Perhaps, everyone could write a letter to their local paper, saying just this much.
Joanna
Joseph Wanzala wrote:
> Two items:
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> Hopefully some of you caught the embarrassing performance by John
> Kerry and John Edwards on 60 Minutes last night. They were
> Clintonesque in the way they hedged and parsed everything they were
> saying.
>
> Leslie Stahl asked Kerry directly: "Are you for or against the war?"
>
> Kerry: "I'm against the way in which the Bush administration got us
> into the war."
>
> Stahl tried her question about three more times: "But are you for or
> against the war?" Kerry kept repeating his hedgy answer, and Edwards
> joined him, insisting that they had answered the question.
>
> For all people still in pathological denial about the Democrats and
> war, get it straight. The Democrats answer to the same interests, and
> are just as war-mongering, as the Republicans. The only difference is
> that Democrats smile while they kill people, and are more imaginative
> about creating the excuses to do it.
>
> The sickest part is that Americans have always supported "strong"
> presidents who "like" war. Post-9/11 conditioning has made this even
> stronger. (If Kerry simply said, "Yes I'm for the war". I think his
> poll numbers would actually increase.)
>
> This could all be a moot point, of course. See below.
>
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> 7/12/04
>
> Essay: Postponement of the November Election - by Michael C. Ruppert
>
> - The Bush administration has asked for legislation enabling it to
> postpone the November election as a result of a terror attack. While
> worded very carefully to suggest that an attack must take place for
> such a move; I do not see either of the below stories unequivocally
> state that, if granted, these powers might not also permit elections
> to be “postponed†on merely a well-publicized threat. Don’t
> believe the press stories. Read the legislation when it is introduced
> to see what it says there. If that discretion is included then we are
> at the edge of an abyss more dangerous than anything we have ever faced.
>
> Read Now at http://www.fromthewilderness.com
>
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