pie, I'm afraid to look too.
mer |
12.01.06 - 2:59 pm | #
It's a 90 year old woman, y'all. Safe to look.
Dave J. |
12.01.06 - 3:00 pm | #
When I saw the top of the head, I figured it was Clinton. Imagine my surprise when I scrolled down and saw someone's grandmother.
pie |
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12.01.06 - 3:00 pm | #
I'll bet that little old lady has Islamofascist cats.
Future Schlock |
12.01.06 - 3:02 pm | #
And the General has the video of that little girl. If you haven't seen it, please watch.
pie |
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12.01.06 - 3:02 pm | #
Damn it. I know her. She lost Vietnam too.
Falstaff |
12.01.06 - 3:02 pm | #
we fought Iraq
and Iraq won...
we fought Iraq
and Iraq won...
Kondracke-"President Bush bet his presidency — and America’s world leadership — on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew."
Yes, it's all our fault Little Boots is clueless. He got everything he asked for, every special appropriation, and he is the C-in-C, so naturally, since it's failed so horribly, it's not his fault!
The nerve of these enabling pundits still makes my head spin.
TheOtherWA |
12.01.06 - 3:04 pm | #
My God, that meth ruined NTodd's once ruggedly handsome looks!
spinoza |
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12.01.06 - 3:05 pm | #
Iraq was fundamentally unwinnable from the outset, because the goals the neocons set were unattainable.
Falstaff |
12.01.06 - 3:05 pm | #
That lady would kick the 910 Group's collective ass.
Marwood |
12.01.06 - 3:05 pm | #
Yeah, who lost Iraq?
I've been looking for it everywhere.
Sinfonian |
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12.01.06 - 3:05 pm | #
And the General has the video of that little girl. If you haven't seen it, please watch.
Fine. But I had it before he did.
watertiger |
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12.01.06 - 3:05 pm | #
Damn you Myrtle. I knew it was you. Time to go Gitmo on your liver spot stained ass.
trifecta |
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12.01.06 - 3:06 pm | #
Damn it. I know her. She lost Vietnam too.
You're right! I didn't recognize her without the flowers in her hair and bellbottoms.
pie |
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12.01.06 - 3:06 pm | #
TheOtherWA --
Let me join you in spittle-flecked outrage.
The SCOTUS, the Senate, the House, the American people, all rolled over for this clueless fascist fuckhead for 5 FUCKING YEARS. He could have accomplished ANYTHING his widdle heart desired.
But accomplishment of any kind is beyond him. All he's capable of is wanton destruction.
Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew.
First time I read that, I read it as "he bit off more than he could chew." I might have been able to see that, a little bit.
The actual statement is far more telling. Kondracke is a wanker extraordinaire.
Sinfonian |
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12.01.06 - 3:07 pm | #
Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew.
First time I read that, I read it as "he bit off more than he could chew." I might have been able to see that, a little bit.
The actual statement is far more telling. Kondracke is a wanker extraordinaire.
Sinfonian |
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12.01.06 - 3:07 pm | #
Fine. But I had it before he did.
There, there. I watched it at your place.
pie |
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12.01.06 - 3:07 pm | #
Nope. I'm pretty sure it was anyone who thought the Ottoman Empire was on the verge of conquering Europe in 1683.
Snow, Ordinary Thinker |
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12.01.06 - 3:07 pm | #
The general's right, you just can't trust old people. Colbert has put you on notice, Myrtle!
TheOtherWA |
12.01.06 - 3:07 pm | #
There, there. I watched it at your place.
Heh.
I sound like NTodd.
watertiger |
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12.01.06 - 3:07 pm | #
At least she's not naked this time...
blerb |
12.01.06 - 3:08 pm | #
Hey, I'm in Arizona. Not only did I stab our military in the back but I helped destroy the American Family! Woo Hoo!
nyclept |
12.01.06 - 3:08 pm | #
I'm pretty sure she had something to do with Korea, too, and I'm damn certain that she "lost China."
