Pine Barrens Mafia
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"Liberal" is derived from the word "liberalis" or free. As in land of free and home of the brave. Other derivates from the same root are liberty...liberate...etc. A liberal is one "who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer"
Unfortunately, Mr. Webster never had the opportunity to meet a MODERN liberal....obsessed with big-government programs aimed at making everyone feel better, so filled with guilt that they feel the need to stifle free enterprise to support freeloaders, and so obsessed with feelings that free speech ceases to be free.
Liberalism is no longer about freedom deb. It's about totalitarianism.
If you think otherwise, you're not being intellectually honest.
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Well, I would feel a lot more comfortable with the President if he agreed with you there and put the truth before politics on this one. I'm not saying I'd vote for him, but I wouldn't be as worried about the prospect of his re-election.
The point is, the administration discounts any reported mistakes with exactly the kind of rhetoric you've displayed here. The problem becomes the "left wing media," not the mistake, which is generally far more life and death.
You're missing the point, as usual. The point is that mistakes, when made, have been put out there for all to see.
The PROBLEM is, things that were not problems or non-existent have also been presented as if they were by attack dogs in the media.
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Videotape shot by a Minnesota television crew traveling with U.S. troops in Iraq when they first opened the bunkers at the Al-Qaqaa munitions base nine days after the fall of Saddam Hussein shows what appeared to be high explosives still in barrels and bearing the markings of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
"The photographs are consistent with what I know of Al-Qaqaa," David Kay, a former American official who directed the hunt in Iraq for unconventional weapons and visited the site, told The New York Times. "The damning thing is the seals. The Iraqis didn't use seals on anything. So I'm absolutely sure that's an IAEA seal."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/20...q-weapons_x.htm
Interesting how Bush defenders are throwing out different explainations to see which will stick; we don't know what happened, the Russians removed them, there were Iraqi trucks there beforehand, our troops never saw the explosives at the site, Guiliani saying it was our troops fault. Drip, drip, drip, the pool of evidence of a failed policy and plan continues to fill daily.
Again....as AD said, if there really WERE 400 tons of explosives there, HOW exactly did they disappear? You're talking about 80 50 ton trucks worth or
800000 (EIGHT HUNDRED-THOUSAND) pounds of explosives. You mean to tell me that somehow, someway those things were taken out like 50-60 pounds at a time by indurgents over a 2 year period and NO ONE caught them? Doubtful.
Or maybe they backed up 80 trucks to the ammo dump and took it all at once? Again, doubtful, becuase if they did, they'd be charred mounds of vehicles and flesh. So how did they disappear, oh all-knowing one?
What disgusts me about you and your ilk is how you CHEER setbacks in Iraq.
You are sunshine patriots, and anti-American no matter how vocally you claim to love this country. I spit at your feet, sir.
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I think his point is that the right has become easily sickened by the truth. Everytime something is reported now the Bush campaign has to go to lengths to discredit it, and they are running out of excuses. Now all Cheney has to say is that he doesn't consider a publication "friendly," thus the story is not valid. It appears you are just sorry that the media is not giving this administration a free pass anymore. It got one for a long time.
The tide is turning. The WSJ, whose praises you were singing a few days ago, reported one of the stories Krugman cites. Obviously this administration has made mistakes; you cannot be so blind to not admit that they haven't. All the mouthpieces of this administration have clearly drank the Kool-Aid and are buying into the President's rhetoric. And the media is right to take him to task for it. If Bush hasn't made any mistakes, then clearly all of these so-called attacks shouldn't be a problem for him.
Of course they've made mistakes. And for the large part, they've been reported WIDELY in the left wing media.
HOWEVER...the left has made a CONCERTED effort to break "stories" that aren't even stories (NG papers, "missing explosives" to name tow) in order to attempt to sway a close election. It's indefensible.
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The problem is, if you elect someone who's INCAPABLE of or UNWILLING TO USE the steering controls, you create even more problems than you had before.
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Friedman's a left wing loony so detached from reality it's not funny. But hey, what would one expect from "the rag of record"?
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Why? All those f*ckers need to be brought to heel.
If I were running the show, for every one American soldier killed by insurgents, a whole town would get flattened. See how long the "resistance" lasts when there's no one left to recruit.
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Like many munitions, I suspect this depot was relocated beforehand. Given the electronic survelliance before and especially after the start of hostilities, a mass movement involving large truck transport or long-term small truck transport would have been flagged as an anomoly and addressed. The US Military is not stupid.
And along this line, I think that the wmd stuff, useable and the bits and pieces (unless the entire world's intelligence services were wrong about the whole thing), ended up in Syria bit by bit in the run-up, about 50 miles SSE of Allepo.
I think Sharon wants the settlements cleared out of northern Gaza for that, and an ensuing strike. Isreal has recently contracted with US companies for several hundred "deep penetrator" free-fall bombs. Delivery of such to Iranian nuclear facilities pose some special problems (not unsurmountable) , but not usage against certain Syrian enclaves.
BTW, love that signature. SOunds like the Democratic Party agenda today.
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Why don't you?...maybe if you served and been overseas you'd have a different perspective of the world..actually meet the people of the middle east and see the hatred in their eyes for you or how they just try and make a buck off you..."my best american friend". ...I have my own opinion of the people over there formed through experience....maybe you should too.
Even the Kuwaitis, you never could get rid of the feeling that they were trying to think of a way to rob you blind.
But damn, they did good laundry.
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If "these people" are the enemy, why are we trying to save them and "liberate them" in Iraq and Afghanistan? Why shouldn't we be happy that Saddam was killing them so we don't have to? Why are we risking our citizen/soldiers lives and losing them by the day and spending tens or hundreds of billions to protect these people and teach them to protect themselves? They are all heartless murderers, apparently.
Because you crown-royal drinkin bastard (mmmmm Crown Royal)...the situation will never change there unless we force the issue.
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See you in Hell, Arafat. Hopefully I'll be running the water stand.
:I starred in Brokeback Mountain:
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To the left, dont watch it.
that is well done....
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F*ck them.
What good has come out of Boston the last five years?
2 Patriot Super Bowls, A likely Dead Sux WS championship and worst of all JOHN f-ing KERRY.
F*ck Boston, hope it falls into the sea.
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Hypocrite. You just posted this the other day.
And so, without much fanfare, Debbie sits down, humbled yet again by her own words.
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Actually JSP, he has been a slacker for a few years. Wonderful kid with a good heart, but has had trouble "finding" himself. Probably typical of a kid raised with an absentee father. Even though an Australian, I've raised my kids to be US patriots. So, whatever his emotional reasons for going in to the service, or my personal feelings about the war, rest assured, I shall fly the flag proudly and put a big yellow ribbon around the tree in my front yard. I went through the Vietnam era so I know first hand how badly those guys were treated.
God bless you, and god bless him. His story sounds much like mine. I'd drank my way out of college and was living in my car due to my poor choices. I was hungry and desperate, so I went into the Army to ensure a steady income.
Now? I'm successfully employed, a proud father of a beautiful daughter and have my head on my shoulders rather than in the gutter. I think that Army saved my life. I also beliee every young man should at some point serve in the military as it teaches discipline, respect and patriotic honor.
GWB and where the buck stops
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Problem:
The guy he's running against is an even BIGGER irresponsible big-governmen socialist.