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		<title>By: Kans</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kans</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like your website; I will share this with friends</description>
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		<title>By: jeb</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7900</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Silly games here, each side justifying their position on the protest based on their own convictions about the war itself.
Jeff, your comments on this seem beneath your usual standards...  Pretending what&#039;s happening today in Iraq has something to do with their &quot;overcoming oppression and trying to secure peace, freedom, and justiceÂ» rings a bit hollow.
They&#039;re pawns now, just as they were before the war. Sure, they voted. They used to do that in the USSR, and very few western journalists called that &quot;democracy&quot;. Look at who was nomininated, and who did the nominating. 
The tragedy of Iraq, like many third-world countries, is that itâ€™s a plaything for more powerful rulers swinging their dicks. America&#039;s trading our post-invasion (nominative) power as quickly as saving face will allow to the mullahs.  Bush tried to use Iraq as a dick swinging arena, and has come up short in the eyes the majority of Americans today. Public opinion has shifted, so the pols follow the polls. 
Surprised? You shouldn&#039;t be.
Getting annoyed at the protesters singing, &quot;We shall overcome&quot; is pathetic, the response of the weak, pulling the yellow ribbon down over their eyes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Silly games here, each side justifying their position on the protest based on their own convictions about the war itself.<br />
Jeff, your comments on this seem beneath your usual standards&#8230;  Pretending what&#8217;s happening today in Iraq has something to do with their &#8220;overcoming oppression and trying to secure peace, freedom, and justiceÂ» rings a bit hollow.<br />
They&#8217;re pawns now, just as they were before the war. Sure, they voted. They used to do that in the USSR, and very few western journalists called that &#8220;democracy&#8221;. Look at who was nomininated, and who did the nominating.<br />
The tragedy of Iraq, like many third-world countries, is that itâ€™s a plaything for more powerful rulers swinging their dicks. America&#8217;s trading our post-invasion (nominative) power as quickly as saving face will allow to the mullahs.  Bush tried to use Iraq as a dick swinging arena, and has come up short in the eyes the majority of Americans today. Public opinion has shifted, so the pols follow the polls.<br />
Surprised? You shouldn&#8217;t be.<br />
Getting annoyed at the protesters singing, &#8220;We shall overcome&#8221; is pathetic, the response of the weak, pulling the yellow ribbon down over their eyes.</p>
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		<title>By: owl 1</title>
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		<dc:creator>owl 1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>tony, a better idea would be for you to look at pictures instead of me reading a paper.  If you need help finding the Grand American Protest pics, will help you.   After finding those pics, read the signs.  Nice Americans just strolling with nice friends.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>tony, a better idea would be for you to look at pictures instead of me reading a paper.  If you need help finding the Grand American Protest pics, will help you.   After finding those pics, read the signs.  Nice Americans just strolling with nice friends.</p>
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		<title>By: Ravo</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7614</link>
		<dc:creator>Ravo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Marina writes: &lt;i&gt;I doubt the Iraqi men with good women, good food and drink and a nice place are out on the street with a gun.&lt;/i&gt;

Good women, good food and drink and a nice place didn&#039;t stop the violence of four homegrown Islamic British subjects.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marina writes: <i>I doubt the Iraqi men with good women, good food and drink and a nice place are out on the street with a gun.</i></p>
<p>Good women, good food and drink and a nice place didn&#8217;t stop the violence of four homegrown Islamic British subjects.</p>
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		<title>By: Ruth</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7610</link>
		<dc:creator>Ruth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Paul Robeson, who sang Deep River in Showboat was investigated by Joe McCarthy, too.  Gotta watch out for relating the plight of manual laborers who also happen to be black, seems like.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Paul Robeson, who sang Deep River in Showboat was investigated by Joe McCarthy, too.  Gotta watch out for relating the plight of manual laborers who also happen to be black, seems like.</p>
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		<title>By: countertop</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7589</link>
		<dc:creator>countertop</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 03:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;communists (theyâ€™re still around?)&lt;/i&gt;

Yes, in the form of your friendly neighborhood Democratic National Party which elected Nancy Pelosi (she who formerly hosted Socialist Worker Party songs on her web page) as its minority leader.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>communists (theyâ€™re still around?)</i></p>
<p>Yes, in the form of your friendly neighborhood Democratic National Party which elected Nancy Pelosi (she who formerly hosted Socialist Worker Party songs on her web page) as its minority leader.</p>
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		<title>By: penny</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7587</link>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 03:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;why are you more interested in what your speculate iraqis to want than what Americans want?&lt;/i&gt;