The original feminazi.
hueyplong |
12.01.06 - 3:08 pm | #
I sound like NTodd.
No one whines quite like NTodd.
pie |
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12.01.06 - 3:08 pm | #
I KNEW it was Myrtle.
Pesky citizens!
Raoul Paste |
12.01.06 - 3:08 pm | #
I think she was my Sunday School teacher. I feel so dirty.
bill, tinsel slayer |
12.01.06 - 3:08 pm | #
When are we going to dispatch the Iraq Study with a not-so-fond pat on the head and swat on the rearto the netherworld to where it belongs?
Nancy Willing |
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12.01.06 - 3:09 pm | #
I sound like NTodd.
watertiger
Are you wearing pants?
Holden Caulfield |
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12.01.06 - 3:09 pm | #
NTodd, if you aren't using it, could you return my syncopation please?
ErinPDX, they took my dots |
12.01.06 - 3:10 pm | #
like a beaver?
kazoonheight |
12.01.06 - 3:10 pm | #
How come there is no "Afghanistan Study Group"?
Holden Caulfield
Silly, why would anyone want to study a place that has no oil?
Gummo |
12.01.06 - 3:11 pm | #
I sound like NTodd.
Can you tilt your head back and make odd chirping noises?
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how else can one corral one's cat herd?
Nancy Willing |
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12.01.06 - 3:11 pm | #
But accomplishment of any kind is beyond him. All he's capable of is wanton destruction.
overturning slightly more than 200 years of democratic precedent in just five years is CERTAINLY an 'accomplishment'...of some sort or other
WoodyG'sGuitar, rogue scholar |
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12.01.06 - 3:11 pm | #
overturning slightly more than 200 years of democratic precedent in just five years is CERTAINLY an 'accomplishment'...of some sort or other
WoodyG'sGuitar, rogue scholar
Potato, potahto -- to me, that fits just fine under the "wanton destruction" heading....
Gummo |
12.01.06 - 3:12 pm | #
How come there is no "Afghanistan Study Group"?
Holden Caulfield
there's no good targets on Afghanistan
kazoonheight |
12.01.06 - 3:12 pm | #
That dirty hippy needs to clean off the excess Ben Gay.
Dead Horse |
12.01.06 - 3:12 pm | #
I remember Myrtle. She sold me my first bottle of patchouli oil.
watertiger |
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12.01.06 - 3:14 pm | #
Gummo, you're so right. Every part of the government was at his fingertips. Most of the population was too, right after 9/11. He could have done anything, but all he did was fail. And argue that it wasn't failure.
Aaaarrrghghghgghghghgh!
TheOtherWA |
12.01.06 - 3:14 pm | #
I remember Myrtle. She sold me my first bottle of patchouli oil.
watertiger
Now in handy 5-gallon "Really Really Dirty Hippie" size.
Gummo |
12.01.06 - 3:14 pm | #
Who lost Iraq?
Myrtle Parker of Malad, Idaho
Well, that was careless of her.
R. McGeddon |
12.01.06 - 3:14 pm | #
mexico is blowing up:
death/terror squads. new prez sworn in during midnight ceremony. lawmakers battle on the floor of congress - some taken out injured.
developing...
Peter - 3:09 pm
im always encouraged when, as in lithuania, and now in mexico, folks know the proper response to electoral theft is NOT to roll over and take it again in the ass...
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WoodyG'sGuitar, rogue scholar |
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12.01.06 - 3:15 pm | #
patchouli is the solution of choice for dirty hippie body odor
A little dab'll do ya
Nancy Willing |
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12.01.06 - 3:15 pm | #
Hey, don't dis my grandma, I'm on her side.
mer |
12.01.06 - 3:15 pm | #
I remember Myrtle. She sold me my first bottle of patchouli oil.
watertiger
Mmmmmm patchouli oil. Gives me under the boardwalk memories.
bill, tinsel slayer |
12.01.06 - 3:15 pm | #
I never wore patchouli in my life. Or, have I been gay.
