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Kerry's College Plan

John Kerry is out promoting his college plan. Kerry is out to increase enrollment and help the poor and minorities get into college. Sounds like empty promises to me.

I remember Bill Clinton said the same thing. I was in college then, I come from a poor family, Bill Clinton didn't help me out.

I remember George Bush Sr. saying the same thing, oh...but then he decimated the Pell Grant money.

When will Presidents and Presidential contenders quit lying? It's all B.S.

Kerry cannot get more people to go to college if they won't go. Making it free won't help. It might give us a bunch of students that really shouldn't be in college though. Which is the problem with poor and minority students, they didn't get a good high school education, but then we send them off to college and they can't keep up or compete. Then they drop out in frustration and suffer for the rest of their lives. How about promoting K-12 education or trade schools? Nothing wrong with being a plumber, heck I had a simple plumbing job done a few months ago and the bill was way more than I make per hour.

This is really just a plan devised by Kerry's staff to get support from the minorities. Taking a page from the Bill Clinton manual, the Kerry campaign is out pandering. I expect to see G.W. Bush doing the same thing soon.

Democrats/Republicans both suck

The words of Sen. Clinton:

"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

This is why I hate the Democrat party. Take from one, give to the other, that is the opposite of what this country should be about.

I also hate the Republican party because they go to the extreme right of this, NO TAXES FOR ANYONE!

I'm in favor of a VAT tax, I.E. Europe. While most people will think I'm an idiot, if you actually look at articles and studies of how the VAT tax would affect the uber-rich and rich, they would end up paying more taxes than they currently do. However, if they chose to spend no money, they would pay less. It is a tax that really helps out the poor, and people like me that are cheap and buy nothing.

Media Coverage in Iraq

Here is a link to a fascinating article about media coverage of Iraq.

Basically, one man colors the news in Iraq the way he wants to. Or the media uses stories from people they barely know. Very interesting. No wonder the military people I've talked to and the blogs I've read have a totally different take on Iraq vs. our media exposure.

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Kosovo vs. Iraq

Clinton had Bosnia

Bush has Iraq

Both "wars" were unilateral. Both "wars" stopped genocide. During the Bosnia war, some on the right protested only because Pres. Clinton was in power. It was a small minority of the right. We now have the left protesting the war in Iraq, except it isn't a small minority of the left.

I watched the Discovery Channel's special on "The Real Saddam" this weekend. I couldn't help but wonder why people don't want Saddam gone. Unlike Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein hated the U.S. and wanted to attack us at some point and he had the means to do it. Slobodan had no way to attack the U.S. and he wasn't sitting on the third largest oil supply in the world like Saddam. Oh..and a corrupt U.N. kept filling Saddam's pockets with money, lets not forget that.

In the Discovery channel special they said that the entire country of Iraq is one big mass grave. Saddam murdered 1 million people in 20 years, that we know about. Estimates run as high as 2 million total people murdered by Saddam and his thungs.

I find myself wondering why one war was good and one war bad? Is it merely a political opinion? If so, I find that pretty disgusting. I disliked Clinton but the war in Bosnia was a good thing. Let's move troops to Sudan next and move the CIA into Iran topple the Mullahs. Nation building is a good thing.

Moore is a liar once again

New Fox news.com article shows a few of Michael Moore's lies in his new movie

Don't state your opinion on Fahrenheit 9/11

A movie goer goes to see Fahrenheit 9/11, disagrees with the MoveOn.org people outside the theatre and is assaulted for his opinion.

Africa Niger Uranium

The UK Financial Times is reporting what Pres. Bush said in his State of the Union speech is true. Intelligence sources in Europe knew all along that Iraq was trying to buy Uranium from Niger.

Quote:
However, European intelligence officers have now revealed that three years before the fake documents became public, human and electronic intelligence sources from a number of countries picked up repeated discussion of an illicit trade in uranium from Niger. One of the customers discussed by the traders was Iraq.

These intelligence officials now say the forged documents appear to have been part of a "scam", and the actual intelligence showing discussion of uranium supply has been ignored.

So why did Pres. Bush back down? It's too late to fight for what he said in the State of the Union speech, but it makes me think this administration has a severe communication problem.

So we've seen the NY Times admit they sat on evidence for months that proved an Iraq - Al Qaeda connection and now we find out that the Uranium from Niger story was correct too. Anti-war lefties are looking more and more like idiots every day.

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