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MeniJennaCash · 07-07-2004, 10:22 PM

Hand power back to Americans, too
By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist | June 30, 2004

UPON THE handing of power to his handpicked Iraqi government, President Bush said, "The Iraqi people have their country back." He said nothing about how long it will take for us to get our country back.

There are 850 US soldiers we will never get back, who died in an unprovoked invasion and occupation that was based on Bush's fraudulent claim that Iraq was prepared to attack us with weapons of mass destruction.

We lost global credibility for years to come because by invading on false pretenses, Bush made America a remorseless killer. Bush's rallying cry in his so-called war on terrorism has been the 3,000 innocents who died on Sept. 11, 2001. The estimates of Iraqi civilians killed by us, from human rights groups, wire services, and defense policy think tanks, range from 3,200 up to 11,300, nearly four times as many civilians who died on 9/11.

Even though Bush admitted that Iraq had no tie to 9/11, he has barely acknowledged the civilian carnage, let alone apologized. With no tie to 9/11 and no weapons of mass destruction, Bush's final excuse for his invasion was, "Iraq was ruled by a regime that brutalized and tortured its own people, murdered hundreds of thousands, and buried them in mass graves."

With his silence on civilian slaughter, Bush behaved as if two wrongs could make a right. He said this week, "I think people are beginning to see that we were in fact, liberators." We were in fact liberators who turned villages into mass graves.

Bush tried at every turn to keep Americans from contemplating the war's human cost. In Iraq, the military refused to make any estimates of civilian deaths, even as it issued specific, spectacular weekly numbers of "insurgents" killed, gallons of oil that were flowing, restored megawatts, reconnected telephone lines, reopened schools, and rehired doctors. "Health care expenditures are up 30 times over what they were under Saddam," Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said last week. Wolfowitz neglected to add how much of those "health care expenditures" were made necessary by our bombs.

At home, the administration has maintained a media ban on covering the arrival of coffins from Iraq at Dover Air Force Base. The ban was established during the first Gulf War. The administration was so maniacal about fogging our view of the fatal finality that until very recently, even some families of deceased soldiers said they were blocked from the base. The Senate, in a primarily Republican vote, last week defeated a Democrat-led proposal to allow media coverage of the coffins being lowered from military aircraft.

Confident that nothing could cut through the fog, the administration stopped counting the coffins. In a House hearing in April, Wolfowitz was asked how many US soldiers had died. He said, "It's approximately 500, of which, I can get the exact numbers, approximately 350 are combat deaths." At the time, 722 soldiers had died, 521 in combat.

By erasing nearly a third of fallen Americans from his consciousness, Wolfowitz symbolized how the lying wormed a hole right through what little remained of Bush's conscience. Treating Iraqi civilians as if they did not exist begat a chain of dehumanization that ended with American soldiers ceasing to exist. Along the way, there was chump change thrown at surviving families of American attacks, prisoner torture at Abu Ghraib, and holding prisoners in the war on terror without trial at Guantanamo Bay (a policy that was overturned this week by the Supreme Court). There are many instances of individual bravery and humanity toward Iraqis by American soldiers. Overall, Iraq tragically proved that you cannot dehumanize the other without diminishing yourself.

Iraq also proved that you cannot conduct the most wasteful war since Vietnam without diminishing opportunity at home. This week in celebrating the handover of power, the administration boasted that during the occupation 33,000 teachers were trained, 77,000 public works jobs were created, and 2,200 schools and 240 hospitals were rehabilitated. The Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive Washington think tank, last week calculated that the money spent on the war or about to be approved by Congress could have instead paid for in the United States:

About 3 million new elementary school teachers;

Or health care for 27 million Americans currently without insurance;

Or more than 20 million slots for Head Start;

Or nearly 23 million housing vouchers.

The cost of the war will go past $200 billion sometime next year. That will be nine times more than what the federal government spends in job training and employment. The study projected that the war will cost each American household an average of $3,415.

