{"id":924,"date":"2003-02-07T13:55:24","date_gmt":"2003-02-08T05:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/07\/saying-what-you-feel\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:43:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:43:43","slug":"saying-what-you-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/07\/saying-what-you-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying what you feel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15311,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2003\\\/WORLD\\\/meast\\\/02\\\/07\\\/sprj.irq.uk.dossier\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250525061056\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2003\\\/WORLD\\\/meast\\\/02\\\/07\\\/sprj.irq.uk.dossier\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 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17:15:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 17:15:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15319,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com\\\/archives\\\/001034.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Y&#8217;know, sometimes, whether or not it&#8217;s polite, whether or not it&#8217;s &#8220;politically correct,&#8221; you just need to say what you feel, in all its uncensored glory.<\/p>\n<p>To the so-called &#8220;authors&#8221; of the report that much of Colin Powell&#8217;s recent address to the UN was based on, for plagarizing the majority of the paper from a <em>twelve year old<\/em> academic paper detailing Iraq&#8217;s strengths and capabilities at the time of the (original) Gulf War:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/meast\/02\/07\/sprj.irq.uk.dossier\/index.html\" title=\"UK accused of lifting dossier text\">Fuck you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/archives\/001037.html\" title=\"geek*muffin: 12 year old plagarized 'evidence'\">Kirsten<\/a>, more info and many more links at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatreallyhappened.com\/plag.html\" title=\"Portions of 'latest' Iraq dossier are 12 years old!\">What Really Happened<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>To the representatives introducing a bipartisan resolution to rein in Bush and repeal the &#8220;blank check&#8221; he has for the Iraqi invasion:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/defazio\/020503DERelease.shtml\" title=\"House.gov: DeFAZIO, PAUL INTRODUCE BILL TO REPEAL BUSHS BLANK CHECK FOR WAR\">Thank you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To the multutudes of news organizations around the country who would rather continue to help Bush wag the dog than run this story and let the American people know that some of their elected representatives, Republican and Democrat alike, are concerned about Bush&#8217;s actions and trying to reinstate some limits:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruminatethis.com\/archives\/000882.html\" title=\"'We decided not to run it'\">Fuck you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Also via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/archives\/001036.html\" title=\"geek*muffin: Repeal of the Iraq use of force resolution?\">Kirsten<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>To the Bush administration, the justice department, and Ashcroft&#8217;s staff, for drafting a mindbogglingly expanded &#8216;Patriot Act II&#8217; that makes the sweeping damages to personal liberty and freedom of the original Patrot Act look like childs play:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicintegrity.org\/dtaweb\/report.asp?ReportID=502&amp;L1=10&amp;L2=10&amp;L3=0&amp;L4=0&amp;L5=0\" title=\"Justice Dept. Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act\">Fuck you<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/23414\" title=\"Patriot Act II\">MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>To Kirsten, who I figured would have a lot to say and would say it well once she entered the blogging world, for proving me oh-so-correct:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/archives\/001034.html\" title=\"geek*muffin: The Blog Politic\">You rock. R &#8211; A &#8211; W &#8211; K, <em>RAWK<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, sometimes, whether or not it&#8217;s polite, whether or not it&#8217;s &#8216;politically correct,&#8217; you just need to say what you feel, in all its uncensored glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}