Maybe someone could send them a fruitcake with the ACLU's telephone number frosted across the top.
I want a nationally known journalist - any journalist - to begin the process of calling the Bush administration to account for its dizzying malfeasance. Enron, Halliburton, Harken, Arthur Andersen, Eli Lilly, Carlyle and O my Lord how the money rolled in. I want the Fairness Doctrine's reestablishment to be a lynchpin policy goal for a Democratic candidate in 2004. I want my free press back.
I want to know where the anthrax killer is.
I want to know where Osama bin Laden is.
I want to know if the two of them are living in sin with Amelia Earhardt somewhere in the suburbs of Paris. We can bomb Paris, right? We can bomb anyone.
I want to know what happened to Paul Wellstone's airplane.
I want 55% of Americans to vote in the 2004 Presidential election. 55% is not such a big goal; only 50% voted in 2000, and something like 39% voted in the 2002 midterms. Let's shoot for a 55% I-give-a-good-damn quotient, America. What do you say? When you don't vote, the terrorists win - the foreign ones, and the domestic ones.
Finally, I want every single soul in the Bush administration to read the following lines. I want them to pay close attention to the words in bold:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
This we call precedent, set by the Founders for all time in the Declaration of Independence. This we call our right as citizens.
Merry Christmas.
Your media may portray President Bush as not being a diplomat, but the man is so smooth an operator that his opponents end up in second place or in agreeing with him - and they don't even realize that he has engineered the situation to go his way.
They say he is dumb, yet, for example, he was able to get a unanimous resolution out of the Security Council of the UN regarding Iraq.
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He wants to see that even if it means we reveal "sources and means" which we may never get to use again. People willingly died in WWII rather than reveal the ULTRA secret that we were reading Hitler's mail even before Hitler was. One particular case, a Naval officer who knew he shouldn't have gone on patrol because of his knowledge of ULTRA stayed in the wardroom as the submarine sank rather than risk capture and POSSIBLY revealing ULTRA under torture.
I am sure the Bush administration's incontrovertible proof that these weapons exist is a sheaf of shipping manifests from roundabout 1984, when we sent the stuff to Saddam in the first place, but I want to see it anyway.
As long as this foul mouthed moron is talking about "proof", I'd like to see his "proof here.
This guy can't post at the liberal sites without using the "F word" and he keeps revising his "Go To War" date everytime his "absolutely positive" predictions pass without success. His other notable works are "I Just Vomitted In My Mouth" and "I'm Posting Drunk, Is Anybody Else".
I have yet to hear anything coherent from the left as to why we didn't seize the oil in the early 90's or anytime prior in the 40-50 years that the oil states have been independent.
Hell, in the words of David Horowitz, "If this is about oil, then let's drill ANWR and build a pipeline to keep the caribu warm."
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Wonder what the serial number is on Pitt's Revolutionary Communist Party membership card? Lower than Clark Kissinger's, the guy who ruins "Refuse and Resist"?
When the liberals don't get their way, they resort to violence.
I don't think Pitts is that tough. He's probably too afraid to smash a Starbucks window, but his students aren't.
No. That's not part of our beliefs as Americans. But the guy does deserve to be publically shamed for his moronic and dangerous ramblings.
When they had control, they wouldn't put Rush on. Now that people have made him their choice, the "pro-choice" liberals want to silence him. When you read their screeds at their sites, the Fairness Doctrine is discussed as a way to silence Limbaugh, not to get their message out.
In fact, it's best that they NOT get their message out as evidenced by the results of Election 2002.
As Limbaugh says, "I am the application of the Fairness Doctrine."
In the marketplace of ideas, Liberals are going bankrupt. I can find one hundred thousand people who know and like Rush for every one person who has just heard of this nobody.
I strongly feel that the time for a military takeover of the U.S.G. is with us. The entire administration, the legislature (both houses) and the supreme court should be all dismissed from office and Bush and his closest colleagues be sent to Fort Levenworth for trial, charged with corruption and treason. The legislators who are relatively untainted by corruption should be sent home and the rest also to that Naval Brig in S.C. Same for the supreme court: to the brig!
Then under the guidance of a Navy Admiral the government should be set back on a true course, from which it has strayed terribly in the last couple of years.
Anybody in National political office at 31 December 2002 is forever banned from politics.
Start all over again with people who have never held elective office and with federally financed campaign using only radio and print advertisements...nothing on teevee.
The problem with this happy solution is that once in power the military is very reluctant to give it up viz; Pakistan, Turkey, Burma, Egypt etc., etc.
But, alas, it looks like that is a viable way out of the present mess.
Quoted from #5 here, on 'Democratic' Underground. Ironic, ain't it?
It's not surprising that it's posted at DU.
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