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unhappycamper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 08:33 AM
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Letter from Montana: What the Bushvolk Have Done to America
Letter from Montana: What the Bushvolk Have Done to America
by Doug Giebel | Aug 10 2007 - 9:03am


Having spun out many words over the disaster in Iraq, about President Bush and the disaster wrought by Bushvolk in Washington, D.C., I now conclude that there is little more to be said regarding either disaster that hasn't already been said. Even diehard John Burns, top New York Times man in Baghdad and on Charlie Rose, is moving out, reluctantly admitting that the disaster in Iraq has been a lost cause from the beginning. Maybe he should have said "before the beginning." Wonder what else is new at the Times.

In their soundbites and stump mouthsfull, the shout and spend candidates hoping to star as next President of these United States have mostly nothing new to say either, whether or not somebod'ys foot is in the mouth of the campaigners. Their trail mix of rhetoric sounds about as appetizing at it always does. Message: It's o.k. You go on dying, redeploying, starving, going deeper into debt, living in decaying and dangerous "infrastructures." It's no big deal. Just wait until "I" get in the what-me-worry White House and everything's gonna be coming up daffodils.

As for that confusing occupation of Iraq, the people of these United States seem pretty united and want to end the blood-and-guts bath soon as possible. Only politicians and our war-hungry milidustrial complex seem hellbent on baiting Armegeddon for the most craven of reasons.

Hot afternoons out here, Montana is burning, the rains aren't coming, the National Guard is occupied elsewhere, people coughing from the smoke-filled air can't afford health insurance for their own personal infrastructures, and it's harder than ever to make and hold onto a buck or two. Same as a lot of other places in America and in Iraq. The deep-pocket tenderfeet and their bought-and-paid-for politicians control the deck and deal from the bottom as usual.

No rube in Montana should have the right to tell you that the Bushvolk came into office to bankrupt the country so as to get rid of bleeding-ulcer programs they despise -- but that's what I wrote to you several years ago. And sure enough, that's what the Bushvolk and a rear-kissing Congress did and continue to do by dragging out the madhouse occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Over here, though, everything's hunky-dory because instead of asking us to park our shootin' irons at the saloon front counter they make us take off our boots in the airport. To the chagrin of those terrorists, they've made American socks and feet a whole lot more pleasant.

No rube in Montana should have the right to tell you that the Bushvolk and their many manly minions were planning to inhabit and occupy Iraq for ages to come, but that's what I wrote several years ago, and wouldn't you just know, they're still planning to make Iraq the 51st state. Where else would the world's most brilliant leaders build the world's largest embassy but in the middle of Baghdad? Instead of Gene Autry, suddenly from behind a big rock, Ozymandias rides out of the sand to whoop it up and rule again.


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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 08:38 AM
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1. You know, I'm a rube from MT and I wrote the same thing
about Iraq in a column in April 2003 for the Arizona Daily Wildcat. And then again in May. People thought I was nuts. I wasn't. Last weekend one of the people who thought I was nuts called me and apologized and said I was completely right on everything. Go figure.

Great article. I have friends and family members who had to move out of their homes in MT, because of the fires. It's a bad deal.
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 10:19 AM
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2. k&r eom
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here_is_to_hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 11:38 AM
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3. Former resident of Columbus, MT....
...and I had a website up for a few years that covered National and State news...
I was attacked constantly for saying many of the same things. I was the most hated/most loved blogger in Montana in 2005... http://wulfgar.typepad.com/a_chicken_is_not_pillage/2005/11/montana_weblog_.html , spun and spinning.
But everything I was saying back then was true then and true now yet no one listened really. The same old tired arguments and attacks, every day. The hate and stupidity was too much for me and I gave in and moved.
I go back now through the archives of the wingers there...just disgusting.
I still own a few sections back there but it will be some time before I bother going back.
And dont get me started on Lee Enterprises....
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