because the americans are living in a fantasy land and they think that all the world is living like them and they do not know the truth because the american government is fooling them always.
Dude, the word dude was originaly used by the english, then the Americans teens adopted it and now its international. A lot of people use it even if they are not from the US. Never been to the land of the free myself.
Here is the definition:-
Originally "dude" meant a city person in the country, with strong connotations of ignorance of rural ways. Today in American English, the word may call to mind stereotypical members of late 1980s surfboard culture in coastal California.
Since the word dude is very casual and familiar, it may be considered awkward or rude to use the word to directly address someone with whom the speaker is unacquainted. Some may find the word inappropriate for acquaintances, who are not close friends, or even recommend against its use altogether. Variances in such attitudes and opinions are affected by social and geographical differences.
Dude, while commonly used to refer to males, may also be used to refer to females. Although there is a femininized version, dudette, it is rarely used in anything but a sardonic sense. It may be less likely for a female to be called dudette than to be called dude, though patterns of usage vary geographically and socially.
Sadiq, again, Miss Big Mouth, are u or are u not from America, living over HERE? Hopefully u don't live in the same house as RideUmCowboy with all that monkeying Around Goin On ober dare? opps, editing, over there. I do NOT like dares unless they have to do with silliness. Sigh. Big Mouth AGAIN
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Off topic, perhaps, oh well, Hard for self to be with the Man Upstairs with some humans that do not understand at x's. God, Spirit, Soul that CRYS within. Is there anyone that REALLY understands this? REALLY does? I KNOW there is, hard when they aren't around and by self, with humans that try but really do NOT get "IT" me
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Ok Ok Ok, the Man in the White House May Need a break. Miracles DO Happen!!! Pray for him period, he needs it, imagine the wrestling in his soul. Let's assume the best that he indeed has this wrestling going on. Perhaps he knows more than we can imagine, pressures more than we have knowledge of. This would make anyone, anyone, anyone go insane. PRAY for him. Pray for a change. Does anyone HEAR me?
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Yes I do hear you, let’s hope that he (Bush) is not in Iraq to facilitate the resurrection of Jesus (PBUH), or to make the prophecy of Ezekiel work!! In fact Iraqis are very aware of the conflicts inside him, nothing much a number of wires are mixed up!! May God (Since every body in speaking to God even me) give him the longest and the sweetest Banana the he dreamt of having since his teenage years. Long live freedom of Speech, long live Mahatma Ghandi, and may God reserve the hottest part in hell for Michel Aflaq and his followers
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Flybybagdad, Bush is good because he get rid of Saddam and yes I hope Aflaq and the followers burn in hell. Baath = nazi
I might disappear for saying this, but, the way I see it, Bush is nothing else than a big fat liar, and the most sinister war criminal ever lived on the face the earth. Worse than Hitler, Lenin, and Carl Marks combined.
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OFCOURSE YOU SAY BUSH IS GOOD BECAUSE HE IS HELPING YOU PEOPLE AND MASOOD BARAZANI AND JALAL TALIBANI FOR YOUR STUBORN AMBITION AND DO NOT FORGET BUSH WANTED TO DESTROY IRAQ AND HIS FATHER GOERGE BUSH HELPED SADDAM HUSSAIN TO RULE IRAQ AND TO DESTROY IT.
AND HE IS GOOD FOR YOU AND THE KURDS TO STEAL MORE AND LANDS AND STEALING OTHER PEOPLES HISTORY DO YOU THINK YOU WILL GET RESPECTED BY THAT NO I DO NOT THINK SO.
Yeppers Bush and his associates have many issues going that are not pretty, always been going on throughout history. Times are worse than ever as predicted. I am correcting myself on some posts, as I did say at one time, futher back, we do NOT know His (Bush's) personal Hell and I do believe he deals with much in his Heart, Soul, Mind, etc.. It is written in his face more so each day.
I AS U KNOW, do NOT agree with anything to do with Destruction, Murder, etc., most of all when directed towards innocents/children. WRONG. Simple FACT WRONG period!!!
The Presidents (anyone in power) take on all the errors made in the past. Bush is dealing with issues in one difficult time, one of the worst in history.
The Bible does say to pray for those in power, which I do, it is VERY difficult for me to keep my mouth shut when there are so many injustices in this world. When Money appears to become more important than the lives of others. (I pray this is the case with Bush that it "APPEARS to be so", when in fact this is NOT FACT.) Do I make sense, as some may be able to tell the wrestling I am going through inside.
I try to keep this BIG mouth shut, nobody knows what someone goes through without living their lives, live, walking in their shoes.
This man if he is guilty, well, as most of us are Spiritual Human Beings, should indeed KNOW that God will deal with him.
