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Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?." Vanity asks the question, "Is it popular?." But, conscience asks the question, "Is it right?." And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.

I'm originally from Oklahoma, raised poor and have worked all of my life and feel that I am now lower middle class. I have lived in Tennessee, worked in a truck garden and planted, cut and sorted tobacco. I certainly don't make the money that they consider middle class. I'm now 60 years old and still make less than $30K a year, which I consider pretty good wages. I'm a life-long Democrat and proud to say I'm a liberal. I don't know if age means or experience means anything to you but I would like to share what I have learned:

That black man that works in your area has a mother and father, a wife and children and he loves them just like you love your family. He just wants to make a decent living for them just like you want to for your family. He loves his God just like you do. The only difference between the two of you is the fact that he is black and you are white. He's not out to steal your job and you don't have to be afraid of him.

The person who is trying to drive the wedge between you and made sure you two are at odds all the time is that man you work for who wants both of you to work for as little as he can give you so that he can make more money for himself. You don't live in an upscale neighborhood, in an expensive home and drive an expensive car, do you? Neither does that black man working down the shop floor from you. The man who owns the corporation or company you work for does and he's able to do that on the sweat and labor of both of you. He doesn't care about you or your family but if you and that black man you work with were both in the service and he was standing behind you ready to defend your life with his own, it wouldn't make any difference what color he was, would it?

No one wants to take your guns away. No one wants to take away your right to hunt or protect yourselves. It would just be appreciated if our schools were not a war zone, if our innocent babies were not killed by the careless guns left around the house to be used by a another innocent baby who has no idea what he is doing and I just don't see why a hunter would need an oozie to shoot a deer. I've been deer hunting also rabbit hunting, squirrel hunting, coon hunting and frog giggin'. I wouldn't have taken a shot gun to go frog giggin' but I found a shot gun certainly sufficient to kill a deer, rabbit and squirrel.

I believe gays and lesbians have rights as human beings. I do not believe because of their sexual orientation they should be condemned to a loveless companionless life nor be ridiculed or be considered less than human. I am not gay but I certainly wouldn't want to live my life alone and without someone to love and love me in return. I wouldn't want anyone else to either, no matter what their sexual orientation. It doesn't rub off, really. They should be able to serve in the military, work and exist without shame or harassment just as any other law abiding citizen in the United States is allowed to do. Again, if that gay man and you were both in the service and he was standing behind you ready to defend your life with his own, it wouldn't make any difference what his sexual orientation was, would it?

I truly believe that “all men are created equal” and all should have a right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” ALL!!!

Why would you condemn your children or grandchildren to a life of struggle, strife and poverty just because you think we Democrats are Godless heathens, that the black man is trying to steal your jobs, the Democrats are trying to take their guns away and that God belongs to the Republicans when none of that is true at all. The Republicans don't care any more about you than they do about that black man. They want you to be poor and struggle because that way you will work for them for any kind of wages and be happy to do so. They are not going to help you out of the abyss of poverty.

You think George W. Bush is like you, he's not. He owns a huge ranch in Crawford, Texas, but he didn't struggle for it nor did he earn it nor does he work it. He got his money from doing the same thing with his stock that they are trying Martha Stewart for right now. He's a privileged man whose father is rich, very rich. He's rich, very rich. His Corporate friends are rich, very rich. You, on the other hand, are not rich and never will be as long as you depend on the Republican's to give you a hand up. They won't now, never will and never have.

It was a Democrat that gave us Social Security and the WPA and helped the common man when he needed help. It is the Democrats that try to raise the minimum wage, try to provide health care for everyone, try to keep your Medicare benefits and Social Security in tact, not the Republicans.

I'm a life-long Democrat and proud of it. I care, we all do. We want you to be whatever you can be. We don't want to hold you down or keep you down. We want to lift you up so you can be everything you can be. We want to help you educate your children with a good education so that they can have good paying jobs. We want you to work your family farms and be able to make a decent living on them. We want you and your family to have health care so you don't have to worry when one of your children gets sick or when you get sick. We want your parents to be able to buy their medicine and pay their bills and not have to choose between one or the other. We want you to be able to live in a decent home and drive a decent car. We want you and your children to be able to live in a country where the air is fresh, the water is clean and the skies are blue. We want this for ALL Americans...All Americans, not just the privileged or the ones born to money. I want all of this for you and for me and for the black man and the gay man and the red man and the Jewish man, and the Islamic man and even the man who doesn't believe in anything.

