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To: Road Walker who wrote (302103)	9/2/2006 7:22:05 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1574849

Bush-Cheney's rightwing rhetoric sounds fascist, and people like Anne Coulter, Horowitz, Savage, Hannity and many others have sounded like Nazi propagandists all along. Plus, when you consider the entire Karl Rove strategy to win at all costs by cheating, scape-goating, dividing, pitting race against radce, smearing, stoking the fires of militant nationalism and fear-mongering the similarities become even more uncanny. And then Bush stating he can spy on anyone he likes without a warrant. That means he considers himself above the law, in essence a rightwing dictator. Even though the people are against him now. Also, I remember the angry mob of rightwingers outside the re-counting office of Miami-Dade in 2000. They physically intimidated the re-counters and kept them from doing their jobs, very reminiscent of Hitler's brown shirts. The GOP rightwing's closet contains a lot of demons, some of them bearing swastikas. And a lot of people know it. Which is exactly why Rove chose to inaccurately use the word "fascist" against the terrorists, though they are still trying to confuse Iraq with Al Qaida and 9-11 which it had nothing to do with.

To: Road Walker who wrote (302103)	9/3/2006 12:48:53 AM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 1574849

Very funny.

To: Road Walker who wrote (302103)	9/3/2006 2:57:09 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574849

Funny......I never liked John Stossel of ABC. I could never figure out why. He was supportive of good education and helping children....two issues hat are important to me. So I expected to be okay about someone who considers important things that I consider important. Yet, there was an undefined edge to Stossel that annoyed me. Never knew until tonite why that was until I read an article by him in neocon site, Townhall.........like many of the articles on that site and like Coulter, it was full of anger and hate.........the subject: governments and their spending habits.

To: Road Walker who wrote (302103)	9/3/2006 7:24:10 AM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1574849

LOL! Once in a while you DO have a sense of humor, John. Proves you are no lib. Taro

To: Road Walker who wrote (302103)	9/3/2006 5:04:14 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574849

I miss the hood and robes but otherwise the meetings are quite stimulating! Is it true one size fits all and they used sheets from Walmart?

To: Road Walker who wrote (302103)	9/4/2006 3:27:58 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574849

They were told it wasn't a good idea to invade Iraq, but they didn't listen. After they toppled Hussein, they would told that they had accomplished what they had set out to do so it was time to take off. They did not listen. They were told that Americans were dying for a senseless cause. They did not listen. They were told that Iraq was breaking down into civil war and we needed to get American troops out of harm's way. They did not listen. Now the Kurds are threatening to secede. And Bush insists we stay the course while he is president. I'm done with talking........impeach the incompetent president and vote every last GOPer out of office! Enough is enough! STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES! Kurdish leader threatens Iraq secession YAHYA BARZANJI Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq - The leader of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq threatened secession Sunday as a dispute over flying the Iraqi flag intensified. Massoud Barzani on Friday ordered the country's national flag to be replaced with the Kurdish one, sparking harsh words in Baghdad. "If we want to separate, we will do it, without hesitation or fears," Barzani, president of the Kurdish region, said during an address to parliament. He tempered his comments slightly by saying that Kurdish leaders already have voted to remain in a united Iraq. But government leaders in Baghdad fear the Kurds are pushing for independence from the rest of Iraq. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued a terse statement Sunday. "The current Iraqi flag is the only one which must be hoisted on each bit of Iraq's land until a decision is adopted by the parliament according to the constitution," the statement from his office said. President Jalal Talabani's office on Sunday denounced the flap over the flag as an "exaggerated noise." Talabani, a Kurd, defended Barzani's move, saying there had been a "constitutional vacuum" over the flag issue. Iraq's first interim Governing Council that came after the fall of Saddam Hussein decided to change the flag but no official version has been adopted yet. "What made the Kurdish parliament take this step is this blunder," the statement said. It added that the flag the Iraqi parliament will adopt will become "sacred" and will be flown throughout Iraq, "including Kurdistan's mountain tops." The Kurdish region gradually has been gaining more autonomy since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, a worrying development to many Iraqi leaders, especially Sunni Arabs. If the Kurds were to become independent along with the Shiite majority in the oil-rich south, the Sunnis would be left with little more than date groves and sand. On Saturday, Sunni Arab lawmaker Saleh al-Mutlaq slammed Barzani's decision. "What will be taken by force today, will be returned by force another day," he said, without elaborating. "We can defend our dignity, our people and our land ... and no one should be under the illusion that he could take a tiny bit of somebody else's land." Speaking to parliament, Barzani said the national flag does not represent Iraqis. He said the Kurds would use an early version of the Iraqi flag that was flown after the end of the monarchy in 1958. The Kurdish area had been out of Saddam Hussein's control since the 1991 Gulf War, when the Kurds set up their autonomous region under the protection of U.S. and British warplanes. After the U.S.-led invasion, Kurdistan was the only region that did not witness major changes. Iraq's new constitution recognizes Kurdish self-rule and provides a legal mechanism for other areas to govern themselves but within the Iraqi state. mercurynews.com