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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (32232)	5/23/2005 5:53:59 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 93284

Bush's campaign in 2000 was a big lie. It started with the phony energy crisis and promises to be a moderate compassionate stay-at-home conservative. It ended with gross cheating in Florida and then a turn to the hard rightwing as soon as he got into power. Looking back at 2000, you will see almost all of Bush's campaign promises have been broken, and were therefore lies. Nobody expected the neocons and religious right to rule this administration. Then after 9-11, Bushies used the war on terror and the invasion of Iraq to steal a second and third election. Also more voter fraud in Ohio last year. We may never know who really won the 2004 election. At least we know it was very close.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (32232)	5/24/2005 1:50:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

People walk past a poster of CARE International worker Clementina Cantoni hung on Milan's town hall May 24, 2005. Half a million Italians took to the streets when a respected left-wing journalist was kidnapped in Iraq earlier this year, but just 300 turned out on Monday night to demand the release of an aid worker abducted in Afghanistan. REUTERS/Daniele La Monaca. story.news.yahoo.com

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (32232)	5/24/2005 8:58:27 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93284

'Forrest Gump’ Author Swings Back at NY Times NewsMax ^ \| 5/24/05 \| Carl Limbacher The celebrated author of "Forrest Gump” is not happy with the New York Times recent review of his latest book – and is taking on the old Gray Lady. Author Winston Groom tells NewsMax that the Times is trashing his latest book, "1942: The Year That Tried Men’s Souls” because it’s simply too pro-American. Groom’s 1942 chronicles America’s courageous comeback from the military and psychological devastation that followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Groom wrote the book in light of the Sept. 11 attacks – offering Americans today the perspective of a time after we had been struck at Pearl Harbor – and bounced back. But in the upcoming May 29 issue of the New York Times Book Review, already made available to the publishing industry, critic Patricia Cohen actually derides the book for its parallels to the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks. She accuses Groom, a noted military historian, of conducting "a portable pep rally designed to fire up the home team for the next epic showdown. The ‘Great Democracy’ versus the evil Axis – or more recently, the axis of evil.” According to Cohen, Groom’s book states that the Japanese sought to control most of the world and to "squeeze America to death, while the colonial records of the Allies who already control it are glossed over.” The Times’ reviewer apparently sees no moral difference between Britain’s colonial control of places like India, and the fascist powers' rape of China, North Africa and East Europe. The Times review also neglects to point out that at the time, the Germans and their allies controlled almost all of Europe and North Africa, and the Japanese most of the Pacific. Cohen also contends that readers will "have to make their way through some truly terrible writing.” And after citing an anecdote in the book in which an American officer on Corregidor says he hoped his troops could rest and receive medical attention after surrendering – called by Groom "perhaps the grossest example of false hopes in the history of the world” – Cohen snipes: "Well, maybe. Unless you were hoping for a sophisticated account of the war in the Pacific.” But Groom isn’t sitting still for the Times’ hatchet job. He feels the review is a typical Times attack on anyone who stands up for America, including a much-praised historian who happens to believe his country was in the right in World War II. "I began writing this book right after the September 11th terrorist attack,” said Groom. "Being just as frustrated and mad as everyone else, I thought it would be interesting and instructive to do something to buck up Americans to what we are capable of. "Though the first half of 1942 began in a cataract of disaster, by the end of it we were victorious everywhere and the Axis never gained another foot of ground, although it took another three years to run them to ground. "I made one remark about what America can do when it gets mad in the introduction to the book, and all the rest of the 460 pages are a straightforward history of the year 1942 and the war. "I have been accused of a lot of things,” the bestselling author continued, "but as far as I know I have never been accused of ‘bad writing’ – let alone ‘terrible writing.’” In fact, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has praised the book for its "dramatic writing” and "in-depth analysis,” and Publishers Weekly says it "provides fresh renderings of the familiar Battle of Midway and Guadalcanal incidents.” Groom added: "Obviously the lady did not read the book carefully, since she neglects to mention that the book does not cover only the Pacific Theater – there is also the Battle of the Atlantic, the North Africa landings, a survey the Russian campaign and the American Home Front. "I guess Ms. Cohen is just too ‘sophisticated,’ as she implies of herself, to see that."