That's what I've learned in my 60 years. Think about it!!

Sharon H.

Wes Clark - She was just following orders

Howard Dean - She wanted to take her country back

John Edwards - She was optimistic about crossing over (where she was meeting up with her dad, a former millworker)

John Kerry - Because the real deal was on the other side

Dennis Kucinich - To get the US troops out and the UN troops in

Joe Lieberman - Because the other side was more conservative

Al Sharpton - To stand up for fundamental chicken rights

Dick Gephardt - Because she was a miserable failure

Bob Graham - To find Osama bin Forgotten

Carol Moseley-Braun - To take the "Roosters Only" sign off of the other side

232: Number of American combat deaths in Iraq between May 2003 and January 2004

501: Number of American servicemen to die in Iraq from the beginning of the war - so far

0: Number of American combat deaths in Germany after the Nazi surrender to the Allies in May 1945

0: Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home from Iraq that the Bush administration has allowed to be photographed

0: Number of funerals or memorials that President Bush has attended for soldiers killed in Iraq

100: Number of fund-raisers attended by Bush or Vice-President Dick Cheney in 2003

13: Number of meetings between Bush and Tony Blair since he became President

10 million: Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the streets in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, setting an all-time record for simultaneous protest

2: Number of nations that Bush has attacked and taken over since coming into the White House

9.2: Average number of American soldiers wounded in Iraq each day since the invasion in March last year

1.6: Average number of American soldiers killed in Iraq per day since hostilities began

16,000: Approximate number of Iraqis killed since the start of war

10,000: Approximate number of Iraqi civilians killed since the beginning of the conflict

$100 billion: Estimated cost of the war in Iraq to American citizens by the end of 2003

$13 billion: Amount other countries have committed towards rebuilding Iraq (much of it in loans) as of 24 October

36%: Increase in the number of desertions from the US army since 1999

92%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that had access to drinkable water a year ago

60%: Percentage of Iraq's urban areas that have access to drinkable water today

32%: Percentage of the bombs dropped on Iraq this year that were not precision-guided

1983: The year in which Donald Rumsfeld gave Saddam Hussein a pair of golden spurs

45%: Percentage of Americans who believed in early March 2003 that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks on the US

$127 billion: Amount of US budget surplus in the year that Bush became President in 2001

$374 billion: Amount of US budget deficit in the fiscal year for 2003

1st: This year's deficit is on course to be the biggest in United States history

$1.58 billion: Average amount by which the US national debt increases each day

$23,920: Amount of each US citizen's share of the national debt as of 19 January 2004

1st: The record for the most bankruptcies filed in a single year (1.57 million) was set in 2002

10: Number of solo press conferences that Bush has held since beginning his term. His father had managed 61 at this point in his administration, and Bill Clinton 33

1st: Rank of the US worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per capita

$113 million: Total sum raised by the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign, setting a record in American electoral history

$130 million: Amount raised for Bush's re-election campaign so far

$200m: Amount that the Bush-Cheney campaign is expected to raise in 2004

$40m: Amount that Howard Dean, the top fund-raiser among the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls, amassed in 2003

28: Number of days holiday that Bush took last August, the second longest holiday of any president in US history (Recordholder: Richard Nixon)

13: Number of vacation days the average American worker receives each year

3: Number of children convicted of capital offences executed in the US in 2002. America is only country openly to acknowledge executing children

1st: As Governor of Texas, George Bush executed more prisoners (152) than any governor in modern US history

2.4 million: Number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the three years of the Bush administration

221,000: Number of jobs per month created since Bush's tax cuts took effect. He promised the measure would add 306,000

1,000: Number of new jobs created in the entire country in December. Analysts had expected a gain of 130,000

1st: This administration is on its way to becoming the first since 1929 (Herbert Hoover) to preside over an overall loss of jobs during its complete term in office

