Thanks to Bizzywomen.com for this guest post:

As a woman that tries to be sensitive to the needs and feelings of others, I supported President Barack Obama’s run for the presidency. I felt that he really understood the feeling of women and that he connected with me personally, and we really needed the change that he offered. Now I am rethinking that position.

I am no lover of Rush Limbaugh, but I do respect his right to practice free speech, and even though I don’t agree with 90% of what he says, i certainly wish him no harm nor think that he is a traitor or a terrorist. This weekends white House Corresspondents dinner, was the stage for comidienne Wanda Sykes unleashing a barage against Mr. Limbaugh, in what i would term terrible distatse, and President Obama laughing hysterically at the jokes.

According to the

One way for the US economy to escape its doldrums will be for the country to expand its exports. Everyone’s great American hero, President Ronald Reagan, knew that.

Declassified US government documents show that in the 1980s while Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was involved in the genocide against his country’s Kurdish population (using poison gas), the US opposed punishing Iraq with a trade embargo.

The reason was simple. It was cultivating Iraq as an ally against Iran and as a market for US farm exports.

According to the documents, the Reagan administration “got carried away with their own propaganda. They began to believe that Saddam Hussein could be a reliable partner.”

Kinda makes you wonder if Osama bin Laden were to come out of hiding and start his own country if the US wouldn’t try to, once again, be his friend… make him a trading partner.

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