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First, we had the President of the United States of America reading My Pet Goat while New York and Washington D.C. were under attack.
Then, we had that same President of the United States of America playing with a guitar in Arizona while the city of New Orleans was being flooded with hurricane related water, and it's citizens were literally drowning in their attics, or collecting in the squalor that was the Super Dome, or even worse, the convention center. And then he blamed it on the city mayor.
Now, we are witnessing a war, partially created by the Bush Administration by ignoring that part of the Middle East for over 5 years, and we have American citizens trapped in Lebanon. Thousands of them. And all they have to do to get out, is pay for their own rescue!
The Republicans that have control of every aspect of the federal government can see fit to back cash giveaways to oil companies that are already making record profits off of the war that George W. Bush started in Iraq, and the subsequent occupation. They can see fit to flush literally billions of dollars a month away on a war that they told us would be paid for by Iraqi oil sales. And of course, they saw fit to give huge tax breaks to the wealthiest American's, who can also afford to send their children to college so they don't need the military service in Bush's War to pay for their education like so many middle and low income kids have to do. They even call it "voluntary" and of course those tax breaks make it even easier to pay for the rich kids education.
But we can't afford to pay for the rescue and safe return home for thousands of American's who are trapped in a war zone? We can't find the money to help parents with children remove themselves from the horror of falling bombs and terrorists walking down the streets? Only one or two days worth of money from Bush's War of Choice in Iraq would get every one of these American citizens home safely to family and friends.
But Bush and his "Secretary" of State don't think, because of their tawdry use of American taxpayer money to help their minions in business and their campaign contributors, that the government should pay for an American evacuation of it's citizens from a hostile, war-torn country?
They can easily get it done the way they do everything else! BORROW AND SPEND! If it's good enough for Exxon-Mobil, it should be good enough for Americans in Lebanon.
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