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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/02/thinkfast-october-2-2007/comment-page-3/#comment-4101977</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Democrats just another side of the same coinâ€¦
Comment by tarazan â€” October 2, 2007 @ 11:33 am&lt;/em&gt;

Green Party and Libertarians - just the other corner of the same side of lunacy as the GOP.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Democrats just another side of the same coinâ€¦<br />
Comment by tarazan â€” October 2, 2007 @ 11:33 am</em></p>
<p>Green Party and Libertarians &#8211; just the other corner of the same side of lunacy as the GOP.<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=4101977', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Witch1</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/02/thinkfast-october-2-2007/comment-page-3/#comment-4101878</link>
		<dc:creator>Witch1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Uncle Ho, I&#039;m ever ready and packing.......Blessings</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Uncle Ho, I&#8217;m ever ready and packing&#8230;&#8230;.Blessings<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=4101878', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Uncle Ho</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/02/thinkfast-october-2-2007/comment-page-3/#comment-4100980</link>
		<dc:creator>Uncle Ho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Witch1; the presidential candidates and  those seeking to keep their seats on Capital Hill seem to be more interested in raising $$$ for their election campaigns than ending this obscene war and serving the people they are supposedly representing. 

This is the supreme perversion of democracy.  In the Declaration of  Independence, it basically states that when the government pisses on the people instead of working for them, it&#039;s the right of the people to alter/abolish that government.

The Revolution has come, time to pick up a gun.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Witch1; the presidential candidates and  those seeking to keep their seats on Capital Hill seem to be more interested in raising $$$ for their election campaigns than ending this obscene war and serving the people they are supposedly representing. </p>
<p>This is the supreme perversion of democracy.  In the Declaration of  Independence, it basically states that when the government pisses on the people instead of working for them, it&#8217;s the right of the people to alter/abolish that government.</p>
<p>The Revolution has come, time to pick up a gun.<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=4100980', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bruce Gorton</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/02/thinkfast-october-2-2007/comment-page-3/#comment-4100893</link>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Gorton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, the prior story was courtesy of AFP</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, the prior story was courtesy of AFP<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=4100893', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bruce Gorton</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/02/thinkfast-october-2-2007/comment-page-3/#comment-4100877</link>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Gorton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Update to the Iran invite.

&lt;blockquote&gt;Washington - The White House scoffed at an Iranian universityâ€™s invitation to US President George W. Bush to address its campus, saying  he was â€œnot taking it too seriously.â€

â€œIf Iran was a free and democratic society that allowed its people freedom of expression, and wasnâ€™t pursuing nuclear weapons, and wasnâ€™t advocating to destroy the country of israel, the president might consider that invitation,â€ said spokeswoman Dana Perino.

â€œBut I think that weâ€™re not taking it too seriously,â€ she told reporters.

Her comments came after the head of Ferdowsi University in Iranâ€™s second city of Mashhad, one of the oldest universities in the country, said Bush should visit to answer questions from students and lecturers on human rights and terrorism.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Translation: Propaganda win for Iran because, much as though thier nutter in charge is a nutter, he is a somewhat less cowardly nutter then the American nutter.

Nuts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Update to the Iran invite.</p>
<blockquote><p>Washington &#8211; The White House scoffed at an Iranian universityâ€™s invitation to US President George W. Bush to address its campus, saying  he was â€œnot taking it too seriously.â€</p>
<p>â€œIf Iran was a free and democratic society that allowed its people freedom of expression, and wasnâ€™t pursuing nuclear weapons, and wasnâ€™t advocating to destroy the country of israel, the president might consider that invitation,â€ said spokeswoman Dana Perino.</p>
<p>â€œBut I think that weâ€™re not taking it too seriously,â€ she told reporters.</p>
<p>Her comments came after the head of Ferdowsi University in Iranâ€™s second city of Mashhad, one of the oldest universities in the country, said Bush should visit to answer questions from students and lecturers on human rights and terrorism.</p></blockquote>
<p>Translation: Propaganda win for Iran because, much as though thier nutter in charge is a nutter, he is a somewhat less cowardly nutter then the American nutter.</p>
<p>Nuts.<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=4100877', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: RUCerious</title>
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		<dc:creator>RUCerious</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Next weâ€™ll see Blackwater mercs wearing priest collarsâ€¦
Comment by Zimzone â€” October 2, 2007 @ 11:43 am&lt;/em&gt;

What a great Halloween costume!@</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Next weâ€™ll see Blackwater mercs wearing priest collarsâ€¦<br />
Comment by Zimzone â€” October 2, 2007 @ 11:43 am</em></p>
<p>What a great Halloween costume!@<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=4100840', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Zimzone</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zimzone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Blackwater &amp; Bush, a pair made in Hell.

Focus on the Family&#039;s ugly head rears again. Can&#039;t someone just give Dobson a blowjob &amp; shut him up?