Owl, what was I saying about the decline of public education?..........</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>why are you more interested in what your speculate iraqis to want than what Americans want?</i></p>
<p>Owl, what was I saying about the decline of public education?&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: penny</title>
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		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Owl, a better question for tony is what do the Iraqi people want?  He&#039;s so sure that the majority of Americans want out of Iraq now.  Let him take a stab at what mainstream Iraqis want.  Do they want anarchy or a civil society?  The Baathists reinstated?  The foreign terrorists routed?  Syria and Iran not meddling in their affairs?  American troops to cut and run leaving them and their democratic process unfinished and without protection?

Maybe Tony can&#039;t fathom a correlation between what Americans want for Iraqis and what Iraqis want for Iraq converging in Iraq.  Both groups  being basically reasonable and decent people might be dependent on each other for a decent outcome. 

Is it possible that large numbers of Americans see a responsibility in helping Iraqis get what they want, Tony?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Owl, a better question for tony is what do the Iraqi people want?  He&#8217;s so sure that the majority of Americans want out of Iraq now.  Let him take a stab at what mainstream Iraqis want.  Do they want anarchy or a civil society?  The Baathists reinstated?  The foreign terrorists routed?  Syria and Iran not meddling in their affairs?  American troops to cut and run leaving them and their democratic process unfinished and without protection?</p>
<p>Maybe Tony can&#8217;t fathom a correlation between what Americans want for Iraqis and what Iraqis want for Iraq converging in Iraq.  Both groups  being basically reasonable and decent people might be dependent on each other for a decent outcome. </p>
<p>Is it possible that large numbers of Americans see a responsibility in helping Iraqis get what they want, Tony?</p>
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		<title>By: tony</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7585</link>
		<dc:creator>tony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>owl,

americans organized and promoted it. americans were there and in cities all around america. and they were protesting the war in iraq: the lies the brought us there, the newly-made reasons why we&#039;re staying, and the lies about why we wont leave.

you should read a paper from time to time

:)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>owl,</p>
<p>americans organized and promoted it. americans were there and in cities all around america. and they were protesting the war in iraq: the lies the brought us there, the newly-made reasons why we&#8217;re staying, and the lies about why we wont leave.</p>
<p>you should read a paper from time to time</p>
<p> <img src='http://www.buzzmachine.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: tony</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7584</link>
		<dc:creator>tony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey baby i answered your questions. so why dont you answer mine. why are you more interested in what your speculate iraqis to want than what Americans want?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey baby i answered your questions. so why dont you answer mine. why are you more interested in what your speculate iraqis to want than what Americans want?</p>
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		<title>By: owl 1</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7579</link>
		<dc:creator>owl 1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>tony, I have a question for you.  Can you tell me who organized and promoted that rally?  Can you tell me who those people were?  What were they protesting?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>tony, I have a question for you.  Can you tell me who organized and promoted that rally?  Can you tell me who those people were?  What were they protesting?</p>
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		<title>By: penny</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7575</link>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>numbers &quot;joke&quot; link corrected here:   http://sweetness-light.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>numbers &#8220;joke&#8221; link corrected here:   <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/" rel="nofollow">http://sweetness-light.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: penny</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7574</link>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>First of all your number 150, 000 is a &lt;a&gt;joke&lt;/a&gt; with again no basis in fact.  Scroll down to get a some perspective of crown numbers.  The MSM is notorious for massaging &lt;a href=&quot;http://gaypatriot.net/2005/09/25/if-iraq-is-like-vietnam-how-come-the-rallies-keep-getting-smaller&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;numbers&lt;/a&gt;. 

I&#039;ll repeat:

&lt;i&gt;And, Tony, hereâ€™s some questions for you to put your well reasoned factual responses to: just what do you, in your infinite wisdom, think that the majority of Iraqis want for their country? Regression and get the Baathists back? Civil war instead of a constitution? An interim of third party presence so things can be organized and move toward democracy?&lt;/i&gt;

Still waiting on your answer to my question, Tony.

It&#039;s refreshing to see that with your reliance in MSM polls that there are still some of us that believe in their accuracy. Face it, Tony I could get any result to a poll if I word questions accordingly and have an audience at hand that sticks to my site because my news product is anti-Bush biased it. The only poll in america that counts are election results.

