pulled.....sorry.......

here is just my thought

people fight to much


really a sad day when i feel i need to shut-up...i guess i just wont speek my mind on here anymore

jonn

sorry but b/c my FH is currently serving overseas the only choice for me is Bush, as he and many other military men have told me, they want him in office, so Bush has my vote


oh and my man he DIDN'T CHOOSE THIS, for some people it is the only option available t them if they want a good future. Unfortunately there are people in this world who are not as fortunate as the rest of us. It is not really a choice when it is the really the only choice you have. Oh, and no my man doesn't think we should be there, that is not what I was saying. They are just nervous about an exchange of power while they are in a foreign land. In the past that hasn't always worked well for our military men/women.

can't wait for this election to be over with, so tired of the political non sense that is going on, its everywhere!!

believe me i know how important it is b/c my man is in IRaq as we 'speak' but I've just had enough.

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Posted by maiahsdad

here is just my thought

i feel that if you are voting for bush here is why you should not

have you seen the obl video....well it's kind of strange....here is a man who the whole world wants to get and he is free, the man who KILLED tons of people in YOUR home town, people who we all knew,loved and wanted to live a lot longer then they did........well bush had him and let him go, why would you want 4 more years of this....please let me know

jonn

please vote for kerry.....he really could do no worse the bush

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Well since you said 'Please'...I'll vote for Kerry.
Puh-leese...don't tell me how to vote. I can think for myself. And our military never had OBL and 'let him go.' That's one of Kerry's many distortions.

This is from Factcheck.org:

Kerry said U.S. forces allowed Osama bin Laden to escape in 2001 during the battle at Tora Bora in Afghanistan because the administration 'outsourced' fighting to Afghan 'warlords.' Actually, it's never been clear whether bin Laden actually was at Tora Bora.
It is true that military leaders strongly suspected bin Laden was there, and it is also true that the Pentagon relied heavily on Afghan forces to take on much of the fighting at Tora Bora in an effort to reduce US casualties. But Kerry overstates the case by stating flatly that 'we had him surrounded.'

Earlier, Gen. Tommy Franks stated in a New York Times opinion article Oct. 19 that 'we don't know to this day whether Mr. bin Laden was at Tora Bora in December 2001. Some intelligence sources said he was; others indicated he was in Pakistan at the time; still others suggested he was in Kashmir.' Franks was in command of US forces in the region at the time, and he is now endorsing Bush for re-election.

ty bride626 I am glad that i am not the only one who didn't enjoy being told how to vote,


I am a BUSH supporter and don't really care what anyone has to say about it.

You're welcome lilqtny!! And, trust me...you are not alone. There are many people who agree with us.

Your FH is in my thoughts. He is a real hero!!

Also, the troops have been doing a great job. Clearly, there is much more to be accomplished over there. However, the media only focuses on the negative. Your FH and our troops have accomplished some amazing things since Iraq was liberated. Here is an article that highlights some of the improvements that are often ignored.

ROCK ISLAND -- The images of violence, death and destruction that stream out of Iraq on a daily basis tell a terrible story, but an incomplete one, according to two Iraqi men traveling through the Midwest.

The stories, they say, need to be tempered with a new tale, a tale of hope now that Saddam Hussein has been overthrown.

'After the liberation, things changed a lot,' Ali Hashim Ramadan said. 'But the good things, no one knows about the good things. They know about all the bad things that have happened.'

Mr. Ramadan and Hayder Abdulkarim stopped in Rock Island Tuesday as part of their effort to spread the complete story of what's happening in their country.

Mr. Ramadan is a lawyer from Basra, Iraq, who is working on grassroots efforts to build a democracy with U.S. contractor Research Triangle Associates. Mr. Ramadan helped organize and monitor Basra's city council elections in 2004 and participates in local governing body meetings as an advisor and facilitator.

He also worked on school reconstruction projects and oversaw the distribution of educational supplies to 1.5 million students and 50,000 teachers in the cities of Basra, Messan, Nassirya and Mothana.

Mr. Ramadan speaks English with a Scottish accent -- he lived in Scotland for five years, until 1984, when he returned to Iraq to visit family.

'We didn't know things were going to be like that. We were never allowed to leave,' he said. 'Iraq was like a big prison to us. No one could leave. Men spent most of their life in the Army. If you make a mistake in the Army, they cut your ear off.

'I was separated from (my) father eight years because he refused to join Saddam's party,' Mr. Ramadan said. 'He decided to leave the country. My father was the dean of the culture of law at Basra University, but he was not a Baath party (member) -- they put him in this position because he was the only professor of law in Basra.'

Mr. Abdulkarim, Baghdad, is a doctor and volunteered with the Middle East Council of Churches in Iraq to provide humanitarian assistance during the war. He has worked as an activist on behalf of interfaith dialog between Muslims and Christians in Iraq.

He watched as 12 of his relatives were executed in front of his family under Saddam's rule.