The financial costs, of course, are only an addendum to the human costs. Bush boasted that the handover "marks a proud moral achievement." The invasion was one of the most immoral acts in US history. With 138,000 troops still there, the occupation is a long way from over. We all know the Iraqi people really don't have their country back. As long as that is true, we will never get ours back, either.

boobmaster · 07-07-2004, 10:50 PM

More Bush bashing ....

wargames · 07-07-2004, 10:53 PM

Pleasurepays · 07-07-2004, 10:56 PM

chri$tian · 07-07-2004, 10:58 PM

baddog · 07-07-2004, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by boobmaster
More Bush bashing ....

yeah, from someone that can't even come up with his own thoughts

MeniJennaCash · 07-07-2004, 11:11 PM

I posted an article from the boston globe
and he hits the nail on the head
you wanna tell me Iraq wasn't a bullshit invasion?
haliburton getting rich?
fuckin Bin Laden is in fuckin Saudi Arabia
how many dead soldiers cuz of this stupid invasion?

ok bush cocksmokers
pick apart the article
tell me the LIES in it
if you can
parrot?
i'm more original than you think clown face

Roger · 07-07-2004, 11:29 PM

It's real simple. Bush wanted to invade Iraq. Saudi Arabia wanted some Al-Qaeda members released in order to give the US its support and that's what happened. Do you really think that Bush and his friends care about the 9/11 victims? They don't give a damn, they have no problem releasing Al-Qaeda members to further there own interests.

baddog · 07-07-2004, 11:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MeniJennaCash
I posted an article from the boston globe
and he hits the nail on the head
you wanna tell me Iraq wasn't a bullshit invasion?
haliburton getting rich?
fuckin Bin Laden is in fuckin Saudi Arabia
how many dead soldiers cuz of this stupid invasion?

ok bush cocksmokers
pick apart the article
tell me the LIES in it
if you can
parrot?
i'm more original than you think clown face

blah blah blah . . . .parrot is right . . . . . wanna cracker?

MetaformX · 07-07-2004, 11:35 PM

Great article Meni. At this point, supporting the Bush administration is a charactor flaw.

Fuck Bush, that moron of a president has set this great country of ours back 10 years.

MeniJennaCash · 07-07-2004, 11:38 PM

Thanks
I read that, and it hits the nail on the head
more fun reading
search
Haliburton Libya
on google
boy that Cheney
he knows ONE THING
making that MONEY

benc · 07-07-2004, 11:39 PM

Just remember, Kerry voted for both the Patriot Act and the war in Iraq. You'll say, 'he was deceived'. Deceived by a 'moron' ? then what does that make him.

All politicians are bad.

MetaformX · 07-07-2004, 11:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by benc
Just remember, Kerry voted for both the Patriot Act and the war in Iraq. You'll say, 'he was deceived'. Deceived by a 'moron' ? then what does that make him.

All politicians are bad.

give me a break...you are supposed to be able to

Folks, ask yourself, who is worst, Kerry or Bush? Maybe Kerry sucks too, whatever, but who is worst? Can Kerry or anyone else be as bad as Bush? NO. If Bush gets re-elected, I am moving to Australia.

johnbosh · 07-07-2004, 11:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pleasurepays

?? why a parrot

baddog · 07-07-2004, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MetaformX
If Bush gets re-elected, I am moving to Australia.

you aren't doing Kerry any favors by making threats like that

MeniJennaCash · 07-08-2004, 12:00 AM

I don't mention Kerry do I?
i'm just bush bashing
the worse president in years
don't believe me?
ask a european

baddog · 07-08-2004, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by MeniJennaCash
I don't mention Kerry do I?
i'm just bush bashing
the worse president in years
don't believe me?
ask a european

ask a European? please tell me you are drunk

Jason Fromm · 07-08-2004, 04:59 AM

I don't know, I thought the article was good. I don't think that Bush is all that great of a pres, I don't think it was a good idea to have those Americans die for oil (and one of my friends was one of them), I don't think it is a good idea to suck SA dick, I don't think it is a good idea to aggressively attack the porn industry, I don't think it is a good idea to make America look so stupid on the international market (as Bush as done)...