&lt;i&gt;before you go asking bloggers&lt;/i&gt;

Tony, we all blog nowdays. It ain&#039;t a special class of people.

Awaiting you astute analysis of what Iraqis want.............</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First of all your number 150, 000 is a <a>joke</a> with again no basis in fact.  Scroll down to get a some perspective of crown numbers.  The MSM is notorious for massaging <a href="http://gaypatriot.net/2005/09/25/if-iraq-is-like-vietnam-how-come-the-rallies-keep-getting-smaller" rel="nofollow">numbers</a>. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ll repeat:</p>
<p><i>And, Tony, hereâ€™s some questions for you to put your well reasoned factual responses to: just what do you, in your infinite wisdom, think that the majority of Iraqis want for their country? Regression and get the Baathists back? Civil war instead of a constitution? An interim of third party presence so things can be organized and move toward democracy?</i></p>
<p>Still waiting on your answer to my question, Tony.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s refreshing to see that with your reliance in MSM polls that there are still some of us that believe in their accuracy. Face it, Tony I could get any result to a poll if I word questions accordingly and have an audience at hand that sticks to my site because my news product is anti-Bush biased it. The only poll in america that counts are election results.</p>
<p><i>before you go asking bloggers</i></p>
<p>Tony, we all blog nowdays. It ain&#8217;t a special class of people.</p>
<p>Awaiting you astute analysis of what Iraqis want&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7573</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tony here&#039;s the &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=/050924/ids_photos_ts/r1123866861.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reuters  overhead shot of the gathering at the Elipise on Saturday.&lt;/a&gt;  If there are 150,000 people there, 125,000 came disguised as trees or blades of grass.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tony here&#8217;s the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=/050924/ids_photos_ts/r1123866861.jpg" rel="nofollow">Reuters  overhead shot of the gathering at the Elipise on Saturday.</a>  If there are 150,000 people there, 125,000 came disguised as trees or blades of grass.</p>
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		<title>By: tony</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7570</link>
		<dc:creator>tony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>penny, 

the sad losers, as you call them were 150,000 strong in DC yesterday. the pro-war contigent was a whopping 300-400. 

heres some more numbers:

AP/Ipsos poll Sept. 16-18 said that 65% of those polled think we&#039;re spending too much money on rebuilding Iraq

CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. Sept. 16-18 said that 67%  those polled  disapporve of the way W is handling the war in Iraq.

in that same poll 59% say it was a mistake to send troops to Iraq.

CBS News/New York Times Poll. Sept. 9-13 - 59% disapprove the way our president is handling Iraq

in that same poll 50% say we should have stayed out of  Iraq with only 44% saying we did the right thing.

ABC News/Washington Post Poll. Sept. 8-11 - 62% disapprove the way W is handling Iraq

before you go asking bloggers what we think Iraqis want for their country, why dont you pay attention to what Americans want for America. 

America wants out of Iraq. We&#039;re not happy with the President&#039;s priorities mostly because they dont reflect our agendas. We were not sold into this war to help the Iraqis. We were told there were wmds there, we were told they had ties to 9/11. We were lied to. Only after the lies were realized did people like you suddenly have empathy for the people of Iraq. 

What about the people of North Korea, China... or even the falsely imprisoned people in Gitmo... many of whom are Iraqi. Not all of them are falsely improsioned but some are and i would imagine that the people of Iraq, if you asked them, would want them back.

In the meantime the people of the United States want their soldiers back. If you had more than 500 people show up to your little rally or more than 40% of the US citizens show support for your little puppet you&#039;d have a leg to stand on. But you dont. Nor do you care. You simply want your agenda, which isn&#039;t even yours, it&#039;s Karl Rove&#039;s, to continue to soldier on.

Good luck with that.