Barndog, fuckin' dirty hippie |
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12.01.06 - 3:16 pm | #
Yep, when the Mexicans swear in a president, they really swear him in.
Holden Caulfield |
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12.01.06 - 3:16 pm | #
This thread smells of pathchouli and bong water.
spinoza |
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12.01.06 - 3:16 pm | #
the proper response to electoral theft is NOT to roll over and take it again in the ass...
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sloths are we http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth
Nancy Willing |
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12.01.06 - 3:16 pm | #
When, oh when, will someone put five in the noggin' of that dipshit Kondracke and make the world a better place?
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.01.06 - 3:17 pm | #
Barndog's never been gay! whew ... had us worried there for a sec
kazoonheight |
12.01.06 - 3:17 pm | #
Very hard to get the stink of bong water out of a thread.
Gummo |
12.01.06 - 3:17 pm | #
Next month NBC will air an important new one-hour documentary called "Building on Faith: Making Poverty Housing History." The program, hosted by veteran journalist Linda Ellerbee, will feature former presidential candidates John Edwards and Jack Kemp and will show how safe and secure homes are vital to building a just and functional society. Focusing on what people of faith are doing and can do to eliminate poverty housing, the program will also feature FaithfulAmerica founder Dr. Bob Edgar, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches. However...
Many but not all NBC affiliates plan to air the special.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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12.01.06 - 3:17 pm | #
Next month NBC will air an important new one-hour documentary called "Building on Faith: Making Poverty Housing History." The program, hosted by veteran journalist Linda Ellerbee, will feature former presidential candidates John Edwards and Jack Kemp and will show how safe and secure homes are vital to building a just and functional society. Focusing on what people of faith are doing and can do to eliminate poverty housing, the program will also feature FaithfulAmerica founder Dr. Bob Edgar, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches. However...
Many but not all NBC affiliates plan to air the special.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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12.01.06 - 3:17 pm | #
This thread smells of pathchouli and bong water.
spinoza
my late boyfriend refused to let me wear patchouli because it made him think of fat Italian peasant women
Nancy Willing |
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12.01.06 - 3:18 pm | #
If anyone spills bong water on the carpet, I'll kick your ass.
TheOtherWA |
12.01.06 - 3:18 pm | #
Remember when Kondracke was portrayed as a liberal?
Holden Caulfield |
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12.01.06 - 3:18 pm | #
Next month NBC will air an important new one-hour documentary called "Building on Faith: Making Poverty Housing History." The program, hosted by veteran journalist Linda Ellerbee, will feature former presidential candidates John Edwards and Jack Kemp and will show how safe and secure homes are vital to building a just and functional society.
I love Linda Ellerbee. That woman should be in an anchor chair, not that nitwit Katie Couric.
fourlegsgood, plushynurse |
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12.01.06 - 3:18 pm | #
If anyone spills bong water on the carpet, I'll kick your ass.
TheOtherWA
That wasn't bong water, that was a leaky Depends.
Dead Horse |
12.01.06 - 3:19 pm | #
Back in 73, Myrtle had 11 abortions, even though she already went through menopause. She just wanted to make sure no potentially christian babies came out that could fight the islamic overlords.
trifecta |
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12.01.06 - 3:19 pm | #
my late boyfriend refused to let me wear patchouli because it made him think of fat Italian peasant women
Nancy Willing
Was he hot for boiling pasta then?
Falstaff |
12.01.06 - 3:19 pm | #
Remember when Kondracke was portrayed as a liberal?
I remember when crazy people were on street corners, and not on national teevee.
fourlegsgood, plushynurse |
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12.01.06 - 3:20 pm | #
Remember when Kondracke was portrayed as a liberal?
Holden Caulfield - 3:18 pm
no...
how could such a thing actually happen?
was there drugs involved? too much alcohol? fetal crack-whore syndrome?
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WoodyG'sGuitar, rogue scholar |
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12.01.06 - 3:20 pm | #
I love Linda Ellerbee. That woman should be in an anchor chair, not that nitwit Katie Couric.
fourlegsgood, plushynurse
While in line at the grocery store yesterday I spotted a tabloid with a photo of Katie without her make-up.
