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patriotJun 9th, 2008 - 22:08:32

March for Nationalization of Oil in Los Angeles, California

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An organized March will be announced with dates and times to display signage that demands that the US Congress pass a law under the threat of National Security to seize control of all oil refining property and accounts in the USA and abroad. This Military action is necessary in order to restore price reduction to the consumer to 1973 levels. Saudi Arabia and any other Opec interests will also be placed on notice. The American Republic will make CHANGE unlike OBAMA claims or McCain!

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SP4: reply: ha ha haJun 9th, 2008 - 23:38:08

Hey, bonehead, take a look at coporate America and it's influence on government.

Now, ask youself this: what are the chances of nationalization of industry in the USA????

Get back to us on that, would you?

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Wondering.........Jun 10th, 2008 - 03:49:48

how McClain's proposed tax breaks for big oil companies and the continuation of tax breaks for wealthier Americans are beneficial for the general pubic?

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Dear liarJun 10th, 2008 - 07:51:32

' McClain's proposed tax breaks for big oil companies and the continuation of tax breaks for wealthier Americans are beneficial for the general pubic?'

He hasn't proposed tax breaks for 'big oil companies'.

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OLD FOOLJun 10th, 2008 - 17:06:23

THese are the real facts--from wiki--not from an Old Fool that never served

John McCain's capture and imprisonment began on October 26, 1967. He was flying his twenty-third bombing mission over North Vietnam, when his A-4E Skyhawk was shot down by a missile over Hanoi.[33][34] McCain fractured both arms and a leg, and then nearly drowned, when he parachuted into Trúc Bạch Lake in Hanoi.[33] After he regained consciousness, a crowd attacked him, crushed his shoulder with a rifle butt, and bayoneted him;[33] he was then transported to Hanoi's main Hoa Lo Prison, nicknamed the 'Hanoi Hilton'.[34]

McCain being pulled from Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi and becoming a POW[35] on October 26, 1967.
Although McCain was badly wounded, his captors refused to treat his injuries, instead beating and interrogating him to get information.[36] Only when the North Vietnamese discovered that his father was a top admiral did they give him medical care[36] and announce his capture. His status as a prisoner of war (POW) made the front pages of The New York Times[37] and The Washington Post.[38]
McCain spent six weeks in the hospital while receiving marginal care.[33] Now having lost 50 pounds (23 kg), in a chest cast, and with his hair turned white,[33] McCain was sent to a different camp on the outskirts of Hanoi[39] in December 1967, into a cell with two other Americans who did not expect him to live a week.[40] In March 1968, McCain was put into solitary confinement, where he would remain for two years.[41]
In mid-1968, McCain's father was named commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater, and McCain was offered early release.[42] The North Vietnamese wanted to appear merciful for propaganda purposes,[43] and also wanted to show other POWs that elites like McCain were willing to be treated preferentially.[42] McCain turned down the offer of repatriation; he would only accept the offer if every man taken in before him was released as well.[33]
In August of 1968, a program of severe torture began on McCain.[44] McCain was subjected to repeated beatings and rope bindings, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery.[44] After four days, McCain made an anti-American propaganda 'confession'.[33] He has always felt that his statement was dishonorable,[45] but as he would later write, 'I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine.'[46] His injuries left him permanently incapable of raising his arms above his head.[47] He subsequently received two to three beatings per week because of his continued refusal to sign additional statements.[48] Other American POWs were similarly tortured and maltreated in order to extract 'confessions' and propaganda statements, with many enduring even worse treatment than McCain.[49]

You call him a song bird--well sir your are a TURDBIRD

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juvenile delinquentJun 11th, 2008 - 23:46:39

'OLD FOOL'

Well said sir!

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Old SchoolJun 13th, 2008 - 14:52:38

4PS.............

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much about McCain being the songbird he is !!

More and more former Pows coming out who hate this Little boy of a man, called McCain ! If it wasn't for his father a Admiral in the Navy where would he be. All you talk about are lies that you say I'm saying then you blog yourself as a different commenter, when there are 75,000 web sights up from 62,000 a week ago en regards to McCain's POW days. Maybe you need to go on the web to discuss your views to the POW's. All those Web sights, Blog sights and POW Sights that are telling about McCain and the his 'Traderisum' to the American Armed forces, but they are all liars to you. It's people like you that will get us deeper wars in the middle east. You read a book McCain wrote to himself explaining what he did, and think he is GOD. Again you make us laugh here at the VFW Hall. Thank you for helping get the word out on McCain. Put yourself in the Hanoi Hilton as a pilot just shot down in need of medical treatment, and see the Son of a Admiral being Taken away to a hospital for better treatment were no other American POW was allowed to go, you say it's a lie...............We put him in the same boat as Hanoi Jane, you know what she did don't you, she sided with the North the same as Clinton did, remember the photos of Billy Boy in Hanoi. What about Firestone Rubber, US Steel and Alco Aluminum, you know about them don't you !! Don't worry as the election nears you will be hearing more and more about McCain his Father and the list goes on. Money is starting to be donated to groups of former POW's to form many Political Action Committee's against McCain. Odd why you don't pick on my thoughts about the Jews !! Drink up man, we are just getting started


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