If immigration is a big issue for the people of America (The preznit just signed the 'big fence' legislation.), why did the administration only issue 3 fines for employers hiring illegal immigrants in 2005? In contrast Bill Clinton's hated administration issued 417 fines in 1999. Obviously, this administration has told the people who enforce the laws on immigration to back off. Why have they done that? I don't know the answer, but the possible answers that pop into my head are all about corruption, graft, bribery, and such. The least offensive thing I can think of is that they are incompetent.

[I got my stats from Vox Verax].

If America can weather the storm of events that surround us today and go on as a respected nation in history, how will we deal with fact 650,000 Iraqis, mostly civilians, have been killed during the war we started. This number has been researched. It is not a shot in the dark. Just months ago the President of the United States reported to the country that approximately 30,000 Iraqis had died during the conflict. (I wonder if he is that misinformed or if he can lie to us in such and exponential manner. One thing or the other is true, or, the scientists who did the study are lying. That's what the electorate must sort out). We are responsible for this conflict. We started it. And because we are a democracy, the blood is on all our hands. Yes mine too.

I was thinking about this number of deaths and so I looked up the American Civil War casualties. There apparantly were about 620,000 soldier deaths in that conflict--the largest number of soldier deaths in any American War. Our administration tells us there is no civil war in Iraq. It takes a lot of death to make a civil war in someone else's country.