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Thanks for being polite, Glenn!
Actually, I'd like to know where you get your information about school construction. Here's a link to school construction grants in Illinois alone: http://www.cdb.state.il.us/schools/allgrants.pdf
Damon, is this the incident to which you refer? http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/32812.html If not, please do your homework and provide documentation so we can see what you're discussing. You have a bit of a reach from freedom of the press to WMDs, so let's extend it further - there was also nothing in your comment about the documentation that's being translated affirming other rationale for the invasion, particularly support for terrorism and al Qaeda. So "that don't [sic] prove much," either!
posted by
WriterofLight
on March 26, 2006 at 6:37 PM
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If Bush...
...is so keen on the freedom of the press, perhaps you might explain why Robert Fisk, the award-winning Middle East correspondant, was turned back at a US airport, stopped from attending a conference on the Iraqi war?
But you're right - I can't find anything in the quote that suggests he is muzzling the press and taking away hard-won American rights.
On the other hand, there wasn't anything in his speeches in the run-up to the invasion about the total lack of WMDs, so that don't prove much!
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posted by
DamonLeigh
on March 24, 2006 at 3:02 AM
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Scoop,
Where is CBS getting it's information? We have not built 45 schools here in America! I remember the old numbers were like 1700 new schools built! What happened? Bush, You, WriterofLight, Corbin Dallas, Corporate Media, et al ... are all full of your "White Manure" (did not want to use profanity, might get blocked)!
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Glennb
on March 23, 2006 at 10:11 PM
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I am impressed, Scoop!
No kidding - CBS ran that? I am amazed!
And we were greeted as liberators, as my younger son reported, but not by all Iraqis. I don't think anyone foresaw the terrorists (to call them what they are) as needing so long to wipe out, but I think a lot of them are coming from Iran. Much of their munitons certainly are.
posted by
WriterofLight
on March 23, 2006 at 7:56 PM
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WriterofLight,
I cannot stress this enough!!! George Bush invaded Iraq for as yet unstated reasons! Everyone else is just speculating! It is costing a lot of humanity! So let the carnage continue in perpetuity! Let us see who runs out of ammo first! And George Bush as Commander-In-Chief is the "war criminal"! And just-so-happen, there is a recently vacated cell in the Hague! They can use Air Force One to get him there, its only one-way!
posted by
Glennb
on March 23, 2006 at 7:37 PM
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Writeroflight
1.I believe there is good news in Iraqt but in the three years we have been there the violence has overwhelmed the reconstruction and they are way behind in projects that they thought would be a breeze.
Electricity, according to the Iraqis is worse then before the war.
In the begining they sent Bernie Kerik over to handle the police, he lasted 6 months or less. They never felt the insurgency would be this tough.
2.Harry Reid is an idiot.
3. President Bush is OK, he is just surrounded by bad advisors.
This past Sunday CBS on Sunday Morning reported this about the United States; "We've built 45 schools and rebuilt 2,800. We've refurbished 110 health clinics and immunized practically every small child in the country. Before the war just over 800,000 people had telephones in Iraq. Now, it's 4.6 million, mostly cell phones."
The problem is this most people today remember Vietnam which went on for years.
Desert Storm was a cake walk compared to Iraq. And after being told we would be greeted as liberators in Iraq and now seeing all the deaths as we head into year four, people have a different outlook.
posted by
scoop
on March 23, 2006 at 7:37 PM
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