How much patience would King George ask us to have?

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Saturday March 24, 2007 · 5:15 AM PDT

2007/03/24 · 05:15

My apologies if this has been diaried sometime during the previous weeks and I missed it. During the previous two months, following the wonderful defeat of the republicans in Congress, we have been informed of a need for a 'surge' of troops in Baghdad and outlying regions. The people of this nation are no longer supportive of this needless debacle called Iraq. This was all Bush and his cronies, enabled by those in the Congress without the courage to vote against this criminal act. After January 2007, we finally have a Congress with some courage and a lady in charge who is more diplomatic than Condi Rice!

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Tuesday September 27, 2005 · 1:36 AM PDT

2005/09/27 · 01:36

John Tierney has a column posted in today's New York Times editorial section about human beings 2.0. I did not read the editorial section because I do not feel like paying the $50 dollar subscription fee. I did, however, view a brief synopsis of it in the electronic version of the Times. The column is about a breed of smarter and healthier humans which will eliminate the slow-witted, old-fashioned breed. I cannot imagine the republican party ever allowing this to happen because the elimination of slow-witted, old-fashioned people spells out their doomsday. Perhaps I am just being cynical because I still find it hard to understand how so many people would want to help bring about their own destruction by voting for bush in 2004.

What if Iraq was about more than oil?

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Monday August 22, 2005 · 4:26 PM PDT

2005/08/22 · 16:26

This is my first diary entry so please bear with me. I am retired military and I work within military communities. I, unfortunately, think that the Iraq debacle was about more than just oil. If we just look back at calendar years 2001 and 2002, our economy was tanking. Bush was not about to rescind his precious tax cuts but he needed to do something to stir up the economy, so...we have Iraq. Military personnel deploy for six plus months tax free and then come back to the United States to spend their income. All military personnel, including junior enlisted, now seem to have the latest and greatest from the electronic industry; laptop computers, portable dvd players, xboxes, etc., etc. Most are driving brand new, expensive automobiles. I am beginning to think that the only reason there has been any uplift in our economy is because military personnel returning from Iraq are so willing to spend all of their money they had saved while in a deployment status. Again, no facts, just what I see within the military community at large.

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How much patience would King George ask us to have?

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What if Iraq was about more than oil?