GIVE THE PATRIOTS AND THE BORDER PATROL AK-47’S AND THE IMIGRATIN PROBLEM WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF IN 90 DAYS. THE GOVERNMENT DOESENT WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT AND WILL ONLY GET WORSE.

THIER ARE 435 TRAITORS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THE CONGRESS AND THE PLACE NEEDS AN ETHINIC CLEANING. IF THEY WERE PFC’S IN THE ARMY THEY WOULD BE STOOD BEFORE A FIRING SQUAD

Since George Bush and Junta came to power, I felt always irritated at the mention of Texas which produced such a third rate politician and first rate liar to become the United States president. Only recently that feeling subsided after reading more and more of the Texan Molly Ivins thougtful writings and analysis. She is indeed a first rate thinker and humanist, and I practicaly savor reading every line of her writings. So, okay texas; no more hard feelings; you produced one of the worst and you balanced it with Molly Ivins, one of the best. The bad Texans can have their bad guy,only for a while, and the whole nation hopefully can have Molly Ivins for keeps.

Ya, ok, she is aginst the war, so am I. So what can anybody do about it ?

x

Here is some new dope for you,, and I’ll bet Molly Ivans won’t talk about it.

USA, Canada, and Mexico will drop their borders in year 2010, and the three will form a superstate.

say good by to your civil rights..

And the fucking media won’t say a word about it.

Molly Ivins in 2008!!!!!!

This Texas girl could not go on without you, Molly!

Depleted Uranium is much more dangerous for both the Iraqi people and our soldiers than Zarqawi ever was!

Dr Jawad Al-Ali, an Iraqi oncologist trained in the U.K. said:

“Our studies indicate that more than forty percent of the population around Basra will get cancer.” 

Dr. Al-Ali (55), director of the Oncology Center at the largest hospital in Basra, Iraq stated, at a recent ( 2003) conference in Japan:

“Two strange phenomena have come about in Basra which I have never seen before. The first is double and triple cancers in one patient. For example, leukemia and cancer of the stomach. We had one patient with 2 cancers - one in his stomach and kidney. Months later, primary cancer was developing in his other kidney—he had three different cancer types. The second is the clustering of cancer in families. We have 58 families here with more than one person affected by cancer. Dr Yasin, a general Surgeon here has two uncles, a sister and cousin affected with cancer. Dr Mazen, another specialist, has six family members suffering from cancer. My wife has nine members of her family with cancer”.
“Children in particular are susceptible to DU poisoning. They have a much higher absorption rate as their blood is being used to build and nourish their bones and they have a lot of soft tissues. Bone cancer and leukemia used to be diseases affecting them the most, however, cancer of the lymph system which can develop anywhere on the body, and has rarely been seen before the age of 12 is now also common.”,

Nine family members with cancer?  40%?

Everyone breathes dust. We’ve made an entire nation unsafe and unhealthy for further habitation.  Go to vitaltruths.blogsource.com for further info.

I love Molly! She has more common sense than 2 dozen brainless neocons.
I agree 100% with her! To hell with forgiveness! Not this time! Hell no! Let’s arrest and prosecute the whole lot of them on national and international TV. Let’s show the rest of the world we can and will stand up to our creed. If not then get several million people to storm through D.C. and yank the facist bastards out of the Whorehouse and “Hang ‘em High” in the Rose Garden. And that goes for more than a few treasonous congressassholes who also voted for the unpatriotic act!
These sewer dwelling rats in the Whore house need to have their collective asses kicked around the
block a few times.
I;m sick of this shit in D.C. I’m am almost to the point of anarchy!

If one looks at the price of oil since the invasion, it becomes obvious why these guys are doing what they are doing. They stuck a stick into the beehive to make the price of honey rise. In geopolitical terms, this helps ‘us’ (read ‘our corporations’), because we get a smaller percentage of our oil from the middle east than the Europeans and Asians. Also, the guys who own the oil here, ie, rich Texas oil guys (who are the ones who put dubbya into power) are now getting $70 for a barrel, instead of the $5 they would have been getting had Gore and his Global Warming Cabal been running things. Anybody else believe profit is a motive to rig an election or three?

