Good for the Dixie Chicks for speaking out!

"Political climate has changed"??? As if whoever is in charge of selecting nominees and winners really cares about the "political climate". These people all hate anyone in the GOP. The sad thing is that they don't realize that the democrats they support are no better. Vote Libertarian!

"Political climate has changed"??? As if whoever is in charge of selecting nominees and winners really cares about the "political climate". These people all hate anyone in the GOP. The sad thing is that they don't realize that the democrats they support are no better. Vote Libertarian!

Sucess is the best revenge. Go Chicks!

Vote Libertarian! Why vote for loosers?

That should be
Vote Libertarian? Why vote for loosers?
All I've seen from the Libertarians is a general unwillingness to work with others, and the ability to act as spoilers to throw the election to the
Republicans.
There are no viable third parties who can win a national election.
You can't even get anyone elected to the House.
The American people need to keep supporting populist Democratic candidates in 2008. It's the best way to take our country back!

If you think a Republican is greedy, talk to a Libertarian! Wow, every man for himself. If the others die, they die.

We should box off one state, and let all the Libertarians go and live there, in their own greedy little world. Let's see what they say when no one wants to pay for roads, police, firemen, education, their elderly parents, etc.

The Dixie Chicks won because they thumbed their noses as both Bush and their original fans as the "recreated" themselves into an "alternative music" band. They are snide hypocrits and showed their true colors in the way the dismissed all the fans who made them a success.

As the listening public has shown its anger over the DC's antics the folks who actually determine the Grammy Awards showed their contempt for that buying public by throwing accolades upon the Dixie Chicks. More than anything it shows how the music industry holds music fans in contempt and disdain.

Madoc

why, MADOC you're a genius. yes, you are right.
i don't think i could have said it better! the dixie chicks won a grammy, not for their music, but by disrespecting their country and The President of the United States. They sold out their original fan base just like they tromped on their country. If you disrespect the man, fine, they had a right to their opinion, but The President of the United States of America is the single most important political person in the world. The least we owe him as citizens is to respect the POSITION!!!!! that means we don't go around europe calling him by his last name looking ignorant.

and if the music community wants to stand up and applaud this, i have two words JANE FONDA!! the next thing you know ole 'spit on the baby killing soldiers' Fonda and the Chicks will be setting up their own little party. Hey, maybe they'll nominate Maines for President and when someone disagrees with her, or embarrases her THEN she might shut up and sing!!!!!

'Political climate has changed', what, is that code for i just got the latest popularity poll hot off the press and it's popular now not to like the war....so hey, let's have that as our key agenda. Here is the problem with that, what if we win the war? Can you democrats predict the future? Because you sure seem to be getting your intelligence briefings from the average joe who answers a poll survey. you could be wrong, we might win the war in Iraq. o, but that is your only issue so I guess you'll do everything you can as democrats to make sure we don't succeed in iraq, like bring votes to the 3 day a week Congress to stop sending funds to our troops. yea, there's a great idea. that one sure makes me feel like voting for a democrat. let me write my son and tell him to come on home now, the war is not popular and the newly elected democrats are going to stop funding you in Iraq. i'll just tell him to spread the news to the rest of the soldiers so that they can just lay down their guns and trott home. you wouldn't call that DEFECTING would you? I mean, if its ok for the US Congress of Democrats to pull out from under the war they voted for, surely you wouldn't call the soldiers just quitting and coming home now defectors...right? maybe thats how it always should have been done. you know, like when WWII became expensive, american soldiers were dying, it wasn't really in "the best interest of our country" the soldiers should just have quit and come home, seriously, if we hadn't done something unexpected, like drop a top secret nuclear bomb on our enemy, WWII was at about the same point the war is Iraq is at. What if we'd just given up on that war? Doesn't it make you wonder if living in a Nazi controlled world would be much different than living in terrorist controlled world? they have genocide in common.

I'm trying to say here that the 'justness for the cause' of all war is bad, expensive, poorly fought...name me one that isn't...Civil War, War for Independance, Korea? Surely the Congress knew this when they voted to go to war and i refuse, REFUSE, to believe that President Bush and the CIA and the FBI all got together and created fake intelligence reports for Congress to vote on so that they were 'mislead' into a war. Give me a break. I also get sick of hearing that my son and this country are at war for "oil". Please, will someone tell me why anyone would think a President would send 300,000 troops , followed by the 'news media' with cameras and microphones followed by the eyes of the world to gain the rights to oil?? these are powerful men with a lot of money, if they wanted hussains oil they would take some lawyers and money to a boardroom and buy it from him. he would have sold his children for power and money, much less some oil fields.

I don't think that any person or organization experiencing life in the present tense can ever predict how the day will reveal itself in history. Who are you or I to dare think so much of ourselves that we believe we could EVER know enough to guess how the smallest of events will change the future. If you don't believe in God or a higher power, then just let me say this...
Karma, it's not done until it's all played out. It will end the way it is supposed to end, no matter what we say or do.

I will tell you how I hope it ends. My son will live through this war and have honored himself more in 1 hour of his days of sacrifice than you or I will in our lifetime. He and his wife will have a child and in about 8 yrs or so that child will read a history book that explains how The United States of America waged a war against terrorism in a country called Iraq. And as a result a seed of hope, liberty and freedom was planted to flourish in one of the most violent countries of the Middle East.

you know we can't take credit for all the good that happens in this world and we are not responsible for all the bad that happens in this world. We are responsible for what we do, what we say, how we behave, for the good will we spread or the hurt and pain we can cause. I pray for the safety of our American soldiers who are far from home because we asked them to be.

Blah, Blah, Blah, Bush lied, Blah, Wrong war, Blah, Bush is stupid, Blah, Blah, Blah.

This non binding, emboldening to our enemies, resolution will only prolong this war.

Is this really the best way to expend the efforts of congress.

Why are we so scared to win and so fast to quit?

We must win this war! Failure can not be accepted. Ditch this resolution and get to work on something important.

i can still hear rummy....you don't go to war with the army you'd like to have, you go to war with the army you have.....
and then cheney says.....don rumsfeld was the finest sec. of def. we've ever had.....
what crap....
any more lies to tell dicky....

Subject: The Peaceful Majority by William Haynes

I used to know a man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War Two. They owned a number of large industries and estates. I asked him how many German people were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever since.

"Very few people were true Nazis "he said," but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories."

We are told again and again by "experts" and "talking heads" that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.

Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely
irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and
meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.

It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful majority" is the "silent majority" and it is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia comprised Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China 'S huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War 2 was not a
warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. And, who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were "peace loving"?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our
powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:

Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up,
because like my friend from Germany , they will awake one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only
group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Lastly, I wish to add: I sincerely think that anyone who rejects this as just another political rant, or doubts the seriousness of this issue or just deletes it without paying heed to it, or sending it on, is part of the problem. Lets quit laughing at and forwarding the jokes and cartoons which denigrate and ridicule our leaders in this war against terror. They are trying to protect the interests and well being of the world and it's citizens. Best we support them.

William Haynes

God Bless America!!!