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		<title>By: Panic Attacks Pregnancy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Panic Attacks Pregnancy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Panic Attacks Pregnancy&lt;/strong&gt;

Thanks for this post!</description>
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<p>Thanks for this post!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4880000', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mortgage internet leads</title>
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		<dc:creator>mortgage internet leads</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;mortgage internet leads&lt;/strong&gt;

Didn&#039;t realise there was this type of information out there</description>
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<p>Didn&#8217;t realise there was this type of information out there<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4852692', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Auto Loan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Auto Loan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: BRU</title>
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		<dc:creator>BRU</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wonder if Kennedy were here what he would say.


&lt;em&gt;In October 10, 1963, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy committed what is widely viewed as one of the most ignominious acts in modern American history: he authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to begin wiretapping the telephones of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy believed that one of King&#039;s closest advisers was a top-level member of the American Communist Party, and that King had repeatedly misled Administration officials about his ongoing close ties with the man. 

Kennedy acted reluctantly, and his order remained secret until May of 1968, just a few weeks after King&#039;s assassination and a few days before Kennedy&#039;s own. But the FBI onslaught against King that followed Kennedy&#039;s authorization remains notorious, and the stains on the reputations of everyone involved are indelible. 

Yet at the time, neither Robert Kennedy nor anyone else outside the FBI knew more than a tiny part of the story that had led to that decision, or even the identities of the two FBI informants who had set the investigation in motion. Only in 1981 were their namesâ€”Jack and Morris Childsâ€”publicly revealed, but even then the relevant documents were so heavily redacted that only the most bare-bones sketch of what had taken place was possible.

The Atlantic Monthly; July/August 2002; The FBI and Martin Luther King; Volume 290, No. 1 &lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder if Kennedy were here what he would say.</p>
<p><em>In October 10, 1963, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy committed what is widely viewed as one of the most ignominious acts in modern American history: he authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to begin wiretapping the telephones of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy believed that one of King&#8217;s closest advisers was a top-level member of the American Communist Party, and that King had repeatedly misled Administration officials about his ongoing close ties with the man. </p>
<p>Kennedy acted reluctantly, and his order remained secret until May of 1968, just a few weeks after King&#8217;s assassination and a few days before Kennedy&#8217;s own. But the FBI onslaught against King that followed Kennedy&#8217;s authorization remains notorious, and the stains on the reputations of everyone involved are indelible. </p>
<p>Yet at the time, neither Robert Kennedy nor anyone else outside the FBI knew more than a tiny part of the story that had led to that decision, or even the identities of the two FBI informants who had set the investigation in motion. Only in 1981 were their namesâ€”Jack and Morris Childsâ€”publicly revealed, but even then the relevant documents were so heavily redacted that only the most bare-bones sketch of what had taken place was possible.</p>
<p>The Atlantic Monthly; July/August 2002; The FBI and Martin Luther King; Volume 290, No. 1 </em><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=345548', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: BRU</title>
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		<dc:creator>BRU</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>unbelievable----Bush didn&#039;t lie about anything. He was told there were WMD. &lt;strong&gt;Everyone was wrong, no one lied.&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>unbelievable&#8212;-Bush didn&#8217;t lie about anything. He was told there were WMD. <strong>Everyone was wrong, no one lied.</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=345533', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: BRU</title>
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		<dc:creator>BRU</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But he also said this

&lt;strong&gt;Appearing on ABC&#039;s &quot;This Week&quot; Powell said he sees &quot;absolutely nothing wrong with the president authorizing these kinds of actions&quot; to protect the nation.&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But he also said this</p>
<p><strong>Appearing on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; Powell said he sees &#8220;absolutely nothing wrong with the president authorizing these kinds of actions&#8221; to protect the nation.</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=345528', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Arthur J. Horton</title>
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		<dc:creator>Arthur J. Horton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now, if a senior administration official in the white house commited treason and revealed the identity of a CIA agent, do you think they (Busheviks) could find someone to do a little snooping on the progress of the investigation? If so, I doubt they would want a court to know about it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now, if a senior administration official in the white house commited treason and revealed the identity of a CIA agent, do you think they (Busheviks) could find someone to do a little snooping on the progress of the investigation? If so, I doubt they would want a court to know about it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=333917', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Tank</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ Fly-man â€” December 21, 2005 @ 8:34 am 
&lt;i&gt;By the way you did the exact same thing again. Attack the messenger, but this time it was me.&lt;/i&gt;

And just like everyone has done to Cheney everytime he links Saddam to 9/11. Hey it&#039;s almost like it&#039;s so much the messenger that&#039;s getting attacked but their credibility.

