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

To: American Spirit who wrote (66267)	7/24/2006 3:36:01 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 93284

Libby, Rove and Cheney are guilty of outing a CIA agent during war-time, which Bush Nonsense....

To: American Spirit who wrote (66267)	7/24/2006 4:03:04 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 93284

Do As I Say, Not As I Do _________________________________________________________ by Greg James Guest Columnist The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published on Monday, July 24, 2006 Teddy Roosevelts they're not. Rush Limbaugh's recent incident at the Palm Beach airport in which he was caught with a questionable prescription of Viagra may be another clue in figuring out just exactly who the neocons and their most vocal supporters really are. Remember, Limbaugh is the tough-talking Vietnam War avoider who spent countless hours railing about President Clinton for alleged sexual misconduct. Could it be that the three times divorced Limbaugh was more envious than outraged when it came to Clinton? You don't have to be a psychologist to see a predictable pattern with this administration and its most vocal conservative supporters: they project one thing and do another. Or more to the point, they try to project a manly Teddy Roosevelt "rough rider" image; in reality they are a bunch of overweight middle-aged men who mostly avoid wars and real action in favor of sending others to do the dirty work. In many ways, I suspect this is at the heart of why Iraq is going so wrong, and why our country is in such turmoil. Maybe the U.S. is finally waking up to the scare tactics, orange alerts and right-wing "talkers" and coming to terms with who they really are. Recently, Rep. John Murtha took presidential adviser Karl Rove to task for his "cut and run" comments and called a spade a spade. He didn't mince words as he described Rove as a fat Washington-based spin doctor who sits in an air-conditioned office and has no problem pushing a war in which he'd never die. Thank God someone finally found the guts to go after the cheerleaders and actually point out what they really are -- sissies who talk tough but do little. From President Bush all the way down, a quick look finds the "big talkers" in charge and promoting a kind of "do as I say, not as I do" agenda. As a veteran myself, it's hard not to be outraged by this crowd. Bush, who has so vocally pushed the war in Iraq, was himself a cheerleader (yell king) in college and avoided Vietnam with a cushy job in the Air National Guard. Vice President Dick Cheney took numerous deferments from the draft and, as the poster boy for the National Rifle Association and tough guy hunters, shot a friend in the face at close range while blasting pen-raised quail in Texas. Limbaugh, along with Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Mike Medved and the majority of right-wing radio's most vocal "tough talkers" also fall squarely into the "did not serve" crowd. The most offensive thing about this bunch is they have no problem attacking people such as Murtha, Sen. John Kerry, former Rep. Max Cleland and retired Gen. Eric Shinseki (the guys who actually did fight in Vietnam) while they sit around sipping lattes in their protected, mostly white, upper-class enclaves. As with Limbaugh and his constant attacks on Clinton, you have to wonder if this isn't actually some type of perverse psychology playing out on a national scale where the sissies actually tear into the tough guys because they've developed sharp tongues as a response to their own perceived shortcomings. (In this case, a lack of real courage.) It has often been suggested that if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. In a similar vein, I suspect the Iraq war would have had a whole lot more thought put into it if the "cheerleaders" actually had to fight rather than sitting on the sidelines talking and urging others on.

To: American Spirit who wrote (66267)	7/24/2006 9:24:26 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 93284

Peace prize winner 'could kill' Bush ____________________________________________________________ By Annabelle McDonald The Australian July 25, 2006 theaustralian.news.com.au NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren. Campaigning on the rights of young people at the Earth Dialogues forum, being held in Brisbane, Ms Williams spoke passionately about the deaths of innocent children during wartime, particularly in the Middle East, and lambasted Mr Bush. "I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence', because I don't believe that I am non-violent," said Ms Williams, 64. "Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered. "I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life." Ms Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 30 years ago, when she circulated a petition to end violence in Northern Ireland after witnessing British soldiers shoot dead an IRA member who was driving a car. He veered on to the footpath, killing two children from one family instantly and fatally injuring a third. Ms Williams's petition had tens of thousands of Protestant and Catholic women walking the streets together in protest. Now the former office receptionist heads the World Centres of Compassion for Children International, a non-profit group working to create a political voice for children. "My job is to tell you their stories," Ms Williams said of a recent trip to Iraq. "We went to a hospital where there were 200 children; they were beautiful, all of them, but they had cancers that the doctors couldn't even recognise. From the first Gulf War, the mothers' wombs were infected. "As I was leaving the hospital, I said to the doctor, 'How many of these babies do you think are going to live?' "He looked me straight in the eye and said, 'None, not one'. They needed five different kinds of medication to treat the cancers that the children had, and the embargoes laid on by the United States and the United Nations only allowed them three." Wrapping up the three-day forum yesterday, delegates agreed to a 26-point action plan. "There can be no sustainable peace while the majority of the world's population lives in poverty," they said. "There can be no sustainable peace if we fail to rise to the global challenge presented by climate change." "There can be no sustainable peace while military spending takes precedence over human development."