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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 09:17 AM
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Open letter to republicans
To the republicans:

Remember when you guys told us Bush would never invade Iraq, that he was just "saber-rattling"?
Remember when you guys said if there weren't WMDs, you'd call for Bush's impeachment?
Remember when you guys said There was no need for oversight at Gitmo because they were honorable american soldiers who would never abuse prisoners?
Remember when you guys said Iraq was involved in 9/11?
Remember when you guys said Bush was a good christian?
Remember when you guys said Saddam was evil because he tortured Iraqis?
Remember when you guys said we were liberating Iraq and they would throw flowers at our feet?
Remember when you guys said we were bringing democracy to Iraq?
Remember when you guys said there were no neocons?
Remember when you guys said it was tinfoil hat thinking to believe that the Bush administration was stovepiping intelligence?
Remember when you guys said Rove was not involved in outing Plame?
Remember when you guys said it was treason to disagree with the president? Now that fellow republicans are disagreeing, does that make them traitors, too?
Remember when you guys said there's no way americans would be held without trial or representation, that habeus corpus prevented that?
Remember when you guys said you were compassionate conservatives but you did nothing while black people drowned after Katrina?
Remember how you guys said comparisons of Bush to Hitler were reprehensible because Bush didn't have any secret torture camps?
Remember when you guys said there wouldn't be a permanent military presence in Iraq, and you denied the fourteen military bases were permanent?
Remember when you guys said all Iraq had to do was have an election and the insurgency would cease?
Remember when you guys said the Abu Ghraib photos were "just a few bad apples"?
Remember when you agreed that the Geneva Convention, the UN, and the Hague were irrelevant, but that we would never torture anyways, so being held accountable was an insult?
Remember when you guys said the media was liberal? Remember when you guys said Gannon, Armstrong, and Foxnews were not paid propaganda arms of the Bush administration?
Remember when you guys said it was unfair to bring up someone's military career (or lack of it)?
Remember when you guys said it was being paranoid to bring up the ghosts of McCarthyism concerning labeling dissent as treason?
Remember when you guys said having republicans control all three branches of government was not going to lead to rampant corruption?
Remember when you guys said republicans were into small government, and fiscal responsibility? Whatever happened to that?
Remember when you guys thought perjury was an impeachable offense, until just recently when you decided it was no big deal when republicans did it?
Remember when you guys said Saddam was evil for using chemical weapons?
Remember when you guys said we would never use White Phosphorous, napalm or indiscriminate weapons against our enemies because we are diligent in reducing accidental deaths among innocent civilians.

Remember all that?

I sure do.

And I'm not going to let you forget it, either.

You have elected, and aided and abetted a war criminal, bent on world domination, supporting of torture. Because of you, 2,400 or so american soldiers, brave heroes are dead, and because of you, well over a hundred thousand Innocents Iraqis have been slaughtered. Because of you, The US has alienated former allies, created countless new enemies, and brought the entire globe to the brink of world war.

And I'm not going to let you forget it, either.

This is YOUR FAULT, every damn one of you that voted for this administration, that apologized for it, that covered up its crimes, that spun reality in your favor, that ignored the tortured or trivialized their suffering, that attacked criticism as unpatriotic, that turned a blind eye to the growing fascism.

This is YOUR FAULT.

YOU created this monster.

have a nice day!
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 09:25 AM
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1. K & R....
Nice.
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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 09:29 AM
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2. Excellent!
Bravo! :applause:
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 09:30 AM
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3. Great post!
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AirmensMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 09:34 AM
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4. Excellent!
:kick:
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Poet Lariat Donating Member (275 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 09:42 AM
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5. Lest we forget...great reminders Lerkfish!
Printing this out to carry with me at all times. Recommending.
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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 09:50 AM
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6. One more
Remember when Bush complained that Clinton had not provided us with an exit strategy for getting out of the Balkans?
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 09:54 AM
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8. And yet another
Remember when candidate Bush said he would "not engage in so-called nation-building"?
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 09:51 AM
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7. Great post. It's beyond belief that the list is so long. Since the
bad news just keeps on coming, you tend to lose track of all that's gone on. Thanks for the reminder.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 09:56 AM
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9. and that was just off the top of my head. I'm sure if someone researched
it the list would be ten times as long.

Thanks for letting me rant, folks, and thanks for the K&Rs
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 10:19 AM
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10. *Bravo!*
This one has my Greatest vote! :woohoo:
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 11:59 AM
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11. thanks again, guys.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 12:38 PM
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12. Another point
Remember when they said the Iraqi oil would pay for the war and the reconstruction?

Bake
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nofurylike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 12:49 PM
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13. outstanding post! thank you, Lerkfish! eom
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 05:59 PM
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14. Well Said!
:thumbsup:

And a monster it has become, at that.
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chalky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 07:46 PM
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15. Recommended! (and copied....hope you don't mind!)
:)
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 07:56 PM
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16. why would I mind? go right ahead....
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 07:58 PM
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17. if you would like to see typical republican responses....
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=277040


This is the forum I left and came here...


:)

yeah, I'm being somewhat hardheaded in that thread, but ya gotta know the history.
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 03:13 AM
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23. Hardheaded, in this case, is a good thing.
Way to go...sticking to your guns.

You've got some serious idiots and apologists on that thread. And one really cool person who has a clue (besides you).
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 02:00 PM
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24. yeah, now the moderator there is warning me about personal attacks!
ROTFLMAO.

oh well.
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welshTerrier2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 08:10 PM
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18. GOP is the anti-government party
excellent, Lerkfish !!

it has never failed to amaze me that some Americans vote for GOP candidates after they preach the evils of government ... what did they expect to happen???

you're not going to get good government from a party that claims the Federal government is evil ...

bush and the neo-cons have waged war on the institutions of our government and they have done so very successfully ... we've been at war since bush took office ... our national parks and our air and our water are under attack ... there is no hope for the development of sustainable fuel sources while the oil lobby controls the party in power ... our jobs continue to move overseas ... money is playing an even larger role in our elections ... our media is increasingly corporate and increasingly consolidated ... programs to aid those in need are suffering cuts across the board ... powerful lobbies have a stranglehold on the Congress ... there is no national vision ... worst of all, America's soul is dying ...

the field is wide open for Democrats to craft a new future for the country ... the quiet days must end ... today is a day for bold, visionary leadership ... we don't just need to win the next election or two; we need a real Democratic tide that sets the nation on a new path ... our success will not derive from republican failures; our success will not derive from political machinations; the only true success we will realize will derive from a vision to make the lives of Americans better and a vision for peace, progress and prosperity throughout the rest of the world ...
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MellowOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 08:12 PM
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19. Sending it out in email to Republican friends n/t
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Robert Murphy Donating Member (305 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 08:53 PM
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20. Hear! Hear!
Excellent post.

Succinctly you cover all the bases. The verdict of history will be very severe to these SOBs. This one 'tain't going down the memory hole...

Robert
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Norrin Radd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 09:00 PM
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21. Two open letters to republicans: F and U
:D
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Road Scholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 09:00 PM
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22. There's a storm on the horizon, my repug friends, and it looks
like it's gonna be a category 5. It also looks like it's going straight up your ass. Paybacks gonna be hell.:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:
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Independent_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 06:16 PM
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25. Kick! Kick! Kick!
Kick the Republicans right in the ass!

:)
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kywildcat Donating Member (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 07:08 PM
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26. Excellent letter. Thank you! n/t
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