Next we&#039;ll see Blackwater mercs wearing priest collars...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blackwater &amp; Bush, a pair made in Hell.</p>
<p>Focus on the Family&#8217;s ugly head rears again. Can&#8217;t someone just give Dobson a blowjob &amp; shut him up?</p>
<p>Next we&#8217;ll see Blackwater mercs wearing priest collars&#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=4100827', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: tarazan</title>
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		<dc:creator>tarazan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Democrats just another side of the same coin...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democrats just another side of the same coin&#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=4100795', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Shayne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shayne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Raven and Gummitch for spotting the troll.  So much for name registration.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Raven and Gummitch for spotting the troll.  So much for name registration.<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=4100792', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Shayne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shayne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Blue Dahlia, I understand I was namejacked but wasn&#039;t at my computer all morning so didn&#039;t see it.  Now it appears to be gone.  I would put my money on CT namejacking me, he&#039;s the one that usually doesn.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Blue Dahlia, I understand I was namejacked but wasn&#8217;t at my computer all morning so didn&#8217;t see it.  Now it appears to be gone.  I would put my money on CT namejacking me, he&#8217;s the one that usually doesn.<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=4100789', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Witch1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Witch1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree Uncle Ho, good to read you here this morning.....On another note, the fund raising amount&#039;s came out this morning and as usual all of the runner&#039;s are raising an obscene amount of money...The rep&#039;s not as much by half compared to the Dem&#039;s, but obscene none the less...Hillery 27 million, Obama 20 million. Guiliane(sp) 10 million and Thompson 8 million..

What if all that money were poured into our much needed program&#039;s, child care, rebuilding our country, stopping war&#039;s?..Hummm.  It is unbelievable to me that people would spend such huge amount&#039;s of money to win a job that pay&#039;s 2 to 4 hundred thousand doller&#039;s and all the benefit&#039;s of king&#039;s and queen&#039;s...Forget I wrote that, it isn&#039;t a suprise that some would do anything to be a ruler, decider, war president....Blessings</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree Uncle Ho, good to read you here this morning&#8230;..On another note, the fund raising amount&#8217;s came out this morning and as usual all of the runner&#8217;s are raising an obscene amount of money&#8230;The rep&#8217;s not as much by half compared to the Dem&#8217;s, but obscene none the less&#8230;Hillery 27 million, Obama 20 million. Guiliane(sp) 10 million and Thompson 8 million..</p>
<p>What if all that money were poured into our much needed program&#8217;s, child care, rebuilding our country, stopping war&#8217;s?..Hummm.  It is unbelievable to me that people would spend such huge amount&#8217;s of money to win a job that pay&#8217;s 2 to 4 hundred thousand doller&#8217;s and all the benefit&#8217;s of king&#8217;s and queen&#8217;s&#8230;Forget I wrote that, it isn&#8217;t a suprise that some would do anything to be a ruler, decider, war president&#8230;.Blessings<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=4100784', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Candyce</title>
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		<dc:creator>Candyce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Krazny, yes he was sworn in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Krazny, yes he was sworn in.<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=4100779', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Uncle Ho</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/02/thinkfast-october-2-2007/comment-page-2/#comment-4100757</link>
		<dc:creator>Uncle Ho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the Senate voted 92-3 to keep issueing blank checks for war.

F*CK THIS SH*T!!!!!

REVOLUTION!  REVOLUTION! REVOLUTION!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the Senate voted 92-3 to keep issueing blank checks for war.</p>
<p>F*CK THIS SH*T!!!!!</p>
<p>REVOLUTION!  REVOLUTION! REVOLUTION!!!<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=4100757', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: rocks911</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/02/thinkfast-october-2-2007/comment-page-2/#comment-4100731</link>
		<dc:creator>rocks911</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kranzy,

What difference would that make?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kranzy,</p>
<p>What difference would that make?<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=4100731', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Krazny</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/02/thinkfast-october-2-2007/comment-page-2/#comment-4100724</link>
		<dc:creator>Krazny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anyone know if Prince was sworn in for his testimony?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anyone know if Prince was sworn in for his testimony?<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=4100724', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: rocks911</title>
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		<dc:creator>rocks911</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>dim wit,

Exactly!

On occasion while driving  here in Texas I&#039;ll see a dog-legged rusted-up broken down car being driven with a Dubya bumper sticker and I can&#039;t help but proclaim in my car &quot;what a fool&quot;. Unfortunately my wife can&#039;t see through the smoke and mirrors and always chastises me . Though she makes less than she has for decades, as she has had to enter a new field because the one she was in was bought out and liquidated by an &quot;investment group&quot;, she still can&#039;t connect the dots.

Kinda like the sixth sense....I see stupid people everywhere.  

