China Poisoning American Pets. For Now. The rat poison that has killed some American pets came into the United States from China! The Government of China is poisoning its own people with horrendous air and water pollution. Now it is poisoning American pets. And there is justified concern that the same kinds of contamination could affect imports of food products for people. Ain't free trade wunnerful?
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The Government of Communist China has aspirations to world domination, and certainly complete supremacy in its part of the world. In such aspirations, the United States is seen as not just rival but enemy. The Pentagon has contemplated a U.S.-China war within 20 years (now closer to 15). But what is to stop China from sneaking poisons into the United States now, thru consumer goods? I imagine there are slow-acting poisons of various kinds that don't take effect until a sufficient quantity has built up in people's tissues. Would the Chinese Government bar even the thought of such poisoning of its enemies? Why would it? It is turning the skies over its own people gray and brown with filth that hundreds of millions must breathe, and the rivers that supply drinking water for the same and different hundreds of millions is contaminated with all kinds of wastes, human and agricultural, including animal wastes, fertilizers, and pesticides. Pesticides. Rat poison is a pesticide. If the Communist Government of China is content to permit hundreds of millions of their own people to be poisoned by filthy air and water, why would they hesitate to poison us?
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Iraq War Financing. The Democratic controlled House of Representatives finally, today, did something meaningful to rein in Dumbya's Reign of Terror, in passing a spending bill that grants Bush's military budget request, but on the condition that the troops be withdrawn by September 2008, 18 months from now. Why so long? How many more Iraqis must die before the U.S. occupation that has produced deadly mass violence ends? The Democrats are cowards and fools, unfit to be a major party. The people of this country and those of Iraq want us OUT, but the Democrats won't simply say, "No 18 months, no 6 months. Now. You've done enuf harm. It's got to stop. We will give you money enuf to move the troops out, but not one cent more!"
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is _ — for Israel.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 7:00 PM