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