have also now begun to reflect on what transpired in private, behind that public case. what was the reason for the invasion? what was the reason for that near decade of war? why did we do it? if you know the region as well as i do now, particularly after spending many years in the military doing war planning for the region, i couldn t say it wasn t about oil. of course it was about oil. the iraq war was presented to us to stop saddam hussein from getting weapons of mass destruction. we know now that to a great extent the war in iraq was about oil. i know there are people who make the argument, as they did in the first gulf war that this war of liberation was actually a war about oil. i frankly know of no evidence that shows that.
said this is the way to keep this is how i keep people fresh in my head, weird guy, smelly, homeless guy. freak? yes, you are a freak. he should have been fired. there is no question. humiliating people is to rob them of dignity and dignity makes us human, so to me it is a nonissue. having said that, i do have a tough issue to raise. and that is have we gone to the opposite direction? people who are greatly overweight and i will say women are con constantly told they are beautiful. does this help a person? this is the most difficult thing to say. abraham lincoln couldn t say it in the geico commercial. in the human species the female looks are more than the male looks. other things are more pornts.
have everybody who s running for president in the republican party on their payroll in one way or another, and they re beginning to try to build the talking points that will be used against obama in 2012. it s almost as if those folks were brainwashed. they were coached on what to think and how to say it. as if they well, couldn t say it for themselves. yeah, well, if you watch fox news over and over again, you get exactly the words that they were saying. and that s so true. it is, it s a kind of brainwashing. i mean, can you imagine sitting there hour after hour, and listening and watching the hate and the anger and the lies, the out-and-out lies. this is a clip from your new film documentary where fox is attacking president obama for smoking. here it is. what do we really know about barack obama. his team works overtime trying to hide obama s dirty little secret, he is, get this, a cigarette smoker. he s a smoker. would you vote for a smoker as
unconstitutional, i think it s a pretty clear case that justice thomas should recuse himself from consideration of theç appl of the health care reform act. but couldn t this be a situation where justice thomas could have integrity and distance himself from the way his wife thinks, and make an unbiased ruling on this and one that is within the law? i mean, this is really an attack on him as much, isn t it? well, here s the situation, is that the recusal laws are all about the appearance that the court is on the level. you know, i can disagree with clarence thomas and i think he s gotten just about every case wrong while he s been on the bench. but this is the case of what the appearance is. and the health care case, everyone agrees it will wind up in the supreme court. there are legitimate points on either side. frankly, if the american people are going to have confidence in the supreme court to see that he failed to disclose on his filings that his spouse had earned this income,
run out. and the republicans will stand in the way and won t give them anything. now, i know that there s going to be folks out there saying, oh, this is socialism, this is communism. i don t give a damn what it is. what it is is saving the dignity of americans who have been stepped on like road kill by a right-wing party that has no compassion. it infuriates me when the republicans use a ploy to some political tool to blame president obama for not creating jobs. this is the vicious cycle of the political turn in washington. we, those of us out in the heartland, and that s where i spend a lot of my time when i m not in new york, believe that we can do great things. we can do high-speed rail. we don t have to accept the new normal. and we can do something that would parallel what happened with the automobileç industry. it s a transitional community works project. those people who have been unemployed for a long time could work through county commissioners. every county in america has a