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A Special Message for George W. Bush From Joe Biden

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Posted on Sep 9, 2010
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Vice President Joe Biden popped in on Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night for a special troop-boosting edition of “The Colbert Report,” where Biden gave a shout-out to a certain president who made a plan to pull U.S. forces out of Iraq. And no, we’re not talking about Barack Obama here.  —KA

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By Anne, September 13, 2010 at 4:47 am Link to this comment
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Absolute shame!

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By ofersince72, September 12, 2010 at 6:56 pm Link to this comment

His real name is

....O B A B L A…......$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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By 911truthdotorg, September 12, 2010 at 6:37 pm Link to this comment

Obushbama and biden sicken me.

Heaping praise upon the psychopathic bush for sending thousands of Americans to their deaths and mutilation, and upwards of 1 million Iraqi’s to their deaths and mutilation. Not to mention all the depleted uranium - the TRUE WMD’s. The “gift” that keeps on giving.

And all for the almighty dollar. I hope they all rot in the fiery pits of hell.

Oh, and by the way, 9/11 WAS an inside job.
The bush crime family pulled that atrocity off, too.

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By Tsuboimachi, September 11, 2010 at 5:35 pm Link to this comment

Biden was supposed to be a bull dog for the democrats but sadly he has become a puppy dog.

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By Jimnp72, September 11, 2010 at 9:31 am Link to this comment

ITW: we can also thank him for hollowing out several federal agencies crucial to
national well being and securitiy-he appointed incompetent cronies, like Brownie,
to head major federal agencies-the arrogance and incompetence displayed made
seasoned and highly dedicated employees quit in droves. Who knows how much
damage he has really caused in this respect, I suspect a lot.
We also dont know of other heinous acts he performed, probably many.
Yea, thanks a freakin’ heap.

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By Inherit The Wind, September 10, 2010 at 5:41 pm Link to this comment

Mr. President?  Thanks for getting us into a war in Iraq for no damn good reason.
Thanks for sinking our economy to help your rich friends get richer.
Thanks for using 9/11 to roll out Draconian, unconstitutional and UnAmerican restrictions on our freedoms.
Thanks for cutting back on regulators of everything from food producers to drug companies to oil drilling.
Thanks for doing NOTHING to cut our dependence of fossil fuels.
Thanks for alienation most of our friends around the world.

About the only good things you did were protecting the Mariana Trench and sticking it in Cheney’s face that you weren’t going to pardon Scooter Libby.

Oh yeah: Thanks for NOT taking Cheney’s “suggestion” that we cancel the 2004 election.  That’s kind of a biggie. (Just let Diebold count the votes).

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By Jimnp72, September 10, 2010 at 5:34 pm Link to this comment

Amen to knute, it isnt proper to show gratitude to war criminals.

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By berniem, September 10, 2010 at 10:58 am Link to this comment

Just another reason why I and many other Progressives(F..king Retards-thanx Rahm) don’t really care if the Ds. get trounced in Nov. or if the current POTUS serves only one term! Bad enough that “W”, et.al. are still at large; but to slap us in the face by crediting this maggot with patriotism and honor is unforgivable in light of known facts! I guess it must really be impossible for the pot to call the kettle black after all!

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By FRTothus, September 10, 2010 at 4:03 am Link to this comment

US imperial storm troopers are without honor and
deserve no respect.  They have been willing
participants in mass murder and war crimes.

“U.S. Leaders commit war crimes as a matter of
institutional necessity, as their imperial role calls
for keeping subordinate peoples in their proper place
and assuring a “favorable climate of investment”
everywhere. They do this by using their economic
power, but also ... by supporting Diem, Mobutu,
Pinochet, Suharto, Savimbi, Marcos, Fujimori,
Salinas, and scores of similar leaders. War crimes
also come easily because U.S. Ieaders consider
themselves to be the vehicles of a higher morality
and truth and can operate in violation of law without
cost. It is also immensely helpful that their
mainstream media agree that their country is above
the law and will support and rationalize each and
every venture and the commission of war crimes.”
(Edward Herman, political economist and author)

“There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the
military gang is blind to. It has its ‘finger-men’ to
point out enemies, its ‘muscle-men’ to destroy
enemies, its ‘brain men’ to plan war preparations and
a ‘Big Boss’ Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man, to adopt such
a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent
thirty-three years and four months in active military
service as a member of this country’s most agile
military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all
commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major
General. And during that period, I spent most of my
time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business,
for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was
a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time.
Now I am sure of it.
I helped make Honduras ‘right’ for American fruit
companies in 1903. I helped make Mexico, especially
Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I
helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the
National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I
helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American
republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record
of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua
for the international banking house of Brown Brothers
in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican
Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In
China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went
its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back
room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I
feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints.
The best he could do was to operate his racket in
three districts. I operated on three continents.”
(Major General Smedley Butler, 1933 speech)

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By Rosa Luxemburg, September 10, 2010 at 12:26 am Link to this comment

Jingoistic Joe spitten some imperialism…

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By Spelling Nazi, September 9, 2010 at 10:32 pm Link to this comment
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You can tell a bit about the intelligence of the people commenting by their inability to spell.

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By G.Anderson, September 9, 2010 at 9:38 pm Link to this comment

Maybe you think your different than Bush, Mr. Biden. But your not.

Just because you wear blue, and Mr. Bush wore red, you think that something has changed.

But when you get to the locker room, and strip down for your shower, and hand your blue sweats back to your coach, and Bush hands in his red ones, your both just naked skinny and emaciated.

That’s what people look like, underneath all the B.S., and political posturing, and the trappings of wealth.

Underneath it all your just the same as Bush, and he’s just the same as you.

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By ofersince72, September 9, 2010 at 7:14 pm Link to this comment

I didn’t watch this…

Colbert and Stewart make me sick anymore.

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By Gold Star Father, September 9, 2010 at 4:38 pm Link to this comment
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Thank you Knute. Ditto

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By knute, September 9, 2010 at 11:55 am Link to this comment
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I was discusted watching Biden’s politically correctness at the end in saying that Bush honored the troops overseas. To my way of thinking if he had any honor at all, which I sincerely doubt, he wouldn’t have sent them over to die in Iraq over a bunch of fabricated lies in the first place. He wouldn’t have neglected the VA when they returned, they wouldn’t have stifled the vote overseas during the two elections the GOP stole. He didn’t honor the troops…he used them callously.

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