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PoliAnna.com was founded to provide moral support, guidance and the truth for everyone tired of seeing American ideals getting pushed around by dishonest right wing, loudmouth bullies.
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Wing
nuts on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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Just
to remind our readers who Mr. Aznar is: one of the few heads of
state to defy their people's will and join Bush's adventure in
Iraq. His nation's overwhelming opposition to the war (92%) led
to his defeat in March of 2004. His Popular Party has strong ideological
ties to the fascist Franco regime.
What is this guy doing in an American op-ed page?! It is an outrage
that he thinks he can come here and tell us what a patriot is,
and basically accuse 56 million Americans of joining forces with
the terrorists.
Read
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| "George
W. Bush has not only had to face the enemies of democracy but also
stand up to a front of rejection made up of various different groups,
a veritable negative coalition whose only unifying principle was
to ensure that he was defeated." |
The
association here is clear. Americans who oppose Bush's policies
are with the terrorists, and un-American enemies of democracy! |
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| "Some
observers believed that the majority would now pronounce itself
to be against the decision to go to Afghanistan and Iraq in order
to prevent the terrorist threat from rising. The temptation of comfort
and convenience is a powerful one." |
More
of big lie strategy - conflating Iraq with the war on terrorism,
even in the victory gloating. One more time - Iraq was not involved
in 9/11, it has only become a terrorist hive since we invaded.
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| "The
American people have decided that the best option is to offer a
new mandate to Mr. Bush. If not, the achievement of these elections
would be inexplicable: an extensive margin between the two candidates....
Mr. Bush has managed to consolidate a movement that has been emerging
for some years. He has managed to consolidate a natural conservative
majority in his country." |
3%
is not "extensive". In fact a better adjective might
be 'marginal'. There is no"natural conservative majority".
only
35% of voters call themselves "conservative" (and
15% of them voted for Kerry). |
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| "Over
the last few months we have witnessed numerous attempts to introduce
and exploit issues that have the greatest capacity to create divisions.
Power has been abused, and a damaging sense of polarization has
set in. Hatred has been promoted in the place of understanding.
Unity has been replaced with division." |
All
too true. The gay marriage amendment was a red-herring wedge issue.
Bush has used executive power to keep secrets, reward his cronies
and punish his enemies. And he squandered the nation's great unity
after 9/11 by choosing to invade Iraq, which the Republicans used
as their main campaign issue in the 2002 midterms. . |
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| Bush's
"policy does not shy away from unpleasant realities, but faces
up to them, because it knows that this is the only way of overcoming
them." |
Memo
from the reality-based community: Iraq had no WMDs. Saddam was not
behind 9/11. National Intelligence Estimates on Iraq is that we
are losing. (Best case: "tenuous
stability.") |
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Just
to remind our readers who Mr. Aznar is: one of the few heads of
state to defy their people's will and join Bush's adventure in Iraq.
His nation's overwhelming opposition to the war (92%) led to his
defeat in March of 2004. His Popular Party has strong
ideological ties to the fascist Franco regime.
What is this guy doing in an American op-ed page?! It is an outrage
that he thinks he can come here and tell us what a patriot is, and
basically accuse 56 million Americans of joining forces with the
terrorists.
Once more time: The Iraq war was a profound diversion from the real
war on terrorism. It was sold to the American people and the
world on false evidence, and assumptions. There were no WMDs, and
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. However, Saudi Arabia did. Iran
supports terrorist organizations, including the Hezbollah guerrillas
that killed 241 American soldiers in Lebanon in 1983. They now are
making nuclear weapons. So is North Korea. Both of these countries
would sell nuclear weapons to terrorist groups. America's ability
to stop them is greatly diminished. We have far less 'political
capital' in the world, to use putting coalitions together because
of the Iraq war.
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