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We can best support our troops by bringing them home.  To misuse our troops to enforce corporate giveaways is bad for America.  It’s time for accountability: rebid, redeploy, rebuild, & seek reparations from war profiteers.  You can make a difference. 

We are in Iraq to enforce the illegal no-bid, cost-plus, corporate welfarecontracts on Iraq which were mandated by the Bush administration withoutcongressional or judicial oversight.  This criminal enterprise is costingAmerican lives and resources and must be ended.We must rebid the contracts for the reconstruction and reconciliation inIraq and include the Iraqi people, surrounding nations, and ALL of our

resources.  We must restore the rule of law and constitutional integrity.It is time that those who have betrayed this nation be held accountable.
Tim

When our leaders condone or encourage torture, murder, or rape in Iraq, Gitmo, or anywhere else… This puts our captured troops at more risk. The Geneva Accords protect our own. A refusal to respect these accords has hurt our people, ruined our reputation, lost us credibility, and squandered the solidarity once extended by our allies. The arrogant and amoral behaviors of Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush are where the buck stops. We need to restore integrity, civil law, constitutional guarantees, and accountability. We were misled into this war, and it has become an overt use of our military as enforcers for no-bid contracts which should not stand. We need to do the right thing. Preserving the peace is victory, surrendering to endless war is defeat. And war of choice is rank treason. 
Our Mythical Free Press

 I was relatively surprised to hear Kulongoski (Governor of Oregon)
speaking out recently about the elephant in the room.  The $10 corporate tax
boondoggle.  There is nothing conservative about suppy-side, trickle-down,
blather like this.

If you give large corporations free rein to avoid and evade paying their fair

share of the taxes, then all the rest of us have to either pick up their slack, or suffer.  

The solution is forcing the corporations who want trained workers

to pay their fair share of our costs for education and training of workers.

Instead of the 4-6% free ride they get now, they should pay the 23-34%
they paid twenty years ago.  Our community colleges are absolutely capable

of providing the training programs which our corporate non-partners refuse

to pay for.  The lie in the article below tries to pit higher eduction against

apprentice programs.  This is a false choice.  If the fortune 500 stepped up

to the plate we could get the job done. So far, they are unwilling and our

legislators do not seem inclined to do anything about it.  Blaming our

schools for their intransigence is bizzare and wrong.
This is no “crisis.” It is the predictable result of refusing to invest in our people

and the abject ignorance inherent in subscribing to supply-side economic hooliganism.

We did it “their” way.  There is no such thing as “trickle-down.” The more you pander

to corporate CEO’s, the more they take out of our economy and invest in India,

China, or Swiss bank accounts.   
tim

McCain is not presidential material, but then neither was George.
We can only hope that the nightmare of the last seven McBush years
will alert the American people so that Cain is not able to do the same
thing.  To quote the current lame duck/elephant: ”There’s an old saying in Tennessee–  I know it’s in Texas, probably
in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you.
Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” –Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it. ~ Benjamin FranklinYou don’t have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected. ~ Gerald Barzan

~~And here is the actual source of George’s misquote…  It is much older than
     Tennessee or Texas…
“If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me. ”
Chinese Proverb

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tentative agenda for the June Show includes: Education: Why our systems are in trouble and how to fix them. as well as Building Cultures of Peace: An International Conference at PSU
Lane and I also will host shows in September (About November Elections, and December (Where do we go from here?)  
Hope to hear from listeners Monday Night March 31st  between 6 and 7pm!

 Mr. McCain admits to not understanding economics,
cannot keep track of who is fighting whom in Iran or Iraq,
and thinks we should occupy Iraq for a thousand years while 
spending trillions of dollars and millions of lives to enforce
illegal no-bid, cost-plus contracts steeped in corruption…..  

And… he wants to bomb Iran because he thinks
The Beach Boys might approve.

This guy is supposed to be presidential material? 
I think not.

Tim

 Mr. Bush took us into a war of choice in Iraq.
As Mr. Wolfowitz was kind enough to point out,

the reason for this war was to occupy Iraq and
control the spigot.  If this is not “control,” then what is? 

Additionally Mr. Bush’s invasion of Iraq and
REMOVAL of our base within Saudi Arabia
(home country of those who attacked us) was clearly

a favor granted to the Saudi Arabian royal family
(the essental center of OPEC).  This compelled them,

according to a multiplicity of geopolitically astute analysts,

to reduce their production so that the price of oil would

go up.  …  So, in fact, the president of the richest and most powerful

country in the world, by sacrificing our troops and wasting

hard-earned taxpayer resources, has been able to control
the spigot in Iraq and influence the parameters of OPEC
production to line the pockets of his sponsors and his family.

Thus, and the proof is in the historical pudding, if a Democrat

is elected and as a consequence we can reestablish more

reponsible diplomatic relations and strategic economic
agreements with our friends and enemies… the price of oil

will be reduced… or at a minimun, the gross increase in costs

can be ameliorated.

A corrupt and morally depraved president, by working outside

the law, with little regard for the economic, military, or diplomatic

consequences for this nation, can indeed effectively raise the price
of oil.  If you do not believe this is the case…  check your wallet.

Tim Flanagan

“What is wrong with packing our courts with right leaning, 
Constitution following judges??”

“Right-Leaning” and “Constitution following” are (currently) contradictions in terms….

The right-leaning court which appointed George Bush ignored the constitution. 
The constitution says that all votes must be counted, no matter how long it takes. 
They stopped the counting on December 16.  When there is some concern

over counting the votes, the constitution indicates the winner is decided by congress,
not by a right-leaning, overreaching, anti-constitutional court. Incidentally.  Now that this out-of-control court has established this subversive precedent in law,
just last month… right here in Oregon, a Judge ruled that citizens have no right to expecttheir votes or signatures to be counted!  This right-wing extreme court has disenfranchised

American voters.  This is exactly what is wrong with a right-leaning anti-constitutional court.
best regards, Tim