On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 01:51:46 GMT, "dkat"
wrote:

Poverty and joblessness.... If there is no legitimate job and no social
safety net (unemployment benefits have run out for thousands and thousands
of people), crime is the consequence. Crime went down when employment went
up.

(I just love that the "Clintons" are being used as scapegoats once again.
..... I do wonder what some would do without these scapegoats - maybe be
mature, thinking adults?) DKat

Nah. Not capable of critical thinking. They need a "patriotic" icon
too badly; easier to wave the flag than to understand the
Constitution.

Most of those folks have a primitive, "faith-based" (to use a White
House PR euphemism for "religious") Calvinistic "morality" that thinks
a White House blow job is worse than deliberately lying to the
American public to "justify" the invasion of a wretched, defenseless
country like Iraq that we had ground into the dust for over a decade,,
killing women and babies for lack of clean water, medicine and food.

People forget that before Gulf War I, Saddam asked our ambassador,
April Glaspie, the U.S. opinion of his projected invasion. Acting on
State Dept. advice -- no ambassador does otherwise!!! -- she replied
that the U.S. had "no opinion" on the matter. So poor Saddam went
ahead with what he thought was an "authorized" action -- and had his
ass kicked.

Hmm...anybody smell a set-up there? The neocons in Bush I had long
been wet-dreaming about invading Iraq...Then Powell had to come along
and throw a wrench into the works by convincing Bush not to go all the
way to Baghdad. Needed to keep a united Baghdad, even
under the monster Saddam, to provide a buffer against Iran.

Now the lawless war lords and residual Baathists and infiltrating
Al Quada terrorists from all over the Middle East are killing our
soldiers on a regular basis -- forget the innocent Iraqui civilians
being killed by U.S. in huge numbers as "collateral damage".
By invading Iraq we have created armies of anti-US terrorists who can
now say "See, see, we told you so! The Zionists and the Crusaders
(Christians) intend to destroy Islam!"

The Administration is diverting money from our wrecked economy and
desperate domestic needs to pour down a Middle East rathole, dug by
the crazed White House neocon "axis of evil" that couldn't see beyond
the end of their chicken-hawk noses -- or didn't care.

So, tell your children and grandchildren that they will be paying for
this adventure for the rest of their lives. At least I'm assuming
that nobody on this NG belongs to the tiny percentage of very
wealthy that the immoral Bush taxcut was devised to profit.


--

Persephone


"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
...
What is the latest crime wave to hit New York and Washington, D.C.?