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US Government Restricting Research Libraries
An anonymous reader writes: "In a move that has been termed 'positively Orwellian' by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Executive Director Jeff Ruch, George W. Bush is ending public access to research materials at EPA regional libraries without Congressional consent. This all-out effort to impede research and public access is a [loosely] covert operation to close down 26 technical libraries under the guise of budgetary constraint. Scientists are protesting, but at least 15 of the libraries will be closed by Sept. 30, 2006."
Only a Republican could forget the 8 years of Nixon the Crook and Ford the Goof. You don't think the $BILLIONS on the Vietnam fiasco, the OPEC Oil Kidnapping, the Watergate discrediting the government had anything to do with the damage done? Or Carter's SEC run by Casey, guy who then ran Reagan's 1980 campaign and then the CIA? Maybe Iran had something to do with it - the Shah Iran created by Nixon's CIA, and the Ayatollah Iran propped up by Reagan/Bush's Iran/Contra enterprise?
You Republicans have nothing but lies. The Great Depression: Republicans Coolidge and Hoover. The 1970s recession: Nixon/Ford. The 1982 recession: Reagan/Bush. The 1990 recession: Bush. The 21st Century collapse: Bush/Cheney. Every time you Republicans get together to put one of your crooks in the White House, you attack the country. Only because your party owns the corporate media do you lies get endless free passes out of the dustbin of history and back into power.
But don't expect the rest of us with working memories and conscience to forget. Or forgive.
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What he didn't do was leave a huge mess for future generations to clean up -- most of the situations of Carter's presidency that people didn't like were strictly temporary.
The Carter administration left us with the biggest f'ing mess in our entire history. One that we are still fighting today: Iran and the Muslim problem at large.
If Carter would've had the gonads to do whatever it took to keep the Shah and his successors in power (irregardless of whether that would've been right or wrong), and quash the Iran revolution in a huge and terrible unforgettable way, then the world today would be a very different place. Like it or not, the middle eastern culture basically understands only two things: (1)when they've been conquered and thoroughly put in their place, and (2)when they are the ones doing the conquering. Any half-assed attempt at putting them down in a partial manner, and they will always still perceive the situation as #2. Label me troll or flamebait as you please, but this is the truth and it's the way things have always been in that middle east culture for thousands of years, even before Islam and dating back to the ancient Persians, Babylonians, Egyptions, Romans, Assyrians, and yes even the Israelites.
"The pictures of deformed babies is almost unbearable, and the evidence overwhelming. Just how little of this is getting reported in the normal news is probably most shocking."
Probably cause its a bunch of paranoid BS. Some guy makes a michal moore-esqe conspiracy video and you think the "evidence" is overwhelming? Here's a hint dont EAT the depleted uranium and you'll be just fine.
If its stupid but it works, its not stupid.
Obviously you were not alive for the Carter administration. Didn't destroy the economy?? He was on watch for double-digit inflation, an impotent Fed, and left a legacy of one of the most far-reaching recessions since the depression and the worst since. It was Reagan who instructed the Fed - Paul Volker - to clamp down inflation once and for all... something Carter didn't have the balls to do. We were thrown into anothe recession but it was the last one for nearly 10 years - something unheard of at the time.
Carter was unfortunate to inherit the mess from Nixon... such as enacting clean air act at the same time the OPEC embargo came into effect. Industry wasn't prepared and it threw things into chaos for much of the 70's. He did get us started on the road to deregulation, so Carter had some good points.
but he was NO Ronald Reagan.
Just curios RoboOp.. do YOU speak to the people in Iraq? If so, you'd relize there not actually that upset we are there right now. There heavily annoyed in most parts of Iraq, but they understand why. Yes there patience is growing thin.. and yes, people in the shittiest parts of iraq are just angry in general.. but the rest of it isn't that mad we are there. In the end, the victors write the history.. and we won, so stop being a dick head and just agree with history: We did the right thing, nothing went wrong.