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The "elections" mean squat. Nothing.
Just like in Germany, Japan, and Afghanistan?
ebnelson
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12/21/2004 2:37:44 AM
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You are so fucking stupid.
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Parallel universe - "Bush: Rumsfeld doing 'a really fine job'" No quagmire, I guess.
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Bowser
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12/20/2004 9:55:48 PM
Vote: Do you have confidence in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld?
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Eric
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12/21/2004 12:45:49 AM
MSNBC Poll
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Eric
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12/21/2004 12:50:13 AM
re: MSNBC Poll
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Ruth Samuels
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1/25/2005 6:32:35 PM
Online polls are crap.
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Tom Brosz
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12/21/2004 6:13:39 AM
There's your problem. You're reading the papers.
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Tom Brosz
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12/20/2004 10:51:39 PM
Yeah, the fact can be a real downer!
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Davin L.
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12/21/2004 2:42:58 AM
You compared the reliability of the two lately?
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Tom Brosz
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12/21/2004 3:48:31 AM
er, facts
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Davin L.
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12/21/2004 2:57:15 AM
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…
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David F Mayer
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12/20/2004 10:03:10 PM
The "elections" mean squat. Nothing.
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Bowser
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12/21/2004 12:20:50 AM
Just like in Germany, Japan, and Afghanistan?
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ebnelson
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12/21/2004 2:37:44 AM
God, would you PLEASE shut up or take your base insults and vulgarity over to flame!
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Davin L.
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12/21/2004 6:37:53 PM
"You are so fucking stupid. Ed" How so ed?
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Bowser
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12/21/2004 4:11:27 AM
Study history, idiot. In fact, read the paper. Inspite of your cowardly lies,
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ebnelson
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12/21/2004 2:10:30 PM
Uh, let's have some substance, eb, something besides name-calling. (Right!!)
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Bowser
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12/21/2004 3:51:49 PM
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.
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ebnelson
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12/21/2004 4:53:12 PM
You took careful,deliberate aim, and then shot yourself in the foot- (anyone surprised?)
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R.L.
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12/22/2004 6:31:03 AM
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…
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Davin L.
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12/21/2004 8:22:36 PM
I thought the Republicans were more isolationist than the Dems pre-WWII?
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alcaray
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12/21/2004 7:19:46 PM
But unlike the democrats of today, once the war started, the Republicans united behind the war effort.
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ebnelson
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12/21/2004 7:31:53 PM
Unlike the war of today, we were the ones attacked----not the attacker
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Publius
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12/22/2004 12:52:36 AM
Yeah, but according to the neocons, it was only a matter of time
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alcaray
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12/22/2004 4:37:05 PM
Well, mostly suppressed. The USSR was there, and on our side. ;)
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Tom Brosz
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12/21/2004 6:53:25 PM
The domestic anti-war left was squelched. That is what I was referring to.
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ebnelson
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12/21/2004 7:30:35 PM
As was the domestic anti-war right.
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Tony
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12/21/2004 7:33:46 PM
Speak for yourself.
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Tom Brosz
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12/21/2004 1:58:31 AM
One Iraqi, paid by Allah-knows-who, makes your point to your satisfaction.
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Bowser
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12/21/2004 4:14:22 AM
It was a taxi driver. Probably paid by the reporter taking the ride.
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Tom Brosz
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12/21/2004 5:26:58 AM
You might not understand how much the Left has invested in failure in Iraq.
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Tom Brosz
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12/20/2004 11:02:04 PM
Hmm. Still one of my better posts. Think I'll bookmark it.
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Tom Brosz
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1/26/2005 4:41:45 AM
I invest soley on a risk reward basis, I have nothing invested in Iraq, I am part of the left you reference...
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Publius
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12/21/2004 1:52:43 PM
Bowser is not interested in success or failure,
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ebnelson
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12/21/2004 2:38:49 AM
Tom, it's YOU who gloat over others failures. The left is, as a rule, very, very sad.
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Bowser
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12/21/2004 12:23:46 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.