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[Stevie]

I, too, have a problem with hearing mostly liberals bringing up the 200B we have/will spend in Iraq (I think some of that includes Afghanistan) - sure we could use the money here for our shcools..... but when in the past has adding millions of dollars to our system caused a noticable positive change in the schools ? Not in my lifetime yet..... the same with other things.... and they are mostly 'things'.... I live in a beat up old trailer.... but I have 4 walls and 2 doors... and a place to sleep at night.... keep my dogs.... enough food to eat.... (I'm on disability), I can't go shopping or travel etc.... but I couldn't anyway because of my health.... but when I think of those Iraqi moms and dads having their kids taken from them... or having to do Saddams horrible biddings or have their kids taken or raped...or their wives raped.... or their tongues cut out or half their families shot and dumped in a mass grave.... living with hardly any electricity (it'll get better) or clean water etc...healthcare... they are doing without things we call 'basics' on a regular basis and worrying about being killed! I don't understand why people here don't understand we're AT WAR!!!! tighten the belt buckles.... (we could use that - even me) our kids have schools with running water and bathrooms.... they did not.... they're food and medicines were old and outdated - while Saddam / France/ Russia scammed billions ! Hey, if we don't help them.... someday we'll answer to God for why we didn't.... why we were so selfish and materialistic !
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Stevie
Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage
morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should
be arrested, exiled or hanged.

[msindependent]

I do believe that this president has poured more $ into education than any of the others. Didn't our ancestors have a one room school house to learn in. What a bunch of whiners, they can just suck it up, we are at war. It's all a smoke screen to control the peasants, as the ketchup lady would say.

[srmorton]

As has been mentioned, Rush made this very point on his show today.
If every American voted the way they live their lives, the true
conservative candidate would win every presidental election in a
landslide. That is how Bill Clinton won two elections - he successfully
masqueraded as a conservative Democrat.

I have a personal example of the truth of this statement. One of my
good friends is what we call in the south a dyed-in-the-wool "yellow dog
Democrat". She and her husband (now a prominent lawyer in town)
were hippies in the late sixties and seventies. She loved Bill Clinton,
still loves John Edwards, and would never even consider voting for
GWB. Yet, in the way she lives her life and the way she raised her
two adult children, she is quite conservative.

As Rush would say, Ronald Regan won two national elections in a
landslide by being exactly who he was - a true conservative. If
President Bush had been a little more fiscally conservative and
had opposed McCain-Finegold and other questionable legislation,
he would also win in a landslide and would have taken away the
only legitimate argument the left can use to criticize his actions.
Bush will win because on many conservative principles he has been
unwavering - a strong national defense, cutting taxes, and moral
clarity on cultural issues like abortion, gay marriage, and stem
cell research.

I will admit that I am very conservative and I LOVE George Bush.
If need be, I would stand in line for hours to cast my vote for him.
I do not hate the person of John Kerry, although I hate the actions
he took during and after Vietnam and I do not agree with any of his
positions (whatever they are). Yet, I would not be nearly as
motivated to stand in line to vote against him. That is the difference.
The only way John Kerry has a chance to win this election is through
voter fraud and the courts. It is up to all of us to make sure that
does not happen!!
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Susan R. Morton

[Aristotle The Hun]

This is something behavioral scientists call "polarized perceptions". Two people, or two groups of people, can experience the same reality and come up with diametrically opposed perceptions. They then begin the process of evidence filtering until the position they hold is polarized and deeply ingrained.

This is an important field of study because the problem causes divorces, wars, and everything in between.

You have hit a very real problem that is imbedded in human nature.

Sam
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Deportè Monsieur Kerrè

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