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Interesting.

TB — 5/16/2009 8:32:16 PM (archived)

When Bush went into Iraq and Afghanistan, his opponents cited historical precendents constantly.

If any of them said "well, maybe this time an approach that failed before will work," I must have missed it.

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Test driving government health care - TB - 5/14/2009 4:34:07 AM
- We've driven the current system into a ditch for most Americans (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 5/15/2009 9:04:13 PM
  - "Most?" - TB - 5/15/2009 11:52:06 PM
- What's going to change? - RobVG - 5/15/2009 1:18:34 AM
  - I have no problem at all with such things. - TB - 5/15/2009 3:40:39 AM
    - Let a hundred flowers bloom. - ER - 5/15/2009 10:15:22 AM
      - re: Let a hundred flowers bloom. - TB - 5/15/2009 5:00:48 PM
        
        Again, you prove yourself impervious to irony. - ER - 5/15/2009 5:47:59 PM
        
        Irony... - TB - 5/15/2009 6:30:26 PM
        
        Well hell, I could have told you that. - ER - 5/15/2009 7:19:43 PM
        
        P.S. - TB - 5/15/2009 5:26:02 PM
        
        Tell me about it. - ER - 5/15/2009 6:16:10 PM
      - re: Let a hundred flowers bloom. - Jody - 5/15/2009 3:48:22 PM
        
        Read my post below, "A century ago in Ybor City" - ER - 5/15/2009 6:48:34 PM
    - Whoops. That post should have gone under ER's "Ybor City" post. Sorry. (n/t) - TB - 5/15/2009 3:41:35 AM
- A Century ago, in Ybor City - ER - 5/15/2009 1:09:28 AM
- "...before we put everybody in the country in the program" - Buck Galaxy - 5/14/2009 6:10:06 AM
  - Here's the Finance Committee presentation - TB - 5/15/2009 12:44:16 AM
  - Did you READ it? - TB - 5/14/2009 4:51:28 PM
    - Since you love to just throw a link into a post, here's back at ya... - azstrummer - 5/14/2009 6:13:26 PM
      - Great stuff. Send us Part I. - ER - 5/14/2009 6:55:27 PM
        
        Non-profit medical - TB - 5/14/2009 11:00:00 PM
        
        More - TB - 5/14/2009 11:02:35 PM
        
        Very interesting. - ER - 5/14/2009 11:56:00 PM
        
        re: Very interesting. - TB - 5/15/2009 12:18:52 AM
        
        A century ago, in Ybor City - ER - 5/15/2009 1:00:30 AM
        
        I printed this out...get back to you... Thanks! (n/t) - Jody feeding the maternal unit - 5/15/2009 8:55:27 PM
        
        You should have been a History teacher...small digression.. - Jody - 5/16/2009 12:40:51 AM
        
        No way! - ER - 5/16/2009 12:42:04 PM
        
        And THAT... - Jody - 5/16/2009 6:31:25 PM
        
        Get a load of this, - ER - 5/16/2009 8:58:59 PM
        
        I had you pegged wrong! - Jody - 5/16/2009 11:18:21 PM
        
        Thanks for the vote of confidence. - ER - 5/16/2009 11:42:53 PM
        
        Play - Jody - 5/17/2009 12:33:29 AM
        
        This point in time - ER - 5/17/2009 1:51:07 AM
        
        That was great ER... - Jody - 5/17/2009 3:02:43 AM
        
        History - TB - 5/16/2009 4:46:33 PM
        
        Some examples from military history - ER - 5/16/2009 8:18:03 PM
        
        Interesting. - TB - 5/16/2009 8:32:16 PM
        
        Interesting indeed. - ER - 5/16/2009 9:22:19 PM
        
        re: indeed. - TB - 5/16/2009 10:54:09 PM
        
        FDR? Deficit spending? Gold Standard? - ER - 5/16/2009 11:14:12 PM
        
        No offense, but you guys are rather dense. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/14/2009 8:41:07 PM
        
        The human body hasn't change much in the past 150,000 years. - RobVG - 5/15/2009 1:51:17 AM
        
        Profit makes quality - azstrummer - 5/14/2009 8:48:13 PM
        
        Yes. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/14/2009 9:05:07 PM
        
        All Conservatives need to justify the status-quo is "high profit". - Bowser - 5/14/2009 8:06:02 PM
    - and leave us with what? - azstrummer - 5/14/2009 6:11:49 PM
      - Huge? - TB - 5/14/2009 10:55:34 PM
        
        Yep your solutions were just so obvious - azstrummer - 5/14/2009 11:52:48 PM
      - Set it at the states doors. - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/14/2009 8:13:34 PM
        
        Techie, I don't care at what level of govt it exists - azstrummer - 5/14/2009 8:30:40 PM
        
        "Contracts with twice the idiocy............" - Lindy - 5/17/2009 5:51:14 PM
        
        re: "Contracts with twice the idiocy............" - TB - 5/17/2009 8:28:04 PM
        
        "You are being told....." - azstrummer - 5/18/2009 3:22:31 PM
        
        re: waste of resources - TB - 5/18/2009 3:47:16 PM
        
        I'm all for "fixing" Medicare - azstrummer - 5/18/2009 8:24:14 PM
        
        re: I'm all for "fixing" Medicare - TB - 5/18/2009 9:49:43 PM
        
        re: Techie, I don't care at what level of govt it exists - SDAI-Tech1 - 5/14/2009 8:52:03 PM
  - "Are you ever going to put your strawman arguments to rest? " - Bowser - 5/14/2009 4:32:19 PM
    - Was that a serious question to him? (n/t) - azstrummer - 5/14/2009 11:50:40 PM

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