I think the thing everyone is getting away from. We have no real choice in this election. Both candidates have issues, neither imho should be president. I'll (if allowed) make a write in vote for Olie North.
I think the readers of my site believe I'm some kind of Bush flag waver, that's far from true. I believe he's done some good things, and some bad things. I personally think the whole prison thing is laughable. People honestly think you can get prisoners to talk without forcing them to, need to wake up and soon. Guards taking pictures and making a joke out of it is wrong, the torture (so called) was needed. Ask any vet that was in a German, Japanese, Vietcong, North Vietnamese, North Korean, Chinese or any other camp and they will tell you. We treat our prisoners far, far, far better than our boys have ever been treated.
My Uncle (great) was in a German P.O.W. in WWII and from what all my relatives tell me he came back and did not say word one about it. It changed him forever. I cannot imagine the hell he went through. The fact asshats are crying and bitching over some f**king worthless terrorist made to put panties on his head or stand on a box and hold wires pisses me off to no end.
Ok, 2nd part of my rant.
Michael Moore is an asshat, plain and simple. If he made his movies and called them... uh.. entertainment and NOT a documentary then I'd not care. He'd still be a fat white man with attention deficit syndrome.
He has said over and over again this movie was made to GET BUSH OUT of the white house. How in the hell can you look at it as anything other than a freakin' propaganda movie?!? (morons)
I don't care who is in the whitehouse, republican, democrat, independent or even DF. As long as they are focused on upholding the vision the Godly men who founded this country saw then that's good enough for me. The best leader is the one who fears (not fear as in I'm scared, feared as in respect, adoration and love) God, prays for his country and on the decision he has to make.
Now in closing to those I've offended, get over it.
Bush has some devious back office dealings and has been working on bills that should never get passed.
Charlie Brown (aka. John Kerry) is the most wishy washy person I've seen. I voted for it, no against it, no for it... make up your stinkin' mind and stop following what's popular you spineless little man!
Ok, so everyone make a write in vote for Oliver North! w00t! Olie in 04!
That is all, Happy 4th of July America and have a great weekend World!
Posted by Muddy at July 3, 2004 01:16 PM | TrackBackMuddy, I agree with you on both issues. While I am more a Bush supporter than you, I also would love to see Ollie run for President.
Also I like to see more of your 'rants' on issues versus just posting of stories. Keep up the good work.
Posted by: cwilli at July 3, 2004 02:03 PMI'm still holding out for William Shatner.
Lurker to Enterprise, one to beam up.
LOL, I think Shatner would be a funny president. He'd prob say something along the lines of "France, are you out of your Vulcan Mind!?!"
Posted by: muddy at July 3, 2004 03:11 PM"Lurker to Enterprise, one to beam up."
Yes, lurker, I too am waiting for the mother ship. You guys always knew *something* was "different" about me, huh? :-P
Posted by: mrs. muddy at July 3, 2004 05:32 PMhttp://msnbc.msn.com/id/5395999
Any apologies on overplaying the WMD present in Iraq will be welcomed. So will any apologies on bashing french and german people for sticking to the truth and asking for proof ...
Remember this is a bipartisan commission. I hope this information can make its way to your brain :
There are no WMD in Iraq.
What remains are left are of lower danger than anything you may find in other countries, or even build within the USA.
WASHINGTON - The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies fell victim to false “group think” when assessing Iraq’s weapons capabilities and produced overstated or incorrect conclusions that led the Bush administration to justify the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, according to a scathing Senate Intelligence Committee report released Friday.
A "series of failures ... led to the mischaracterization of the intelligence” on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the bipartisan, unanimous report said.
Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican who heads the committee, told reporters that assessments that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons and could make a nuclear weapon by the end of the decade were wrong.
“As the report will show, they were also unreasonable and largely unsupported by the available intelligence,” he said. “This was a global intelligence failure.”
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the senior Democrat on the committee, said some lawmakers, himself included, "would not have authorized that war ... if we had known then what we know now."
Roberts did not go that far, but said the war would have had to have been justified by some other reason, such as a humanitarian crisis.
At a rare news conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., deputy director John McLaughlin, who takes over as acting director after George Tenet leaves Sunday, said: “We get it. Although we think the judgments were not unreasonable when they were made nearly two years ago, we understand with all we have learned since then, that we could have done better.”
No Cheney influence found
The committee said it found no evidence that administration officials pressured agencies to change their judgments on Iraq weapons programs.
“The committee did not find any evidence that administration officials attempted to coerce, influence or pressure analysts to change their judgments related to Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction capabilities,” the 511-page report said.
It specifically cleared Vice President Dick Cheney, a leading advocate of the war, of accusations that he tried to bend the evidence to fit his agenda.
“The committee found no evidence that the vice president’s visits to the Central Intelligence Agency were attempts to pressure analysts" or were perceived as attempts, the report said.
President Bush called it a “useful report” about where the intelligence community “went short.”
“We need to know. I want to know. I want to know how to make the agencies better,” he said at a campaign stop Friday in Kutztown, Pa.