Right, Nancy. I didn't want to be thought of as a fat italian woman.
Barndog, fuckin' dirty hippie |
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12.01.06 - 3:20 pm | #
"Dow at -117."
--Holden Caulfield
Did the Dow lose Iraq too?
mer |
12.01.06 - 3:20 pm | #
And the General has the video of that little girl. If you haven't seen it, please watch.
Fine. But I had it before he did.
You two can flirt over who has firsties later.
The important thing that "out of the mouths of babes" is still valid. The little girl makes more sense than the Beltway 500 could ever hope to.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
12.01.06 - 3:21 pm | #
But, but, Linda Ellerbee looks like a normal human being!
You can't let one of THEM on TV!
Gummo |
12.01.06 - 3:21 pm | #
This New York Times Letter to the Editor has it right:
"Thomas L. Friedman is right that the United States must either engage in a phased withdrawal from Iraq or else reinvade and do things right this time.
We should reinvade, reconquer and this time disarm all Iraqis: Sunni, Shiite and Kurd. Then we will have the basis for a truly democratic government that is concerned for the rights and protection of all Iraqis.
The civil war in Iraq developed from the mistake in disbanding only the Iraqi Army, which was predominantly Sunni Muslim.
This left the Sunnis as a helpless minority in the face of the well-armed militias of the Shiites and the Kurds.
As a result, the Sunnis are now fighting for their lives against Shiite militia death squads in the Iraqi police and the Iraqi Army. The Saudis have warned that if the United States leaves and Iraq implodes into a slaughter of Sunnis by Shiites, they will intervene in Iraq to save Sunnis.
So let’s stay the course, disarm all factions and move toward a truly democratic Iraq that takes into account the hopes and wishes of all of its citizens."
Does this qualify as weird story of the week? George C. Dalmas III, a CIA employee for almost 20 years, yesterday admitted to breaking into 10 homes in the McLean area about a year ago and taking valuables and curiosities.
The loot from his daylight burglaries included Camp David cuff links, a Daughters of the American Revolution pin, a gold Phi Beta Kappa necklace, Cartier hoop earrings, a Tiffany gold scarab ring, a sapphire-diamond necklace, rhinestone bracelets, a Rolex watch and even a Fauquier High School ring. He also helped himself to several antique clocks and old radios -- all treasures he told his wife he had picked up at yard sales.
Dalmas did not explain why he did what he did, and the format in Fairfax County Circuit Court for accepting his guilty plea did not really allow for it. Neither his attorney nor the prosecutor mentioned the most intriguing object of Dalmas's criminal treasure-hunting expeditions: women's panties.
Search warrants list 1,074 pairs of women's undergarments that he stole, many of which were stuffed in shopping bags inside a filing cabinet at his Fulton Avenue home in Falls Church.
"I don't profess to be that knowledgeable about ladies' undergarments," Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Ian M. Rodway said afterward when asked to describe the evidence. "They ran the gamut from frilly things to mundane things."
Police believe Dalmas kept the undies as trophies. In fact, they believe Dalmas squirreled away everything he took. Court documents say he never tried to pawn or sell any of the jewelry or other valuable goods. Rodway described Dalmas as a packrat.
HoneyBearKelly♪♪ |
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12.01.06 - 3:22 pm | #
oh Kondrakke
I blame you
olexicon, Sir Shrill-a-Lot |
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12.01.06 - 3:22 pm | #
We should reinvade, reconquer and this time disarm all Iraqis: Sunni, Shiite and Kurd.
I didn't lose the War on Iraq. I never had it, so I couldn't have lost it. Maybe Rove knows where it is; he was using it last.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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12.01.06 - 3:23 pm | #
Loved seeing Joe Scar and Pat Buchanan yell at each other last night ...
If Bush has lost Scarborough, he's lost the country.