I can&#039;t take much more of being this depressed, christ the American people are sheep.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>dim wit,</p>
<p>Exactly!</p>
<p>On occasion while driving  here in Texas I&#8217;ll see a dog-legged rusted-up broken down car being driven with a Dubya bumper sticker and I can&#8217;t help but proclaim in my car &#8220;what a fool&#8221;. Unfortunately my wife can&#8217;t see through the smoke and mirrors and always chastises me . Though she makes less than she has for decades, as she has had to enter a new field because the one she was in was bought out and liquidated by an &#8220;investment group&#8221;, she still can&#8217;t connect the dots.</p>
<p>Kinda like the sixth sense&#8230;.I see stupid people everywhere.  </p>
<p>I can&#8217;t take much more of being this depressed, christ the American people are sheep.<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=4100723', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: katy</title>
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		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>weird:

&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slideshow: AK47 rifles converted to electric guitars&lt;/strong&gt;

http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=1119&lt;/em&gt;

... but better than a killing machine...
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>weird:</p>
<p><em><strong>Slideshow: AK47 rifles converted to electric guitars</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=1119" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=1119</a></em></p>
<p>&#8230; but better than a killing machine&#8230;<br />
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		<title>By: Mugsy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/02/thinkfast-october-2-2007/comment-page-2/#comment-4100720</link>
		<dc:creator>Mugsy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Democratic Congress is enabling President Bush as badly or worse than the Republicans did... and look what it got Republicans last November.

&lt;strong&gt;Authorizing another $150 Billion??? Do they &lt;em&gt;SERIOUSLY&lt;/em&gt; think every dollar of that will be spent on &quot;reconstruction and up-armored Humvee&#039;s&quot;??? No, the Bush WH is going to siphon off most of those funds to attack Iran.&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Democratic Congress is enabling President Bush as badly or worse than the Republicans did&#8230; and look what it got Republicans last November.</p>
<p><strong>Authorizing another $150 Billion??? Do they <em>SERIOUSLY</em> think every dollar of that will be spent on &#8220;reconstruction and up-armored Humvee&#8217;s&#8221;??? No, the Bush WH is going to siphon off most of those funds to attack Iran.</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=4100720', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: katy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/02/thinkfast-october-2-2007/comment-page-2/#comment-4100713</link>
		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In Surprise, Oilman Admits Iraq Kickbacks&lt;/strong&gt;

By ALAN FEUER  Published: October 2, 2007
Oscar S. Wyatt Jr., the Texas oilman accused of cheating the United Nations oil-for-food program, pleaded guilty yesterday to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Husseinâ€™s government in 2001 to gain access to lucrative Iraqi oil contracts.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/world/middleeast/02wyatt.html?hp&lt;/em&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>In Surprise, Oilman Admits Iraq Kickbacks</strong></p>
<p>By ALAN FEUER  Published: October 2, 2007<br />
Oscar S. Wyatt Jr., the Texas oilman accused of cheating the United Nations oil-for-food program, pleaded guilty yesterday to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Husseinâ€™s government in 2001 to gain access to lucrative Iraqi oil contracts.<br />
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		<title>By: dim wit</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/02/thinkfast-october-2-2007/comment-page-2/#comment-4100712</link>
		<dc:creator>dim wit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thats true, however â€œcorporate Amerikaâ€ is not a monolithic entity, it is comprised of many many maladjusted selfish egotists that just want to pile money higher, they really donâ€™t care about the relative health of the economy or our republic.

Comment by rocks911 â€” October 2, 2007 @ 10:10 am

Absolutely.  Corporate America is based on continually outperforming short term goals and as a result long terms goals suffer.  No one in Corporate America cares about the overall health of the economy anymore than it effects them directly - not to mention that whenever something disastrous does happens, Corporate America looks to the government for a bail out.

And lets face it, there are millions of people who will vote against their own interests.   Working class people who vote for Republicans are fools. By doing so they give support to the corporations that will eventually cut their jobs, their pay, and their benefits.  And when they do lose their jobs, who do they blame - not the Republicans they voted for, but the &quot;liberal elite.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thats true, however â€œcorporate Amerikaâ€ is not a monolithic entity, it is comprised of many many maladjusted selfish egotists that just want to pile money higher, they really donâ€™t care about the relative health of the economy or our republic.</p>
<p>Comment by rocks911 â€” October 2, 2007 @ 10:10 am</p>
<p>Absolutely.  Corporate America is based on continually outperforming short term goals and as a result long terms goals suffer.  No one in Corporate America cares about the overall health of the economy anymore than it effects them directly &#8211; not to mention that whenever something disastrous does happens, Corporate America looks to the government for a bail out.</p>
<p>And lets face it, there are millions of people who will vote against their own interests.   Working class people who vote for Republicans are fools. By doing so they give support to the corporations that will eventually cut their jobs, their pay, and their benefits.  And when they do lose their jobs, who do they blame &#8211; not the Republicans they voted for, but the &#8220;liberal elite.&#8221;<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=4100712', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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