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	<title>Comments on: Government Agency Issues Grim Report On Iraq, Warns Of &#8216;Descent Into Hell&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: KfcwiIyy0C</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-2/#comment-1435251</link>
		<dc:creator>KfcwiIyy0C</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi! Very nice site! Thanks you very much! n4d8UxEGOvn</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi! Very nice site! Thanks you very much! n4d8UxEGOvn<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1435251', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Alexander</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-2/#comment-1031844</link>
		<dc:creator>Alexander</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>66.  The Iraqi debacle is sure a poor way to assist Israel. The neo-cons are for all practical purposes enemies of Israel.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>66.  The Iraqi debacle is sure a poor way to assist Israel. The neo-cons are for all practical purposes enemies of Israel.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1031844', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Alexander</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-2/#comment-1031569</link>
		<dc:creator>Alexander</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So there is an Inferno here and if the US is lucky a Purgatorio but clearly no Paradisio. This is really terrifying. GW is the neo-con Vergil. Admittedly Bush has delivered a superior Inferno.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So there is an Inferno here and if the US is lucky a Purgatorio but clearly no Paradisio. This is really terrifying. GW is the neo-con Vergil. Admittedly Bush has delivered a superior Inferno.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1031569', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty+aphrodite</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-2/#comment-1031120</link>
		<dc:creator>mighty+aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What is the number Harry had in mind? Your non-response is confirming what I have thought for a long time - you don&#039;t know squat......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is the number Harry had in mind? Your non-response is confirming what I have thought for a long time &#8211; you don&#8217;t know squat&#8230;&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1031120', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: JustJohn</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-2/#comment-1031000</link>
		<dc:creator>JustJohn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#58 &amp; #59 This is the link buy I can&#039;t get it to act like a link ...

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid281953791/bctid281861116</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#58 &amp; #59 This is the link buy I can&#8217;t get it to act like a link &#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid281953791/bctid281861116" rel="nofollow">http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid281953791/bctid281861116</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1031000', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: JustJohn</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1030998</link>
		<dc:creator>JustJohn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#53 I can&#039;t get links to work....
&lt;a href=&quot;http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid281953791/bctid281861116&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#53 I can&#8217;t get links to work&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid281953791/bctid281861116" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1030998', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: JustJohn</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1030993</link>
		<dc:creator>JustJohn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice Iraq Video,,,,,,at one point one of our guys says &quot;if I get fired at from here one more time I&#039;m coming back for you&quot; , he&#039;s talking to one of the trained Iraq police.
&lt;a href=&quot;http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid281953791/bctid281861116&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice Iraq Video,,,,,,at one point one of our guys says &#8220;if I get fired at from here one more time I&#8217;m coming back for you&#8221; , he&#8217;s talking to one of the trained Iraq police.<br />
<a href="http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid281953791/bctid281861116" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1030993', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1030869</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m very glad this news makes all  of you liberals happy...very sad!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m very glad this news makes all  of you liberals happy&#8230;very sad!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1030869', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1030870</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m very glad this news makes all  of you liberals happy...very sad!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m very glad this news makes all  of you liberals happy&#8230;very sad!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1030870', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Madison+Guy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1030354</link>
		<dc:creator>Madison+Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a nightmare. Maybe Bush can get Peace with Honor out of the closet or wherever it&#039;s been hiding, brush it off, and see if anyone salutes. After all, compared to Iraq, getting out of &#039;Nam was a breeze. In those days, Peace with Honor did the heavy lifting for Stay the Course.When last seen, it was standing in line to &lt;a href=&quot;http://letterfromhere.blogspot.com/2006/10/deja-vu-all-over-again.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;catch a helicopter from the roof of the U.S. embassy&lt;/a&gt; and hightail it out of there. It was never seen again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a nightmare. Maybe Bush can get Peace with Honor out of the closet or wherever it&#8217;s been hiding, brush it off, and see if anyone salutes. After all, compared to Iraq, getting out of &#8216;Nam was a breeze. In those days, Peace with Honor did the heavy lifting for Stay the Course.When last seen, it was standing in line to <a href="http://letterfromhere.blogspot.com/2006/10/deja-vu-all-over-again.html" rel="nofollow">catch a helicopter from the roof of the U.S. embassy</a> and hightail it out of there. It was never seen again.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1030354', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: bernarda</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1030315</link>
		<dc:creator>bernarda</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here are two reports on staying the course in Iraq.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/video/page/0,,1927660,00.html

Slave labor building the U.S. Vatican Embassy in Bagdad.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14173

