Some Quotes From A Rally Held At Ground Zero In Support Of The War Yesterday.

"The war started right here on Sept. 11, 2001," Gov. George Pataki said

"We got tired of those protesters always arguing against the war," (The anti-war protesters should argue for the war?)

"There's more people here than in my home state of Kansas," former Republican Sen. Bob Dole said.

I was in Vietnam, and we never had support like this," sheet metal worker Jim Pruitt said.

Many speakers and participants described the war as a natural outcome of the World Trade Center attack.

"I was watching some of this on CNN before, and the reporter is interviewing a woman with a picture of her son serving in combat, saying how she's here to support her son in combat and how Sept. 11 was a sign that we need to send a message to Iraq that we won't let this happen again. The reporter made the effort to note the whole, you know, complete lack of any connection between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda whatsoever, to which the woman replied, "my son before leaving told me, 'Saddam is firing at us right now the weapons he said he didn't have. If Saddam was lying now, he was lying then."

Why wasn't the rally held at the Grand Canyon because there's as much evidence that the Colorado River attacked the World Trade Center as there is for Saddam?

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Well, With All Those People Dead, Somebody's Got To Profit!!!

"Sony leads charge to cash in on Iraq

Julia Day
Thursday April 10, 2003


'Shock and Awe' game will be available on PlayStation 2
?Japanese electronics giant Sony has taken an extraordinary step to cash in on the war in Iraq by patenting the term "Shock and Awe" for a computer game.

It is among a swarm of companies scrambling to commercially exploit the war in Iraq, which has killed more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians in the space of three weeks."

Folks, this is sick. Why not trademark "Holocaust" for a brand of ant poison? Which of our most inhuman events in history won't make good product names?

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Begin The Vomiting

At least she and her family are against it.

Like The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, A Dozen Iraqis Turned Out For The...Oh, Well.

There's a fair share of media manipulation and hype going on regarding the crowds of Iraqi's that are showing up for these statues toppling parties. Check the photos here.

This Is A Representative, Remember.

"Yesterday's debate suddenly veered from guns to race when Cubin criticized a failed Democratic amendment that would have banned gun sales to drug addicts or people in drug treatment. After noting that her sons, ages 25 and 30, "are blond-haired and blue-eyed," she said: "One amendment today said we could not sell guns to anybody under drug treatment. So does that mean that if you go into a black community you can't sell any guns to any black person?"

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Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent
By ERIC LICHTBLAU

ASHINGTON, April 8 ? Working with the Bush administration, Congressional Republicans are maneuvering to make permanent the sweeping antiterrorism powers granted to federal law enforcement agents after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, officials said today.

The move is likely to touch off strong objections from many Democrats and even some Republicans in Congress who believe that the Patriot Act, as the legislation that grew out of the attacks is known, has already given the government too much power to spy on Americans.

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Let's hope that the Democrats stong opposition doesn't continue to take the form of "No Problem, republicans -whatever you say...see, we're patriotic!"

Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent
By ERIC LICHTBLAU

ASHINGTON, April 8 ? Working with the Bush administration, Congressional Republicans are maneuvering to make permanent the sweeping antiterrorism powers granted to federal law enforcement agents after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, officials said today.

The move is likely to touch off strong objections from many Democrats and even some Republicans in Congress who believe that the Patriot Act, as the legislation that grew out of the attacks is known, has already given the government too much power to spy on Americans.

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Let's hope that the strong objections of Democrats do not continue to take the form of "Sure. No problem, Republicans. Whatever you say...see, we're patriotic!"

Barbara Bush On Letting Them Eat Cake

"The following is from an immensely interesting transcript of Barbara Bush on an ABC-TV morning show. She was asked if she and her husband, the former president, watch television.
"He sits and listens and I read books because I know perfectly well that - don't take offense - that 90 percent of what I hear on television is supposition, when we're talking about the news. And he's not, not as understanding of my pettiness about that. But why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's going to happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Oh, I mean, it's, not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? And watch him suffer."

Beautiful mind?

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Opps -Remember These Guys?

At a time when the United States is promising a reconstructed democratic postwar Iraq, many Afghans are remembering hearing similar promises not long ago.

Instead, what they see is thieving warlords, murder on the roads, and a resurgence of Taliban vigilantism.

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More Bait & Switch

The administration has moved finding weapons of mass destruction to priority number four. The polls seemed to have suggested to Bush that he can get more out of moving "Iraqi Freedom" to number one. Sure, that was why we started this war to begin with. Maybe we'll never find wmd's. Maybe we'll never find Saddam. Maybe we'll never find a link between Iraq & Al Queda. Maybe we'll never justify any of the rationalizations that were used to drag us & the world into this. I guess they weren't importnat, anyway. Iraqi freedom is certainly a positive thing but only a byproduct of a larger Bush plan to control the gulf. Whether they remain free for long is in our hands. Hopefully, history will prove me wrong and Bush will keep his promises. However, I'm not make any bets...
Hey, How about some Iraqi Freedom products?