And let us not forget when the socialists come to power and make slaves of all of us that the dhimmicrats were helping them all along.

The “war” in Iraq was over along time ago.  It is now an occupation.  The purpose of which is to manipulate the price of oil.

You all cry that so many are dying in this “war”.  Hell, it is just a drop in the bucket compared to Vietnam.  We lose more military personnel to automobile accidents daily.  And, hello, who put us in Vietnam?  Could it have been the dhimmicrats? 

Both parties suck, Molly just says what is popular to say, she has no true beliefs other than making a buck from her writing.  Don’t think so?  Just read all of her columns through the years and watch her flip flop.  Example, Molly once wrote the only times this country has had a depression was when we tried to reduce the national debt.  She thinks that debt is good for the country, unless it is the republicans doing it.  She’s a two faced muck raker only concerned about making a buck.  Just like all the rest of the people involved in politics (poly - many, tics - blood sucking creatures)....

“but Molly, rather than holding a grudge, let’s have a plan to do things right when the current crowd are rejected through the ballot box ... and having left-leaning pople talk about investigations and grudges will not win back political power”

How many elections do they need to steal before you wake up? Ballot box? That’s the solution? And even if it were, I assume you propose to vote for the Democrats, who are every bit as controlled by AIPAC as the Repubs. Google Mearsheimer/Walt and read the professors’ article so you can understand what’s REALLY wrong with the system and our foreign policy.

This is NOT America’s War,

This is BUSH’s War.

This point should be hammered relentlessly.

This was a bad gamble that failed utterly, and Bush keeps steaming in a vain effort to recoup…at the cost of so many lives.

The blood is on his hands, impossibly hidden.

Comment #11708 by Kenneth W. Weigel<<

Perhaps you unaware that it was Ronald Reagan who armed Saddam even afer Saddam had killed his own people and that Bush41/Cheney kept up the policy which also included ARMING OSAMA. Furthermore when the people of Iraq rose up against Saddam in 91 and had captured terrority- they were turned down by Bush41/Cheney. In 91 Cheney gave a speech which is on the web why it was NOT a good idea to depose Saddam and those reasons were just as valid when we did invade Iraq.
Now if you care for the soldiers like you claim why in the hell would you be backing a President that sent young people off to die without ENOUGH TROOPS, without ENOUGH Arms, without an occupation plan or an exit plan.
As far as traitors it was your very own Cheney who did business with the enemy , Iran and sold out his country for the almight y buck

I know its Christian to turn the other cheek, but we have run out of cheeks to turn as a nation. The RICO in charge of Washington has run our economy, our military, our liberties, and our good name into the ground with its stupid attempt at neocolonialism in the Middle East under the pretext of fighting terrorism.  Truly its a high crime of historic proportions

I agree with Molly—hang ‘em high for every one to see.

Ms Ivins regularly calls it as it is ... unlike our current president ...

but Molly, rather than holding a grudge, let’s have a plan to do things right when the current crowd are rejected through the ballot box ...

.. and having left-leaning pople talk about investigations and grudges will not win back political power -

we have to have a plan for governance that is obviously better than what the Republicans are doing ... shouldn’t be that hard, but it IS the key to fixing all that has become screwed up since 1992 when Gingrich and Co took the House for the hypocritical right politicos using the “contract with America”  device

Nothing will change in 06.

The 62,000,000 working class idiots that voted for captain photo opp are still standing by their mail boxes waiting on their trickle down checks. 

A van with the Repug loud speaker will pass by before the midterms and remind them to vote for the good guys or the bad guys will get them and off they will march to pull the leaver before taking up positions perched back by the mail box anxiously waiting for the rich to reward them.