Love to all,
me
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SoranJ, yes I do not deny the Bush has removed Saddam and his filthy gang of Ba3thy criminals, but let’s not forget who installed him and supported him to gain power, (I could go into historical details if you want) , the idea that Iraqis should appreciate removing Saddam is like, the west telling Iraqis to forget about the past and let’s start from new, me in person I would not mind!! everybody has to forget one day, but quite frankly weighing the good outcomes of removing him and the evil deeds done by installing him, this requires a box of Marlborough white with a 10 litters of dark Iraqi tea and a location which makes your mind run wild, and still after that you would not reach a satisfactory conclusion, on the other side there are people who seriously think that people like you and me have no right in even discussing these issues!! Even though that it is your and my life which is being affected by policy makers, hence, I wonder do we have to thank the west for removing the dictator or questioning them for installing him?? Which one do you think??? You would be able to answer this, by how hard your life was during the past 25 years. And I hope that your life was not as hard as mine. me in person I am ready to forgive everybody with exception to Ba3thies. Ba3thy = Nazi = Salafi = Wahabi , and may god reserve the hottest part in hell for Michael Aflaq and all his followers. Let’s remember once a Ba3thy is always a Ba3thy no amount of clean water will clean the shame of being Ba3thy. Long Live Mahatma Ghandi, Long Live Freedom of Speech
Mullen's Top 7 Mistakes of the Iraq War Incoming Chairman of Joint Chiefs Lays Blame on Bush's Civilian War Planners
Asking a Bush Administration official to reflect on mistakes made regarding the Iraq war tends to provoke a strained response about "challenges," or vague regrets about tactical errors and the failure to anticipate sectarian conflict. For his confirmation hearing yesterday, Adm. Mike Mullen, soon-to-be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, became refreshingly specific in detailing what he views as the most critical errors of the Iraq war.
His list supports the common assessment of much of the Iraq expert community, but is most remarkable in that he has given it just as he is poised to become the President's top adviser on military affairs. Mullen's list of mistakes essentially piles all the blame for the war's errors on Bush's war cabinet and stable of planners. The Admiral detailed his views on war mistakes in his prepared response to an advance policy question before Tuesday's hearing, and so obviously put some thought into what he was doing. Mullen wrote:
I believe the most significant mistakes to date are:
1. Did not fully integrate all elements of U.S. national power in Iraq. 2. Focused most attention on the Iraqi national power structures with limited engagement of the tribal and local power structures. 3. Did not establish an early and significant dialogue with neighboring countries, adding to the complex security environment a problematic border situation. 4. Disbanded the entire Iraqi Army, a potentially valuable asset for security, reconstruction, and provision of services to the Iraqi people, providing a recruiting pool for extremist groups. 5. Pursued a de-Baathification process that proved more divisive than helpful, created a lingering vacuum in governmental capability that still lingers, and exacerbated sectarian tensions. 6. Attempted to transition to stability operations with an insufficient force. 7. Unsuccessful in communicating and convincing Iraqis and regional audience of our intended goals.
Newsweek's Terry Atlas picks up on the implication of what the Admiral wrote, explaining, "Mullen, of course, didn't name names, but he hardly needed to since these mistakes were based on key decisions and orders so closely tied to former Iraq occupation chief Paul Bremer (who disbanded the Army and ordered de-Baathification), former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (who held down troop levels and froze out the State Department in post-war planning), Vice President Cheney, and President Bush himself."
The President has a standard talking point about how he listens to his commanders on the ground, but the decision-making on the war has made it clear that has not always been the case, and all of the mistakes Mullen points to could be attributed to situations where political considerations won out over military rationale.
It doesn't seem likely the President would welcome his incoming Chairman's dirty laundry list of errors, but Mullen setting off his new working relationship in such a way provocatively implies he is sending a strong unspoken message to Bush: You should listen to the military.
This I quoted somex back, here goes again, yeppers BIG mouth Bass here: "You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be VIBRANTLY ALIVE in repose" Indira Gandhi This is directed at self, OH, did I say that, Do I actually speak to "self"... sigh
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Bush's Secret Spying on Americans Robert Parry, ConsortiumNewa August 2, 2007
The dispute over whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales committed perjury when he parsed words about George W. Bush’s warrantless surveillance program misses a larger point: the extraordinary secrecy surrounding these spying operations is not aimed at al-Qaeda, but at the American people. There has never been a reasonable explanation for why a fuller discussion of these operations would help al-Qaeda, although that claim often is used by the Bush administration to challenge the patriotism of its critics or to avoid tough questions. On July 27, for instance, White House press secretary Tony Snow fended off reporters who asked about apparent contradictions in Gonzales’s testimony by saying: "This gets us back into the situation that I understand is unsatisfactory because there are lots of questions raised and the vast majority of those we’re not going to be in a position to answer, simply because they do involve matters of classification that we cannot and will not discuss publicly." Discussion closed.