9 million: Number of US workers unemployed in September 2003

80%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce now unemployed

55%: Percentage of the Iraqi workforce unemployed before the war

43.6 million: Number of Americans without health insurance in 2002

130: Number of countries (out of total of 191 recognised by the United Nations) with an American military presence

40%: Percentage of the world's military spending for which the US is responsible

$10.9 million: Average wealth of the members of Bush's original 16-person cabinet

88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less than $100 on their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and dividends taxes

$42,000: Average savings members of Bush's cabinet are expected to enjoy this year as a result in the cuts in capital gains and dividends taxes

$42,228: Median household income in the US in 2001

$116,000: Amount Vice-President Cheney is expected to save each year in taxes

44%: Percentage of Americans who believe the President's economic growth plan will mostly benefit the wealthy

700: Number of people from around the world the US has incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

1st: George W Bush became the first American president to ignore the Geneva Conventions by refusing to allow inspectors access to US-held prisoners of war

+6%: Percentage change since 2001 in the number of US families in poverty

1951: Last year in which a quarterly rise in US military spending was greater than the one the previous spring

54%: Percentage of US citizens who believe Bush was legitimately elected to his post

1st: First president to execute a federal prisoner in the past 40 years. Executions are typically ordered by separate states and not at federal level

9: Number of members of Bush's defence policy board who also sit on the corporate board of, or advise, at least one defence contractor

35: Number of countries to which US has suspended military assistance after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans immunity from prosecution before the International Criminal Court

$300 million: Amount cut from the federal programme that provides subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes

$1 billion: Amount of new US military aid promised Israel in April 2003 to offset the "burdens" of the US war on Iraq

58 million: Number of acres of public lands Bush has opened to road building, logging and drilling

200: Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush has attempted to downgrade or weaken

29,000: Number of American troops - which is close to the total of a whole army division - to have either been killed, wounded, injured or become so ill as to require evacuation from Iraq, according to the Pentagon

90%: Percentage of American citizens who said they approved of the way George Bush was handling his job as president when asked on 26 September, 2001

53%: Percentage of American citizens who approved of the way Bush was handling his job as president when asked on 16 January, 2004

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons

of mass destruction." -- Dick Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002

"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used

for the production of biological weapons." -- George W. Bush, Sept. 12,

2002

"The Iraqi regime possesses and produces chemical and biological

weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons." -- Bush Oct. 7, 2002.

"We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing

fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that would be used to

disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We're

concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using the UAVs for missions

targeting the United States." -- Bush, Oct. 7, 2002

"The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons

program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear

scientists, a group he calls his 'nuclear mujahideen' -- his nuclear

holy warriors. Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding

facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the

past." -- Bush, Oct. 7, 2002

"We know for a fact there are weapons there." -- Ari Fleischer, Jan. 9,

2003

"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the

materials to produce as much as 500 tons of Sarin, mustard and VX nerve

agent." -- Bush, Jan. 28, 2003

"We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass

destruction, is determined to make more." -- Colin Powell, Feb. 5, 2003

"We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized

Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the

dictator tells us he does not have." -- Bush, Feb. 8, 2003

"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt

that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most

lethal weapons ever devised." -- Bush, March 17, 2003

"Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that

Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical

particularly." -- Fleischer, March 21, 2003.

"There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons

of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be

identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who

guard them." -- Gen. Tommy Franks, March 22, 2003.

"I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass

destruction." -- Kenneth Adelman, Defense Policy Board, March 23, 2003

"We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and

Baghdad." -- Donald Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003

"We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so." -- Bush, May 3,

2003.

"I never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass

destruction in that country." -- Rumsfeld, May 4, 2003.

"U.S. officials never expected that we were going to open garages and

find weapons of mass destruction." -- Condoleezza Rice, May 12, 2003

"They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer."

-- Rumsfeld, May 27, 2003

"We based our decisions on good, sound intelligence, and the -- our

people are going to find out the truth. And the truth will say that

this intelligence was good intelligence. There's no doubt in my mind."

-- Bush, July 17, 2003