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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 03:09 AM
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Opinion: "The Bush-haters. Are they winning?" (Brace yourself!)
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Lee Ellis
May 30, 2005

This week, I read a newspaper column obviously written from the talking points of the far Left. These points have been created in order to breed hatred of President Bush, his Republican Administration and all that they have done to stop terrorism.

This type of malicious propaganda is being spread across America, not just in letters to the editor and in opinionated news stories in the main stream media, but it is also being written into many Hollywood movie and TV scripts. Perhaps Joe McCarthy is not the villain we think he was when he complained, back in the early fifties, that the Communists had infiltrated Hollywood.

In my newspaper, a former academician (Note: MERCY don't these people hate learned folks?) had written, in essence, that Bush had lied about Iraq, that he is responsible for the thousands of deaths in the Middle East and should be impeached or brought to trial. He wrote, "… He (President Bush) couldn't be more directly responsible for the estimated 100,000 lost lives.… Our psyches cannot process this daily Iraqi carnage…" My answer to this Antonio Gramsci inspired teacher, and other far-left professors or columnists, is as follows:

Without an oasis of freedom in the heart of the Middle East, we would have had no place to fight the civilian terrorist thugs who want to kill all infidels. They would be over here, in America, doing their damage and carnage. Remember, it is easy for civilians to enter here across our northern or southern borders. Remember, too, that we are not fighting a military -- a uniformed army; we are trying to stop criminal gangs who gather from many countries to murder us. They would prefer to do this not on a battlefield, but in our restaurants, our theatres, our stadiums and our schools! :scared: Is it not better that we fight them on their turf, rather than here where their suicide-bomber vehicles could leave our American cities in ruins, perhaps for years with radioactive explosives, or where these vicious enemies would trod roughshod over the dead bodies of our innocent American men, women and children as these terrorists took a theatre, church or a school group hostage. :crazy: ....

http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/lellis_20050530.html
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 03:16 AM
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1. Dear Lee Ellis,
You are found guilty of abetting war crimes and are under American citizens arrest! :grr:
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 03:21 AM
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4. This is like a cult already!
NO critical thinking on the Bushbot's part, just regurgitation of all the propaganda that Bush has "catapulted"!
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 03:32 AM
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6. To the doo doo ditto heads, it doesn't seem to matter what Dumbya does.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 01:11 PM
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14. snarf
re: how come my boyfriends have to sleep with you!
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 03:18 AM
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2. The answer is not easy. Reminds me of the Nazi "Stürmer"...
A worse piece of blatantly lying propaganda is hard to find.


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!
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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 03:19 AM
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3. Says he's 80 years old.
Apparently they need to up his meds. Sad, sad man.
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Binka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 03:22 AM
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5. Fuckwittage Ellis Antonio Gramsci Was A FUCKING HERO
Edited on Tue May-31-05 03:23 AM by Binka
"For the next few years, Gramsci devoted most of his time to the development of the factory council movement, and to militant journalism, which led in January 1921 to his siding with the Communist minority within the PSI at the Party's Livorno Congress. He became a member of the PCI's central committee, but did not play a leading role until several years later. He was among the most prescient representatives of the Italian Left at the inception of the fascist movement, and on several occasions predicted that unless unified action were taken against the rise of Mussolini's movement, Italian democracy and Italian socialism would both suffer a disastrous defeat."

Senor Ellis can go fuck himself.

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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 04:30 AM
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10. cute kid!
need a spare dad? :hi:
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Binka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 05:35 AM
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13. Need A Spare Wife?
:hi: I'm a real good horse handicapper. It's a nice skill when money gets tight.
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 03:32 AM
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7. "Joe McCarthy...complained..." COMPLAINED??? McCarthy *ruined* lives!
And as for the 80-year-old Lee Ellis, author of this steaming editorial turd, it goes to show that even members of the "greatest generation" are subject to being taken over by the BushCo body-snatchers. Lee manages to squeeze in every RW bogus talking-point spewed out over the last several months.
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Ruffhowse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 03:39 AM
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8. Obviously this guy drank long and hard from the Kool-Aid pitcher. To
spend any more time or effort trying to refute his foolishness would be twice as foolish indeed. These aren't the types we need to convert, but the folks in the middle who are wavering between BushCo propaganda and truth. If we can convince enough of them the rightness of our cause, Chimpy and his minions will be history soon enough.
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 04:25 AM
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9. 'all that they have done to stop terrorism.'
Huh? Where is this moran living? Certainly not on this planet. Hey dumb f*ck, terrorism has increased DRASTICALLY since the idiot allowed the 911 attacks to occur.

I hate these people with a passion. They feel that it is ok to invade and occupy another country for the purpose of fighting a battle somewhere else rather then here?????


The US military is by definition a terrorist organization.

These people are disgusting, selfish , arrogant pricks. Yes, I hate them. Each and every one. Conservatism is a cancer that needs to be cut out.
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Kindigger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 04:53 AM
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11. Even more putrid...something from someone I know.
I tried to educate my daughter by email during the election. She never read anything I sent, just referred it to Grandpa Jim. She would then send me HIS reply.

If I ever meet Grandpa Jim, I think I'll put his eyes out with a pickle fork, and scatter his entrails through downtown Atlanta. I also can't wait to tell my daughter (who hates me) "I told you so".

I had sent the "California Recession" letter. Here's his reply:

Manda, When people make a statement like the one below it is because they don't understand why we HAVE to
be in Iraq. It's this way. Iran have the ability to build an atomic bomb.One that could destroy the city of New York
or any other major city in the US could be hidden in a van. Drive the Interstate to the center of Atlanta
(with a suicide bomber driving the van) and all of Atlanta and Conyers is gone!!!!!!!!!
If we leave Iraq, then Iran and Syria will attack us with atomic weapons.. That simple..
Support George W...He has back bone and our home land will not be attacked again as it was on 9-11
If the military would let me in I would go to Iraq to help so you and Katlyn would be safe.
With Love.....Papa Jim .....

They have tons of kids they're willing to send to their deaths for
absolutely no purpose. And they don't care if you don't show pictures
of
their kids' caskets coming home.

:mad: I want my daughter back. :cry:
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mahina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 05:09 AM
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12. My heart goes out to you....
:hug:
My Mom and I agree politically and I love her, couldn't imagine how it would hurt if the idiot king "uniter" weaseled between us. Good luck, love her no matter what and I pray she will come around. Poor thing. Be strong, God bless
Aloha
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Redleg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 01:46 PM
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15. Then why didn't we invade Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq?
Edited on Tue May-31-05 01:50 PM by Redleg
Most of the 9-11 terr'ists were Saudis.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 02:44 PM
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16. Shhhh
Don't try to make sense with these people. Iraq was a huge threat, did you want your first warning to be a mushroom cloud? :crazy:
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-05 02:51 PM
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17. Lee Ellis, What flavor is that Kool-Aid anyway?
I hope it was extra tasty. :banghead:
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