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DAs can be removed for good reasons, or no reason, but when they're removed for bad reasons such as politicians thinking they're going too slow to investigate Democrats and too fast investigating Republicans, and politicians are trying to influence them, then it does require Congress to do their oversight job. These were Republican appointees, but I would like to think that when a DA takes office they will make judgements based on facts and not political views. Otherwise we can't trust their decisions. Seedy Gonzalez has lost credibility and can no longer be trusted to make judgements just on the facts.
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But if we do lose, it will be the Dems fault!
But that's the new reality; it's the Dems fault that we're stuck in Iraq because they went along with Bush's push to invade with the Republican majority in Congress at the start of the war, and now it's the Dems fault because they won't defund the war to stop it, but if they do defund it it's the Dems fault because they're cutting and running, and even talking in opposition to Bush's plans is bad for morale (at least the White House's morale). So get the talking points clear; no matter what has or will happen, it's the Dems fault!
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A College Republican supports the war by staying in College? The army is stretched to the breaking point, taking in all sorts of people they normally wouldn't, and the College Republicans react by criticizing Democrats instead of joining up. Sweet
Give them a break. Like a young Dick Cheney, they have more important things to do than fight a war in Iraq that they say we can't afford to lose.
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By discussing Coulter the press is giving her exactly what she wants, more publicity. Every once in awhile she makes some controversial statement to throw red meat to the extremists who buy her books, and gets publicity from those who are offended by her statements. So for her it's a win-win. The best thing Republicans could do is to distance themselves from her.
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Shhh! By supporting the troops you're not supporting the troops. Uncovering the truth is bad for morale. The troops shouldn't know what's waiting for them when they get injured and sent home.
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Rush Limbaugh yesterday quoted a DoD document that said 4417 US troops were killed from 1993-1996 (peacetime). That's about 1300 MORE than the 3133 killed in Iraq in a comparable span of time.
I found a copy of the data I was looking for. I had seen the original DoD page, but I forgot to downoad it at the time.
Someone made an excel spreadsheet of it .
Rush and an excel spreadsheet, that's all Dick Cheney would need as proof. But of course if you look at the breakdown between 93-96 only 56 were killed due to hostile or terrorist actions. Now compare 3133 to 56 and you get a realistic comparison, which shows how desperate some are to justify continued troop escalations in Iraq.
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I think he would be best suited to be a special envoy to the Middle East to try to complete the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, or to be the ambassador to the United Nations.
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BTW, it is about oil. If there wasn't oil over there, we'd give not a flying crap about Iraq.
That is the truth, without oil the Middle East would be treated like Africa.
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Way to miss the point, Joey.
If your point is all those things will happen if we leave, well as I've said they've already been happening, and whether we leave in 3 months or 3 years they will still happen. Pandora's Box was opened with the Iraq invasion, so why lose more American lives while prolonging the inevitable.
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Hillary Clinton is a total fraud. Running for President against an actual New Yorker, whomever that New Yorker is, is suicide for her. Tom Golisano would probably win New York against Hillary.
Congratulations, Mrs. Clinton. With Rudy Guilianni running against you, you're reduced back to the carpetbagger that you were in 2000. Expect voters in other states to take notice of your obvious identity-crisis, too!
I suppose you would think Robert Kennedy was a fraud also. Last time I checked, NY State wasn't that much different than most other states when it comes to its problems and issues. In fact NY State is probably one of the most cosmopolitan states in the country. There isn't anything "uniquely NY" that requires someone to grow up here to understand the issues. But for somebody who doesn't have a chance to win, Hillary sure does get alot of attention from conservatives. And even if she loses, we'll still have her as our senator, so it's a win-win.
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Whats scaring me about all this is that people are so fixated on getting out NOW!!!!!! that possible consequences are being completely ignored? Ethnic cleansing? Al Qaeda getting a foothold? Iran taking over the region? Eh...worry about that later...just get out of Iraq NOW!!!!!!
Where have you been? All of that has been happening in Iraq for the past couple of years.
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One thing at a time. I know the hot pocket mentality of wanting it now and not actually having to work for your meal. But in the real world it takes time and effort. It isn't as simple as people around here will have you believe. If it was they would be working for State and signing a new trade or peace agrrement everyday, and the whole would would be singing Kumbaya.
So you're saying that Bush had a hot pocket mentality with Iraq.
