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What do Real Conservatives value?

* Real conservatives value fiscal insolvency, including irresponsible tax cuts, corporate giveaways, massive spending increases, huge undisclosed pork-barrel spending projects hammered out during congressional conference, rather than actual budget legislation on the Congressional floor that is open to the public and recorded in the public record. You know that conservatives value these things, because these are the things the vast majority of self-proclaimed conservatives do.

* Real conservatives do not value your personal liberties. They like disenfranchising voters, challenging voters, and making it more difficult to vote. They like it when the government is in your bedroom. They want to be able to spy on your personal files. They do not respect your right to privacy. They like to tell you who you can and cannot love, and what you can and cannot do to your own body. You know these are conservative values, because conservatives regularly pass laws of this nature.

* Real conservatives like to recklessly use the military They love war, and regularly resort to it as one of their first choices. They have no respect for the lives their policies destroy, as long as they have more bases overseas. They derive their values from violence, and detest peace. They will come up with any excuse possible, and cynically invent several more, to use force whenever possible, wherever possible. You know these are conservative values, because these are the actions conservatives take.

The Democrats suffered a loss. That's true. But if you were to listen to the wing-nuts, you'd think that everyone had turned Republican. The fact is, like with everything else, they're lying.

Right now, Bush has 59.1 million votes versus Kerry's 55.9 million. If you add to that the 1.2 million who voted 3rd party, you realize that 57 MILLION people don't want Bush as their President. I wouldn't be so damned cocky with numbers like that. Even Clinton won with 6% more votes than Bush Sr., and he was up against a viable third party candidate. Now Bush is acting like he's going to be some great unifier. Well, he had that chance over the past 4 years, and he failed miserably.

The only recourse now is to completely shut down the Republican agenda. While they may not be in the majority, Democrats in Congress can still reject any of Bush's judicial nominees. If Renquist retires, the Democrats should turn down EVERY one of Bush's nominees, until he changes his ways. At least until 2006, when we take back the Congress.

The Republicans have been highly effective at fear and hate mongering. Our goal from this day forward, is to show the public that only threat they face are conservatives. They will take your Social Security.... they will draft your son .... they will allow big corporations to harm you and give you nothing in return.... THESE are the people you should be afraid of. A gay person won't fire you, then refuse to give you unemployment.... a liberal won't pollute the air with toxins that give you cancer, and tell you everything is safe.... a Hollywood celebrity won't send your child into a war with inadequate equipment, then cut his benefits is he gets hurt... but REPUBLICANS WILL.

Don't be intimidated by Republican thugs who will pick and choose who they don't like to challenge. And thank God for Daschle for stopping these intimidation tactics in SD. Also, the Repugs are so desperate, they're trying to FAKE a scandal. But they've been caught again by the ever vigilant left.

Just a few more hours until we can celebrate President Kerry.

Hey look... it's the guy who planned the attack on us on September 11th, 2001. The same guy who Bush let get away in Tora Bora. The same guy who Bush ignored so he could go after Saddam Hussein. I'm thinking we really need a President who will actually capture Osama.

in the press conference:

when the Major was asked if any of the munitions removed were behind an IAEA seal.... he said, "No".

That means they didn't remove the stuff that went missing. I'm still holding out for the Martian excuse.

So, the wingnutters are all a-flutter about this DOD picture that "proves" that the Al QaQaa explosives were moved before the war.




Now, we get a map from the IAEA that shows the Al QaQaa facility, and where these explosives were located.



Notice that the DOD picture is centered on the area where the green square is. Now let's compare the two.



Hmmmm.... it looks like the trucks weren't even near the bunker that contained the HMX. Plus, the newest KSTB video shows the troops at a SEALED bunker AFTER the fall of the Bagdhad. And here's what David Kay (I think EVERYONE can agree that he's a bit more of an expert than any of us) says on CNN:

Aaron Brown: Was there anything else at the facility that would have been under IAEA seal?

David Kay: Absolutely nothing. It was the HMX, RDX, the two high explosives.

Why are the wing-nutters in such a fantasy world? Just accept the facts... Bush failed.

First the Red Sox win the World Series, now Kerry is a lock for the Presidency.

Remember those explosives that Bush didn't plan to have secured... the same explosives that got looted and are probably in the hands of terrorists right now? Well, amazingly a news crew from Minneapolis was at Al QaQaa with troops on April 18th, 2003... after Saddam could've had them removed, and after the Russians could've removed them, and after the Martians could've taken them. The first report is pretty tentative, but the follow-up is clear cut: BUSH DID NOT PLAN FOR THE POST-WAR... and now our troops are dying because of it. Not only that, but he STILL refuses to take ANY responsibility. There's no way to come back from this, folks. Even some of his most ardent supporters are asking some serious questions...

The Bushies have come up with about 10 different "excuses" for the missing explosives. And not surprisingly, NONE of them include the idea that, just maybe, Bush's "plan" for the war was not thought-out. I think they're just throwing out as many scenarios as possible, and they're hoping that Americans are too stupid to see through the lie.

First you have David Kay (who had people at the place) who says:

"I must say, I find it hard to believe that a convoy of 40 to 60 trucks left that facility prior to or during the war, and we didn't spot it on satellite or UAV. That is, because it is the main road to Baghdad from the south, was a road that was constantly under surveillance. I also don't find it hard to believe that looters could carry it off in the dead of night or during the day and not use the road network."

And the New York Times (reigstration required) evens talked to a few eyewitnesses that claim there was looting:

But a chemical engineer who worked at Al Qaqaa and identified himself only as Khalid said that once troops left the base itself, people streamed in to steal computers and anything else of value from the offices. They also took munitions like artillery shells, he said.

My prediction for today's Bush spin: Martian took the explosives... so now we need to go invade Mars.

There's a "leak" that the administration wants to add another 20,000 troops to Iraq .... and then there's another about Bush waiting to ask for another $70 billion.

Admittedly, these things are actually good. Kerry has been saying all along that we need more troops, and we need to fund them better. But with Bush and Co. pushing the "Iraq is going great" delusion, this is the last thing that needs to be coming out with only 6 days until the election. Plus, the continuing missing 380 tons of explosives story has gone two days without being acknowledged by the President, and now he's claiming that Kerry is "questioning the troops". That's been a pretty standard defense that the President puts on: It's not my fault... and if you say something bad about it, you're criticizing the troops. He did it with Tora Bora, and he's doing the same thing now. Isn't the President accountable for anything?