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NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City is creating the nation's first public high school for gays, bisexuals and transgender students.
The Harvey Milk High School will enroll about 100 students and open in a newly renovated building in the fall. It is named after San Francisco's first openly gay city supervisor, who was assassinated in 1978.
"I think everybody feels that it's a good idea because some of the kids who are gays and lesbians have been constantly harassed and beaten in other schools," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday. "It lets them get an education without having to worry."
The school is an expansion of a two-classroom public school program that began in 1984. A gay-rights youth advocacy group, the Hetrick-Martin Institute, has managed and financed the program since its inception.
The new school's principal, William Salzman, said the school will be academically challenging and will follow mandatory English and math programs. It also will specialize in computer technology, arts and culinary arts.
State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long criticized the creation of the school.
"Is there a different way to teach homosexuals? Is there gay math? This is wrong," Long said. "There's no reason these children should be treated separately."
The Hetrick-Martin Institute's Web site says the school will give its students "an opportunity to obtain a secondary education in a safe and supportive environment. ... We believe that success requires the ability to respect and value the diverse human community."
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Thursday, July 17th, 2003
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| Time: | 2:04 pm. |
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The spies who pushed for war
Julian Borger reports on the shadow rightwing intelligence network set up in Washington to second-guess the CIA and deliver a justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force
Thursday July 17, 2003
The Guardian
As the CIA director, George Tenet, arrived at the Senate yesterday to give secret testimony on the Niger uranium affair, it was becoming increasingly clear in Washington that the scandal was only a small, well-documented symptom of a complete breakdown in US intelligence that helped steer America into war.
It represents the Bush administration's second catastrophic intelligence failure. But the CIA and FBI's inability to prevent the September 11 attacks was largely due to internal institutional weaknesses.
This time the implications are far more damaging for the White House, which stands accused of politicising and contaminating its own source of intelligence.
According to former Bush officials, all defence and intelligence sources, senior administration figures created a shadow agency of Pentagon analysts staffed mainly by ideological amateurs to compete with the CIA and its military counterpart, the Defence Intelligence Agency.
The agency, called the Office of Special Plans (OSP), was set up by the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to second-guess CIA information and operated under the patronage of hardline conservatives in the top rungs of the administration, the Pentagon and at the White House, including Vice-President Dick Cheney.
The ideologically driven network functioned like a shadow government, much of it off the official payroll and beyond congressional oversight. But it proved powerful enough to prevail in a struggle with the State Department and the CIA by establishing a justification for war.
Mr Tenet has officially taken responsibility for the president's unsubstantiated claim in January that Saddam Hussein's regime had been trying to buy uranium in Africa, but he also said his agency was under pressure to justify a war that the administration had already decided on.
How much Mr Tenet reveals of where that pressure was coming from could have lasting political fallout for Mr Bush and his re-election prospects, which only a few weeks ago seemed impregnable. As more Americans die in Iraq and the reasons for the war are revealed, his victory in 2004 no longer looks like a foregone conclusion.
The White House counter-attacked yesterday when new chief spokesman, Scott McClellan, accused critics of "politicising the war" and trying to "rewrite history". But the Democratic leadership kept up its questions over the White House role.
The president's most trusted adviser, Mr Cheney, was at the shadow network's sharp end. He made several trips to the CIA in Langley, Virginia, to demand a more "forward-leaning" interpretation of the threat posed by Saddam. When he was not there to make his influence felt, his chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was. Such hands-on involvement in the processing of intelligence data was unprecedented for a vice-president in recent times, and it put pressure on CIA officials to come up with the appropriate results.
Another frequent visitor was Newt Gingrich, the former Republican party leader who resurfaced after September 11 as a Pentagon "consultant" and a member of its unpaid defence advisory board, with influence far beyond his official title.
An intelligence official confirmed Mr Gingrich made "a couple of visits" but said there was nothing unusual about that.
Rick Tyler, Mr Gingrich's spokesman, said: "If he was at the CIA he was there to listen and learn, not to persuade or influence."
Mr Gingrich visited Langley three times before the war, and according to accounts, the political veteran sought to browbeat analysts into toughening up their assessments of Saddam's menace.
