Freedom isn't free? That's the best many here can do? Neither is oil! Neither is anything purchased by credit cards from large corporations that Bush insisted on protecting from those bad people declaring bankruptcy! Neither is homeowning, especially after a republican controlled congress began allowing the predatory lending practices now being investigated.
WHAT THE HELL DOES FREEDOM BEING FREE HAVE TO DO WITH IRAQ? Afganistan was needed, zero tolerance must be allowed when a guy is setting next to the leader of a nation and thumbing his nose at the USA while smirking about his deeds of 9/11. Seems reasonable to me, if you protect him, well, protect yourself also cause the sh!ts gonna hit the fan. If needed turn the whole area into one large glass skating rink for the use of those of the future when the radiation fades enough, but Iraq? Iran has done more, should we put them in the on-deck circle? Syria, Lebanon..... where does it end?
Then lets turn our sights on Africa, human rights have been trampled there for centuries also. Has God died and we've determined that WE are in charge of morality through out the world?
It's not just the boxes that our kids come home in. How about the VA being allowed to deteriorate to this extent? How about the fact that Hepatitis C kills three people every hour of every day in the USA, and it averages out that nearly two of them are vets? Yet it is still not accepted as combat induced, doesn't get a vet disability, and in fact is severely undertreated by the VA. This is according to their own most recent release regarding the status of HCV in veterans.
Read it! Pull your head out of the ground (or where ever else you are keeping it) and take a look at the welfare of those around you. Unless you are in the upper 7% in income there is absolutely no way you can say that you are better off now than you were with the Democrats. Clinton was at least taking it one at a time. A simple glance in the mirror at the middle aged balding guy there convinced me that I was safe, he'd never get all the way to me, and that was after seeing Monica! Bush likes the cluster F*** method. If you can't afford the big umbrella, you just gotta put up with his sh!t storm. Thousands or millions at a time, only the rich are safe.
The USA has the worst health care of all industrialized nations, costs more of the GNP than in any other industrialized nation, yet Bush sees no reason to work towards any nationwide reform. (Discover pp 68 - 69) His greed is contagious, as is his ego, with the mini Mussilini crowd who call themselves Doctors. Want to see a p!$$ed off Dr.? Just dare deliver your child, get some form of trauma injury, or have any other serious malady during the time period a Dr. is on call, but not in attendance. It's like they expect you to be decent enough to preplan your illness. Not true? Then why is it that Johns Hopkins University found that the odds of someone surviving a first heart attack decrease greatly on the weekend and rise once Dr.'s are back at work during the week? Granted, that in those areas where residents are in attendance at the hospitals the survival odds were fairly steady, how many of us are planning a vacation near a large hospital? For that matter, does anyone plan heart attacks? Then you get to learn about their lawyers if you dare say anything. I'm really unsure if they have so many lawyers to protect themselves from suits, or to initiate them to intimidate those who recieve sub standard care. There are still good Dr's out there, but you have to search for them, and they are getting rarer.
Liberals are tearing down all that Bush has built, or are simply whiners? Read Vietnam Magazine's Letter from Vietnam Magazine in the June 2007 issue. Gary Trudeau, author of Doonesbury, is a liberal that most conservatives are aware of, and have villified for years. He's been the bane of conservative politicians for years. Former POW and current Senator John McCain once said of him "Suffice to say that I hold him in utter contempt."
Guess who agreed to write the forward to Trudeau's book "The War Within" in 2006? None other than Senator John McCain. It seems that ALL proceeds from this book, as well as the first book in this series "The Long Road Home" go to the Fisher Home which helps families stay near their wounded vet during the long periods of treatment often required, at no / little cost. What have you done with your little yellow ribbon and bumper sticker?
A liberal may know that you are full of sh!t, but he'll protect your right to spray it out on the lawn. A conservative will accept whatever he's fed with the tagline of patriotism, and greedily seek ways to steal your lawn, and have you arrested for spewing on other's lawns.
Probably worst of all, for you, is that so many liberals, gays, etc. are not the whining crybabys you seem to want to paint us as. Be careful out there, you loonie right wing neo-nazi's don't have the only nutcases (though I must admit you have many), insanity and the feelings of utter powerlessness are in many communities and they do beget violence, especially since our "growing" economy hinges on the ability of so many ofl those who lost good paying jobs learning to say "Do you want fries with that?." Such an incredibly ego restorative question to find oneself asking of a fourth generation in bred cousin of the local coal plant strip mining operation owner, when he stops by complaining of how hard it is with all the restraints, and Oh, by the way, sorry about your kids' both gettin' Black Lung, but I don't think it's from all that dust we stirred up. We'd have gladly paid two cents on the dollar for every dollar we'd have got for the coal under your old property, too bad you were so stubborn. We got it for a song at auction awhile back, ya shoulda took the money.
Mental health is another area Bush overlooks (constituents?) but that's another story.