The American dream died long ago. It was not as sensational a story as the congressional crotch watch stories that now pass for mainstream news, therefore it made page C-17.

The death of the middle class will be treated the same way. Have fun watching this countries standard of living equal Mexico’s in the next 20 years. Just be glad the Repugs rescued us from having to endure the marriage of Fred and Ted.

Where would we be without you & the Dixie Chicks? Keep up the good work, Molly. Justice may prevail, someday, even though the Karl Rove disgrace is a giant step backward. What’re your thoughts on Rove’s get out of jail card?

Every time I see some knuckle-dragger mention that we WILL win the war in Iraq, I wonder what exactly that means.  After all…we went there, we were told (though the Bushies didn’t believe it), because of the WMD.  Then it was because Saddam gassed his people (nobody mentioned with gas we supplied him and as we watched).  Then it was to “bring democracy” (though I admit I will never understand how killing people in their own country has anything to do with bringing them democracy).  Throw in there what der Fuehrer said before it started…that if Saddam left, we would not invade (which seems to indicated overthrowing him was the objective, but who really knows after 3, 4, or 5 “objectives”).  So…of those reasons, the only one that remotely resembles why we went there was to get rid of that huge (non)-threat Saddam.  The troops did that.  So, why are they still there?  Or maybe someone can tell me what exactly our “plan” is.  I, honestly, don’t know.  If someone can answer the question:  “Victory will be when…” and it’s a real reason, I will jump on the bandwagon, but until then, NOT!  (Oh, and please, no more “to fight terrorism.”  The terrorists, to the extent there are any, are there BECAUSE of our presence.

THE ONLY SOLUTION IS REVOLUTION!

Actually, Constant Gardener, Jack Murtha voted for the resolution to go to war but has had second thoughts about it since. However, Russ Feingold should be cheered for voting against it just as Ted Kennedy did.

All things will be resolved with the coming federal government bankruptcy.

Considering the nature of terrorism as a primarily political weapon, one might argue that “not caring about what people in other countries think” is an odd strategy. No, wait… Sorry, wrong administration. Makes perfect sense after all.

The point is that you can’t have a war on “terrorism.” It’s a tactic, not a political credo. From the point of view of the side that would bear comparison to the US in iraq, in a certain conflict of about 230 years ago, Ethan Allen was a “terrrorist” as well as an “insurgent.” And what was John Brown? Manachem Begin? I will note that most of us opposed to the war were opposed before the fact because we knew that the reasons for going over were all lies, and perhaps before people who still support this insanity throw stones they should admit that the government who lead the charge lied repeatedly about WMD’s, the threat posed by Saddam, his links to what they call “terrorists,” etc. THEN you’ll perceive the weakness in the argument for staying the course until the mess we caused has been cleaned up, which on the face of it does have a certain moral logic. Does anyone think that the same gang who dishonestly led us into this quagmire with is EVER going to tell us what their agenda for staying really is? And don’t you imbeciles even understand that this war has made the threat of terrorism fifty times greater than it was before we started it? You make people hate you then blame those who warn you what will happen when it does. What insanity! The ones whose rhetoric fuel terrrorism are the ones who show the world we don’t respect Islamic culture and want to make everyone in the world do our bidding. Terroism is the direct result of such a stance and you can NEVER keep a few fanatics from proving it until you stop doing the things that you shouldn’t be doing in the first place. Too hard to follow?

War crime trials starting at Crawford? Why not Washington??? We need to start with the dittos who put this war in motion, be it Hillary or Biden, the idiots who stood by the chimp need to be held accountable for their going along…

Praise Murtha! Praise Kennedy! Men who voted against this foolish Christian Crusade, men who saw through the WMD’s and saw Halliburton Profits!

Praise Ms. Ivins!

It’s obvious who will get the blame when Iraq turns to crud. It’ll be the fault of the liberal media and the anti-war protesters, just the way they lost the Vietnam war.