When you take the people who lied like this to get the invasion of Iraq and absolve them of their sins based purely on whether or not they say something you like... you&#039;re no different than the people you criticise. You just like your whores in a different position.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Fly-man â€” December 21, 2005 @ 8:34 am<br />
<i>By the way you did the exact same thing again. Attack the messenger, but this time it was me.</i></p>
<p>And just like everyone has done to Cheney everytime he links Saddam to 9/11. Hey it&#8217;s almost like it&#8217;s so much the messenger that&#8217;s getting attacked but their credibility.</p>
<p>When you take the people who lied like this to get the invasion of Iraq and absolve them of their sins based purely on whether or not they say something you like&#8230; you&#8217;re no different than the people you criticise. You just like your whores in a different position.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=332974', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Harley Miller</title>
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		<dc:creator>Harley Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Since it is so easy to get the FISA warrants, The FISA judge almost never says &quot;no&quot; to requests, and officials can move quickly and then get a warrant up to 72 hours later, the question must be raised &quot;why didn&#039;t they follow such a simple and efficient legal proceedure?&quot; The only answer I can figure out (except terminal hubris!) is that what they wanted to or did do was so far outside any reasonable behavior that they simply couldn&#039;t risk a normally compliant judicial review. 

The Bush administrations behavior around this issue is pure cover up we have seen before. Cover up for actions that could not even withstand the most friendly judicial peek. Something from which even the most supportive judge would have recoiled. It will probably require a whistleblower and/or some courageous and very professional investigative reporting to find what must be an awful truth at the bottom of this slimey barrel. This is not over. Expect to be shocked before it is over.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since it is so easy to get the FISA warrants, The FISA judge almost never says &#8220;no&#8221; to requests, and officials can move quickly and then get a warrant up to 72 hours later, the question must be raised &#8220;why didn&#8217;t they follow such a simple and efficient legal proceedure?&#8221; The only answer I can figure out (except terminal hubris!) is that what they wanted to or did do was so far outside any reasonable behavior that they simply couldn&#8217;t risk a normally compliant judicial review. </p>
<p>The Bush administrations behavior around this issue is pure cover up we have seen before. Cover up for actions that could not even withstand the most friendly judicial peek. Something from which even the most supportive judge would have recoiled. It will probably require a whistleblower and/or some courageous and very professional investigative reporting to find what must be an awful truth at the bottom of this slimey barrel. This is not over. Expect to be shocked before it is over.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=332592', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#35

Know anything about Corporate Personhood?  I&#039;ve read a couple of Thom Harmann&#039;s books on this.  Seems Berekeley, California has taken the first step of making Corporations secondary (instead of equal) to individual citizens.  They&#039;ve taken it to San Francisco.  So, while I try to be a realist, I also try to keep the hope.  Get&#039;s depressing otherwise, you know?

I think we&#039;re seeing a bigger public outrage too, so who knows what that might do.  I do think that at this point (before Diebold takes over), that the Politicians still know that they need our votes.</description>
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<p>Know anything about Corporate Personhood?  I&#8217;ve read a couple of Thom Harmann&#8217;s books on this.  Seems Berekeley, California has taken the first step of making Corporations secondary (instead of equal) to individual citizens.  They&#8217;ve taken it to San Francisco.  So, while I try to be a realist, I also try to keep the hope.  Get&#8217;s depressing otherwise, you know?</p>
<p>I think we&#8217;re seeing a bigger public outrage too, so who knows what that might do.  I do think that at this point (before Diebold takes over), that the Politicians still know that they need our votes.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=331699', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Str8UpNoChaser</title>
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		<dc:creator>Str8UpNoChaser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>*Waiting for Giacomo&#039;s response*</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*Waiting for Giacomo&#8217;s response*<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=331636', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: kindness</title>
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		<dc:creator>kindness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>yea giacoma - that post was WAY below your normal level.

Clinton&#039;s military applications in NO WAY compare to what bush43 has done.  Are you suggesting we SHOULD&#039;NT have gone into Kosovo or the Balkins?  There was genocide going on and we stopped it.  You can&#039;t say the same thing about Iraq.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yea giacoma &#8211; that post was WAY below your normal level.</p>
<p>Clinton&#8217;s military applications in NO WAY compare to what bush43 has done.  Are you suggesting we SHOULD&#8217;NT have gone into Kosovo or the Balkins?  There was genocide going on and we stopped it.  You can&#8217;t say the same thing about Iraq.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=331564', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: progressive and proud</title>
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		<dc:creator>progressive and proud</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#31 You make little sense as you try to appear smarter than you really are.  But really, what about Powell?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#31 You make little sense as you try to appear smarter than you really are.  But really, what about Powell?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=331548', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: HeyMan</title>
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		<dc:creator>HeyMan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#34,

I agree that the only way to save the country is to have massive Campaign Reforms. Currently money dictates all the policies and an average American has no voice at all. Given that an average american is also clueless, this is a recipe for disaster. 

