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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (398634)	4/24/2003 11:41:50 PM
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To you they weren't lies & distortions because they were directed at Bush. And they said far more than they didn't like Bush. Sean Penn declared Iraq WMD free. In the 19 months since 9-11, we have seen our democracy compromised by fear and hatred. Basic inalienable rights, due process, the sanctity of the home have been quickly compromised in a climate of fear...... A chill wind is blowing in this nation. A message is being sent through the White House and its allies in talk radio and Clear Channel and Cooperstown. If you oppose this administration, there can and will be ramifications...... Every day, the air waves are filled with warnings, veiled and unveiled threats, spewed invective and hatred directed at any voice of dissent. And the public, like so many relatives and friends that I saw this weekend, sit in mute opposition and fear...... In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom..... The journalists in this country can battle back at those who would rewrite our Constitution in Patriot Act II, or "Patriot, The Sequel," as we would call it in Hollywood..... And any instance of intimidation to free speech should be battled against. Tim Robbins Several months ago, while in Spain accepting an award, Jessica Lange stated that George Bush "stole the election" and the U.S. people have been "suffering under his leadership," adding he "struts around like he is in some Wild West show" and that she finds him "absolutely reprehensible".

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (398634)	4/24/2003 11:43:12 PM
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"What lies, what distortions..... They said they didn't like Bush....." Michael Moore When asked the motivation for the war in Iraq, Michael Moore replied, "The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. The U.S. government claims to bring democracy to Iraq; however, no country in the world takes such an assertion seriously. It is an illusion." ....President Bush, however, has destroyed it <peace in the region>. He identified his military forces as crusaders and started the war with Iraq as a mission of God. When I look at his face when he makes such speeches, I feel that the U.S. has become a fearful country.....

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (398634)	4/24/2003 11:48:14 PM
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LOL! "What lies, what distortions..... They said they didn't like Bush....." Sarandon Ludicrously Claims $200 Billion Cut in Vet Spending Actress Susan Sarandon defended the value of her free speech rights by citing, on Friday's Early Show, how “sometimes I have information” a value to the public, such as how “over the next ten years two hundred and some billions of dollars” will be “cut from the budget” for veterans benefits. Sarandon suggested that “people don't know this,” but “I can tell people that this is about to happen.” She asked: “Now should I be quiet because I have information other people don't have? No.” Others don't have her “information” because her claim is ludicrous.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (398634)	4/25/2003 12:00:37 AM
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Comedienne-turned-peace-activist Janeane Garofalo offered a stunning admission on Sunday, explaining that she and her fellow anti-war protesters didn't stage huge demonstrations when President Clinton launched attacks on Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan and the Sudan because "it wasn't very hip" to protest the former president. Garofalo went on to claim that Hollywood actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins led protests against Clinton's 1998 Iraq attack, saying that "there was a lot of protest, just as there was against the first Gulf War." A Lexis-Nexis search for December 1998, the month Clinton bombed the daylights out of Baghdad, failed to turn up a single report that mentioned either Sarandon or Robbins protesting the attacks......... American actor George Clooney stepped up his criticism of George W. Bush's administration on Sunday, saying he feared a war against Iraq was inevitable but would ultimately only lead to more violence. "America's policies frustrate me," Clooney said in a German television program. "I think a war against Iraq is as unavoidable as it senseless. I think it's coming. But I also think the real danger is going to be what happens after it." Clooney said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was making a mistake to think a war against Iraq would be an easy win for the United States. "I believe he thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore," said Clooney.....

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (398634)	4/25/2003 12:02:02 AM
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...“Yes, he’s racist,” Glover said in response to a question from a reporter from the Brazilian magazine Into E, according to our source’s translation. “We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now. As Texas’s governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died from [the] death penalty were Afro- Americans or Hispanics.” Glover continued: “[Bush] promoted a conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.”...

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (398634)	4/25/2003 12:03:01 AM
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David Clennon, star of the hit CBS television series "The Agency," said Monday that the "moral climate" of America under President Bush is similar to that which pervaded Nazi Germany. Then, apparently not satisfied with merely insulting the U.S., Clennon contended that the only difference between Bush and Adolf Hitler is that Hitler was smarter.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (398634)	4/25/2003 12:04:51 AM
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Farrell, who's co-starred in the television series "M-A-S-H" and "Providence," said Hollywood was speaking out to show average citizens that it's OK to voice dissent. He also said he did not believe that Bush has proven Iraq is a danger to America. "It is inappropriate for the administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war," Farrell said.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (398634)	4/25/2003 12:06:25 AM
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"Let us resist this war," Sarandon told the cheering crowd. "Let us hate war in all its forms, whether the weapon used is a missile or an airplane." The protesters brandished signs reading: "No Proof, No War," "Bush Sucks" and "Pre-emptive Impeachment." Some protesters carried Iraqi flags. "No war, no way," shouted a protester wearing a mask of Bush with horns and a pitchfork. "George Bush, you can't hide. We charge you with genocide!" chanted the demonstrators, who were escorted by mounted U.S. Park Police and watched by 600 police officers along the route in the heart of the nation's capital.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (398634)	4/25/2003 12:14:50 AM
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Barbra Streisand has reminded Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt in a blistering memo: "Sadam Hussein did not bomb the World Trade Center." The singeractressdirectorproducer took time out from rehearsals for a performance she's giving on Sunday for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to remind Gephardt not to "ignore the obvious influence on the Bush Administration of such special interests as the oil industry, the chemical companies, the logging industry... just to name a few." Streisand notes: "Many of these industries, run by big Republican donors and insiders, clearly have much to gain if we go to war against Iraq." Streisand urges the Democrats to "publicly convey this message to the American people."