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     Hoops Citizen Username: Hoops Post Number: 1967 Registered: 10-2004  |
Cherry picking the intelligence around the policy again? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/23/AR2006082301309. html | ||
| Factvsfiction Citizen Username: Factvsfiction Post Number: 1499 Registered: 4-2006 |
"Peace in our time" - Neville Hoops | ||
| Innisowen Citizen Username: Innisowen Post Number: 2289 Registered: 3-2004 |
Lies, misrepresentations, falsehoods, in 2003 - Bush 43 | ||
| Nohero Supporter Username: Nohero Post Number: 5762 Registered: 10-1999  |
I've seen this movie before, back in 2003. *Spoiler alert* It ends badly. | ||
| Innisowen Citizen Username: Innisowen Post Number: 2293 Registered: 3-2004 |
On the other hand, perhaps those 2500 US Marines being recalled to active duty this month will be used to teach those Iranians a thing or two (just as successfully as we've done in Afghanistan and Iraq). | ||
| bettyd Citizen Username: Badjtdso Post Number: 280 Registered: 12-2005 |
Don't these Republican staffers and Congressmen realize we are bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq after four years of fighting? Don't they realize how strained our military is? We've been exposed. The countries of the Middle East and the world that we consider the Axis of Evil or our potential enemies don't tremble when the U.S. threatens. See Iran. Are the staffers and the children of U.S. Congressmen going to grab a rifle and head over? Definitely not. I'm so tired of the WWII analogies too. See "Neville Hoops" above. If the Bush Administration and neo-cons equate this war on terror with WWII, and if we are facing a similar enemy and struggle, then act like it. If we are, as we are continuously told, in a life and death struggle with the avowed enemies of democracy and our way of life, then get on the march. Convince all our allies we need a Marshall type plan for the Middle East. Roll slowly through Iraq and Afghanistan from south to north, securing each area and city before we head further north, rebuilding as we go the homes, apartment buildings, schools, universities, hospitals, water and sewage treatment plants, electrical plants, roads and infrastructure, etc. Re-institute the draft, roll back the tax cuts, increase taxes so we can pay for it, ration gas and other staples, get rid of Haliburton and the other private contractors gouging us and not producing results. Since 9/11 we've been told of this titanic struggle but few have been asked to sacrifice. I believe on 9/12/01 we were told to continue shopping and going to Disney. I heard on the radio the other day that the U.S. had over 11,000,000 soldiers in Europe at the end of WWII! That's not including soldiers from other countries. If this is a similar struggle, then why do we have 130,000 soldiers in a country the size of Iraq? Such a program would take twenty years and many here would have to give up the high life. If this stuggle is as they say it is, then act like it. Otherwise, stop the WWII comparisons and just "stay the course." | ||
| Factvsfiction Citizen Username: Factvsfiction Post Number: 1503 Registered: 4-2006 |
I would think you have already been fooled. By Howard Dean. | ||
| Innisowen Citizen Username: Innisowen Post Number: 2303 Registered: 3-2004 |
And we were all fooled by 43, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and poor Condi Rice, not to mention Colin Powell, who sullied his reputation and political career by shamefully parroting the admin line in the UN. The one difference today is that the admin is fooling only itself. Hard for the neocons to swallow but true nonetheless. Fiction: this is for you. The administration never learned an old proverb: Rattus uni non fidit antro | ||
| tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 5631 Registered: 5-2001 |
It's sad how the cons can't defend any of these policies on their merits, and have to resort to lashing out with snide (and weak) comments about their usual suspects. If it's not Howard Dean, it's almost certainly Bill Clinton. Or Hillary, or especially Ted Kennedy. Talking to themselves in the mirror, they throw whatever red meat it takes to distract from the total error of the con position. | ||
| Factvsfiction Citizen Username: Factvsfiction Post Number: 1511 Registered: 4-2006 |
tom- Some people are like the isolationists in the US in the '30s. We will pay a higher and greater price in American lives because of their obtuseness, IMHO. We cannot negotiate with, satisfy, or convince the Iranians to see things from a western, secular, and humanistic point of view. The people who suggest accomodation and bending over backwards now will be totally discredited and viewed as marginal five years from now. Frankly, I see some posts here on MOL as both sad and delusional. | ||
| Foj Citizen Username: Foger Post Number: 1731 Registered: 9-2004 |
Fact - did ya hear the Richard Mellon Scaife beat up his wife? Anybody know if that was his second or third wife? While Soros probably engages in the ritual sacrifice of animals to the Devil. | ||
| Factvsfiction Citizen Username: Factvsfiction Post Number: 1517 Registered: 4-2006 |
Foj- On the latter, do you think that might give Bob Menendez an edge over Kean Jr. in the fall? |
