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"Dug yourself into a hole? The very first thing to do is quit digging" --old Texas saying
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Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What a paragraph! This sparse, 52-word opening of our Constitution did not merely launch a fledgling nation--but a bold experiment in democratic idealism.
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No amount of posturing by George Flight-Suit-in-Chief Bush, as one of our nicknamers dubbed him, will stop those roadside bombs in Iraq. For months, entire units have gone begging for steel plates needed to armor their Humvees against the deadly blasts they encounter daily. Families of soldiers have offered to buy these steel plates themselves, but have been rejected by commanders who keep promising that the army will provide better equipment soon. Soon never seems to come, especially for the National Guard and reservists who are doing much of the most dangerous work in Iraq, so soldiers scavenge scrap metal and sand bags to harden their Humvees. But this hasn't stopped the deaths and maimings.
The Pentagon now says it hopes to have all Humvees armored by next Aprila full year and more than 1,000 deaths after Bush launched this poorly-prepared war.
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