Mr Gingrich gained access to the CIA headquarters and was listened to because he was seen as a personal emissary of the Pentagon and, in particular, of the OSP.
In the days after September 11, Mr Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, mounted an attempt to include Iraq in the war against terror. When the established agencies came up with nothing concrete to link Iraq and al-Qaida, the OSP was given the task of looking more carefully.
William Luti, a former navy officer and ex-aide to Mr Cheney, runs the day-to-day operations, answering to Douglas Feith, a defence undersecretary and a former Reagan official.
The OSP had access to a huge amount of raw intelligence. It came in part from "report officers" in the CIA's directorate of operations whose job is to sift through reports from agents around the world, filtering out the unsubstantiated and the incredible. Under pressure from the hawks such as Mr Cheney and Mr Gingrich, those officers became reluctant to discard anything, no matter how far-fetched. The OSP also sucked in countless tips from the Iraqi National Congress and other opposition groups, which were viewed with far more scepticism by the CIA and the state department.
There was a mountain of documentation to look through and not much time. The administration wanted to use the momentum gained in Afghanistan to deal with Iraq once and for all. The OSP itself had less than 10 full-time staff, so to help deal with the load, the office hired scores of temporary "consultants". They included lawyers, congressional staffers, and policy wonks from the numerous rightwing thinktanks in Washington. Few had experience in intelligence.
"Most of the people they had in that office were off the books, on personal services contracts. At one time, there were over 100 of them," said an intelligence source. The contracts allow a department to hire individuals, without specifying a job description.
As John Pike, a defence analyst at the thinktank GlobalSecurity.org, put it, the contracts "are basically a way they could pack the room with their little friends".
"They surveyed data and picked out what they liked," said Gregory Thielmann, a senior official in the state department's intelligence bureau until his retirement in September. "The whole thing was bizarre. The secretary of defence had this huge defence intelligence agency, and he went around it."
In fact, the OSP's activities were a com plete mystery to the DIA and the Pentagon.
"The iceberg analogy is a good one," said a senior officer who left the Pentagon during the planning of the Iraq war. "No one from the military staff heard, saw or discussed anything with them."
The civilian agencies had the same impression of the OSP sleuths. "They were a pretty shadowy presence," Mr Thielmann said. "Normally when you compile an intelligence document, all the agencies get together to discuss it. The OSP was never present at any of the meetings I attended."
Democratic congressman David Obey, who is investigating the OSP, said: "That office was charged with collecting, vetting and disseminating intelligence completely outside of the normal intelligence apparatus. In fact, it appears that information collected by this office was in some instances not even shared with established intelligence agencies and in numerous instances was passed on to the national security council and the president without having been vetted with anyone other than political appointees."
The OSP was an open and largely unfiltered conduit to the White House not only for the Iraqi opposition. It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon's office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam's Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.
"None of the Israelis who came were cleared into the Pentagon through normal channels," said one source familiar with the visits. Instead, they were waved in on Mr Feith's authority without having to fill in the usual forms.
The exchange of information continued a long-standing relationship Mr Feith and other Washington neo-conservatives had with Israel's Likud party.
In 1996, he and Richard Perle - now an influential Pentagon figure - served as advisers to the then Likud leader, Binyamin Netanyahu. In a policy paper they wrote, entitled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, the two advisers said that Saddam would have to be destroyed, and Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran would have to be overthrown or destabilised, for Israel to be truly safe.
The Israeli influence was revealed most clearly by a story floated by unnamed senior US officials in the American press, suggesting the reason that no banned weapons had been found in Iraq was that they had been smuggled into Syria. Intelligence sources say that the story came from the office of the Israeli prime minister.
The OSP absorbed this heady brew of raw intelligence, rumour and plain disinformation and made it a "product", a prodigious stream of reports with a guaranteed readership in the White House. The primary customers were Mr Cheney, Mr Libby and their closest ideological ally on the national security council, Stephen Hadley, Condoleezza Rice's deputy.
In turn, they leaked some of the claims to the press, and used others as a stick with which to beat the CIA and the state department analysts, demanding they investigate the OSP leads.
The big question looming over Congress as Mr Tenet walked into his closed-door session yesterday was whether this shadow intelligence operation would survive national scrutiny and who would pay the price for allowing it to help steer the country into war.
