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| From Trotsky.
exasperating "......
Most American troops in Iraq believe the US should
withdraw within the next year, according to the first poll of US
military personnel there.
President
George W. Bush, whose overall approval rating fell to a new low of 34
per cent this week, has repeatedly said the US would finish the mission
in Iraq.But a Zogby International/Le Moyne College poll found
that only 23 per cent of US troops believed they should stay “as long
as they are needed”.Seventy-two per cent said the US should withdraw within 12 months, and 29 per cent said they should pull out immediately.
Meanwhile,
a CBS News poll this week recorded another record low for the president
– only 30 per cent of respondents approved of his handling of Iraq.John
Zogby, president of Zogby International, said US commanders in
Iraq unofficially gave approval for the poll of 944 respondents to take
place. It took place before last week’s bombing of the Golden Mosque in
Samarra.
Although Mr Bush has acknowledged that Iraq played no role in
September 11, 85% of the troops said the US mission was mainly
“to retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9/11 attacks”.
While Mr Bush
insists progress is being made in Iraq, US intelligence and military
officials increasingly fear a civil war.
General Michael Maples,
director of the Pentagon’s Defence Intelligence Agency, told a Senate
hearing on Tuesday: “We’re also in a very tenuous situation right now.”
........"
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e12cfe08-a889-11da-aeeb-0000779e2340.html
/85% still think Saddam = 9/11?
//bring them home alive.
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| Makes sense. "........
AKRON, Ohio - If an Ohio lawmaker's proposal becomes state law, Republicans would be barred from being adoptive parents.
State Sen. Robert Hagan sent out e-mails to fellow lawmakers late
Wednesday night, stating that he intends to "introduce legislation in
the near future that would ban households with one or more Republican
voters from adopting children or acting as foster parents." The e-mail
ended with a request for co-sponsorship.
Hagan said his legislation was written in response to a bill introduced
in the Ohio House this month by state Rep. Ron Hood, R-Ashville, that
is aimed at prohibiting gay adoption.
"We need to see what we are doing," said Hagan, who called Hood's
proposed bill blatantly discriminatory and extremely divisive. Hagan
called Hood and the eight other conservative House Republicans who
backed the anti-gay adoption bill "homophobic."
Hood's bill, which does not have support of House leadership, seeks to
ban children from being placed for adoption or foster care in homes
where the prospective parent or a roommate is homosexual, bisexual or
transgender.
To further lampoon Hood's bill, Hagan wrote in his mock proposal that
"credible research" shows that adopted children raised in Republican
households are more at risk for developing "emotional problems, social
stigmas, inflated egos, and alarming lack of tolerance for others they
deem different than themselves and an air of overconfidence to mask
their insecurities."
"It flies in the face of reason when we need to reform our education
system, address health care and environmental issues that we put energy
and wasted time (into) legislation (Hood's) like this," continued
Hagan, who has been in the Ohio Senate nine years. Before the Senate,
he served 19 years in the Ohio House.
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0223gop-adoption23-ON.html
/Makes just as much sense as banning same sex couples from adopting.
Thanks Trotsky.
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| From Trotsky.
"Let us never forget the sacrifices of America's military families." -George Bush 1/31/06 ".......
Peace
activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday in the House gallery after
refusing to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan before
President Bush's State of the Union address.
According to a blog
post on Michael Moore's Web site attributed to Sheehan, the T-shirt
said, "2,245 Dead. How many more?" -- a reference to the number of U.S.
troops killed in Iraq.
"She was asked to cover it up. She did not," said Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman.
House rules bar demonstrations in the galleries.
On
Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Bill Young, R-Florida, spoke on the House floor
saying his wife, Beverly, had been "ordered to leave" the gallery
during the speech for wearing a shirt that said, "Support Our Troops."
........"
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/31/sheehan.arrest/index.html?section=cnn_topstories
/At times, we all run out of toilet paper...but I think I'd use my hand before I'd use the constitution.
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| "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither"
-Ben Franklin
http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/2006/ProtestatGeorgetownUTorturePimp.asx
Thanks to Trotsky.
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