Comments on: Mehlman Falsely Claims Rep. Shays (R-CT) Doesn’t Support Military Timeline For Iraq http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:23:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Katya http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-2/#comment-4310600 Katya Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:36:34 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-4310600 <strong>Katya</strong> I just wanted to write to say that you have a great site and a wonderful resource for all to share. Katya

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]]> By: art gallagher http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-1072350 art gallagher Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:55:17 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-1072350 In case everyone has forgotten the goal in Iraq was to kill their leaders, steal their oil, and convert everyone to christianity. Keep bush in for another term with a republican congress and I think we can accomplish this. Next stop Iran and syria. all aboard. great job to nor o'donnel. In case everyone has forgotten the goal in Iraq was to kill their leaders,
steal their oil, and convert everyone to christianity. Keep bush in for another term with a republican congress and I think we can accomplish this.
Next stop Iran and syria. all aboard.
great job to nor o’donnel.

]]> By: Armchair Quarterback NeoCon ChickenHawks http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-769629 Armchair Quarterback NeoCon ChickenHawks Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:10:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-769629 <strong>re: coachjason, Armchair Quarterback, NeoCon ChickenHawk</strong> <em>I’m sure there are some good men and women in Iraq. I happen to have served with them. That said, I find it hard to believe that coachjason is one of them. I also don’t believe anything coachjason says about his alleged military service or his time spent in Iraq. He parrots the usual ReichWing NeoCon talking points that justify the US occupation and genocide in Iraq. Comment by Indict Murderous Fundamentalist Republicans — September 1, 2006 @ 9:47 pm </em> re: coachjason, Armchair Quarterback, NeoCon ChickenHawk

I’m sure there are some good men and women in Iraq. I happen to have served with them. That said, I find it hard to believe that coachjason is one of them. I also don’t believe anything coachjason says about his alleged military service or his time spent in Iraq. He parrots the usual ReichWing NeoCon talking points that justify the US occupation and genocide in Iraq. Comment by Indict Murderous Fundamentalist Republicans — September 1, 2006 @ 9:47 pm

]]> By: coachjason http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-767216 coachjason Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:11:12 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-767216 Cosmosis, So OBL is the end all be all of the war on terror? Do you believe he won't be caught? and the My Pet Goat thing... Does it really matter today? At least he can read. I'm suprised you could find Fahrenheit 9/11 considering how hard it is to spell the first word. As for Katrina leadership... How long did it take FEMA to get to Florida after hurricane Andrew under Clinton? Oh 2 weeeks, there's real Democrat leadership for you. I can't believe you still revert to the Michael Moore playbook... John Kerry lost, decisively. Reguardless of what you tell yourself about Ken Blackwell and Ohio. Had Kerry won Ohio it still would have been a tie and W would have won in congress. So how's Clintons doing with his chinese friends nowadays? Since we're going back in time today... Cosmosis, So OBL is the end all be all of the war on terror? Do you believe he won’t be caught? and the My Pet Goat thing… Does it really matter today? At least he can read. I’m suprised you could find Fahrenheit 9/11 considering how hard it is to spell the first word. As for Katrina leadership… How long did it take FEMA to get to Florida after hurricane Andrew under Clinton? Oh 2 weeeks, there’s real Democrat leadership for you. I can’t believe you still revert to the Michael Moore playbook… John Kerry lost, decisively. Reguardless of what you tell yourself about Ken Blackwell and Ohio. Had Kerry won Ohio it still would have been a tie and W would have won in congress.
So how’s Clintons doing with his chinese friends nowadays? Since we’re going back in time today…

]]> By: cosmosis http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-767153 cosmosis Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:41:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-767153 coachjason: Where is OBL? Oh yeah, chimpy let him go at Tora Bora so he could get on with his invasion of Iraq. And what did chimpy do on 9/11? Sit in a class for SEVEN MINUTES reading "The Pet Goat." Wow, what leadership. Just like Katrina. coachjason: Where is OBL? Oh yeah, chimpy let him go at Tora Bora so he could get on with his invasion of Iraq. And what did chimpy do on 9/11? Sit in a class for SEVEN MINUTES reading “The Pet Goat.” Wow, what leadership. Just like Katrina.

