Chilly

I'd have to agree.

Indeed it is. I hate campaign ads. Such limited time, with no real way to get a message out except a sound byte. Its the same exact thing as if they attempted to get a message through the media. Honestly, I think they're worthless for doing an actual evaluation of a candidate. I think so too, and to be honest, I think that even the Democrats understand this as well. Mr. Lamont, the guy who is stressing Iraq as a campaign issue and portraying it as a failure for Republicans, basically says the same damn thing. Schlessinger, the Republican candidate in the race, says: My other thought was that perhaps Schlessinger is moving toward the middle to attempt to compete in the race, so I took a look at the White House "Fact Sheet: Democracy in Iraq" and I saw: Seems like broad agreement about that strategy between Lamont, Bush, and Schlessinger. The disagreement would be the way to go about that strategy. Even the Kerry-Feingold "cut-n-run" bill was rather broad. While it said that forces should withdraw "from Iraq by July 1, 2007, in accordance with a schedule coordinated with the Government of Iraq", it then continued, saying, "leaving only the minimal number of forces that are critical to completing the mission of standing up Iraqi security forces, conducting targeted and specialized counterterrorism operations, and protecting United States facilities and personnel." Outside of the political BS, I think the issue really is about how we successfully hand it over to Iraqi security forces. Bush seems to believe that taking your time with deliberate training is the best way to go about it, while the Democrats believe that deadlines are the best way to pressure Iraqis into getting the training done. To be honest, I'm not sure what would be the best way to get troops trained - deadlines or slow, deliberate training. What do you think?

Wait, he's running against KerrY?

I do? When was I talking about Katrina in all of this? I don't think its related, and I would probablya gree with you about FEMA in the Katrina incident, that people should have taken initiative long before Katrina arrived. You're right, its not, but my point is that everyone has limited resources, while the government has comparably more resources. A community can only do so much in a time of crisis due to that. The logistics of getting a community back up and running require both community participation and governmental participation. Blame? Where am I assigning blame? If I was doing that, I'd have to be talking negatively about someone/something and saying they didn't do what they should have. I haven't commented one way or the other in this thing. I'm not deflecting anything. So, if you don't want to discuss something, or respond to other people's questions, why are you on a message board anyway?

Obviously we need to ban speaking so this situation doesn't happen in the future. You've just got me all figured out, don't you?

I posted this in the other thread, but I feel that it is also appropriate to post it here. They didn't mention what type of websites that this was talking about. I did a quick search for that thread title, and it came back with two websites which were both down: the!@#$society.com and thefriendsociety.com It seems as thought he domain names point to the same thing. This is a forum which includes threads on the following: Stretchy vagina debate PEYOTE The Media MLB Playoffs quicktime download How do i format my computer The thread is about the following news story: http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/paul-williams091606.htm Unfortunately, google's cache doesn't seem to have page 2 or 3 of the thread in it. The first page mentions nothing about an attack on the US. *EDIT*: I finally was able to get through at least partly to the forum. Posted by a guy named Jayness, with a penis as his avatar, it has this threat. I'm going to avoid repeating the threat here, as I don't think its a good idea. People were wondering if he was joking and was asking for a source, and he responds with you already know too much. Seems to me just to be some idiot !@#$ing around on an internet messageboard. The media is attempting to make this into a threat, when its nothing more then a guy joking around on the internet. Its a good way to sell a story though, and get people to click on the link.

He did a pretty good job of not answering your letter.

Aljazeera eat babies too.

Hell if I know

Yeah, I don't disagree here, but in order for us to build a Democracy in Iraq (which is the Bush plan, is it not?), there has to be some solution through a nation-building plan. I've always wondered what the hell was the reasoning behind that myself (democracy vs self-determination). Iraq as a nation-building exercise is bull sh--, but the answer is nation-building? Maybe I'm misunderstanding you. Is it nation-building to give the appearance that we succeeded, while really not having a shot in hell? I think a nation-building plan is the only thing we can do at this point, at least give the Iraqi's some semblence of a government and the institutions that come with it. To not do so is, as you said, a complete and utter disaster for US foreign policy. Nation-building, as my understanding, is the process of building up a nation's government and institutions. Are we talking about two different things here?

You realize that you still haven't explained what was wrong with my post, right? (And, again, the sig line is a friggin joke from a tv show)

They didn't mention what type of websites that this was talking about. I did a quick search for that thread title, and it came back with two websites which were both down: the!@#$society.com and thefriendsociety.com It seems as thought he domain names point to the same thing. This is a forum which includes threads on the following: Stretchy vagina debate PEYOTE The Media MLB Playoffs quicktime download How do i format my computer The thread is about the following news story: http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/paul-williams091606.htm Unfortunately, google's cache doesn't seem to have page 2 or 3 of the thread in it. The first page mentions nothing about an attack on the US. *EDIT*: I finally was able to get through at least partly to the forum. Posted by a guy named Jayness, with a penis as his avatar, it has this threat. I'm going to avoid repeating the threat here, as I don't think its a good idea. People were wondering if he was joking and was asking for a source, and he responds with you already know too much. Seems to me just to be some idiot !@#$ing around on an internet messageboard. The media is attempting to make this into a threat, when its nothing more then a guy joking around on the internet. Its a good way to sell a story though, and get people to click on the link.

At what point does the country decide that the plan just sucks and go a different direction? I'm not sure that Bush would be willing to do that at this point, and I'm not at all convinced that the Democrats would be able to put together a successful nation-building effort either. They seem to be of the position that civil war is inevitable and therefore we need to just let it happen. Seems as though military leaders lately have started suggesting we at least switch it up some (and have been implementing some smart reforms in the process). It seems as though, up until this point, Bush has been more focused on building up security in Iraq then he has democratic institutions to make Democracy stick, and some of the newer reforms have been addressing that. I'm thinking that its going to take a new President to have a chance at successful nation-building in Iraq.

Where the hell did you get that out of my post? Actually, most of the reason why I do come to internet message boards is to learn and revise my position on things, including football, the NFL, etc. There are, without a doubt, a few posters here who I've learned a lot from. What, exactly, was incorrect with what I said?

They did this to bring a few phamtom players up. Bumgarter will remain with the Flyers if he clears waivers, whereas Nedved and Dmitrakos will be playing in the AHL. Most likely they will all clear waivers given their huge salaries. indeed.

The American 2-party system by definition will have split parties as its major parties, since its a plurality. This isn't exactly a surprise.

Hrm, I'd say that would be a fair trade when tis all said and done.

True enough.

Damn you, I've got the George Costanza Answering machine song stuck in my head now. "Believe it or not, George isn't at home, please leave a message at the beep. I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone. Where could I be? Believe it or not, I'm not home."

Perhaps "Dr. Tooth" is a product, like Dr. Pepper. As good ol Mitch Hedberg used to say, "Mr. Pibb is a replica of Dr. Pepper. But its a bull sh-- replica because dude didn't even get his degree. You know, the light version of Dr. Pepper? "It tastes just like regular dr. Pepper." Well, then you MESSED UP!"

You're right, but they did teach us that the civil war wasn't all about freeing the slaves in high school.

Damn those young kids, stealing things, back in my day they never stole anything! America's society has become a sad, lost place.

I thought you were referring to the body spray, rofl. Gotta love idiots banning this stuff.

Or he uses Firefox 2 RC 3 which has the built-in forum spell-checker. I <3 that feature.