In general, I don't think Bush is a good idea.

genomega · 07-08-2004, 05:03 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by MeniJennaCash
I posted an article from the boston globe
and he hits the nail on the head
you wanna tell me Iraq wasn't a bullshit invasion?
haliburton getting rich?
fuckin Bin Laden is in fuckin Saudi Arabia
how many dead soldiers cuz of this stupid invasion?

ok bush cocksmokers
pick apart the article
tell me the LIES in it
if you can
parrot?
i'm more original than you think clown face

Tell me the lies? lol
How about you show us the proof.

patriot · 07-08-2004, 06:56 AM

When will you American's learn...???

It's about time that the American people woke up and realised that history repeats itself over and over again. Most countries usually learn from there previous mistakes and attempt to never make that mistake again. But not America, you allow your wanker 'President' to abuse congress, the senate and lie to the very people that they are there to serve.

Remember that in a democracy, the government is there to serve the people, to protect and create a healthy and educated life for everyone, not matter what colour, race or creed...

Sometimes you need a revolution to remove the revolting....

07-07-2004, 10:22 PM	#1
MeniJennaCash Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: South Florida Posts: 227	Hey Bush Hand Power Back to America Hand power back to Americans, too By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist \| June 30, 2004 UPON THE handing of power to his handpicked Iraqi government, President Bush said, "The Iraqi people have their country back." He said nothing about how long it will take for us to get our country back. There are 850 US soldiers we will never get back, who died in an unprovoked invasion and occupation that was based on Bush's fraudulent claim that Iraq was prepared to attack us with weapons of mass destruction. We lost global credibility for years to come because by invading on false pretenses, Bush made America a remorseless killer. Bush's rallying cry in his so-called war on terrorism has been the 3,000 innocents who died on Sept. 11, 2001. The estimates of Iraqi civilians killed by us, from human rights groups, wire services, and defense policy think tanks, range from 3,200 up to 11,300, nearly four times as many civilians who died on 9/11. Even though Bush admitted that Iraq had no tie to 9/11, he has barely acknowledged the civilian carnage, let alone apologized. With no tie to 9/11 and no weapons of mass destruction, Bush's final excuse for his invasion was, "Iraq was ruled by a regime that brutalized and tortured its own people, murdered hundreds of thousands, and buried them in mass graves." With his silence on civilian slaughter, Bush behaved as if two wrongs could make a right. He said this week, "I think people are beginning to see that we were in fact, liberators." We were in fact liberators who turned villages into mass graves. Bush tried at every turn to keep Americans from contemplating the war's human cost. In Iraq, the military refused to make any estimates of civilian deaths, even as it issued specific, spectacular weekly numbers of "insurgents" killed, gallons of oil that were flowing, restored megawatts, reconnected telephone lines, reopened schools, and rehired doctors. "Health care expenditures are up 30 times over what they were under Saddam," Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said last week. Wolfowitz neglected to add how much of those "health care expenditures" were made necessary by our bombs. At home, the administration has maintained a media ban on covering the arrival of coffins from Iraq at Dover Air Force Base. The ban was established during the first Gulf War. The administration was so maniacal about fogging our view of the fatal finality that until very recently, even some families of deceased soldiers said they were blocked from the base. The Senate, in a primarily Republican vote, last week defeated a Democrat-led proposal to allow media coverage of the coffins being lowered from military aircraft. Confident that nothing could cut through the fog, the administration stopped counting the coffins. In a House hearing in April, Wolfowitz was asked how many US soldiers had died. He said, "It's approximately 500, of which, I can get the exact numbers, approximately 350 are combat deaths." At the time, 722 soldiers had died, 521 in combat. By erasing nearly a third of fallen Americans from his consciousness, Wolfowitz symbolized how the lying wormed a hole right through what little remained of Bush's conscience. Treating Iraqi civilians as if they did not exist begat a chain of dehumanization that ended with American soldiers ceasing to exist. Along the way, there was chump change thrown at surviving families of American attacks, prisoner torture at Abu Ghraib, and holding prisoners in the war on terror without trial at Guantanamo Bay (a policy that was overturned this week by the Supreme Court). There are many instances of individual bravery and humanity toward Iraqis by American soldiers. Overall, Iraq tragically proved that you cannot dehumanize the other without diminishing yourself. Iraq also proved that you cannot conduct the most wasteful war since Vietnam without diminishing opportunity at home. This week in celebrating the handover of power, the administration boasted that during the occupation 33,000 teachers were trained, 77,000 public works jobs were created, and 2,200 schools and 240 hospitals were rehabilitated. The Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive Washington think tank, last week calculated that the money spent on the war or about to be approved by Congress could have instead paid for in the United States: About 3 million new elementary school teachers; Or health care for 27 million Americans currently without insurance; Or more than 20 million slots for Head Start; Or nearly 23 million housing vouchers. The cost of the war will go past $200 billion sometime next year. That will be nine times more than what the federal government spends in job training and employment. The study projected that the war will cost each American household an average of $3,415. The financial costs, of course, are only an addendum to the human costs. Bush boasted that the handover "marks a proud moral achievement." The invasion was one of the most immoral acts in US history. With 138,000 troops still there, the occupation is a long way from over. We all know the Iraqi people really don't have their country back. As long as that is true, we will never get ours back, either. __________________ JennaCash is the aff program for ClubJenna, ClubTera, TTboy... & more