A former senior CIA official insisted yesterday that Mr Feith, at least, was "finished" - but that may be wishful thinking by a rival organisation.
As he prepares for re-election, Mr Bush may opt to tough it out, rather than acknowledge the severity of the problem by firing loyalists. But in that case, it will inevitably be harder to re-establish confidence in the intelligence on which the White House is basing its decisions, and the world's sole superpower risks stumbling onwards half-blind, unable to distinguish real threats from phantoms.
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2003
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Oh my gods...Pirates of the Caribbean was awesome. I've always had a thing for Pirates and it was very historically accurate and was really nice. It was awesome. There's a reason Johnny Depp is my fave actor. Oh...it also doesn't hurt that Trevor Goddard is in it and there's Tank Abbot wielding an axe. *drools* It was really neat. Though, I don't think many people will like it, it was a cool flick. I recommend it.
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George W. Bush Resume
Past work experience:
* Ran for congress and lost.
* Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
* Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas, company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
* Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using tax-payer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.
* With fathers help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.
Accomplishments:
* Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union. Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
* Set record for most executions by any Governor in American history.
* Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my fathers appointments to the Supreme Court.
Accomplishments as president:
* Attacked and took over two countries.
* Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
* Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
* Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
* Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
* First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
* First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
* First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
* After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.
* Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.
* In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
* Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.
* Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
* Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
* Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
* Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history.
* Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
* Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
* Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
* Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
* Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
* My presidency is the most secretive and un-accountable of any in US history.
* Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleeza Rice has an Chevron oil tanker named after her).
* First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
* Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
* First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
* Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
* Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.
* First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.
* First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.
* Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
* Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
* Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
* Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
* First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).
* All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
* My biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
* Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
* First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
* First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
* First US president to establish a secret shadow government.
* Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).
* With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
* First US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
* First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
* Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
* Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who
* violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
* Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.
* Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.
* In the 18 months following the 911 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
* Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.
* In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.
* Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
Records and References:
* At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).
* AWOL from National Guard and Deserted the military during a time of war.
* Refused to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
* All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
* All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
* All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
* Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public review.
* For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker (They can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteerin
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I am so close to finding that damn entry code for my battleship it's not even funny...
The incas had part of the code. It would appear that the've discovered that the Inca used a written language that was binary and three dimensional. How cool is that. Particulatly since up to this point it was believed that they had no written language.
Incan Binary Language
This is fucking awesome. Just further goes to add onto my theory about the technology and scientific capacity of the ancients. For example, many ancient sights, the Pyramids at Giza, Ankor Wat, Chicen Itza, and many others all align with their celestial counterparts all at the same time. All are mathmatically precise and perfect. All matching cosmic events throughout the year. Along the 30th paralell. How insane is that. Oh well...check that link out. It's incredibly cool. Damn spaniards destroyed so much of all of that. *shakes head*
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Thursday, June 26th, 2003
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| Subject: | FUCK YEAH! |
| Time: | 3:08 pm. |
| Mood: |  bouncy. | | Music: | Mr Show & Tenacious D - Jeepers Creepers Semi Star. |
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FUCK YEAH! RUN RONNIE RUN IS GONNE BE RELEASED! YAYYAYYAYYAYYAYYAYYAYYAY!
I don't know if there are any other fans out there, but Run Ronnie Run is the Mr. Show movie. For those who might not know, Mr. Show was an incredibly witty sketch comedy show from HBO starring David Cross and Bob Odenkirk. They have the first two seasons out on DVD and I tell you, it's totally worth the buy. The movie is about a character from the show named Ronnie Dobbs. The whole premise of Ronnie Dobbs is that he's been arrested on COPS more than anyone else in history. Almost every other episode, he was being arrested live on COPS totally through coiincidence. So, someone decides to try and captialize on it. If that isn't funny enough, I got to see the movie, though it was never released on anything, and there is this HILARIOUS scene with Scott Thompson, dealing with the "Gay Conspiracy". It's beyond hilarious. I seriously recommend people check it out. Mr. Show is awesome and the movie is friggin hilarious. It's getting released the beginning of September and I'm so so happy.
Also, for any Tool fans out there, they did a song for the soundtrack called "Ass Kicking Fat Kid", which is my new personal theme song, under the name Titanica. It's a hilrious song. Figured that might catch some attention.
