Drug Free America

No one knows what the long-term effects of drinking tiny amounts of pharmaceuticals will have on the human body. According to a recent study that analyzed the drinking water in 28 out of 62 water suppliers, a sex hormone was detected in San Francisco's drinking water and antiepileptic and antianxiety medications were found in parts of southern California's water supply. The study also showed that if you live in Philadelphia, you're drinking tiny amounts of at least 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts "including medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness, and heart problems." I guess if you have chronic pain, an infection, high cholesterol, respiratory problems, or other ailments, this could be welcome news.

Or could it? And what if you don't have any of these illnesses and are a healthy human being? Why is marijuana so evil, even with its medicinal properties, yet every three minutes a commercial has me wondering if I need to go ask my doctor for a pill to cure blindness, baldness, asthma, erectile dysfunction, hearing loss, heartburn, sleep problems and a host of other issues; never mind the fast-speaking voice that says side effects may include dizziness, drowsiness, loss of appetite, temporary blindness, cramps, pain, and in some cases death. And now many of these drugs are ending up in our drinking water and "the federal government doesn’t require any testing and hasn’t set safety limits for drugs in water." Why are we ok with this?





There was coast-to-coast Republican uproar over Bill Clinton's infidelity while in the Oval Office. Never-ending calls for impeachment were shown on every news cast, written about in every paper, and continually spoke of inside Congress.

Yet, after nearly 4,000 soldiers and close to 900,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, and a host of reports and studies show outright lies and fabrications on the rationale the Bush Administration gave for the Iraq War, barely a blip of incredulity, disgust or outrage appears on the radar of the MSM or Congress.

A review of more than 600,000 documents captured during the United States' invasion of Iraq have shown absolutely no evidence of any connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. "The new study of the Iraqi regime's archives found no documents indicating a "direct operational link" between Hussein's Iraq and al Qaida before the invasion, according to a U.S. official familiar with the report." Warren Strobel of McClatchy Newspapers has the story here.

It is interesting to take a look back and see just exactly what members of the Bush Administration have said regarding their insistence of a link between Saddam and al-Qaeda. These quotes are all from the BBC here:

• "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al-Qaeda is because there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda." (17 June 2004 - President Bush)
• "There's overwhelming evidence... of a connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq". (January 2004 - Vice President Cheney)
• "Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda." (November 2002 - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld)

How much money, time, energy, and blathering was spent and wasted on an oral fixation that should have been much more important to his wife and daughter than an entire nation? And how much consideration is now given for our immoral actions in Iraq; something that not to be kept in the family but thrown open to the nation for discussion and analyzation?

Maybe most everyone listened to Bill O'Reilly back in February of 2003 when he said, "Once the war against Saddam Hussein begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if you can't do that, just shut up."