]]> By: coachjason http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-767065 coachjason Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:26:28 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-767065 re50 Do you really think Clinton made the country any safer? Let me count... let's see... there was Oklahoma City, the U.S.S. cole, U.S. Embassy bombings, etc... To Bush's I attack on the World Trade Center and he actually gave the terrorists a response. I mean one other than "That's okay, we didn't like those buildings anyways" Or "I guess America brought it on herself".. re50 Do you really think Clinton made the country any safer? Let me count… let’s see… there was Oklahoma City, the U.S.S. cole, U.S. Embassy bombings, etc… To Bush’s I attack on the World Trade Center and he actually gave the terrorists a response. I mean one other than “That’s okay, we didn’t like those buildings anyways” Or “I guess America brought it on herself”..

]]> By: Wayne A. Schneider http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-766800 Wayne A. Schneider Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:16:13 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-766800 <i>It is payback time: Thanks to MEHLMAN there’s going to be a bloodbath. Comment by God </i> "If it's a bloodbath they want, we'll give it to them." - <i>Ronald Reagan, "The Killers"</i> It is payback time: Thanks to MEHLMAN there’s going to be a bloodbath.

Comment by God

“If it’s a bloodbath they want, we’ll give it to them.”
– Ronald Reagan, “The Killers”

]]> By: www.dmocrats.org http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-766635 www.dmocrats.org Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:12:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-766635 The REPUBLICAN Party appears the ONLY PARTY that has actually DEMONSTRATED their weakness on national defense and national security and terrorism. This evaluation comes from their failure to defend America on Sept 11, 2001. No amount of ranting by Hesitant Bush, Vice Hesitant Cheney, Donald RUMSFAILED and KKKarl Rove will change this fact. If they say the Republicans do better on protecting our country they have told a LIE. 2750 dead people from the towers and the pentagon have pulled the curtain away from the Republicans and have revealed them as failures on national defense. The REPUBLICAN Party appears the ONLY PARTY that has actually DEMONSTRATED their weakness on national defense and national security and terrorism. This evaluation comes from their failure to defend America on Sept 11, 2001.

No amount of ranting by Hesitant Bush, Vice Hesitant Cheney, Donald RUMSFAILED and KKKarl Rove will change this fact. If they say the Republicans do better on protecting our country they have told a LIE. 2750 dead people from the towers and the pentagon have pulled the curtain away from the Republicans and have revealed them as failures on national defense.

]]> By: Bruce Gorton http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-766611 Bruce Gorton Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:00:31 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-766611 Currently the administration and its lackeys (Such as Mehlman) are arguing that the war should be fought <em>without planning for victory.</em> And they call those of us who figured the war was a bad idea in the first place <em>defeatists.</em> Currently the administration and its lackeys (Such as Mehlman) are arguing that the war should be fought without planning for victory. And they call those of us who figured the war was a bad idea in the first place defeatists.

]]> By: Cyra Brown http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-766465 Cyra Brown Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:54:15 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-766465 Ms.O'Donnell knew that he would be on the show, and no doubt had a pretty good idea of what she was going to ask him. Would it have killed her to have the Shays clip ready to go, for just such an occasion? Ah well... But Mehlman does look a bit like it is taking an awful lot of energy to sell this story, because now he is lying about a Republican. It will come back to bite him , someday. And it looks like he knows it too. Ms.O’Donnell knew that he would be on the show, and no doubt had a pretty good idea of what she was going to ask him. Would it have killed her to have the Shays clip ready to go, for just such an occasion? Ah well… But Mehlman does look a bit like it is taking an awful lot of energy to sell this story, because now he is lying about a Republican. It will come back to bite him , someday. And it looks like he knows it too.