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The need for a "bigger jet" is not the issue. Its the demands for 42 leather seats, staterooms, entertainment centers and a crew of 16, with a total cost of $300,000 PER ROUND TRIP FLIGHT.
Thats just plain old obscene. You know it, I know it.
I read today that the round trip cost was $30k, not $300k. Let's compare wasteful spending. Even at $300k, if the gov't found the $8 billion in "brinks of cash" that are unaccounted for in Iraq, it would pay for over 26,000 trips.
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Does your breath always smell like vomitus or is that just my imagination?
It's just your imagination that's vomitus.
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Once again, I said it warranted military action "if" it turned out to be true.
And that's the basic problem, based on their performance with Iraq it is difficult to believe anything that this adminstration says without independent verification. What they say is true may or may not be, but they have no credibility when it comes to justifying military action against another country based on just their own word.
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Are you telling me that you personally desire to pay more taxes? You can do that now, no? Skip a few deductions that you are entitled to. Support your cause with action, rather than tired rhetoric.
Btw, when you say "all," is that what you truly mean? Do you want each and every taxpayer to pay more? Or, at what exact income would you draw the line?
"All" means anyone at my level of pay or above, including myself, even though I'm making much less than I was two years ago when my company closed and moved manufacturing operations to China.
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I don't think that any sane person would vote for Hillary unless he or she actually WANTS a tax increase. She made her position on that very clear at the end of the video.
How else are the record federal debt and deficits rolled up by the "economic conservatives", Bush and the Republican congress, going to be payed for? Entitlement programs can't be cut enough to make up the difference. We're all going to have to pay the price for Bush's budgets and deficit-creating tax cuts. Businesses did pretty good in the late '90s before the cuts, they'll do so again.
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And they are different than listeners of Franken, Rhodes, or Schultz how?
Yes, you are clearly an open-minded individual. You've displayed open-mindedness so obviously in your partisan rants over the past year and a half that I've read the posts on this board. Please show me where you have EVER demonstrated an open-mindedness or tolerance.
Many more people listen to conserative talk radio than progressive, thus a greater number of those who get their talking points from those shows.
I'm always open to good moderate ideas, and I resist resorting to the personal attacks and namecalling that many so-called conservatives on this site do when they disagree with a poster. At the end of the day I'm going to support policies I believe in, as should conservatives, without having to attack the messenger on the other side of the issue.
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Air America was just a bad idea. Who has time to sit around and listen to a political hack drone on and on? I can see why talk radio works so well with Conservative listeners.
Listeners to Rush, Hannity, Savage, etc., prefer to let someone else do the mental heavy lifting for them and tell them how to think. Liberals tend to listen to all viewpoints and then make a decision, thus the name "liberal" - open-minded or tolerant, esp. free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc..
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It just tears people up that they "kept it together"... Doesn't it?
Make all the excuses in the world... Everybody would have just loved to see it all come crashing down in Jim Baker-Tammy Faye fashion...
Sure question their motive, question their love... Whatever, but it just tears people up...
Wow! Damn if you do, damn if you don't...
They prefer the Reagan model where Jane Wyman divorced him after he cheated behind her back with Nancy Davis, or Newt Gingrich who was seeing another woman when his wife was sick in the hospital, or Rudi Guliani who was going out in public with his current (2nd or 3rd wife, I lost count) while still married to the previous wife. Hypocracy, thy name is conservatism.
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Bingo! There's an unwritten rule that if you're going to have a scandalous personal life, you have to be a conservative. Liberals' personal lives are always squeaky clean.
The difference of course is that conservatives are prone to condemn others while carrying on the same vices in secret.
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What's wrong with admitting a mistake in judgment? Too bad more people don't do so (like the current administration).
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Cheney could tie the noose around his own neck and hang himself in the public square after confessing how wrong he has been about everything he's ever done in life and it would still not be enough for retards like molson.
Is this an option? It would be a nice start.
My Choice For President In 08 is....
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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1. Hillary
2. Biden
3. Richardson
They're the only candidates that I would feel excited to vote for, other than them my vote would be against whoever least represented my views. If everything were equal I think Biden is the best qualified. But given that money talks, I see Hillary running with someone like Richardson or Wesley Clark. If Gore entered he'd be on the list, and the only potential Republican I would feel comfortable with as president is Chuck Hagel. The other Republican frontrunners are falling over each other trying to appease the evangelicals, and I've had enough of their influence on policies.