Maybe at your next rally 600 people will show up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>penny, </p>
<p>the sad losers, as you call them were 150,000 strong in DC yesterday. the pro-war contigent was a whopping 300-400. </p>
<p>heres some more numbers:</p>
<p>AP/Ipsos poll Sept. 16-18 said that 65% of those polled think we&#8217;re spending too much money on rebuilding Iraq</p>
<p>CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. Sept. 16-18 said that 67%  those polled  disapporve of the way W is handling the war in Iraq.</p>
<p>in that same poll 59% say it was a mistake to send troops to Iraq.</p>
<p>CBS News/New York Times Poll. Sept. 9-13 &#8211; 59% disapprove the way our president is handling Iraq</p>
<p>in that same poll 50% say we should have stayed out of  Iraq with only 44% saying we did the right thing.</p>
<p>ABC News/Washington Post Poll. Sept. 8-11 &#8211; 62% disapprove the way W is handling Iraq</p>
<p>before you go asking bloggers what we think Iraqis want for their country, why dont you pay attention to what Americans want for America. </p>
<p>America wants out of Iraq. We&#8217;re not happy with the President&#8217;s priorities mostly because they dont reflect our agendas. We were not sold into this war to help the Iraqis. We were told there were wmds there, we were told they had ties to 9/11. We were lied to. Only after the lies were realized did people like you suddenly have empathy for the people of Iraq. </p>
<p>What about the people of North Korea, China&#8230; or even the falsely imprisoned people in Gitmo&#8230; many of whom are Iraqi. Not all of them are falsely improsioned but some are and i would imagine that the people of Iraq, if you asked them, would want them back.</p>
<p>In the meantime the people of the United States want their soldiers back. If you had more than 500 people show up to your little rally or more than 40% of the US citizens show support for your little puppet you&#8217;d have a leg to stand on. But you dont. Nor do you care. You simply want your agenda, which isn&#8217;t even yours, it&#8217;s Karl Rove&#8217;s, to continue to soldier on.</p>
<p>Good luck with that.</p>
<p>Maybe at your next rally 600 people will show up.</p>
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		<title>By: penny</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7564</link>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Owl

The other missing entity in this is the demise of our college campuses.  Our colleges, like a radio with only one station of leftist dribble, haven&#039;t been in the fairest sense to its students a marketplace of ideas. 

You don&#039;t have to look further than some comments here to see the dumbed down thinking of &lt;i&gt;if-I-feel-this, it-must-be-true&lt;/i&gt; without an iota of fact as basis for one&#039;s opinion.  All critical thinking skills suspended. 

It&#039;s not that these kids can&#039;t Google. It&#039;s that they won&#039;t.  Scary.

&lt;i&gt;what you heard was America wanting thier country back.&lt;/i&gt;

Tony, that &quot;heard&#039; was a statistical non-event sans the media coverage. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.narley.org/protestPhotos/showList.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;These&lt;/a&gt; sad losers aren&#039;t real inspiring for your cause.  

And, Tony, here&#039;s some questions for you to put your well reasoned factual responses to: just what do you, in your infinite wisdom, think that the majority of Iraqis want for their country?  Regression and get the Baathists back?  Civil war instead of a constitution?  An interim of third party presence so things can be organized and move toward democracy? 

Please, Tony, having read your eloquent blog i&#039;m awaiting your astute answer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Owl</p>
<p>The other missing entity in this is the demise of our college campuses.  Our colleges, like a radio with only one station of leftist dribble, haven&#8217;t been in the fairest sense to its students a marketplace of ideas. </p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to look further than some comments here to see the dumbed down thinking of <i>if-I-feel-this, it-must-be-true</i> without an iota of fact as basis for one&#8217;s opinion.  All critical thinking skills suspended. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s not that these kids can&#8217;t Google. It&#8217;s that they won&#8217;t.  Scary.</p>
<p><i>what you heard was America wanting thier country back.</i></p>
<p>Tony, that &#8220;heard&#8217; was a statistical non-event sans the media coverage. <a href="http://www.narley.org/protestPhotos/showList.php" rel="nofollow">These</a> sad losers aren&#8217;t real inspiring for your cause.  </p>
<p>And, Tony, here&#8217;s some questions for you to put your well reasoned factual responses to: just what do you, in your infinite wisdom, think that the majority of Iraqis want for their country?  Regression and get the Baathists back?  Civil war instead of a constitution?  An interim of third party presence so things can be organized and move toward democracy? </p>
<p>Please, Tony, having read your eloquent blog i&#8217;m awaiting your astute answer.</p>
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		<title>By: Ed Poinsett</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7560</link>
		<dc:creator>Ed Poinsett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry, &quot;the other culture&quot;</description>
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		<title>By: Ed Poinsett</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7559</link>
		<dc:creator>Ed Poinsett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tony

Newsflash for you, most americans have not had it with this war. They want it to end asap, but not before the hard work is done. To quit now would mean we&#039;d have to do it all over in a couple of years when the Iranian mullahs have subdued Iraq and are basing their long range nukes in Baghdad.