But I dont have any hope as lust for money is hard to give up. Unless there is a huge outcry by public, nothing is going to happen. But it will be too late by then. Most reasonable jobs have already left US and going to India/China while we have huge budget deficits so that we can fill pockets of rich. Nobody seems to care. Two party system does not work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#34,</p>
<p>I agree that the only way to save the country is to have massive Campaign Reforms. Currently money dictates all the policies and an average American has no voice at all. Given that an average american is also clueless, this is a recipe for disaster. </p>
<p>But I dont have any hope as lust for money is hard to give up. Unless there is a huge outcry by public, nothing is going to happen. But it will be too late by then. Most reasonable jobs have already left US and going to India/China while we have huge budget deficits so that we can fill pockets of rich. Nobody seems to care. Two party system does not work.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=331523', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#33

He&#039;s the first born son to a graduate of Yale and Harvard who served in teh Navy (I believe) and became President.  Georgie Jr. doesn&#039;t know the first thing about being an average American.  He knew nothing about the world, and hadn&#039;t bothered to travel the world with all that money.  Instead he ran company after company into bankruptcy and was still rich in spite of it.  He&#039;s never been hungry or destitute on any level.  How can we expect him to understand, much less react to our real issues?  Hell, he&#039;s just playing a make-believe game of cowboys and injuns with other people&#039;s children (his are old enough to enlist).

It&#039;s why we need Campaign Reform.  Make our elections free so true representatives can be elected to run our country of average Americans.</description>
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<p>He&#8217;s the first born son to a graduate of Yale and Harvard who served in teh Navy (I believe) and became President.  Georgie Jr. doesn&#8217;t know the first thing about being an average American.  He knew nothing about the world, and hadn&#8217;t bothered to travel the world with all that money.  Instead he ran company after company into bankruptcy and was still rich in spite of it.  He&#8217;s never been hungry or destitute on any level.  How can we expect him to understand, much less react to our real issues?  Hell, he&#8217;s just playing a make-believe game of cowboys and injuns with other people&#8217;s children (his are old enough to enlist).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s why we need Campaign Reform.  Make our elections free so true representatives can be elected to run our country of average Americans.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=331501', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: buzzbike</title>
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		<dc:creator>buzzbike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bubble-boy George and the rest of his alleged administration are so out of touch with the majority of the American public, it&#039;s pathetic. The fact is though; it&#039;s been that way his entire time in office...hell, maybe even his entire life! He is no more a man of the people than anyone else that was born of privilege with a silver spoon in his mouth, went to Andover, Yale and Harvard - riding on his family&#039;s name recognition, donations and connections. 

I believe the words &quot;public servant&quot; have no meaning to them at all - and especially to our Douche-Bag-in-Chief. Well, let me correct that; servant has a lot of meaning to him. That&#039;s why the immigration bill is so important. Who&#039;s going to clean his campaign contributors&#039; homes, feed and raise their children, do their landscape work, and clean the pool? We are so screwed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bubble-boy George and the rest of his alleged administration are so out of touch with the majority of the American public, it&#8217;s pathetic. The fact is though; it&#8217;s been that way his entire time in office&#8230;hell, maybe even his entire life! He is no more a man of the people than anyone else that was born of privilege with a silver spoon in his mouth, went to Andover, Yale and Harvard &#8211; riding on his family&#8217;s name recognition, donations and connections. </p>
<p>I believe the words &#8220;public servant&#8221; have no meaning to them at all &#8211; and especially to our Douche-Bag-in-Chief. Well, let me correct that; servant has a lot of meaning to him. That&#8217;s why the immigration bill is so important. Who&#8217;s going to clean his campaign contributors&#8217; homes, feed and raise their children, do their landscape work, and clean the pool? We are so screwed.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=331487', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#31

&lt;em&gt;who cares in what context or manner, right&lt;/em&gt;

Rationale and moral people care...

Giacomo you can&#039;t compare Clinton to Bush because Bush lied to get us to go to war.  That&#039;s the difference you are missing.  Someone who attacks is the offense - the murderer.  Someone who defends does so out of self-preservation.  Our own laws are riddled with persocution for the first and justification for the second.  