'Since the liberation, we have seen big things happen, freedom,' Mr. Abdulkarim said. 'Now we have (freedom). Before we had no human rights.'

He said he worked in an Iraqi hospital that was old and poorly equipped. He worked 12 hours a day for 30 days each month, and was paid the equivalent of $1.50.

'There was no system for vaccination,' he said. 'It was an unhygienic situation under the control of the government and their focus was on weapons, fighting and the army.'

Both men say the media has focused on the bad things that have happened since the liberation. Mr. Ramadan accused Arab news channel Al-Jazeera of paying crowds to portray anti-American sentiment.

Both will return to Iraq after the end of the month. They want Americans to know most Iraqis are thankful for the U.S. and coalition efforts.

Both also say the attacks that continue against coalition forces and Iraqi civilians are the work of Baath party loyalists and terrorists from outside Iraq. Both also are looking forward to the elections in January.

'Somebody said 60 to 70 percent will participate (in the elections) but I think it will be between 60 and 80 percent,' Mr. Abdulkarim said. 'We think we have a good partner, a strong partner in changing our government from dictatorship to a democracy. This is the first time in our history that we can choose -- before it was a dictator and now we can choose a democracy.'

'We don't want the Americans to stay forever,' Mr. Ramadan said. 'But we don't want the American policy to change. We are not ready to depend on us yet.'

The Iraq-America Freedom Alliance carries on its Web site a long list of improvements it says have occurred since Saddam Hussein was toppled: 3,300 Iraqi schools renovated or built, 170 newspapers published in the country, 70 mosques refurbished by coalition troops, and clean water for 20 million Iraqis.

'We would like to thank all fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters of those who send loved ones to Iraq to liberate and free us. This gave us hope to live in peace and have a life,' Mr. Abdulkarim said. 'God bless those who died for Iraq because they died to create this country and fight against the terrorist. ... They did their duty, and we are willing to continue to do their duty.'

I am so frustrated because I sent my voter registration like two days before the deadline, and I don't know if I'll be able to vote Tuesday. I'm going to call up tomorrow. But even if I sent it the day before, the postmark has to be before the deadline which it would have been. I will be so mad if I can't!

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Posted by maiahsdad

here is just my thought

i feel that if you are voting for bush here is why you should not

have you seen the obl video....well it's kind of strange....here is a man who the whole world wants to get and he is free, the man who KILLED tons of people in YOUR home town, people who we all knew,loved and wanted to live a lot longer then they did........well bush had him and let him go, why would you want 4 more years of this....please let me know

jonn

please vote for kerry.....he really could do no worse the bush

ps..... if this were a team..ie yankees ...george s would fire george bush, he has not done a job that he was todo, i know most people say 'well what can kerry do' no worse then geoge

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I saw your post last night, wasnt going to reply to it but I have to... you are insulting my intelligence by telling my who not to vote for... I can make up my own mind, thank you

ughh

this post pisses me off wh ogets elected isn't whats sad whats sad is that my man is there fighting for our freedoms and nobody has respect for each others freedom in the very country they are fighting for!

GET A CLUE

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Posted by lilqtny

ughh

this post pisses me off wh ogets elected isn't whats sad whats sad is that my man is there fighting for our freedoms and nobody has respect for each others freedom in the very country they are fighting for!

GET A CLUE

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Excuse me? You know nothing about me and who I do or do not know that is fighting in Iraq. I'm very sorry for you that your FH is over there fighting, but don't tell me that I don't have respect for someone else's freedom when you are giving everyone else sh-t for speaking their mind, which, consequently, is part of our freedom. I hardly EVER respond to ridiculous crap like yours, but in this case, I've seriously had enough. Direct your issues elsewhere. I wish nothing but the best for you and your FH and will keep him and the rest of our troops in my thoughts and prayers.

yea and in exercising my freedom of speech I will direct whatever I want wherever I want , when I FU**#NG want to. First of all it was not directed toward you it was directed to the person who was telling us all how to vote in the first place, I didn't give anyone **** for expressing their views, but how DARE ANYONE THINK THEY CAN TELL OTHERS HOW TO VOTE

so long as we have good men like my FH protecting us and fighting for our rights, I'll say whatever I want to whomever I want.

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Posted by lilqtny

ughh

this post pisses me off wh ogets elected isn't whats sad whats sad is that my man is there fighting for our freedoms and nobody has respect for each others freedom in the very country they are fighting for!

GET A CLUE

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Excuse me? You know nothing about me and who I do or do not know that is fighting in Iraq. I'm very sorry for you that your FH is over there fighting, but don't tell me that I don't have respect for someone else's freedom when you are giving everyone else sh-t for speaking their mind, which, consequently, is part of our freedom. I hardly EVER respond to ridiculous crap like yours, but in this case, I've seriously had enough. Direct your issues elsewhere. I wish nothing but the best for you and your FH and will keep him and the rest of our troops in my thoughts and prayers.

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