You keep thinking this war is about Iraq, it isn&#039;t and never was. It&#039;s a clash of cultures whether Bush calls it that or not. One culture supports individual freedom of choice and the demands that you make no choice but Islam. You apparently choose the Islamist outcome, most of the rest of us don&#039;t. Regards</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tony</p>
<p>Newsflash for you, most americans have not had it with this war. They want it to end asap, but not before the hard work is done. To quit now would mean we&#8217;d have to do it all over in a couple of years when the Iranian mullahs have subdued Iraq and are basing their long range nukes in Baghdad.</p>
<p>You keep thinking this war is about Iraq, it isn&#8217;t and never was. It&#8217;s a clash of cultures whether Bush calls it that or not. One culture supports individual freedom of choice and the demands that you make no choice but Islam. You apparently choose the Islamist outcome, most of the rest of us don&#8217;t. Regards</p>
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		<title>By: owl 1</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7555</link>
		<dc:creator>owl 1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Penny, it all goes back to the media.  They get another F-.  

If they were really &quot;professional&quot; journalists, we would see this group profiled on the front pages of the NYT, WaPo and LAT.  We would see 60 Minutes showcasing each of the different elements.   The kids don&#039;t know that Communists and Socialists managed  to kill more than anyone else.  They are out there &quot;Marching for Peace&quot; while holding Communist signs and singing a Civil Rights anthem.  

Our media spent the month of August on one person  but can&#039;t manage a front page about  ANSWER?  They hide the organizers and supporters by calling it a anti-war protest.  They know better, they lie.  Media March=F-.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Penny, it all goes back to the media.  They get another F-.  </p>
<p>If they were really &#8220;professional&#8221; journalists, we would see this group profiled on the front pages of the NYT, WaPo and LAT.  We would see 60 Minutes showcasing each of the different elements.   The kids don&#8217;t know that Communists and Socialists managed  to kill more than anyone else.  They are out there &#8220;Marching for Peace&#8221; while holding Communist signs and singing a Civil Rights anthem.  </p>
<p>Our media spent the month of August on one person  but can&#8217;t manage a front page about  ANSWER?  They hide the organizers and supporters by calling it a anti-war protest.  They know better, they lie.  Media March=F-.</p>
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		<title>By: Marina Architect</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7554</link>
		<dc:creator>Marina Architect</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Follow Up: 

A friend sent me this on the money OpEd in LA Times by David Mamet. It&#039;s a must read. Check it out:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-mamet16sep16,1,341798.story?ctrack=1&amp;cset=true

Also, head over to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ and post a thoughtful, stimulating comment. I  100,000 comments.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Follow Up: </p>
<p>A friend sent me this on the money OpEd in LA Times by David Mamet. It&#8217;s a must read. Check it out:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-mamet16sep16,1,341798.story?ctrack=1&amp;cset=true" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-mamet16sep16,1,341798.story?ctrack=1&amp;cset=true</a></p>
<p>Also, head over to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/</a> and post a thoughtful, stimulating comment. I  100,000 comments.</p>
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		<title>By: Marina Architect</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7552</link>
		<dc:creator>Marina Architect</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 20:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Democracy 2.0 before Recovery 2.0

This song has a shattering edge to it in today&#039;s context. Get up and listen to Midnight Oil&#039;s &quot;Beds are Burning.&quot;

Excerpt
..

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning
How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning

The time has come
To say fair&#039;s fair
To pay the rent, now
To pay our share
..

End Excerpt

We need Democracy 2.0 as a precursor to Recovery 2.0. We should have national referendums every 3 months (quarterly). Why can&#039;t there be a national voting ATM that works. Bush/Cheney/Rove/Chertoff have to much authority and Congress has become a bunch of eunuchs in the corporate harem. 

