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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Carl on March 29, 2009, 04:22:30 PM
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-29-09 02:39 PM
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Poll question: After 9/11 were you more worried about another terrorist attack or Bush's reaction to it?
Poll result (68 votes)
More worried about another attack (6 votes, 9%) Vote
More worried about what Bush would do afterwards (57 votes, 84%) Vote
Not sure / Something else (5 votes, 7%) Vote
NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-29-09 02:52 PM
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11. Initially I admit I was very worried about another attack
But with so many level headed people on this site (you among them), my nerves were soon calmed.
Don
Keep reading to see the "level headed". :lmao:
no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-29-09 02:41 PM
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2. My uncle and I immediately agreed that the whole scenario reminded us of
the burning of the Reichstag in Berlin which in turn gave Hitler the ability to get the legislature to pass his version of the PATRIOT Act, called the Enabling Act.
InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-29-09 02:42 PM
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4. I still wonder how close we came to global annihilation.
I thought for sure he was going to seize it as his excuse to start dropping nukes.
BeFree (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-29-09 02:44 PM
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5. Something else
But I can't say it here. Which is fine. Some people would get po'd if I did. So I'll just hold back.
I can say that I was worried about what happened to our military since it failed to stop the 'attack'. But that's all I will say.
kerrywins (588 posts) Sun Mar-29-09 02:44 PM
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6. Governments Always Use Threats to Seize More Power
History has shown us this again and again
glowing (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-29-09 02:49 PM
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9. I wasn't really big and all informed in politics and all.. but as I sat there
watching the towers burn along side my roommate, I silently thought, "what have you done you murderous ****; George Bush; what have you done?" AND that was well before I knew as much as I know now about that disater of a family.
Yeah sure,whatever. :whatever:
scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-29-09 03:00 PM
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13. Since from the moment I saw the plane hit the 2nd tower on TV I was sure in my gut that bushco
had some kind of hand in it, I only worried about what else bushco would do.
sw
G_j (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-29-09 03:02 PM
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15. yep,
I came into work, was told what happened. They had a TV on. My very first thought was Bush was connected in some way.
Kaleko (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-29-09 03:47 PM
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19. In the weeks and months after 9/11,
I waited for reasonable explanations for the nearly free-fall collapse of the 3 WTC buildings and the absence of plane wreckage in Pennsylvania and on the Pentagon lawn.
By 2004, I stopped waiting for an explanation that would exonerate the Bush/Cheney gang and did some research myself. That's when I started to live without hope for democracy in America.
Still in GD at the DUmp...soon will be moved to the dungeon where sane passersby won`t see it.
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:mental: :mental: :mental: :mental: :mental:
Somewhere, villages are screaming for their particular idiots to come back. All they have to do is to look at DU, and they'll find them.
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IF he had declared martial law, created the Bush Youth (instead of leaving that for O), declared Iraq and Afghanistan to be American territories, taken over Mexico and Canada, and imprisoned all the DUmp and like-minded...maybe they'd have a point. Maybe. :lmao:
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For entirely different reasons than the DUers, I wasn't concerned about another attack. It just wouldn't have fit with terrorist capabilities or operational constraints and methods. Their position on it is almost entirely based on emotion rather and facts and analysis, so any similarity in the result is purely coincidental.
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kerrywins (590 posts) Sun Mar-29-09 06:44 PM
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6. Governments Always Use Threats to Seize More Power
History has shown us this again and again.
You mean like this?
"If nothing is done, economists from across the spectrum tell us that this recession could linger for years and the unemployment rate could reach double digits - and they warn that our nation could lose the competitive edge that has served as a foundation for our strength and standing in the world." - Jan. 10, in his weekly radio address.
"We start 2009 in the midst of a crisis unlike any we have seen in our lifetime, a crisis that has only deepened over the last few weeks." - Jan. 8, in a speech at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
And their are plenty more from our illustrious President. :whatever:
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kerrywins (588 posts) Sun Mar-29-09 02:44 PM
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6. Governments Always Use Threats to Seize More Power
History has shown us this again and again
You mean like government seizing entire portions of the private sector? Borrowing more cash from the Chinese than we'll ever be able to repay? Setting salaries for the private sector? Giving the Treasury Department new broad powers to seize businesses on a whim, Congress and the Constitution be damned?
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WTF?? Their FIRST reaction to 9/11 was that Bush had a hand in it, or caused it? Not, those poor, poor people, who did this, why did they do this, will there be more attacks, will they find more people alive, will emergency workers be able to get in there and do what they need to do, is there anything I can do? Or prayers for the families of the victims, prayers for those who helped with the emergency, prayers for our nation? How sick do you have to be, when none of those were running through your head, but Bush's response/and or culpability is your FIRST thought?
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WTF?? Their FIRST reaction to 9/11 was that Bush had a hand in it, or caused it? Not, those poor, poor people, who did this, why did they do this, will there be more attacks, will they find more people alive, will emergency workers be able to get in there and do what they need to do, is there anything I can do? Or prayers for the families of the victims, prayers for those who helped with the emergency, prayers for our nation? How sick do you have to be, when none of those were running through your head, but Bush's response/and or culpability is your FIRST thought?
They're DUmmys.....once you realise that hatred of America, conservatives and Republicans in general and all things President Bush specifically comes first to the denizens of the DUmp, it all makes sense.
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WTF?? Their FIRST reaction to 9/11 was that Bush had a hand in it, or caused it? Not, those poor, poor people, who did this, why did they do this, will there be more attacks, will they find more people alive, will emergency workers be able to get in there and do what they need to do, is there anything I can do? Or prayers for the families of the victims, prayers for those who helped with the emergency, prayers for our nation? How sick do you have to be, when none of those were running through your head, but Bush's response/and or culpability is your FIRST thought?
This is the normal thought processes that pass for "intelligence" at the DUmp....
I firmly believe that if the entire IQ of the DUmp's residents were added together, it might reach double-digits....
I still wonder how they can read anything on their computer monitors thru all the crayon scribble....
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I think it's less a matter of IQ, and more a matter of basic morality, humanity, and decency.
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I think it's less a matter of IQ, and more a matter of basic morality, humanity, and decency.
Or the DUmp's lack thereof...
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If Obama declares himself President-for-life and dismisses the Congress as 'anachronistic' they would be cheering
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If Obama declares himself President-for-life and dismisses the Congress as 'anachronistic' they would be cheering
"But how will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracies?"