]]> By: Wethepeople http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-766421 Wethepeople Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:40:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-766421 I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Dwight D. Eisenhower If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. Dwight D. Eisenhower I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

]]> By: WORFEUS http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-766344 WORFEUS Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:37:51 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-766344 <blockquote><em>We have, too, adopted the principle of leadership, the conception of authority. That was a heavy sacrifice at a time when the whole people was running after the illusion of democracy and parliamentarianism, when millions believed that the majority was the source of a right decision. It was at this time that we began resolutely to build up an organization in which there was not one dictator but ten thousand. When our opponents say: 'It is easy for you: you are a dictator'- we answer them, 'No, gentlemen, you are wrong; there is no single dictator, but ten thousand, each in his own place.' And even the highest authority in the hierarchy has itself only one wish, never to transgress against the Supreme authority to which it, too, is responsible. We have in our Movement developed this loyalty in following the leader, this blind obedience of which all the others know nothing and which gave to us the power to surmount everything.</em></blockquote> Adolf Hitler Berlin April 8, 1933

We have, too, adopted the principle of leadership, the conception of authority. That was a heavy sacrifice at a time when the whole people was running after the illusion of democracy and parliamentarianism, when millions believed that the majority was the source of a right decision.

It was at this time that we began resolutely to build up an organization in which there was not one dictator but ten thousand. When our opponents say: ‘It is easy for you: you are a dictator’- we answer them, ‘No, gentlemen, you are wrong; there is no single dictator, but ten thousand, each in his own place.’ And even the highest authority in the hierarchy has itself only one wish, never to transgress against the Supreme authority to which it, too, is responsible.

We have in our Movement developed this loyalty in following the leader, this blind obedience of which all the others know nothing and which gave to us the power to surmount everything.

Adolf Hitler
Berlin
April 8, 1933

]]> By: WORFEUS http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-766058 WORFEUS Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:38:33 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-766058 Hey Zooey. Get out of my brain! :D Hey Zooey. Get out of my brain!

:D

]]> By: pigeonpoop http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-766050 pigeonpoop Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:16:23 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-766050 Mehlman is an IQ waiting to happen Mehlman is an IQ waiting to happen

]]> By: budpaul http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-766045 budpaul Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:11:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-766045 He's not in denial, he's a liar. There's a difference. <a href='http://least-wanted.blogspot.com' rel="nofollow">America's Least Wanted</a> He’s not in denial, he’s a liar. There’s a difference.
America’s Least Wanted

]]> By: Stein http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-766006 Stein Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:14:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-766006 God, what a brainwashed little putz he is. Put a quarter in him and get your five minutes of spin and spew. God, what a brainwashed little putz he is. Put a quarter in him and get your five minutes of spin and spew.

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-765963 Zooey Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:29:57 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-765963 <em>Thats the face of a paid professional liar. Comment by WORFEUS</em> Ya'll keep saying what I was going to say! That is brilliant, Worfeus, absolutely inspired -- because I was going to say it! :) Thats the face of a paid professional liar.
Comment by WORFEUS

Ya’ll keep saying what I was going to say!

That is brilliant, Worfeus, absolutely inspired — because I was going to say it!
:)

]]> By: theswan http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-765854 theswan Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:08:11 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-765854 It's going to be fun when chris's ship sinks strait the bottom. But, the bags of money and the lies will make his trip a soft landing. It’s going to be fun when chris’s ship sinks strait the bottom. But, the bags of money and the lies will make his trip a soft landing.

]]> By: WORFEUS http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-765778 WORFEUS Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:37:56 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-765778 Take a good long look at that mug people. Thats the face of a paid professional liar. Take a good long look at that mug people.

Thats the face of a paid professional liar.

]]> By: Mehlman http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/comment-page-1/#comment-765758 Mehlman Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:31:44 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/31/mehlman-shays/#comment-765758 There is no spoon. There is no spoon.

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