Sinfonian |
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12.01.06 - 3:24 pm | #
The actual statement is far more telling. Kondracke is a wanker extraordinaire.
Sinfonian
Hey Sinfonian
I was in an insomniac mode and was half asleep last night with TCM channel when I saw Sinfonian on the credits of the movie (one in the slurry).
Nancy Willing |
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12.01.06 - 3:24 pm | #
That CIA burglar thing is a fairly old story. He lived in a really fancy neighborhood as I recall.
Colbert's Apprentice |
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12.01.06 - 3:24 pm | #
I think merkin patriot needs to comment on this troubling story.
trifecta |
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12.01.06 - 3:25 pm | #
Francis Xavier Cunningham
Writing from his rubber room at Belleview?
pie |
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12.01.06 - 3:25 pm | #
Hey Sinfonian
I was in an insomniac mode and was half asleep last night with TCM channel when I saw Sinfonian on the credits of the movie (one in the slurry).
Nancy Willing
So let’s stay the course, disarm all factions and move toward a truly democratic Iraq that takes into account the hopes and wishes of all of its citizens."
Disarm all the factions? Brilliant! Why didn't we think of that before. This whole mess had a really simple solution and in our foolish haste we overlooked it! Do you think if we asked nice, they would bring us the guns, explosives and rpgs?
Falstaff |
12.01.06 - 3:25 pm | #
I swear to God, that lady looks like my mother. Hi, Mom!
My Mom's a traitor, too, but we knew that already because she voted for FDR.
Knut Wicksell |
12.01.06 - 3:26 pm | #
Neither his attorney nor the prosecutor mentioned the most intriguing object of Dalmas's criminal treasure-hunting expeditions: women's panties.
The stuff of movies.
pie |
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12.01.06 - 3:26 pm | #
We should reinvade, reconquer and this time disarm all Iraqis: Sunni, Shiite and Kurd.
Goodness, why didn't I think of that! Just take their weapons off them!
If you surgically transformed them into talking Golden Retrievers at the same time, you would not only have a peaceful country, but a very friendly and attractive one as well.
Finny |
12.01.06 - 3:27 pm | #
Disarm all the factions? Brilliant!
Don't I remember that some Heritage Foundation Youth, sent over to write the Iraqi constitution, made it impossible to outlaw guns?
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator |
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12.01.06 - 3:28 pm | #
Neither his attorney nor the prosecutor mentioned the most intriguing object of Dalmas's criminal treasure-hunting expeditions: women's panties.
The stuff of movies.
pie | Homepage | 12.01.06 - 3:26 pm | #
Revenge of the Nerds, maybe.
Bas-O-Matic |
12.01.06 - 3:28 pm | #
Search warrants list 1,074 pairs of women's undergarments that he stole....
Just what is it with men and the facination with womens underwear???
I have yet to meet one woman that hordes mens underwear, women in fact would rather burn them.
Lil Red, Riding In Tha Hood |
12.01.06 - 3:29 pm | #
We should reinvade, reconquer and this time disarm all Iraqis: Sunni, Shiite and Kurd. Then we will have the basis for a truly democratic government that is concerned for the rights and protection of all Iraqis.
Clearly we did not kill enough people the first time.
fourlegsgood, plushynurse |
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12.01.06 - 3:29 pm | #
Do you think if we asked nice, they would bring us the guns, explosives and rpgs?
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we have been providing them with the arms for a few years now (by "accident"), this would be a real change of pace....is there a unit of time for Rovian tactics?
Nancy Willing |
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12.01.06 - 3:29 pm | #
Hecate just because 25 year old kids with no experience other than a genetic deposit from their DC connected right wing parents wrote the constitution, tried to create the stock market for Iraq doesn't mean that they were unprepared to do the job.
Look at the job their parents are doing running our government. I might call it a wash.
trifecta |
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12.01.06 - 3:29 pm | #
"disarm all the factions" sounds like
De-Baathification 2: electric boogalooo
olexicon, Sir Shrill-a-Lot |
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12.01.06 - 3:29 pm | #
Don't I remember that some Heritage Foundation Youth, sent over to write the Iraqi constitution, made it impossible to outlaw guns?
