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- "political opponents are targeted for arrest, and the government of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi "appears to be actively taking part
- Parallel universe - "Bush: Rumsfeld doing 'a really fine job'" No quagmire, I guess.
- Vote: Do you have confidence in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld?
- There's your problem. You're reading the papers.
- It is impossible to judge the success of our efforts in Iraq until AFTER the upcoming elections and the establishment of a functional democracy in Iraq. If that fails, we have failed. Otherwise, we h… (n/t)
- The "elections" mean squat. Nothing.
- Just like in Germany, Japan, and Afghanistan?
- God, would you PLEASE shut up or take your base insults and vulgarity over to flame! (n/t)
- "You are so fucking stupid. Ed" How so ed? (n/t)
- Study history, idiot. In fact, read the paper. Inspite of your cowardly lies, (n/t)
- Uh, let's have some substance, eb, something besides name-calling. (Right!!) (n/t)
- You obviously never studied it, but way back in the 1940's we had a World War. In that war the left was suppressed and the US won.
- You took careful,deliberate aim, and then shot yourself in the foot- (anyone surprised?)
- Yeah! the Evil Left that passed the New Deal, set up the TVA, the WPA, welfare and... dragged this country kicking and screaming into a war against the facists despite the pissing and moaning of righ…
- I thought the Republicans were more isolationist than the Dems pre-WWII? (n/t)
- Well, mostly suppressed. The USSR was there, and on our side. ;) (n/t)
- You obviously never studied it, but way back in the 1940's we had a World War. In that war the left was suppressed and the US won.
- Uh, let's have some substance, eb, something besides name-calling. (Right!!) (n/t)
- Study history, idiot. In fact, read the paper. Inspite of your cowardly lies, (n/t)
- Speak for yourself.
- Just like in Germany, Japan, and Afghanistan?
- You might not understand how much the Left has invested in failure in Iraq.
- Hmm. Still one of my better posts. Think I'll bookmark it. (n/t)
- I invest soley on a risk reward basis, I have nothing invested in Iraq, I am part of the left you reference... (n/t)
- Bowser is not interested in success or failure,
- Tom, it's YOU who gloat over others failures. The left is, as a rule, very, very sad.
- The "elections" mean squat. Nothing.
- Deconstruction of the nonsense Inaguration speach
- brilliant retort to Bush's gratuitous Inauguration speech...! (n/t)
- Some other comments
- "Deconstruction" is preposterous. Derrida is dead and so is his "philosophy", fortunately for those of us who think rationally. (n/t)
- Bravo! (n/t)
- Not bad. (n/t)
- R,L, Deconstructs Lincoln's second inaugural speech
- Thanks for sharing such shallow reactionary cynicism (n/t)
- "Army plans to keep 120,000 troops in Iraq through 2006" - kinda shoots the idea of "democracy" in the rear, doesn't it?
- Another poll from Iraq
- A DoD poll. Sorta like GWBs words, isn't it?
- Far More Accurate Than Your Opinions
- "BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United States is steadily losing ground to the Iraqi insurgency, according to every key military yardstick."
- Typical Duck & Run
- Went to DoD veracity, which WAS the point. Re-read my post.
- And My Point Was You Have No Veracity
- Went to DoD veracity, which WAS the point. Re-read my post.
- Typical Duck & Run
- "BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United States is steadily losing ground to the Iraqi insurgency, according to every key military yardstick."
- Far More Accurate Than Your Opinions
- From Greyhawk, overseas.
- But Wait!
- And another article on the elections
- A DoD poll. Sorta like GWBs words, isn't it?
- I find it interesting that NO ONE on the right has addressed this quote from Bush....
- Where do you think we are? (n/t)
- I'm more interested in how the words compare to deeds done in the last 4 years.
- OK
- American Justice: Pictures of an Iraqi arrested and executed
- And you buy that from that source, huh?
- That is what they do to THEIR prisoners. We are just playing the game by THEIR OWN RULES. Nothing could be more fair. (n/t)
- Played well to his base. The ROW is embarrassed for us, for him. (n/t)
- Perhaps you have never read this:
- Damn the conservative media bias!
- Manifest Destiny
- Manifest Destiny?.........How dare you!.....
- You Couldn't Help Drawing Bad Analogies?
- re: Manifest Destiny
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