Thanks to The Angry Arab.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are two reports on staying the course in Iraq.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/video/page/0,,1927660,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/video/page/0,,1927660,00.html</a></p>
<p>Slave labor building the U.S. Vatican Embassy in Bagdad.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14173" rel="nofollow">http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14173</a></p>
<p>Thanks to The Angry Arab.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1030315', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty+aphrodite</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1030203</link>
		<dc:creator>mighty+aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;People that HAVE to work for a living, but can afford both necessities and some amenities.&quot; - - 

*******Quit dancing on the head of a pin - HOW MUCH $*income*$ do Progs and Harry say constitute the income of the &quot;Middle Class&quot;?  When you get up off the floor, just post a dollar and cents number.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;People that HAVE to work for a living, but can afford both necessities and some amenities.&#8221; &#8211; - </p>
<p>*******Quit dancing on the head of a pin &#8211; HOW MUCH $*income*$ do Progs and Harry say constitute the income of the &#8220;Middle Class&#8221;?  When you get up off the floor, just post a dollar and cents number.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1030203', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: pete</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1029763</link>
		<dc:creator>pete</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>stupid is as stupid does.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>stupid is as stupid does.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1029763', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty+aphrodite</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1029685</link>
		<dc:creator>mighty+aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#39 -*********Dear Sweet Dem Sold - This may be hard for an ideologue to hear BUT my only complaints re: Clinton and the economy were the tax hikes on Social Security and the tax hikes on the Middle Class - which broke a campaign promise.  His reduced spending was through attrition and I agree with that.  You failed to note that he was the beneficiary of an up-swing in the business cycle, but I&#039;m certain you were simply pressed for time - as I am now....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#39 -*********Dear Sweet Dem Sold &#8211; This may be hard for an ideologue to hear BUT my only complaints re: Clinton and the economy were the tax hikes on Social Security and the tax hikes on the Middle Class &#8211; which broke a campaign promise.  His reduced spending was through attrition and I agree with that.  You failed to note that he was the beneficiary of an up-swing in the business cycle, but I&#8217;m certain you were simply pressed for time &#8211; as I am now&#8230;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1029685', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1029660</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MA 1) You choose to ignore government reports that pretty much put to bed the myth that lower tax revenues pay for themselves, they do not.  Never have never will.  The first honest discussion I heard in this area was in my MBA economics class, and the instructor was a proclaimed conservative.  Perhaps I should have sued the school for its presenting me with professors with such conservative biases.  Yes he actually told the class that is the position he was working from.  Hmm, guess that knife cuts both ways.  2) You also ignore the fact that every year of this administration they project bad numbers and every year when they present the budget the numbers are better so they proclaim things are working.  Interesting pattern there.  Of course every year they ask for another $100 billion or so outside the budget for their favorite pork project - Iraq.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MA 1) You choose to ignore government reports that pretty much put to bed the myth that lower tax revenues pay for themselves, they do not.  Never have never will.  The first honest discussion I heard in this area was in my MBA economics class, and the instructor was a proclaimed conservative.  Perhaps I should have sued the school for its presenting me with professors with such conservative biases.  Yes he actually told the class that is the position he was working from.  Hmm, guess that knife cuts both ways.  2) You also ignore the fact that every year of this administration they project bad numbers and every year when they present the budget the numbers are better so they proclaim things are working.  Interesting pattern there.  Of course every year they ask for another $100 billion or so outside the budget for their favorite pork project &#8211; Iraq.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1029660', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty+aphrodite</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1029619</link>
		<dc:creator>mighty+aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For Truth - It is refreshing to find common ground.  I appreciate the fact that you don&#039;t jump into the &quot;quicksand of the ridiculous&quot; and say &quot;Zero taxes must mean infinite revenue&quot; - that is plain stupid.  I am slow coming to the term limits table - but I am now convinced that those legislators not permanently ensconced in Washington are able to get more done with less entanglements.  The Founding Fathers did not see the Congress as a career - they saw it as public service.

And for those skeptics who question the math, they might receive a bit of enlightenment  in this years fiscal numbers.  The projected deficit is less than anticipated.    

During the argument which took place after the tax revenues increased significantly following the Reagan tax cut, many on the Left never acknowleged the revenue increases - instead they rightfully discussed enormous spending increases.  (Interestingly, they never claimed any credit for those increases, preferring to discuss the increse in military spending singularly.

