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The2ndWheel

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Thu Mar-16-06 05:08 PM
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Bone Thugs

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/03/17/120.html

Hardened cynics often accuse President George W. Bush of ruthlessly exploiting the tragedy of 9/11 to advance his preset agenda of killing a whole heap of foreigners. This is, of course, a calumnious slander against the Dear Leader's noble ambitions. For as he demonstrated last week, Bush is also exploiting the tragedy of 9/11 to advance his preset agenda of killing a whole heap of Americans as well.

In yet another one of those momentous degradations of public morality that go unremarked by the ever-vigilant watchdogs of the U.S. media, Bush slipped a measure into the revamped "Patriot Act" he signed last week that will allow him to expedite the death penalty process across the land, the Austin American-Statesman reports.

Prisoners just aren't being killed fast enough for ol' George, you see. They hang on for years and years, using all them lawyer tricks and court procedures, that DNA hocus-pocus and habeas corpus junk, or even new testimony showing they're innocent -- as if that mattered. No, you got to strap 'em down and shoot 'em up with that poison juice lickety-split, churn those convict corpses out like so much prime pork sausage, the way ol' George did it when he was head honcho down in Texas.

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gordianot

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Thu Mar-16-06 05:12 PM
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1. Russian's complaining about Capital Punishment in the United States?

Why would they do that Bush took a page out of their play book?

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MadMaddie

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Thu Mar-16-06 05:14 PM
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2. But the very fact that they find it appalling is something isn't it?

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gordianot

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Thu Mar-16-06 05:25 PM
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3. I have a feeling someday we may find out how the Germans felt in 1946.

I can see it now being forced to look at what we have destroyed in our name. The world held all Germans accountable. Why didn't they know or do something to stop it?

We may get the same accusation none of us are innocent.

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MadMaddie

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Thu Mar-16-06 05:32 PM
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4. You are right if we are unable to stop this...

We will all be held accountable!!

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acmejack

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Thu Mar-16-06 05:40 PM
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5. Rightly so.

Who, ultimately is responsible for the dead today in Samarra? The tortured dead in Abu Gharib & other hell holes of our creation scattered about the globe? We know, we sit on our asses, we are therefore complicit. We will all be damned in history, hopefully the damnation will extend only to history. I have a sense that next days shall determine that. Our own fates are irrevocably bound to that of Iran and that of inumerable innocents in war ravaged Iraq.

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The2ndWheel

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Thu Mar-16-06 06:01 PM
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6. Well it's Chris Floyd

As far as I know he's not Russian, but I know what you're trying to say.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php

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bemildred

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Thu Mar-16-06 06:29 PM
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7. Well, it is true they have an amazing record.

But then, who better able to comment than the experts?
Who else would really understand?

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