The true tragedy will be in 20 years when all those Vietnamese kids lose their jobs making crap for WalMart to Iraqis willing to work for less.

“You just sit back in the executive spinny chair in your air conditioned office, while thousands of our troops try to work in 120+ weather, wearing full body armor and carrying a rifle.”
-these folks wouldn’t be in Iraq in the first place if it wasn’t for your president.I’m curious-do you really in your wildest dreams think that america is in iraq because Mr Bush cares oh so very much about the freedom of the iraqi people?Do you actually entertain the notion that a government made up largely of ex oil industry types has launched an illegal war in a place that just happens to have the world’s largest un-tapped oil reserves on the planet because they’re obsessed with insuring that Iraqi’s can vote?Of course you do-because Rush Limbaugh told you its true.

I agree.  WHEN we win in Iraq, we are never going to let the terrorist accomodating, Saddam loving, lunatic leftist liberals forget their quisling behavior.  You people are an embarrassment to all America.  Besides, as usual, you don’t have any answers as to how to fight terrorism, other than roll over.  Even the Canadians are beginning to get a backbone, which is not too surprising when you consider what they were going to do to Parliament and the Prime Minister up there.

Hey, Fed Up (Comment #11673 by Fed Up on 6/13 at 7:02 am)

Now you’re talking!

Personally, I call Karl Rove and Ann Coulter the frothing pimple set of the Neocon wing (the wing nuts) of the Republican Party ... labeled from memories of my Junior High days way back when (I was born before WWII, for chrissakes.)

But I really, really like to call attention to your style of writing. I even bookmark a few examples like yours to quickly display when I want to show friends, family ... even strangers down at the local Starbucks (by the way, I lived in Seattle for 25 years, and Seattle Best Coffee has better coffee, but worse service ... kinda like McDonald’s as Starbucks and Burger King as SBC per my grandson when I used to take him out for burgers ... who is now grown up with two kids of his own ... but I digress ... us old geezers can lose track pretty easy when we’re just sitting around swapping stories)

Anyway, down at the local Starbucks I simply give you a little intro, like, “Here’s another example of a Neocon front person ... another one who wants to ride in the rich kid’s limo to the graduation party,”, click on the bookmark, and voilé! laughs all around.

Your comment, “Your whiny ass, crybaby opinion is noted, thanks for playing, now STFU already,” is kind of classic Neocon style now that their brilliant ideas are being flushed down the commode.

I thank you.

Go Molly:

A cartoon appeared in our newspaper toeday:

Two republicians standing in front of the White House and saying:

But if a married gay person tries to come in here to burn the flag and steal the INHERITANCE of our BILLIONAIRE’S offspring. we will be ready to kill.

That just about all that this USA will get in the next four years.  Nothing for the working man.

The Iraq war is a means to further limit the oil supply - says Greg Palast, to raise gas prices, to further downgrade the middle class.  Bodies?  Limbs?  Just call them noble sacrifices and your friends in the corporate media won’t mention what everyone is really concerned about. 

The illegality, the immorality of our overlords. 

The fear of losing health care, jobs, homes, rights.  It’s going down the tubes, people.  Think you can vote these people away?  I feel a glitch away from not existing…

I kinda liked that asshat Admiral who claimed that the 3 suicides were an act of warfare. How do these people remain standing after spin like that?

There isn’t an ounce of forgiveness in me any more ... I’m taking this grudge to my grave with me. George Bush has made me ashamed to be an American and, at age 58, I’m not sure I’m going to live long enough to see that shame lifted. (And the icing on my little cake?  I live in Ohio so my vote will probably wind up in some cyber sewer system.)

To Comment #11673:

Are you a talking cartoon for the Indignant Right? Admit your wrongs, and make amends.

I give you credit for admitting there is a problem, first off ( “It means you haven’t got one clue as to how to fix the problems yourself…”)!!