But al-Qaeda terrorists always have assumed that their electronic communications were vulnerable to interception, which is why 9/11 attackers like Mohamed Atta traveled overseas for face-to-face meetings with their handlers. They limited their phone calls to mostly routine conversations. The terrorists also had no reason to know or to care that the U.S. government was or wasn’t getting wiretap approval from the secret court created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. They simply took for granted that their communications could be intercepted and acted accordingly. It never made sense to think that al-Qaeda terrorists suddenly would get loose-lipped just because the FISA court was or wasn't in the mix. The FISA court rubber-stamps almost all wiretap requests from the Executive Branch for domestic spying, and overseas calls don’t require a warrant. Can anyone really imagine a conversation like "Gee, Osama, since Bush has to get FISA approval, we can now call our sleeper agents and plan the next attack." Similarly, there’s no reason to think terrorists would change their behavior significantly if they knew that the U.S. government was engaged in massive data-mining operations, poring through electronic records of citizens and non-citizens alike. The 9/11 attackers mostly stayed off the grid and many of their transactions, such as renting housing, would not alone have raised suspicions. Indeed, the patterns that deserved more attention, such as enrollment in flight-training classes and the arrival of known al-Qaeda operatives, were detected by alert FBI agents in the field but ignored by FBI officials in Washington – and by Bush while on a month-long vacation in Texas. The 9/11 attacks were less a failure of intelligence than a failure of political attention by Bush’s national security team. Americans in the Dark So what's the real explanation for all the secrecy about the overall structure of the so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program? The chief reason, especially for the excessive secrecy around the data-mining operations, appears to be Bush’s political need to prevent a full debate inside the United States about the security value of these Big Brother-type procedures when weighed against invasions of Americans' privacy. Bush knows he could run into trouble if he doesn't keep the American people in the dark. In 2002, for instance, when the Bush administration launched a project seeking "total information awareness" on virtually everyone on earth involved in the modern economy, the disclosure was met with public alarm. The administration cited the terrorist threat to justify the program which involved applying advanced computer technology to analyze trillions of bytes of data on electronic transactions and communications. The goal was to study the electronic footprints left by every person in the developed world during the course of their everyday lives – from the innocuous to the embarrassing to the potentially significant. The government could cross-check books borrowed from a library, fertilizer bought at a farm-supply outlet, X-rated movies rented at a video store, prescriptions filled at a pharmacy, sites visited on the Internet, tickets reserved for a plane, borders crossed while traveling, rooms rented at a motel, and countless other examples. Bush’s aides argued that their access to this electronic data might help detect terrorists, but the data could prove even more useful in building dossiers on anti-war activists or blackmailing political opponents. A targeted individual would have almost no privacy in the face of an all-knowing government. Despite the administration’s assurance that political abuses wouldn’t happen, the capability would be a huge temptation for political strategists like Karl Rove who have made clear that they view anyone not supporting Bush’s war on terror as a terrorist ally. In 2002, the technological blueprint for this Orwellian-style project was on the drawing board at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon’s top research and development arm. DARPA commissioned a comprehensive plan for this electronic spying – and did so publicly. "Transactional data" was to be gleaned from electronic data on every kind of activity – "financial, education, travel, medical, veterinary, country entry, place/event entry, transportation, housing, critical resources, government, communications," according to the Web site for DARPA’s Information Awareness Office. The program would then cross-reference this data with the "biometric signatures of humans," data collected on individuals’ faces, fingerprints, gaits and irises. With this knowledge at its fingertips, the government would have what it called "total information awareness" about pretty much everyone. Masonic Eye The Information Awareness Office even boasted a logo that looked like some kind of clip art from George Orwell’s 1984. The logo showed the Masonic symbol of an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid peering over the globe, with the slogan, "scientia est potentia," Latin for "knowledge is power." Though apparently unintentional, DARPA's choice of a giant white pyramid eerily recalled Orwell's Ministry of Truth, "an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air." The all-seeing Masonic eye could be read as "Big Brother Is Watching." Former Vice President Al Gore and some civil libertarians noted these strange similarities both in style and substance to Orwell's totalitarian world. "We have always held out the shibboleth of Big Brother as a nightmare vision of the future that we're going to avoid at all costs," Gore said. "They have now taken the most fateful step in the direction of that Big Brother nightmare that any president has ever allowed to occur." Besides the parallels to 1984, the administration’s assurances about respecting constitutional boundaries were undercut by its provocative choice of director for the Information Awareness Office. The project was headed by President Reagan's former national security adviser John Poindexter, who was caught flouting constitutional safeguards and federal laws in the Iran-Contra scandal of the mid-1980s. Poindexter was the White House official who approved the transfer of profits from the sale of missiles to Iran’s Islamic fundamentalist government to Nicaraguan contra rebels for the purchase of weapons, thus circumventing the Constitution's grant of war-making power to Congress. Under U.S. law at the time, military aid was banned to both Iran and the contras.
