http://web.mac.com/ryskind/iWeb/Site/The%20Ryskind%20Sketchbook.html

Before, Viet Nam helped our country prosper as far as money went – we manufactured the guns, the bullets, the bombs, the planes. Now we buy gunpowder, iron, depleted uranium, electronics (parts and knowledge), even most of our food – FROM NON-AMERICAN sources. 2 out of 3 of our factories are either closed, or looking to close. Most manufacturing, cleaning, building, repairing, creating – comes from illegal aliens (of one gender or another) and we wonder “What is happening?”

Yes, infortunately for the thousands who have already given their lives = we cannot win – those honorable ones have no final victory, no parade, no stories in the history books.

I have never believed in running, but when there is no possible victory, it’s time to just stop, come home, lick our wounds alone, and get on with our lives – AND DEMAND THAT THERE NEVER EVER BE ANOTHER SITUATION LIKE THIS. WE ELECT PRESIDENTS, WE ELECT CONGRESS – THEY REPRESENT US, THE CITIZENS, not big business, not illegal aliens, not the power hungry elite, but the working citizens of what was once the most intelligent country on earth.

Ernie – US Army Retired

POLITICS: the art of pursading people to believe in your fears and accept your ideas…using the tatics of lying and force

In the Name of Brutus

Dames and Gents,

In times unprecedented and tinged with despair, it is appropriate to reflect on the founding of our great nation. It was not with George Washington, but with Brutus, and not the one who killed Caeser. There was another who rebelled against the tyrant monarchy of Rome, The Tarquins. He wrote the Roman Constitution that would stand for 500 years. His sons sided with the monarchy. The monarchy lost. So to punish his sons and found a perfect union, he immolated his own sons.
Machiavelli speaks fluently and voluminoulsy and voiciferously on this subject, in ‘The Discourses’, and yet is proved wrong on several counts by the miracle of America. He says that a nation founded in servitude, as America was a colony, will never win its freedom. He also says that a nation founded on fertile soil that is easily defended, will in time loose all of its freedoms because it will become, eventually, inevitably, sloth and sated, and will forget to protect them.
As regards ‘The DC Madam’, I am personally involved. You can view my involvement at http://www.maytheygetwhattheydeserve.com/KAT.html
Sometimes a mouse will lead you to a kat, and a kat can lead you to a rat and a rat, ironically, can lead you to the truth. And the truth, as they say, and as it is written, will set you free.
May all those who sincerely and patiently wait for freedom be free and may all those who desire to steal those freedoms find instead the dire consequences that accompany contempt for a great man like Brutus.

As regards Machiavelli,
eram sapiens tamen nefas
And again,
vox vocis publicus est vox vocis deus

May The Republic stand forever and bring the Glory Of The World, with Dignity, into Its Treasury.

Purple

Virtue

It is easy to shout little bumper sticker slogans when you really don’t understand the consequences of walking out on this conflict

And it’s an occupation, not a war! The terror began the day we forgot about the real culprits of 911, but wait, there is no oil there is there???
GIVE EM HELL HARRY!!!!!!!!!!
If it make one iota, I would join you! But hey, who am I but a tax paying AMERICAN citizen…this Administration hasn’t paid attention to us in years!!!!!!

As I was trying to check out the story, I stumbled across this:

clipped from news.yahoo.com

BAGHDAD – Nearly half of the foreign detainees held in Iraq are Saudi citizens, and lists of their names were given to Saudi officials during a recent visit by an Iraqi delegation, national security adviser Mouwaffak al-Rubaie said in remarks aired Monday.

Last week, al-Rubaie said before leaving for Saudi Arabia that the majority of the suicide bombers and “those who drive the vehicles to blow up our innocent civilians, Iraqis, are Saudis.” Al-Rubaie, who headed the delegation, said then “we need to stop the flow of suicide bombers, we need to stop the fatwas (religious edicts) coming from Saudis to justify the killings of innocent Iraqis.” In the interview with Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya, al-Rubaie said that he raised the issue of fatwas with officials in the kingdom and “we heard very good news.” He did not elaborate.

I think that really should ring some alarm bells about who is behind this war, and who’s going to benefit by it. Seeing as the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, Bin Ladin is Saudi, Al-Queda is Saudi funded – and Bush wants to attack their mortal, religious enemy, Iran?

Hm.