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Republicans generally are more favorable towards the military so I can see why the troops tend to gravitate toward their side.

Hard to call it outsourcing when its their own country. If were recruiting conscripts from other nations, like the Soviets did, to fight our wars then you could call that outsourcing.

Its certainly an influence but I was always a Republican.

That's not the point. They were profiting illegally from billions in oil for food kickbacks and illegally selling weapons to Iraq. They didnt want us to go in because they knew they were going to get caught with their hands in the cookie jar. This whole thing with France Russia and the U.N. stinks to high heaven.

Nobody. Outside influences only serve to re-inforce or question my own personal opinions.

Maybe we should do the same with police officers too? :rolly Seriously though, Theres only 2 ways to reverse the flow of jobs overseas. Make it more expensive to locate overseas... Ways to do that? Tarriffs, closing tax loopholes are 2 ideas that spring to mind but the last time we really got big into protectionism was in the late 1920's and we all know what happened after that. Make it cheaper to employ people here. Ways to do that? Take away health care, 401K and any other fringe benefits and slash salaries. Seems to me we're stuck between a rock and a hard place on this one. Any ideas anyone?

The CBS deal has hurt nobody but Dan Rather so who really cares? The Fox News deal has hurt noone so ............drum roll.........who cares?

This election is going down to the very last day. As evenly split as this country is, the winner will be the candidate that does the best job of getting their voters to the polls. I think we can all agree on this.

Here's the question nobody asks when it comes to outsourcing American manufacturing jobs. Do you want to pay 200 dollars for that new TV or 800? The cost of American labor has gotten so high that it is no longer possible to produce cheap electronics here. Employers really REALLY ( dont laugh at me its totally true ) dont want to move their factories overseas but they no longer have a choice if they wish to stay competitive. If the jobs stay here then companies have their labor costs go up 4-5 fold and so will prices. Gone is the day when American made labor can produce the cheapest goods. No policy or politician will ever bring it back. You can make it tougher on companies that outsource by closing tax loopholes ( which is the sole element of the Kerry platform I agree with) but thats not going to solve the problem.

Its to their advantage to oppose the war when they are making big money illegally and violating U.N. sanctions by selling Iraq weapons since almost right after the guns fell silent in Gulf War 1. This is completely seperate from what you're talking about and is the heart of my issue. The people doing the drilling had nothing to do with the scam at all. It was not illegal to drill for oil there. The big issue is that Saddam was taking the proceeds from his oil sales that were supposed to be used for buying food and medicine for his people and buying military hardware from France and Russia and building his own personal fortune and lavish lifestyle. The U.N. was either totally asleep at the switch or complicit. This is the issue this post is about. Kofi Annan has some cojones trying to lecture George Bush about waging an illegal war when he was violating his own sanctions for years by engaging in a multi billion dollar kickback scheme which deprived innocent Iraqi's of food and medicine. He should be removed from his job and imprisoned for his complicity in this matter.

No, Ditka is full grown.

Updated. Far better now that I turned the taskbars dark grey and added a new pic to the background.

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Year in and year out he's solid for us. to the Sox for locking him up for a while.

Most I see him doing is long relief. We all know what happens to him when he starts. Ideeally though Id like to see him in another city.

With Urlacher and Grossman both out that prediction aint so bold IMHO.

I think if anyone knows what their talking about when it comes to technology its Bill Gates.

I've rightly criticized the Clinton administration for materially weakening our defenses. There is a big difference between that and left wing bomb throwers who throw dirt on America every chance they get no matter how insane their petty carping is. I see your and raise you a :fyou

I'm really surprised by this. The A's are usually a great team down the stretch. Oh well, who gives a s*** anyway...... GO 'STROS!!!

Why should any of that matter when these guys can sit around and talk about how horrible America is?

We dont pay and train a military to save foregin lives we do it to protect our national interests. As long as Saddam Hussein was in power he was a threat to us and our interests in the region. We had intelligence that he was building up stockpiles of WMD and was cooperating with Al Queda and we acted on it. This has nothing to do with imposing our morals on anyone and neither does pointing out the self serving and harmful hypocrasies of our "allies".

Not as big as a declining E-Lo would have wanted which is a positive in itself.

Pumping oil under the program was not the illegal part. Saddam taking money for himself and using it to subsidize his military and his grandiose lifestyle is the issue. Saddam giving billions in illegal kickbacks to France and Russia and paying off high ranking U.N. officials is the issue.

I really got to hand it to the 'stros They were left for dead, they had injuries to key players, they looked like they were done back in August. No worries. They grabbed themselves by the balls and made something happen and they're going to compete for the Championship now. Good for them!!!

Irrelevant. Extracting the oil has nothing to do with this scam at all. Fact is that the governments of France and Russia made billions in kickbacks on this scam and god knows how much more selling weapons to Hussein in blatant violation of U.N. sanctions while Kofi Annan and his cronies sat there and let it happen either because they were incompetent or complicit. Chirac, Putin and Annan have brass balls trying to accuse Bush of waging an "illegal" war against Iraq when they have been breaking international law themselves and making billions off the suffering of the Iraqi people. These people are total hypocrites. Where is all the venom from the left on this issue? Where are all the do-gooders who blame America for Iraqi suffering in the '90's because of sanctions? Maybe they have nothing to say anymore because it is France, Russia and Kofi Annan's U.N. who are truly to blame.