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

To: jmhollen who wrote (562852)	4/10/2004 10:57:49 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

Ironic, with the Clinton/Rubin tax theft as RECENT as 1993-and with Clinton having LIED about it all through the 1992 campaign-that the Democrat clones expect us to believe that Kerry would REALLY only raise taxes on somebody else (i.e., the guy who makes your PAYROLL every week, while trying not to out-source you just to stay in business.) And therefore Marxian class hatred socialism absolutely MUST be accepted by all Americans. It MUST, or we Democrats will...we will...weeeellll...it MUST. Kerry only hates the rich and anybody who calls THAT bluff...er, I mean...um...ah...DISPUTES what he is saying is a LYING RACIST FACIST ANTI-CHOICE!!!!oooooohhhhhh...we Democrats get so MAD about being misunderstood-I just wanna PULL MY HAIR STRAIGHT OUT!!! ...Don't worry, calm down, my fictitious, band-width, rump ranging, atheist, baby-killing, Gore-vote-fabricating Democrat friend. You aren't "misunderstood" at all! You are TRANSPARENT for the first time in 30+ years. That frustrating sound you hear is 80% of America WALKING AWAY from your fatally-flawed party. And there's not thing-one you can do about it NOW. Now go spend your summer vacation at the National Wellstone Funeral and march naked in the streets of Boston with all your FRIENDS, just like you planned...

To: jmhollen who wrote (562852)	4/11/2004 1:00:30 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

What do you think, o wise one? This guy is one of the guys over in Iraq trying to make some big bucks.......should we let them burn him? Isn't that what you were saying yesterday? Does it matter he was trying to get his family out of debt? Nah, he's on his own.....just like you said.......burn the money grubbing sucker! ******************************************************* U.S. Town Worried Over Kidnapped Engineer Sunday April 11, 2004 4:46 PM MACON, Miss. (AP) - Relatives of an American civilian taken hostage in Iraq waited to learn what had happened to him after a Sunday morning deadline imposed by his abductors passed. Thomas Hamill works for the Houston-based engineering and construction company Kellogg, Brown & Root, a division of Halliburton, his wife, Kellie, told The Associated Press. ``I don't really know anything, we don't know anything. ... Prayers are all we need right now,'' she told The Dispatch of Columbus, Miss., in a telephone interview Saturday. ``I'm doing about as good as can be expected under the circumstances.'' ``I got God, and I just trust in God,'' said Hamill's grandmother, Vera Hamill. Hamill, 43, was snatched Friday by gunmen who attacked a fuel convoy he was guarding, the latest in a string of kidnappings in Iraq. His captors threatened to kill him unless U.S. troops ended their assault on the city of Fallujah. The deadline passed Sunday morning with no word on Hamill's fate. In a videotape of Hamill, broadcast Saturday on the Arab TV station Al-Jazeera, his expression was calm but wary. A voice-over read by an Al-Jazeera announcer quoted Hamill as saying he was being treated well. ``I am in good shape,'' the voice-over quoted him as saying. ``I hope to return home one day, and I want my family to know that these people are taking care of me, and provide me with food, water and a place to sleep.'' Hamill went to Iraq last September as a truck driver for Kellogg, Brown and Root, his wife said. The news of his capture hit hard in the small community. ``It's pretty much a shock when it's this close to home,'' said family friend Jim Robbins, a firefighter in Columbus. Macon Mayor Dorothy Baker Hines planned to have flags and ribbons put up around town. ``We've said we're going to do everything we can to support his family,'' said the mayor, who knows Kellie Hamill from her work as an 911 dispatcher, a job from which she is on leave while recovering from heart surgery. The Hamills have a son and daughter. ``We just hope and pray that he's going to be released and get to come home.'' Hamill sold his dairy farm last summer after fighting a losing battle to survive in the industry. But the sale still left the family in debt, Kellie Hamill told The Beacon newspaper in Macon in a story published Thursday. ``With this job, he saw a way to help get us back on track,'' she said. Tommy Hamill had signed on for a one-year hitch in Iraq with Halliburton but was considering extending it on a month-to month basis after that, his wife said. ``He's seen how bad it can be,'' Kellie Hamill told The Beacon. ``An artillery round has landed within feet of him and he's constantly getting bricks thrown through his truck windows.'' guardian.co.uk