In 1990, Poindexter was convicted of five felonies in connection with the Iran-Contra scheme and the cover-up. But his case was overturned by a conservative-dominated three-judge appeals court panel, which voted 2-1 that the conviction was tainted by congressional immunity given to Poindexter to compel his testimony to Congress in 1987.
Though Poindexter's Iran-Contra excesses in the 1980s might have been viewed by some as disqualifying for a sensitive job overseeing the collection of information about nearly everyone on earth, DARPA said it sought out such committed characters to run its projects. "The best DARPA program managers have always been freewheeling zealots in pursuit of their goals," the agency's Web site said. [For more details on this and other Bush administration authoritarian-style projects, see our new book, Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush.] 'Scrapped’ Program When the "total information awareness" project was disclosed, public outrage forced the Bush administration into retreat, ousting Poindexter and supposedly scrapping the massive data-mining program. What is now apparent, however, is that the Bush administration simply took many of these data-mining features and put them under the rubric of what’s known generally as the Terrorist Surveillance Program, or as administration insiders call it, "the TSP." The data-mining component of the operation is considered so sensitive that in December 2005 when Bush acknowledged the TSP’s warrantless wiretapping, he continued his silence about the data-mining aspect. That distinction is at the heart of the dispute about Gonzales’s testimony. The Attorney General told the Senate Judiciary Committee that there was no significant internal disagreement about the legality of the surveillance program undertaken by the National Security Agency, which is responsible for high-tech electronic spying. However, senior senators – after noting that former Deputy Attorney General James Comey and FBI Director Robert Mueller recounted high-level threats to resign over the project’s legality – raised questions about whether Gonzales had committed perjury. In a letter to senior members of the Judiciary Committee on Aug. 1, Gonzales acknowledged that he had parsed his words narrowly. "I recognize that the use of the term Terrorist Surveillance Program and my shorthand reference to the 'program’ publicly 'described by the president’ may have created confusion, particularly for those who are knowledgeable about the N.S.A. activities authorized by the presidential order," the Attorney General wrote. A day earlier, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell made a similar point in a letter to Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania. McConnell wrote that after the 9/11 attacks, Bush signed a single executive order which authorized "a number of … intelligence activities." Defending Gonzales’s from perjury accusations, McConnell revealed that, in administration jargon, the Terrorist Surveillance Program is only "one particular aspect of these activities, and nothing more." [Washington Post, Aug. 1, 2007] Real Reasons Yet, whether Gonzales’s legalistic parsing crossed the line into perjury or not, the larger question is why the Congress and the American people have been kept so ignorant of these programs that the administration feels it can get away with playing word games. Since al-Qaeda already assumes it’s under tight scrutiny – and since technical secrets of the surveillance program could still be legitimately classified – there appears to be no compelling operational reason for blocking a more informed public debate that would weigh the proper balance between liberty and security in a democratic society. Yet, because of the secrecy that Bush has pulled down around these operations, neither Congress nor the people can evaluate whether the trade-offs of liberty for security are worth it. Leading senators can’t even make an informed judgment about whether Gonzales lied to them. But that, of course, might be exactly the point. The real purpose of all the secrecy appears to be to enable the Bush administration to construct an authoritarian framework – similar to the "total information awareness" concept – without the American people knowing that their liberties are facing a draconian threat from intrusive government spying.
Homeland Security, Patriot Act, etc.. Yep. Oh well, what are we all to do, have to go on living in spite of these issues. In Oxford there were police cams. all over. Wave of the future. 1984 and all "that" stuff, etc..
Tried to download Animal Farm, read it in High School, but have forgotten. Don't think it loaded properly. May have it here somewhere as my lovely mother has given me tons of interesting books she has picked up at sales, etc.. Some classics and so on. Many from the 1800's fascinating books! Need more time, don't we all.
Nighty night to all, late over here.
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I dont care about iraq because kurdistan is my land and yes george bush is the best. he freed all of u. you always complain about bush and iran but look at your people. we dont to steal land because we have a history and have the best land bettter than your deserts in the south.
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, or to make the prophecy of Ezekiel work
, but, the way I see it, Bush 
is nothing else than a big fat liar
, and the most sinister war criminal ever lived on the face the earth
. Worse than Hitler, Lenin, and Carl Marks combined. 
RE: Harry - 
me in person I am ready to forgive everybody with exception to Ba3thies. Ba3thy = Nazi = Salafi = Wahabi , and may god reserve the hottest part in hell for Michael Aflaq and all his followers. Let’s remember once a Ba3thy is always a Ba3thy no amount of clean water will clean the shame of being Ba3thy. Long Live Mahatma Ghandi, Long Live Freedom of Speech
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