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MeniJennaCash Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: South Florida Posts: 227	I posted an article from the boston globe and he hits the nail on the head you wanna tell me Iraq wasn't a bullshit invasion? haliburton getting rich? fuckin Bin Laden is in fuckin Saudi Arabia how many dead soldiers cuz of this stupid invasion? ok bush cocksmokers pick apart the article tell me the LIES in it if you can parrot? i'm more original than you think clown face __________________ JennaCash is the aff program for ClubJenna, ClubTera, TTboy... & more

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MetaformX Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 6,704	Great article Meni. At this point, supporting the Bush administration is a charactor flaw. Fuck Bush, that moron of a president has set this great country of ours back 10 years. __________________

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Roger Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: MetroCity Posts: 3,181	It's real simple. Bush wanted to invade Iraq. Saudi Arabia wanted some Al-Qaeda members released in order to give the US its support and that's what happened. Do you really think that Bush and his friends care about the 9/11 victims? They don't give a damn, they have no problem releasing Al-Qaeda members to further there own interests.

07-07-2004, 11:38 PM	#11
MeniJennaCash Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: South Florida Posts: 227	Thanks I read that, and it hits the nail on the head more fun reading search Haliburton Libya on google boy that Cheney he knows ONE THING making that MONEY __________________ JennaCash is the aff program for ClubJenna, ClubTera, TTboy... & more

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benc Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 788	Just remember, Kerry voted for both the Patriot Act and the war in Iraq. You'll say, 'he was deceived'. Deceived by a 'moron' ? then what does that make him. All politicians are bad. __________________ Numerous Adult and Non Adult Domains For Sale Such as SlutVideos.com, FitWomen.com Listed on Sedo or can do direct sale

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MeniJennaCash Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: South Florida Posts: 227	I don't mention Kerry do I? i'm just bush bashing the worse president in years don't believe me? ask a european __________________ JennaCash is the aff program for ClubJenna, ClubTera, TTboy... & more

07-08-2004, 04:59 AM	#18
Jason Fromm Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 369	I don't know, I thought the article was good. I don't think that Bush is all that great of a pres, I don't think it was a good idea to have those Americans die for oil (and one of my friends was one of them), I don't think it is a good idea to suck SA dick, I don't think it is a good idea to aggressively attack the porn industry, I don't think it is a good idea to make America look so stupid on the international market (as Bush as done)... In general, I don't think Bush is a good idea. __________________ Jason Fromm ICQ 240845568 [email protected]

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patriot Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Vatican City Posts: 21	When will you American's learn...??? It's about time that the American people woke up and realised that history repeats itself over and over again. Most countries usually learn from there previous mistakes and attempt to never make that mistake again. But not America, you allow your wanker 'President' to abuse congress, the senate and lie to the very people that they are there to serve. Remember that in a democracy, the government is there to serve the people, to protect and create a healthy and educated life for everyone, not matter what colour, race or creed... Sometimes you need a revolution to remove the revolting.... __________________ SIG TOO BIG! Maximum 120x60 button and no more than 3 text lines of DEFAULT SIZE and COLOR. Unless your sig is for a GFY top banner sponsor, then you may use a 624x80 instead of a 120x60.