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DEAR FRIENDS

Over this past weekend I have eaten a lot of turkey, potatoes, stuffing, pies and many other items that come with these meals… I wonder if we should eat so much with so many going hungry and with native people still be treated as second class citzens in their own land… we must continue our struggle for the protection of the human rights of all.

 

NOW FOR MY VIEW OF THE NEWS

a.      and the war goes on

b.      alberto gonzalez

c.       oral roberts university

d.      organize your vote

e.       the draft

f.        commentary …good riddance

 

…AND THE WAR GOES ON

We still continue to lose lives and while the military says that the surge has kept death down it has at the same time not created the space for political reconciliation with in Iraq.

We need to tell the Maliki government that we are leaving and make them find a way to work with all parties..

Recently  the Voters of Australia have defeated a staunch Bush supporter. Prime Minister John Howard lost to Labor Leader Kevin Rudd …and his party suffered a decisive defeat.  Many saw Howard as being too tied to George Bush.  Rudd has promised in the campaign to bring home their 550 combat troops.

And Poland’s New Prime Minister Donald Tusk has promised to remove their 900 troops in the next year. The so called Coalition of the Willing as Bush like to call them are down to only 10 countries and around only 2,000 troops. There is almost no international support for this war and it is a waste of our money and the lives of so many.

We can not lose another American life there and we can not continue to destroy the lives of so many Iraqis ….We need to get out and get out immediately.

 

ALBERTO GONZALEZ

Alberto who Can’t remember many things was paid $40,000 to speak at a university…At his first talk at Florida University… students stood up to protest him …Funny that he can now give long speeches about politics when he could not recall or remember…when in front of congressional committees…

We should all join in on protests when he comes to your area…

ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY …

            Richard Roberts president and son of the founder Oral Roberts resigns

Fired professors sued the university when they could not negotiate a settlement and this amongst all the information they released got Richard fired… his misspending of monies and some peculiar activities by his wife brought this all to a head and he had to resign…What is happening with these evangelical leaders…?? And to think that they preached to us about MORALITY…

REGISTERING AND ORGANIZING OUR VOTES..

It does seem a bit early but I wanted to get all of you thinking about organizing and getting our local leadership involved. Develop a good plan with family and friends and you can increase the vote. Many elections will be very close in 2008 and we need to have our folks raising their voices through voting…There is a lot at stake and we need to begin setting the foundation for 2008.

Take a moment and learn all you can about absentee voting …that’s the way I do it ..Thus I don’t have to worry about lines on election day…thus I have more time to turning out the vote…

THE DRAFT …

A State Dept. Program

Many State Department employees do not want to be assigned to the work in Iraq and if enough do not sign up then they will be drafted… This will become even more difficult the after the first State Department Employee is killed by rockets landing in the GREEN ZONE…once the rockets start hitting key targets the USA  will reconsider their strategy…

ed, Nov. 21, 2007
Commentary: Good riddance to them all
Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers

There was little for the unindicted co-conspirators of the Bush administration to give thanks for this week as the clock winds down on the 14 months they have left in power.

With former White House press secretary Scott McClellan spilling the beans on who told him to lie to the American people and cover up the White House’s responsibility for the criminal act of revealing the identity of a covert CIA officer, it clearly was time for some folks to begin drafting their requests for presidential pardons.

McClellan, in a forthcoming book that will tell some, if not all, reveals that his 2003 statements absolving top White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby of any involvement in leaking the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame were untrue — and that the orders to make those statements came from President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, White House chief of staff Andrew Card, Rove and Libby.

McClellan’s revelation makes it abundantly clear that a subsequent statement by Bush that White House aides had no involvement in outing Ms. Plame, and that anyone who did would be fired was also, shall we say, inoperative.

It also confirms long-held suspicions that the whole despicable affair — an attempt to punish former Ambassador Joseph Wilson for debunking a bit of the bogus intelligence the administration wheeled out to justify invading Iraq — was orchestrated in the offices of Bush and Cheney, and with their knowledge.

It also might shed new light on why Bush quickly commuted Cheney’s hatchet man Libby’s prison sentence after he was convicted on four counts of lying to federal investigators. It simply wouldn’t do to have Libby rolling over on his bosses.

Somehow, I have a strong feeling that this isn’t the only or the last revelation of wrong-doing and criminality that we’re likely to hear before and after Bush and Co. leave office, or that additional presidential acts of clemency will be needed to spare other top administration officials from prison and buy their silence.

What we’ve witnessed and endured during seven long years of the Bush presidency is the inevitable consequence of bringing vicious and unprincipled but successful political campaigners — attack dogs — into top White House jobs.

The idea that a political campaign should address any and all criticism by going for the throats of those who dare to question it may work on election day but it doesn’t work, or shouldn’t, when the full weight and power of the federal government is put behind it.

We are a better people and this is a better country than that, and this is why, when it’s weighed and judged, the Bush presidency will be found to have perverted not only our system but also the very principles on which our nation was founded.

We don’t rush into a war that has cost so many lives and so much national treasure, and has so damaged our standing in the world, based on a tissue of lies. But under the leadership of George W. Bush, that’s what we did in Iraq.

We don’t stand idly by, backs turned and eyes closed, while in wartime our friends and political contributors loot the national treasury of billions of taxpayer dollars. But the Bush administration and a Republican-controlled Congress did just that.

We don’t send our soldiers and Marines into combat without enough of everything they need to fight, survive and win. But that’s what this administration and its political operatives in charge of the Pentagon did.

We don’t turn the office of the attorney general and key parts of the Justice Department into a branch of a partisan political campaign — gutting offices charged with protecting the civil rights of minorities and directing the prosecution of those of a different political party — but this administration did.

We don’t declare war and then expect that the entire sacrifice will be borne by the half a percent of our population who wear uniforms. We don’t fight a long and costly war by cutting taxes on the wealthiest Americans and borrowing trillions of dollars to finance it from foreign competitors such as China. But this administration did.

We don’t prosecute a war to spread democracy by curtailing democracy and suspending the Bill of Rights at home. We cannot promote our principles abroad by denying the same principles — the right to a lawyer, the right to a fair trial, the right to be secure in our homes — to ourselves. But this administration did.

We don’t beat or torture confessions out of prisoners in violation of our laws and the laws of the civilized world. We don’t lock people up and hold them incommunicado for years without charges or trials. But this administration did and does.

We don’t applaud and cheer an administration and a Congress that make the rich vastly richer, the middle class less secure and the poor even poorer. But this administration has done just that, in violation of our principles and the principles of love, peace and charity that are engrained in the Christianity that these rogues and charlatans embrace so publicly but violate every day.

It will be a good day when they are gone, and good riddance to them all.

McClatchy Newspapers 2007

LAUGH A LITTLE

Take some time out to see a good movie or a comedy routine that might give you a chance to laugh and smile… this is part of our health program…laughter and fun

I send my best

Leno

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