The Liberal Avenger: The 'I' word - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Op-ed - News

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The sordid tale of Michelle Malkin and her puppeteer husband Jesse - two voices, acting as one, wrapped up in a pretty package. Easy-to-digest racism for the masses.

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"At times, conservatives have even trod into arguing in favor of a war ethos (see, for instance the popular bumper sticker: "War Has Never Solved Anything, Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism"); at other times -- as in all the talk about "shock and awe" in the Iraq invasion -- they have even suggested there is a kind of beauty to violence, especially in the service of the imposition of American will. "

"Let's do the sign of the cross. It'll make us feel real boss."

- Skafish

"Look, can we all at least agree on one thing -- if the 'I didn't do it' administration is re-coronated, that come November 3, EVERYTHING IS THEIR FUCKING FAULT."

"Arbolist... Look up the word. I don't now, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees."

- George W. Bush, USA Today, 08/21/2001

"There are no mirrors in Bush's church."

- Tim Appelo, Seattle Weekly, 12/08/2004

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends."

- Maya Angelou

"To those who consider the war a mistake but still fear the consequences of military withdrawal, we ask these questions: when will enough be enough? If not now, when?"

- An Appeal to Global Conscience (via j a c k *)

"How much productivity has been wasted, not reducing our dependence on oil, but to entice us to buy more that is made with, and which consumes for its continuance - oil. It would be as if a man who had been poisoned, rather than reaching for the emetic, reaches for another dose of the poison."

- Stirling Newberry, So We Want a Revolution, 03/18/2005


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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

The 'I' word - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Op-ed - News

The 'I' word - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Op-ed - News

The Downing Memo story is beginning to get traction, which is good for everyone. If the Bush Administration deliberately deceived the American public and the world about their intent to invade Iraq and the intelligence to justify the invasion, then war-supporting conservatives have been lied to as well and made fools of, and hundreds of thousands of US and coalition soldiers have been put in harms way because of lies.

Everybody knows that this is the case. The right, however, chooses not to acknowledge it. With the Downing Street Memo as additional circumstantial proof that these deceptions occurred, it gets harder for the right to defend Bush and the march to war.

We need to keep hammering away at this issue.

The link above is to a Boston Globe Op-Ed from today spelling out the sequence of events and calling for the use now of "the 'I' word."

It's not going to happen unless/until the Dems regain control of Congress in 2006 (not likely), but it makes for good talking points...

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