But your logic assumes that gearing up and going desert-commando is the solution. If the USA being there in the first place is the source of problem, how is the problem a solution to the problem, follow??

I understand your need to be Macho, that’s how the Right rules… but it doesn’t make you right, (as in “correct”).

Because you speak LOUDLY, tell women to “STFU”, and slam other’s opinion because they differ from that of your own, those things don’t make you intelligent, sensible or audible: They make you a giant caricature of everything wrong with the US.

I can only hope that the Republicans make asymmetrical war on the Democrats the same way the prisoners did.

I’m confused how anyone can think with the war going on as horrendously as it is that we should pull out and watch Iraq turn into another Lebanese civil war for 20 years?

How do you think the Middle East will view us THEN?

Yes, we would all like to bring the troops home and/or reverse the decision to invade, but if you advocate pulling out the U.S. troops now your are sentancing both the Iraqi people and any shred of legitimacy America has or can have in the region to death.

Vietnam is unfortunately not a viable case study. The majority of Iraqi’s WANT the American backed government to work, they just don’t want to get blown up on their way to work by the plethora of bomegrown and foreign insurgents on their way to work.

Advocates of true American liberalism value Iraqi life as much as American life. Since our death toll is not near theirs, supporting pull out without increased stability in the region (yes our military is one of the few things keeping it from all out civil war) is simply cowardice.

This gives rise to Osama Bin Laden’s “American’s can’t stand to see their own blood” and fuels terrorist ideology, as WELL as the conservative false belief that liberals are soft and don’t have guts in times of turmoil (which probably landed us here in the first place).

fed up must be holding nixons secert plan to end
the war. tell us about it. i’m tired about whining
too.

Thanks to Ms. Ivins for her remarks.  If Mr. Hussein can be hanged for his response to an attempted presidential assassination, we certainly should be able to hang Mr. Bush for Fallujah, or for the same basic crime we hanged Germans for at Nuremberg.  I’m with Ms. Ivins—don’t forget.

” I think it’s time the antiwar side in this country started using a few threats of its own—specifically, about who’s going to take the blame for this when it’s over.”

uh, Clinton?

Keep whining. Public Opinion is an eternal pessimist, and when it comes to immense projects, is rarely right. You just sit back in the executive spinny chair in your air conditioned office, while thousands of our troops try to work in 120+ weather, wearing full body armor and carrying a rifle. You sit in that chair and bitch that nothing is getting done.

You know what that pessimistic attitude means? It means you haven’t got one clue as to how to fix the problems yourself, and you can’t imagine that someone else might have the answer.

Your whiny ass, crybaby opinion is noted, thanks for playing, now STFU already.

I love Miss Molly! Her humor leaves me with the feeling that somehow, everything is going to be alright. Molly, Call me the next time you are in Yachats (Yah-hots). We’ll do lunch!
Dee

Molly is right (then isn’t she always?) about the low opinion of the U.S. in the rest of the world. I’m an American who emigrated to Australia last December because my wife and I could no longer stomach being tax-paying parts of the killing machine. Lucky for us, I’m a registered nurse so I could get a work visa. I’m always amazed at how all the Aussies I meet, from ridgy-didge Anglo-stock ockers, to the Italians and Greeks who came here after WW II, to the newest Vietnamese and Middle Eastern immigrants, regard the U.S. America is feared even here, in a country that models itself after the U.S. It’s like a formerly favourite uncle who turned out to be a child molester. Not good when one of your closest allies thinks you’re scum. I’m afraid the U.S. has become the new USSR in the eyes of the world.

After Watergate the U.S. became allergic to holding the White House accountable, unless, of course, you’re a Democrat with a loose zipper.

We do have our principles.

Having let the stupid people run the show, one wonders if the smart people have made like a Baghdad doctor: left the country.

