... that I'm unhappy that al-Zarqawi is dead. He was a vicious man who personally beheaded people. But I also read that a woman and child were killed in the airstrike. That, especially the child, deeply saddens me. Along with al-Zarqawi's martyrdom in the eyes of his people, the death of a child will also hold their attention.

It is a hollow victory.

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Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

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( Beware! )

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See, all the recent natural disasters have been blamed on Bush. Now we have a devastating earthquake in the region where Bin Laden is likely to be hiding out in a cave somewhere. He could be under a pile of rocks as we speak.

So, I think we should all hail Bush for having God strike down the terrorists where they live.

It's certainly as plausible as any of the other "Bush made this happen" scenarios that have been bandied about.

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( Please review carefully in case of terrorist attack or natural disaster )

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My response to a 55 Underground discussion.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

Free exercise includes, IMHO, the right to religious privacy. If my kid has to stand and say the Pledge with "under God" and she does not want to, she has two options. One, to suck it up in silence, or sit down and mark herself. Either way, her right to religious privacy has been taken at that moment. Include a Deity she does not follow in a sacred pledge, OR reveal herself.

If you think that sitting down is a harmless alternative, I give you my husband's experience in high school. He refused to stand for the Pledge, and a classmate physically leaped over a desk and attacked him. Within the pagan community, we have many stories of direct and subtle threats in relation to this.

So I'll leave with this small observance - it's about so much more than a couple of words. I refuse to put my child in a compromising moral position, or potential physical danger, because the popular kids' noses are out of joint at the idea of taking out those words. It's very easy to say, "what's the big deal," when you are in the position of not having to worry about such things.

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To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush:

Just for the record, I voted Libertarian this last election, because of how Bush handled things post-9/11.

Are we safer now than before 9/11?

Absolutely not. In fact, I believe our vulnerability is much more precarious now. I had a lot of faith in him during the early days…. he seemed to be quite capable of uniting the country and getting the job done. But once things really swung into motion, after the emotional connection had faded, he let us down badly.

And on this sacred day of remembrance, do you think we honor or shame those who died on 9/11/01? If we learned nothing and find ourselves today every bit as vulnerable and unprepared as we were on that bright sunny morning, then did the 3,000 die in vain?

I believe the American people as a people still honor them. I believe the Bush administration is giving it lip service. They did not die in vain, as America changed forever that day concerning its awareness of “what’s out there.” However, we have failed to monitor sufficiently the aftermath in terms of our civil liberties. That sense of “WTF?” is growing, but we let our patriotic fervor distract us from the concrete shoes we were being fitted with.

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I knew Bush was connected, but I didn't realize he could conjure up a hurricane!! Don't you have something constructive to do? Like donate $$ and other aid to homeless, hungry, dehydrated people? Have the "Reverends" Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton left Cindy's camp yet to lend spiritual relief to the people who really need it? I didn't think so. They can't get closeup shots in the Astrodome.

Oh, yeah, and global warming is called GLOBAL for a reason. And it's been warming up long before January 2001. So if that contributed to Katrina, you've got a long list of violators.

Had to say something; it's starting to spring up on so many forums.

EDIT: Thank you, drgndancer for this input.

"As a local, I'd like to point out that the essential problems are three fold. First, The levee system was designed to withstand a CAT III storm. It could have withstood a CAT III storm, instead it got hit by a strong CAT IV, that had been CAT V just hours before landfall. Essentially, if you build your box to withstand a wood workers claw hammer, it's going to be broken by a 20 pound sledge. It's not George Bush's fault that the systems was designed for a claw hammer.

Second, it has been obvious for years that the system needed to be redesigned to withstand a CAT IV storm. George is not the first president to balk at the expense involved in a total redesign. One _could_ blame him for this, but one would really have to blame every president for the last thirty years along side of him. He just happened to be standing when the music stopped."

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In emotional private meetings with the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Bush offers solace—and seeks some of his own.

Bush likes to play the resolute War Leader, and he has never been known for admitting mistakes or regret. But that does not mean that he is free of doubt. For the past three years, Bush has been living in two worlds—unwavering and confident in public, but sometimes stricken in private. Bush's meetings with widows like Crystal Owen offer a rare look inside that inner, private world.
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Poll #539277 Jane Fonda plans a nationwide tour to protest the Iraq war.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 16

How do you feel about this?

Here's the story behind the poll.

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