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You'll go to any length to avoid the actual information, won't you?

TB — 3/8/2008 2:49:29 AM (archived)

This is Anthony Cordesman, who wrote the document I referenced. I don't give a shit who founded his organization forty years ago. By that stupid standard, the Democratic Party of the 50s and 60s "proves" they're racist now.

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"The three trillion dollar war." - Bowser - 3/4/2008 7:55:50 AM
- The last paradigm shift: "The victory won't be worth the money." - TB - 3/4/2008 5:18:21 PM
  - O come on. We've been giving you crud about the cost since... - alcaray - 3/5/2008 1:13:11 AM
    - re: O come on. We've been giving you crud about the cost since... - gbaikie - 3/5/2008 3:07:35 AM
  - Paradigm shifts suck, don't they? - ARRELL - 3/4/2008 10:29:47 PM
    - You're stuck too. - TB - 3/5/2008 12:34:18 AM
      - No, its about a lot more than the money, its about the cost... - ARRELL - 3/6/2008 2:42:16 AM
      - you didnt answer the question: 'was it worth it'? (n/t) - ARRELL - 3/5/2008 9:58:21 PM
        
        I don't know yet. Neither do you. - TB - 3/6/2008 4:07:41 PM
        
        Tom, is there ANY way it looks like it has been, or will be, worth many times the human and financial cost of 9-11 - ARRELL - 3/6/2008 11:39:21 PM
        
        Is that the benchmark we're going by? - TB - 3/7/2008 2:01:10 AM
        
        Its the benchmark we were given by Bush and Co. to justify this war- - ARRELL - 3/7/2008 6:14:53 PM
        
        re: costs - TB - 3/8/2008 1:22:28 AM
        
        If you don't know yet, 4+ years in, then why were you so gung-ho to do this? (n/t) - Yeti - 3/6/2008 4:19:09 PM
        
        re: 4+ years in - TB - 3/6/2008 5:36:12 PM
      - Policial Progress was not a goalpost shift. - Tony - 3/5/2008 6:16:32 PM
        
        re: goalpost shift. - TB - 3/5/2008 7:14:12 PM
        
        So how come you get a big list, but you think we are only entitled to one criticism that must never change. - alcaray - 3/5/2008 9:19:41 PM
        
        dont just take my word for it. - Tony - 3/5/2008 8:21:17 PM
        
        and down the internet memory hole it goes..... - Tony - 3/7/2008 6:14:21 PM
      - re: there's not one of them that isn't almost identical to something that could have been written a year ago. Maybe two. - Yeti - 3/5/2008 3:39:45 AM
        
        re: written a year ago - TB - 3/5/2008 3:56:15 AM
        
        re: 'Chicken Quibble' - Yeti - 3/6/2008 4:38:15 PM
        
        "So, how's that recession coming?" - TB - 3/7/2008 5:14:35 PM
        
        Tom, you are crazy. - Yeti - 3/7/2008 5:22:30 PM
        
        Oh, and PS.... how is that 'manufactured recession' Quibble coming along? - Yeti - 3/7/2008 6:30:42 PM
        
        "Worst jobs performance in five years." - TB - 3/8/2008 12:24:27 AM
        
        It'ssssss the MEDIA'S FAULT!! - Tony - 3/7/2008 6:41:58 PM
        
        Sorry, Tony... I get confused. I thought it was Clintons fault this week. (n/t) - Yeti - 3/7/2008 7:21:00 PM
        
        Whoops, my bad - Tony - 3/7/2008 8:53:52 PM
        
        And also recall- no matter what the issue - Yeti - 3/7/2008 10:39:30 PM
        
        re: 'Chicken Quibble' - TB - 3/6/2008 5:56:45 PM
  - Who said anything about victory? - Yeti - 3/4/2008 8:56:08 PM
    - Sorry, losing track of the goalposts again. - TB - 3/4/2008 9:53:07 PM
      - re:then stop moving them around every week. - Yeti - 3/4/2008 10:51:42 PM
      - Regime change, nukes, WMDs, democracy. Who is losing track? - Bowser - 3/4/2008 10:07:47 PM
  - Learn your history - Raoul - 3/4/2008 8:11:25 PM
    - WW II .........Last Proper WAR - carl - 3/5/2008 6:08:49 PM
      - Rope-a-dope - ER - 3/6/2008 3:36:07 AM
        
        re: Rope-a-dope - TB - 3/6/2008 4:13:37 PM
        
        Our tactical successes have yielded no strategic benefits. - ER - 3/10/2008 6:12:02 PM
        
        NEWSFLASH!!!NEWSFLASH!!!NEWSFLASH!!! - Yeti - 3/6/2008 5:21:13 PM
        
        Well, you certainly got the "nobody cares" right. - TB - 3/6/2008 6:05:26 PM
        
        I know who Cordesman is, as well I know what the CSIS is. - Yeti - 3/6/2008 6:28:16 PM
        
        re: I know who Cordesman is, as well I know what the CSIS is. - gbaikie - 3/7/2008 8:16:06 AM
        
        MAYBE, when trying to determine a group' s bias, you should look at more than their own site and a wikipedia entry they wrote... - ARRELL - 3/7/2008 8:28:34 PM
        
        time required to read gbaikie's worthless post: 10 seconds, search time to verify that csis Is a right wing think-tank: 1 minute 35 seconds, showing- yet again- that gbaikie is an unthinking politica… - ARRELL - 3/7/2008 7:48:09 PM
        
        Heh. - TB - 3/8/2008 1:20:23 AM
        
        Look at their history, TB, then tell me they are not 'right wing' - ARRELL - 3/8/2008 1:25:12 AM
        
        You'll go to any length to avoid the actual information, won't you? - TB - 3/8/2008 2:49:29 AM
        
        As will you, apparently (n/t) - ARRELL - 3/9/2008 3:02:21 PM
        
        Probability that gbaikie will admit his mistake and apologize: NIL (n/t) - ARRELL - 3/7/2008 8:03:49 PM
        
        re: Probability that gbaikie will admit his mistake and apologize: NIL - gbaikie - 3/8/2008 10:57:12 PM
        
        As I said: NIL (n/t) - ARRELL - 3/9/2008 3:01:21 PM
        
        Knights Who Say Ni, say Ni (n/t) - gbaikie - 3/10/2008 4:24:40 AM

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