Have no fear Molly, the Republicans are on the case! Via Josh Marshal at TPM via Roll Call the Republicans will solve all Iraq problems by spending the better part of this very Thursday talking about a Republican Iraq resolution, cool, way cool, should be a winner.

The resolution goes on to emphasize the importance of fighting terrorism and says that Saddam Hussein “constituted a threat against global peace and security.” The language also refers to Iraq and Afghanistan as two parts of the same fight.

As you can see the Republicans are still fighting Saddam and they can count all the way up to two, Iraq = one, Afghanistan = two. Some day the Republicans will notice they actually have ten fingers and we will see some real progress.

From the New York Times via A Tiny Revolution (Jonathan Schwartz),

Military officials on Saturday suggested that the three suicides were a form of a coordinated protest.

“They are smart, they are creative, they are committed,” Admiral Harris said. “They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.”

The warbling admirable Admiral Harris really puts a fine point on it with asymmetrical warfare. They were in prison with no hope of getting out and yet they were still waging not only war against us but asymmetrical warfare to boot obviously they have no regard for what is fair and right like the admirable Admiral Harris.

I will hazard a guess that being smart, creative and committed will probably not be part of the Republican resolution on Iraq this coming Thursday or any other day.

I feared for a long time that Bushco would attempt to declare martial law to avoid being prosecuted for war crimes.
Thankfully they have so alienated the military, especially veterans, that the possibility no longer seems to be a viable option.
On the other hand, there are all those mercenaries doing black ops for whoever the hell we are outsourcing the most henious stuff to. Think there are enough of them to do the job?
Keep your prayers high. They are not nearly finished with us yet.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse!

Crawford, Texas seems an excellent place to begin the war crimes trials.

Thank you Molly. America ought to be proud of you for having the guts to say things as they are. You bring credit to Texas common sense just when I had finally given up on it ever again seeing the light of day.

And yes, isn’t it just those people most likely to be adjudged guilty of fomenting this mess who themselves are so gung-ho about everyone else paying even unto death penalty, the price of their sins and errors and downright criminal actions? Where is justice tempered with mercy in their vocabulary?

I watch movies portraying antisocial mental psycopaths who invariably get upset when their turn comes to pay the piper. I always wonder when the voting majority will get the message and demonstrate democracy at work at home.

Golly Miz Molly.
Here you are on truthdig an’ nobody done commented. That’s ‘cuz you make good sense an’ people that come here DO hold a grudge for that pack o’lies, biggern a Repug Elephant, that has caused so many deaths. George of Arabia calls hisself Christian and says that God tole him to do these things. I think he had a bad connection with the wrong party.

Bryan, Austin, Texas

Go-Molly-Go !

This Bush-generated “War” is to be the right-wingNuts joke on all middle-class Americans—For it is to be the destruction of the middle-class itself!  Run the national debt into infinity and excuse the wealthiest from taxation and let the little folks go broke scrambling to keep up!—Pretty good formula for ruination.

ARE YOU GOING TO BE A “HAVE” OR A “HAVE NOT”?!!

This administration, ALL OF THEM, should be tried for treason and war crimes!!!

Keep punching Molly!  Maybe one of these days, soon I hope, America will wake up and take BACK this country. . . “Hope springs eternal”!
                Jim Slater, Oak Point, TX

Now you’re talking, Molly!

Let’s have some of that good ol’ accountability. I mean these right wingers are always talking about people accepting responsibility for their acts ... like in “if you can’t do the time, then don’t do the crime.”

I’m all for it.

These Neocons are so scared right now ... they’re going to try to steal one election too many. What else can they do? If the people ever get subpoena power back in Congress, the Neocons and their cohorts are headed to prison ... and they know it.

They’re already squirming.

Trouble is, the Democrats are wringing their hands as if they’re afraid of the people, too.

You know, if our Constitution survives this debacle (what I call the frothing of the pimple set, ‘cuz the tactics are straight out of the junior high bullies’ instruction manual), we’ll know “we the people” REALLY have something going for us.