Our war in Iraq is not being driven by any logical supportable reasons that I'm aware of.
I'm sure the use of Halliburton under a no-bid contract is merely the normal corrupt practice of the people in this administration, not the reason they're there.
I find it extremely significant that Chevron took Condoleeza Rice's name off of a Chevron tanker when she left the Board. Chevron has never done this before, and I hear they found her views cartoonish and wanted to distance themselves from her.
Ironically many commentators have said that just a Colin Powell was a voice of reason in comparison with Rice, that Rice is a voice of reason in comparison with Cheney and Rumsfeld. Apparently they are true-believers in their fundamentalist Christian neo-con philosophy.
Garrison Keillor on the "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show, from heavily Democratic Minnesota, in a comical essay told his largely Christian audience of the Lutheran variety that . . .
"I'm now the chairman of a committee working on a Constitutional Amendment to take the right to vote away from born again Christians on the basis that their citizenship is in Heaven rather than America."
"If you are feel that war in the Middle East is just an exciting fulfillment of prophesy,
if you feel that tribulation and suffering are just the natural conditions of life,
if you believe that higher education is vanity and unnecessary since there's only one book one needs to read,
if you believe that unemployment is God's way of making you more dependent on Him and drawing you closer to Him,
if you feel that lousy health care is simply a portal to Paradise,
-- then you don't really share our same interests, do you? - No you do not."
"If you can vote here, why not Canadians. Or Scandinavians - they speak English too and, they're perfectly well informed."
From the really great "2004 Bonus Show" (you need RealPlayer 10):
publicradio.org
As they said on the "Saturday Night Live" fake news last night,
"68% of Americans believe that George W. Bush is doing an unacceptable job,
while the other 32% believe Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church on Sunday."
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