To be fair, having guns is part of the culture. And now it's a matter of survival.
fourlegsgood, plushynurse |
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12.01.06 - 3:30 pm | #
Let's presume for a minute (I know) that the war in Iraq was a noble cause and like that. Seems to me one of the president's jobs is to make his case and lead the damned country, and if he couldn't do it, that's at the very, very least a failure of leadership such as we've never seen in this country, not even in Vietnam. If you add the one-party government we've 'enjoyed' these six years, the failure is extraordinary. Only now, start considering the faulty intelligence, the mistakes in execution, the brutality, the torture, the thousands of American and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead and maimed, the casual, horrible murder, all of it. Then let Mr Kondracke reconsider, just a bit, before he lays an iota of the blame on the American people.
ProfWombat |
12.01.06 - 3:30 pm | #
Anyhoo, if Myrtle had just gotten botox, this whole fiasco could have been avoided.
fourlegsgood, plushynurse |
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12.01.06 - 3:30 pm | #
gotta find new and interesting ways not to blame thsoe responsible
like blaming "foreign fighters' for the violence
olexicon, Sir Shrill-a-Lot |
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12.01.06 - 3:34 pm | #
owls
ErinPDX, they took my dots |
12.01.06 - 3:36 pm | #
The Iraq war was Just Stupid , Aggressive war-fare against a nation that didn't have anything to do with 911 . And it was Illegal . And the UN wouldn't back it , and it's only participants are wrong and leaving. Stupid , illegitimate and illegal . A tragic indictment of cabalistic pre-emption , a crime and a disaster . And that's all . There are no merits to it , nor are there any to burglary, murder or treason. None of them are analysed for their merits , and they rightly only have detractors. One can't be Pro-murder , a Burglary/ Home Invasion Hawk, nor a Treason Apologist without being also a Stupid Criminal ...so ? ....
Why are we still discussing this ?
A.Scott |
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12.01.06 - 3:37 pm | #
Right, Nancy. I didn't want to be thought of as a fat italian woman.
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He wouldn't kiss me if I ate garlic either
Nancy Willing |
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12.01.06 - 3:37 pm | #
I think xavier is right, of course, but he doesn't go far enough -- to catholic I suppose -- we should also invade egypt, saudia arabia, syria, iran, lebannon, jordan, afghanistan, oman, the uae, and yemen, and disarm everyone there as well.
It's too bad Stephen and I have to think of everything but there you have it.
Colbert's Apprentice |
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12.01.06 - 3:38 pm | #
Don't I remember that some Heritage Foundation Youth, sent over to write the Iraqi constitution, made it impossible to outlaw guns?
To be fair, having guns is part of the culture. And now it's a matter of survival.
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The concept of fairness to the peoples we invaded never had any cogent place at the Bremer table.
Nancy Willing |
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12.01.06 - 3:39 pm | #
when I saw Sinfonian on the credits of the movie (one in the slurry).
Nancy Willing
Wha-wha-WHAT?
/Kyle's mom
Sinfonian
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it was Sinfonian Orchestra...I wish I could remember which movie it was, I half-watched a dozen of them.
Nancy Willing |
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12.01.06 - 3:42 pm | #
"The reality on the streets of Baghdad suggests Maliki is either ignorant of what is going on, misrepresenting his intentions, or that his capabilities are not yet sufficient to turn his good intentions into action."
National security Advisor Stephen Hadley, November 8, 2006.
"He [al Maliki] is the right guy for Iraq."
President Bush, November 30, 2006.
A new report in the British paper, The Guardian, which includes an interview with Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general of the Iraq reconstruction, found that:
* Oil smuggling is the region’s top problem and funds the insurgency
* 9 billion in oil revues are unaccounted for
* American incompetence in handling weapons may have helped arm the insurgents and death squads
and
* Contractors continue to make a killing, with nobody being held accountable.