For example.  If I&#039;m walking down the street and you stab me to death, you&#039;re going to prison.  But, if I&#039;m walking down the street and you attempt to stab me to death, but I pull out a gun and shoot you first, it&#039;s self-defense and I am free.  See the difference?  (No, I don&#039;t own a gun, so don&#039;t go down that road, it was just an example for clarification).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#31</p>
<p><em>who cares in what context or manner, right</em></p>
<p>Rationale and moral people care&#8230;</p>
<p>Giacomo you can&#8217;t compare Clinton to Bush because Bush lied to get us to go to war.  That&#8217;s the difference you are missing.  Someone who attacks is the offense &#8211; the murderer.  Someone who defends does so out of self-preservation.  Our own laws are riddled with persocution for the first and justification for the second.  </p>
<p>For example.  If I&#8217;m walking down the street and you stab me to death, you&#8217;re going to prison.  But, if I&#8217;m walking down the street and you attempt to stab me to death, but I pull out a gun and shoot you first, it&#8217;s self-defense and I am free.  See the difference?  (No, I don&#8217;t own a gun, so don&#8217;t go down that road, it was just an example for clarification).<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=331481', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Giacomo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Giacomo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;I was wondering. What about the 30,000 to 100,000 that Bush has killed in Iraq? Surely, Bush is just as responsible for these deaths as Saddam was for the 142, right.&lt;/em&gt;

So ... shall we compare Clinton and Saddam as well since Clinton &quot;was responsible&quot; for deaths in Kosovo.  Of course not, this &quot;logic&quot; is nonsense.  

Why don&#039;t we compare FDR in WWII to Hitler in WWII ... they were both responsible for millions of deaths ... who cares in what context or manner, right Pablo.  Moral relativism ... no one&#039;s right ... no one&#039;s wrong ... it&#039;s all perspective ......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I was wondering. What about the 30,000 to 100,000 that Bush has killed in Iraq? Surely, Bush is just as responsible for these deaths as Saddam was for the 142, right.</em></p>
<p>So &#8230; shall we compare Clinton and Saddam as well since Clinton &#8220;was responsible&#8221; for deaths in Kosovo.  Of course not, this &#8220;logic&#8221; is nonsense.  </p>
<p>Why don&#8217;t we compare FDR in WWII to Hitler in WWII &#8230; they were both responsible for millions of deaths &#8230; who cares in what context or manner, right Pablo.  Moral relativism &#8230; no one&#8217;s right &#8230; no one&#8217;s wrong &#8230; it&#8217;s all perspective &#8230;&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=331462', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#29

&lt;em&gt;I was wondering. What about the 30,000 to 100,000 that Bush has killed in Iraq? Surely }Bush is just as responsible for these deaths as Saddam was for the 142, right 

Comment by Pablo in Mexico â€” December 21, 2005 @ 10:17 am&lt;/em&gt; 

Isn&#039;t the hypocracy in this amazing?  How it&#039;s WRONG for anyone to maim, torture murder, lie, vandalize, corrupt, steal, etc. except for those fat cats in the White House?  Saddam goes on trial and Peeping George condemns him.  Oh the irony...</description>
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<p><em>I was wondering. What about the 30,000 to 100,000 that Bush has killed in Iraq? Surely }Bush is just as responsible for these deaths as Saddam was for the 142, right </p>
<p>Comment by Pablo in Mexico â€” December 21, 2005 @ 10:17 am</em> </p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t the hypocracy in this amazing?  How it&#8217;s WRONG for anyone to maim, torture murder, lie, vandalize, corrupt, steal, etc. except for those fat cats in the White House?  Saddam goes on trial and Peeping George condemns him.  Oh the irony&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=331456', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Pablo in Mexico</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pablo in Mexico</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wasa watching a bit of the Saddam trial this morning and got to thinking about something.

They are charging Saddam with the deaths of 142 people that someone killed after an attempt on his life. I dont know that Saddam, an evil bastard, killed those people himself, or had them killed.

I was wondering. What about the 30,000 to 100,000 that Bush has killed in Iraq? Surely }Bush is just as responsible for these deaths as Saddam was for the 142, right</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wasa watching a bit of the Saddam trial this morning and got to thinking about something.</p>
<p>They are charging Saddam with the deaths of 142 people that someone killed after an attempt on his life. I dont know that Saddam, an evil bastard, killed those people himself, or had them killed.</p>
<p>I was wondering. What about the 30,000 to 100,000 that Bush has killed in Iraq? Surely }Bush is just as responsible for these deaths as Saddam was for the 142, right<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=331437', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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