If it was really about oil then why aren't we taking the oil? If we are going to have a war for oil then let's go after Canada and Mexico. We import 33% of our foreign oil from these 2 countries. I you add in Venezuela, Columbia and Ecuador the total goes to 49%. That's right here in the western hemisphere. Think it through people and put down the kool-aid. If you use your brain you'll find you don't need your tin foil hat anymore.

Some people wouldn't know the truth if it slapped them in the face, which it has, and was duly ignored. The so called warrantless wire tapping was aimed at connections from known/suspected terrorists OUTSIDE the USA contacting or being contacted by parties inside the USA. It was not aimed at private citizens talking to their mothers. Why are you people so in a twist over this? Something to hide maybe? Involved in voter fraud or political campaign scams? Afraid to get caught? I find it interesting that those who scream about freedoms the loudest are the very ones who wish to take those freedoms from people who disagree with them. I have nothing to hide and if some one wants to listen in on my phone they are more than welcome to be bored to death.

Sounds like a liberal to me.

Get organized? You atheist zealots have been organized for years. Banning nativity scenes in public areas. Banning crosses at federal cemeteries, and banning the ten commandments displayed in court houses. As a Christian I'm offended by all the fashionable anti religion demonstrations. I believe my right to freedom of expression is being infringed upon. What happened to freedom of religion? Separation of church and state is not in the constitution, look it up you self righteous atheist morons. You have elevated atheism to a new religion so you better ban that too, along with global warming, the latest liberal religion.

If you wanted a quote try this..

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

John Stuart Mill

And if you want to take a stand against needless death and destruction why don't you compare the total American deaths in Iraq with the number of alcohol related deaths right here in America where we are "safe" Personally I think I have better odds in the desert than driving down my own street. At least in Iraq I'll have armor and weapons. Here, the liberals won't let me carry without cutting through a mile of red tape which results in thing like the Omaha shooting. If there were more armed responsible law abiding citizens there would not be lunatics on shooting sprees. I don't expect liberals to understand so I will just have pity for you and I will continue to fight for your right to be stupid and protest against the freedom you enjoy.

Maybe your employer should stop paying you with that offensive money.

Let's see if I can get this straight. A study done by big corporations to prove the are not evil is a lie but a study done by the media to prove the media is fare is gospel truth? Give me a break. Chomsky, while an intellectual, is about as far left as you can get.

When was the last time the declaration of independence used in a foreign country as a basis for that country's laws. This clown probably used his "freedom of the press" to give locations and patrol schedules to al qaeda and may be directly responsible for some of the dead US soldiers that are blamed on the administration. Speaking of basic human rights, don't all people have the right to live in freedom? So far I've seen Islam as a state of being where women are property to be hidden and infidels are insects to be exterminated. By their silence the Imams are all condoning the violence and encouraging the suicide bombers. Religion of peace, bah.

To all the "brave warriors" who are so sure there cause is just that they have to hide their identities just like the members of al qaeda, hamas, plo and many other organizations that they believe should be free to murder innocent men, women and children. The ones that I really have trouble understanding are the women of these movements. If the islamofascists win they will be covered in burkhas and treated as property and apparently they are ok with that. Let's all hear it for rolling back the clock to the 7th century as far as human rights are concerned.

There is only a tag for boring for those who have no respect. This is a duty of extreme pride for these soldiers. Many volunteer for this duty and very few of the best are chosen.

This only works if you don't exhale any smoke. If lungs worked like this demo then there would be no second hand smoke to worry about.

Who's going to pay the additional cost for all those polluting volcanoes, rotting vegetation, and forest fires? You environmentally conscious people make me laugh with your contrived explanations for natural events and your fear mongering. In the 70's it was global cooling and now it's global warming. In 2030 it will be global cooling again. Will you then tell every one to burn more fuel to produce more CO2? There was a town in California that actually proposed an ordinance to ban Styrofoam cups because the manufacturing process used dihydrogen oxide, a known cause of severe injuries and thousands of deaths annually. There was some embarrassment but no acknowledgment of environmental knee jerk lunacy when it was pointed out that dihydrogen oxide is actually water. So forgive me if I seem a bit skeptical of a scientific "consensus" of the global warming "facts". After all, it was once a scientific "consensus" that the earth was flat and at the center of the solar system.

This is funny. He's doing a John Kerry impersonation.

What exactly is wrong with you liberals. The transcripts are available if you'd care to use some independent thinking and look it up yourself instead of swallowing the left wing script and marching along to the beat of the elitist media bandwagon. Why don't you waste more of your time fearing the next big asteroid or super volcano and leave the political game to the grownups.

Why not address these facts?

On August 22, 1973 the Christian Democrats and the National Party members of the Chamber of Deputies passed, by 81 to 47 votes, a resolution entitled "Declaration of the Breakdown of Chile’s Democracy", which called upon the military to "put an immediate end" to what they described as "breach[es of] the Constitution… with the goal of redirecting government activity toward the path of Law and ensuring the constitutional order of our Nation and the essential underpinnings of democratic coexistence among Chileans."

The resolution declared that the Allende government was seeking "...to conquer absolute power with the obvious purpose of subjecting all citizens to the strictest political and economic control by the state... [with] the goal of establishing a totalitarian system," and claimed that it had made "violations of the Constitution" into "a permanent system of conduct." Many of the charges came down to disregarding the separation of powers and arrogating the prerogatives of both the legislature and judiciary within the executive.

Among other particulars, the regime was accused of:

* ruling by decree, thus thwarting the normal system of adopting legislation
* refusing to enforce judicial decisions against its own partisans and "not carrying out sentences and judicial resolutions that contravene its objectives"
* ignoring the decrees of the independent General Comptroller's Office
* various offenses related to the media, including usurping control of the National Television Network and "applying ... economic pressure against those media organizations that are not unconditional supporters of the government..."
* allowing its supporters to assemble even when armed, while preventing legal assembly by its opponents
* "...supporting more than 1,500 illegal 'takings' of farms..."
* illegal repression of the El Teniente strike
* illegally limiting emigration

The resolution finally condemned the "creation and development of government-protected armed groups which... are headed towards a confrontation with the Armed Forces." Allende's efforts to re-organize the military and police, which he could not trust in their current forms, were characterized as "notorious attempts to use the Armed and Police Forces for partisan ends, destroy their institutional hierarchy, and politically infiltrate their ranks."


And as for the economic boom?

In 1972, the monetary policies of an increase in the amount of currency, which had been adopted by the Minister of Economics, Pedro Vuskovic, led to a devaluation of the escudo and to renewed inflation, which reached 140% in 1972.