-Grizz
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| Subject: | Well... |
| Time: | 1:48 pm. |
| Mood: |  amused. | | Music: | tenacious d. - "fuck her gently.". |
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Since the Supreme Court says it's okay...anybody wanna get sodomized? I come with OKC papers and an impressive resume at my disposal. Anybody?
*listens to the crickets*
-Grizz
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Well...seeing as how today was a great day for gay rights, with the supreme court and all. Which also, just happened to have occured 1 day before the 34th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. In honor of that, I wanted to share a neat little internet exhibit of clippings from around the time of Stonewall. I don't know how many of you guys have actually been there, but it's definately a neat feeling to go. The few times I've gone up to NYC for pride, I always make a point to stop by. It definately makes yah appreciate what yah have and what people have done before you. Felt the same kind of thing, when I went to Dr. Kings tomb in Atlanta. Definately an empowering experience. However, I'm rambling.
Stonewall Year 34
It was definately cool to read all of this stuff. You should check it out. YAY! For once the Supreme Court didn't let me down and actually surprised me.
-Grizz
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2003
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fette's vette
©2001 lyrics by c. ward / music by j. fewell
cruisin mos espa in my delorian
war's over i'm a peacetime madalorian
my story has stumped star wars historians
deep in debate buffet plate at bennigans
rhyme renegade sure to penetrate
first and second defense i won't hesitate
got a job to do darth's the guy that delegates
got something against skywalker someone he really hates
i don't give a fuck i'm after solo
for all i care he could be hiding at yoda's dojo
got make the money credit's no good
when the jawas run the shop in your neighborhood
think you can cook i got a grappling hook
let's make this quick cuz i'm really booked
i'm a devious degenerate, defender of the devil
shut down all the trash compactors on the detention level
my backpack's got jets
i'm boba the fett
i bounty hunt for jaba hut
to finance my vette
i chill in deep space
a mask is over my face
i deliver the prize but i still narrow my eyes
cuz my time i don't like to waste.
get down
i'm a question wrapped inside an enigma
get inside the slave one find your homing signal
from endor to hoth, ripley to spock
i'll find what you want, but there's gonna be a cost
say my name is boba fett i know my shit is tight
start not acting in right, you're frozen in carbonite
got telescopic sight, flame throwers on my wrist
you still don't get the jist, spiked boots are made to kick
targets are made to hit, you think i give a shit
yer mama is a bitch, i see you in the sarlaac pit
you just flipped my switch integrity been dissed
you scratchin on my itch you know i shoot the gift
got bambinas at cantinas waitin to lick my lusty lips
so i'll let you get back inside you're little space ship
give you a head start, cuz i'm the sportin kind
consider the starting line the sneaky smile i hide inside
hope you have hyper drive, pray to stay alive
don't try to slip me a five cuz i never take a bribe
to the beat of a different drummer, bad ass bounty hunter
let no man put asunder or else they be put under
as in six feet, got an imperial fleet
backin me up gonna blow up any attempt to defeat
they gotta death star, got four payments on my car
hand it over to hammer head at mos eisley bar
he used to carjack, now he's a barback
just goes to show how you can get back on the right track
as for me that's not an option can't say that with more clarity
me going legit would be jar jar in speech therapy
slice you open like a tan tan, faster than the autobahn
or a motorbike in tron, do the deed and then i'm gone
jaba has a hissyfit, contact calrissian
over a colt, the plan unfolds, no politic is legit
back in the day when i was a slave
living live in the fast lane like in a pod race
my mean streak tweeked i became a basket case
so this space ace split that place post haste
took up a noble cause called the clone wars
cuz life's not all about girls and cars
getting fucked up in fucked up bars
see i'm not a retard or gay like de barge
i'm large and in charge with a face so scarred
a cold black heart that's been torn apart
the sith wish that they had a dick so hard
cuz it's long long ago in a pussy far far
call me master cuz i'm faster than pryor on fire
i no longer have to hot wire
i'm a hunter for hire with no plans to retire
and all the sucka mc's can call me sire
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| Subject: | Random |
| Time: | 12:50 pm. |
| Mood: | bouncy. | | Music: | All that Jazz - Sealab 2021. |
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If you're looking for me...
You better check under the sea...
Cause that is where you'll find me...
