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Dr. Winston O'Boogie
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Username: Casey
Post Number: 894
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 9:23 pm: | 
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Seriously. Do you now get a medal for incompetence?
I really can't think of a single reason why this guy deserves anything. |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 4191
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 10:33 pm: |
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Well, aren't you being a little unfair to Mr. Tenet?
After all, did he screw up more than General Franks, who told the President that he could declare "Mission Accomplished" a year and a half ago? Or more than Paul Bremer, who took charge in Iraq and thought it would be a terrific idea to disband the whole existing army, and let those guys loose to join the insurgents?
It does make one shake one's head in disbelief, I grant you that. |
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen
Username: Casey
Post Number: 895
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 10:39 pm: |
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I guess I figured if not for Tenet's "slam dunk," Franks and Bremer never would have gone to Iraq. In my mind that makes him more culpable.
I agree the other guys are at least as incompetent, but Bremer and Franks at least showed some courage by going to Iraq. Tenet never had to leave the safety of Washington to earn his award. |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 4192
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 10:40 pm: |
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Sheesh, I hate it when the guy who disagrees with me makes sense. |
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen
Username: Casey
Post Number: 896
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 10:48 pm: |
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although we're in total agreement with the "shake one's head in disbelief part."
It's times like this when I feel like we've really gone through the looking glass and entered a parallel universe. In our former reality (pre-Bush), these guys would have had to retire in disgrace. BUT NOOOOO! Not in today's reality. Now these guys actually get the NATION'S HIGHEST CIVILIAN HONOR!
It's now time for The Onion to go out of business, because they can't top this story with parody. It's completely parody-proof. |
Mark Fuhrman
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 974
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 8:43 am: |
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Following a great tradition--think of the chestful of hardware the Soviet commisars used to sprout. Goes hand-in-hand with the Bush approach to reality--if you say something over and over, people will start to believe you, no matter how wrong you are. And it seems to work. War is Peace. Incompetence is bravery. |
notehead
Citizen
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 1804
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 2:08 pm: |
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Maybe this is Bush's way of saying "okay, now just don't write a tell-all book about me." |
Chris Prenovost
Citizen
Username: Chris_prenovost
Post Number: 148
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 2:31 pm: |
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This has to be a first. . . I am in complete agreement with everything that has been said on this thread. And I'm a republican. |
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen
Username: Casey
Post Number: 897
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 2:54 pm: |
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In honor of the holiday season, I wanted to start a thread that would bring together all people, regardless of their political philosophies.
So this is Christmas...
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Mark Fuhrman
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 983
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 2:55 pm: |
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Not a Repub or Demo issue. Like Monica's liquid protein diet, when it is wrong you got to call it that way, regardless of partisan feelings. You can still support W while saying his administration •••••• up Iraq completely, even if you agree with his original decision to invade.
(please note I do not mean to imply that Monicagate was anywhere near the problem that Iraq is. As the bumper stickers say, when Clinton lied at least no one died). |
Mustt_mustt
Citizen
Username: Mustt_mustt
Post Number: 161
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 4:45 pm: |
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Men who oversaw the death of thousands of civilians and soldiers are getting the Presidential medals for Freedom???
Way to go America! |
notehead
Citizen
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 1806
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 9:52 am: |
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Chris Prenovost
Citizen
Username: Chris_prenovost
Post Number: 149
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 10:10 am: |
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Yasser Arafat got a Nobel peace prize.
Tenet and Bremer get the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Sounds like both awards have been made worthless by the politicians who hand them out.
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Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 595
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 10:17 am: |
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