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I think Scalzmoney is trying to say that Mohommed Atta isn't important enough to deserve a picture. And, I agree with that. The 9/11 bombers were all chumps, being manipulated for by a much greater evil. I think a picture of Bin Laden would be quite appropriate in a gallery of evildoers, but not Atta.

Scalzmoney--I think you're not reading people's posts carefully enough before you react. You've spent a lot of words in your post below trying to convince me of the evils of Bush, and you're totally preaching to the choir. As far as I can tell, you're more or less preaching to the choir when it comes to Jumpy, too.

In truth, I'm absolutely shocked and horrified by the damage Bush is doing to my native country and the entire world--it's like a bad dream that never stops. I'm a pretty forgiving person, and I might soften on Bush a LITTLE, if he didn't keep trying to prove an utterly bogus and thoroughly disproved link between 9/11 and Iraq, comparing opponents of the war to Nazi appeasers, and all other kinds of shameless, scumbag tactics.

Hell, to get into another issue entirely, I'm even angrier about his stance on global warming, which which I think in a few decades will, unfortunately, make terrorism look like a trifling episode in retrospect. Even the Pentagon, hardly a nest of tree-hugging environmentalists, issued a report on global warming a couple of years back that was far scarier than anything any environmental group has ever come up with, and here's Bush hiding his head in the sand and hararrasing government scientists for reporting the facts.

Make no mistake about it: history is going to squash the Bush legacy like a cockroach under the wheels of a tank. It's no longer a question of "if" but simply "when." The most horrible thing is that we are letting him gravely damage our country and the world in the meantime. Yes, he IS worse than Bin Laden--not because he's a more evil man than Bin Laden is (I think that Bin Laden is actually far more evil at heart) but simply because Bush is the head of the most powerful country in the world, and he is far beyond wrong for that position--he's an complete disaster.

With that in mind, I love Roger's "save all of our bacon, vote Democrat" thing, and then "impeach Bush" on the ass of the pig, because it hits the nail on the head. In the fairly unlikely event that the Dems win both houses of Congress (most likely, they'll win back one), Bush will probably be impeached, and that's the single best thing that could happen to Planet Earth at this point.

So, yeah, as you can see, I'm not at all fond of Bush. But, Jumpy is still making a valid point, and you're jumping on someone who is trying to use his brain, while far too many people have theirs completely turned off. One of the best things about the American left is that we actually allow people to have different points of view rather than having "talking points" which everyone repeats like robots. And, while our disunity makes us weaker in the short run, in the long run, it's exactly why America needs us so desperately at this point. We really need people to be using their brains, even if it leads them to positions that we don't agree with.



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09-12-2006 07:47 AM
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