To: Yogizuna who wrote (13900 ) 11/18/2004 8:17:07 PM From: Raymond Duray Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20773 Re: A country ill prepared for future foes, is a country heading towards suicide or slavery. Hmmm, that reminds me of this eye-opener: "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." –George W. Bush, August 5, 2004, Speech before the JCS being granted a huge increase in budgets. Military men in this country are sworn to defend this nation "from all enemies, foreign and domestic". Didn't George Bush just declare himself to be a domestic enemy of the people of the United States? From viewing the latest news about the loss of our liberties via the USA PATRIOT Act and its successor bills, from reading that the National Debt Ceiling has just been raised to a whopping $8.18 TRILLION, it is hard to say which is coming first, bankruptcy or slavery. The only thing that is absolutely clear is that both are on the way. I may be the most conservative member of this forum. <grin> I am vociferously opposed to both the fiscal recklessness of the Bushies, and to their heinous efforts to steal my liberties as they empty America's wallets into the coffers of the likes of Halliburton's and Bechtel's diaspora of tax exempt executives. *** Compared to Iran, North Korea or even China, the threat that the Bushies pose is orders of magnitude more threatening to the welfare of the American people. Your paranoia about foreign enemies has made you blind to the reality: The Fe'ral Government is in the hands of a malicious criminal conspiracy. Suicide and slavery is in store for the people of this nation unless we take back our country from the enemy within.