Just to follow my point, the following are countries in which the United States interfered to overthrow or give material support to the overthrow of a democratically elected liberal/socialist government in favor of a dictatorship. Some of these governments were not even that socialist. These new dictatorships were some of the most repressive of the 20th Century.

1) Nicaragua (1909)
2) Honduras (1911)
3) Iran (1953)
4) Guatemala (1954)
5) Congo (1960)
6) Ecuador (1961)
7) Dominican Republic (1963)
8) Brazil (1964)
9) Chile (1973)

And of course there were unsuccessful attempts to do the same in Vietnam and Venezuela.

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On the way home today, I heard this song, which I had not heard for a long time. Sums it up pretty well.


Artist/Band: Daniels Charlie
Lyrics for Song: In America
Lyrics for Album: A Decade of Hits

Well the eagle's been flying slow and the flag's been flying low
And a lot of people are saying that America's fixing to fall
But speaking just for me and some people from Tennessee
We got a thing or two to tell you all
This lady may have stumbled but she ain't never fell
And if the Russians don't believe that they can all go straight to hell
We're gonna put her feet back on the path of righteousness
And then God bless America again

And you never did think that it ever would happen again
In America, did you?
You never did think that we'd ever get together again
Well we damn sure fooled you
We're walking real proud and we're talking real loud again in America
You never did think that it ever would happen again

From the sound up in Long Island out to San Francisco Bay
And ev'ry thing that's in between them is our home
And we may have done a little bit of fighting amongst ourselves
But you outside people best leave us alone
Cause we'll all stick together and you can take that to the bank
That's the cowboys and the hippies and the rebels and the yanks
You just go and lay your head on a Pittsburgh Steeler fan
And I think you're gonna finally understand

And you never did think that it ever would happen again
In America, did you?
You never did think that we'd ever get together again
Well we damn sure fooled you
We're walking real proud and we're talking real loud again in America
You never did think that it ever would happen again

This one I have on a CD, and I listen to every day, especially after reading X5World Political Threads:

This bloody road remains a mystery
This sudden darkness fills the air
What are we waiting for?
Wont anybody help us?
What are we waiting for?
We cant afford to be innocent
Stand up and face the enemy
Its a do or die situation
We will be invincible

This shattered dream you cannot justify
Were gonna scream until were satisified
What are we running for?
Weve got the right to be angry
What are we running for?
When theres no where we can run to anymore

We cant afford to be innocent
Stand up and face the enemy
Its a do or die situation
We will be invincible
And with the power of conviction
There is no sacrifice
Its a do or die situation
We will be invincible

Wont anybody help us?
What are we running for?
When theres no where, no where we can run to anymore

We cant afford to be innocent
Stand up and face the enemy
Its a do or die situation
We will be invincible
And with the power of conviction
There is no sacrifice
Its a do or die situation
We will be invincible

It's all good 6to.

My hope is that our government can find a happy medium and take care of both partys issues. I do fear that if we abandon Iraq we will see many more deaths from terrorist activities here in our own country than we ever will over there. And those deaths would not be trained soldiers who signed up for the task knowing the risks but plain citizens. Might even be you, or me .

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Definitely not, of course. had the election results been any different, the world would have assumed that either A: Democracy Didn't Work (i.e. something fishy went on with the vote count), or B: it would have meant that the majority of Americans were satisfied with the way their Government was ruining (oops, meant to say running..) the show; which definitely would have placed a bigger dent in the world-popularity department... "nuff said.."

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http://wcbstv.com/topstories/topstor...317070412.html

"It's time for Democrats to deliver and that's what I hope to do working side by side with Speaker Pelosi," Murtha continued. "If elected Majority Leader, we will implement the Democrats 6 for '06 agenda and execute our Party's 100 Hour Plan to bring about the change our country needs."

The Democrat's 100 Hour Plan includes a crackdown on lobbyists, an increase in the minimum wage, reducing interest rates on student loans, government negotiations with drug companies to reduce prices for Medicare patients, an expansion of stem cell research, and enactment of all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 terror attacks.


So there it is. Those are the major changes that are coming ASAP.

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