NYTimes ( http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/magazine/25turkey.html ) has an article on Turkey moving towards democracy. I&#039;m reading it right now to see if we can learn anything about Iraq in the subtext.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Democracy 2.0 before Recovery 2.0</p>
<p>This song has a shattering edge to it in today&#8217;s context. Get up and listen to Midnight Oil&#8217;s &#8220;Beds are Burning.&#8221;</p>
<p>Excerpt<br />
..</p>
<p>How can we dance when our earth is turning<br />
How do we sleep while our beds are burning<br />
How can we dance when our earth is turning<br />
How do we sleep while our beds are burning</p>
<p>The time has come<br />
To say fair&#8217;s fair<br />
To pay the rent, now<br />
To pay our share<br />
..</p>
<p>End Excerpt</p>
<p>We need Democracy 2.0 as a precursor to Recovery 2.0. We should have national referendums every 3 months (quarterly). Why can&#8217;t there be a national voting ATM that works. Bush/Cheney/Rove/Chertoff have to much authority and Congress has become a bunch of eunuchs in the corporate harem. </p>
<p>NYTimes ( <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/magazine/25turkey.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/magazine/25turkey.html</a> ) has an article on Turkey moving towards democracy. I&#8217;m reading it right now to see if we can learn anything about Iraq in the subtext.</p>
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		<title>By: penny</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7546</link>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;But as I thought about it, I wondered: What are they overcoming? The song is about people overcoming oppression.&lt;/i&gt;


Given all of the funding and organizational effort by America hating leftist/anarchist groups thrown into this moonbat war protest consortium why be surprised that the poor duped college kids are sing &quot;America&#039;s most successful&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_urbanities-communist.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Communist&#039;s&lt;/a&gt; song.

The song made sense for the civil rights era, but these poor creatures haven&#039;t noticed that the Iraqis had their civil rights restored because of Saddam&#039;s fall.  The very thing they are protesting.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>But as I thought about it, I wondered: What are they overcoming? The song is about people overcoming oppression.</i></p>
<p>Given all of the funding and organizational effort by America hating leftist/anarchist groups thrown into this moonbat war protest consortium why be surprised that the poor duped college kids are sing &#8220;America&#8217;s most successful&#8221; <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_urbanities-communist.html" rel="nofollow">Communist&#8217;s</a> song.</p>
<p>The song made sense for the civil rights era, but these poor creatures haven&#8217;t noticed that the Iraqis had their civil rights restored because of Saddam&#8217;s fall.  The very thing they are protesting.</p>
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		<title>By: tony</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7545</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>jeff,

newsflash for you. most Americans have had enough of this war. they get it that they were lied to about Iraq&#039;s imminent threat, they get it that Iraq didnt have ties to 9/11 or wmds, and they get it that we&#039;re probably not &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; there to liberate anyone.

therefore what they are overcoming is BushCo&#039;s agendas because it doesn&#039;t jibe with normal American&#039;s agendas.

what you heard was America wanting thier country back.

get with it bro.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>jeff,</p>
<p>newsflash for you. most Americans have had enough of this war. they get it that they were lied to about Iraq&#8217;s imminent threat, they get it that Iraq didnt have ties to 9/11 or wmds, and they get it that we&#8217;re probably not <i>still</i> there to liberate anyone.</p>
<p>therefore what they are overcoming is BushCo&#8217;s agendas because it doesn&#8217;t jibe with normal American&#8217;s agendas.</p>
<p>what you heard was America wanting thier country back.</p>
<p>get with it bro.</p>
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		<title>By: penny</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7544</link>
		<dc:creator>penny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;How is it that Turkey(possible entry into EU) is religious and yet has free expression, music, drinking, etc. Anyone know anything about this or why?&lt;/i&gt;

Google &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Ataturk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ataturk&lt;/a&gt;. 

When he founded modern Turkey he imposed secularization on the populace/government.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>How is it that Turkey(possible entry into EU) is religious and yet has free expression, music, drinking, etc. Anyone know anything about this or why?</i></p>
<p>Google <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Ataturk" rel="nofollow">Ataturk</a>. </p>
<p>When he founded modern Turkey he imposed secularization on the populace/government.</p>
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		<title>By: korutenshi</title>
		<link>http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/09/24/who-shall-overcome/#comment-7543</link>
		<dc:creator>korutenshi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mustafa Ataturk was largely responsible for creating a modern European-Muslim environment.  But being the gateway across both continents also plays heavily on that regions tolerance to cross cultural ideals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Ataturk</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mustafa Ataturk was largely responsible for creating a modern European-Muslim environment.  But being the gateway across both continents also plays heavily on that regions tolerance to cross cultural ideals.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Ataturk" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Ataturk</a></p>
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