Underneath the SEAAAAAAAALAB!
Underneath the water!
SEAAAAAALLLLAAAABBBB!
At the bottom of the sea...
-Grizz
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Saturday, June 21st, 2003
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Did anyone happen to watch the boxing match between Lennox Lewis and Vitali Kiltschko?
-Grizz
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2003
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Can someone exactly explain to me when Jewel became a corporate whore?
-Grizz
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The next time you're having a bad day...imagine this...
You're a siamese twin.
Your brother attached to your shoulder is gay.
You're not.
He has a date coming over tonight.
You only have one ass.
-Grizz
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Thursday, June 12th, 2003
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| Subject: | Um... |
| Time: | 10:57 pm. |
| Mood: |  confused. | | Music: | Watching Die Another Day. |
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Okay...I'm watching Die Another Day...and a scruffy, bearded, furry Pierce Brosnan...was looking quite um...yummy...
*scratches head*
That's not supposed to happen...what the fuck...
-Grizz
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*clears throat*
Dear Mr. George W. Bush,
Since you first came into office and I'd even venture to say before, a lot of us have known you were gonna be gunning for Iraq. Be it petty revenge. Oil greed, or any other number of pedantic reasons, we knew it was going to happen. With 9/11, some of us knew you and your administration would capitalize on the publics fear, ignorance, and pain, to further this goal. You were able to get a good chunk of the world and American populus, wherther is was a majority remains to be seen, behind you to do this, based on the whole premise that Iraq had been growing biological weapons, manufacturing chemical weapons, and preparing to gear up a nuclear weapons program. You further claimed that you had compelling evidence. The dishonor of this form of espionage aside. Sattelite photography. Phone conversations. Informants. You claimed you had amounts, locations, and complete and undeniable evidence of the locations and existance of these things.
However, now that you've gone into Iraq, killed countless innocents, created millions upon millions of dollars of property damage, displaced thousands of families, destroyed lives, homes, jobs and further destabalized an already trecherous cauldron of hatred in the middle east. Where exactly are these weapons your promised. As a tax paying American citizen, I want to know where they are. You claimed you had compelling evidence. You had 'photos', 'phone conversations'. You and your cabinet claimed that your evidence was irrefutable and absolute. I believed it foolish, but was even willing to try and give you the benefit of the doubt that perhaps it might be true. However now...here we are. Months after the country was occupied. You and your administration have yet to be able to provide a single microbe of evidence that any of the things you swore were there...are there.
Now that people are clamoring for this compelling evidence, the only defense the republican party can muster is "There is not any evidence that the previously given information is incorrect to warrant an inquiry." Excuse me? There is no evidence that the information was wrong? How about some evidence that the information was correct.
People are dead. Lives ruined. Homes destroyed. People maimed and dismembered. All based on the premise that you had evidence that warrented a 'pre-emptive' defensive measure. So where's your evidence Mr. Bush. Show me. If you and your cabinet are so compelled and sure that these things exist...please...bring them out, parade them through the streets. Show the American public that you aren't the laughable idiot that you're portrayed to be. Show some honor. You claim it doesn't matter, however, I think it does.
You are a servant of the people. The people are not a means to further your own personal ends. You have some explaining to do and I look forward to hear what you have to say. Thanks in advance.
Not your brother in Christ,
Stephen Robinson
P.S.-Any chance we could get a look at the financial gaines that your oil companies, the Carlysle group, and Cheney's businesses have made since the War on Terror began and exactly how much you all have made and stand to make from the military schrimishes in Afganistan and Iraq? Oh and can you list how many empty tankers and how much oil was pumped out of the Iraqi oil fields during this ' liberation' before the interim government came into effect?
P.S.S.-Oh yeah...can you also explain why a great many members of your family have all been busted from crimes rangeing from sexual misconduct to under age drinking to prescription drug fraud and none of them have gone to jail, while here in Baltimore people are being ticketed and harrassed for sitting on their own front steps.
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2003
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You are The Oracle, from "The Matrix."
Wise, kind, honest- is there anything slightly
negative about you? You are genuinely
supportive of others. Careful not to let people
take advantage of you, though.
What Matrix Persona Are You?
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aggravated.
horny.
enthralled.
happy.
good.