Dlet - Last week, I heard Harry Reid asked what constituted the &quot;Middle Class&quot; by a television journalist.  He would not, or could not answer.  I&#039;m trying to find out his definition of &quot;Middle Class&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For Truth &#8211; It is refreshing to find common ground.  I appreciate the fact that you don&#8217;t jump into the &#8220;quicksand of the ridiculous&#8221; and say &#8220;Zero taxes must mean infinite revenue&#8221; &#8211; that is plain stupid.  I am slow coming to the term limits table &#8211; but I am now convinced that those legislators not permanently ensconced in Washington are able to get more done with less entanglements.  The Founding Fathers did not see the Congress as a career &#8211; they saw it as public service.</p>
<p>And for those skeptics who question the math, they might receive a bit of enlightenment  in this years fiscal numbers.  The projected deficit is less than anticipated.    </p>
<p>During the argument which took place after the tax revenues increased significantly following the Reagan tax cut, many on the Left never acknowleged the revenue increases &#8211; instead they rightfully discussed enormous spending increases.  (Interestingly, they never claimed any credit for those increases, preferring to discuss the increse in military spending singularly.</p>
<p>Dlet &#8211; Last week, I heard Harry Reid asked what constituted the &#8220;Middle Class&#8221; by a television journalist.  He would not, or could not answer.  I&#8217;m trying to find out his definition of &#8220;Middle Class&#8221;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1029619', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC)</title>
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		<dc:creator>PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There once was a troll named Aphrodite
Who claimed to be oh, so Mighty
But when she argued her case
She fell on her face
For her facts were pulled from the rear of her nightie</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There once was a troll named Aphrodite<br />
Who claimed to be oh, so Mighty<br />
But when she argued her case<br />
She fell on her face<br />
For her facts were pulled from the rear of her nightie<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1029305', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dlet</title>
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		<dc:creator>dlet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Dear dlet - You really have to admire those Iranians and North Koreans, WHEW!! To get SO much done in 5 short years!!!
Comment by mighty+aphrodite &lt;/em&gt;

Ok. First it took a lot longer than 5 years.  The Koreans had a program in the Reagan years and had bomb material in Bush the Elder&#039;s time.  They never detonated a bomb until Bush the Stupid named them part of an Axis of Evil.  

The Iranians were aided to build the reactor by guess who:

&lt;em&gt;By 1975 U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, had signed National Security Decision Memorandum 292, titled &quot;U.S.-Iran Nuclear Co-operation,&quot; which laid out the details of the sale of nuclear energy equipment to Iran projected to bring U.S. corporations more than $6 billion in revenue.&lt;/em&gt;

&lt;em&gt;Until the change of administration in 1977, Dick Cheney, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz, some of the strongest opponents of Iran&#039;s nuclear programme today, were all heavily involved in promoting an Iranian nuclear programme that could extract plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel for use in nuclear weapons.[5] In fairness, it must be noted that Iran was an ally of the United States at the time.&lt;/em&gt;

But heh, if blaming Clinton helps gets you up in the morning then who am I to say.

As for Reid please post what the heck you keep cackling about.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Dear dlet &#8211; You really have to admire those Iranians and North Koreans, WHEW!! To get SO much done in 5 short years!!!<br />
Comment by mighty+aphrodite </em></p>
<p>Ok. First it took a lot longer than 5 years.  The Koreans had a program in the Reagan years and had bomb material in Bush the Elder&#8217;s time.  They never detonated a bomb until Bush the Stupid named them part of an Axis of Evil.  </p>
<p>The Iranians were aided to build the reactor by guess who:</p>
<p><em>By 1975 U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, had signed National Security Decision Memorandum 292, titled &#8220;U.S.-Iran Nuclear Co-operation,&#8221; which laid out the details of the sale of nuclear energy equipment to Iran projected to bring U.S. corporations more than $6 billion in revenue.</em></p>
<p><em>Until the change of administration in 1977, Dick Cheney, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz, some of the strongest opponents of Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme today, were all heavily involved in promoting an Iranian nuclear programme that could extract plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel for use in nuclear weapons.[5] In fairness, it must be noted that Iran was an ally of the United States at the time.</em></p>
<p>But heh, if blaming Clinton helps gets you up in the morning then who am I to say.</p>
<p>As for Reid please post what the heck you keep cackling about.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1029224', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Democrat Soldier</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1029208</link>
		<dc:creator>Democrat Soldier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#35 - &quot;Research the JFK, Reagan and Bush models of increased tax revenues due to lowered rates.&quot;  If that were completely true, then why not make all taxes 0.00001% and get 99.99999% more revenue, right?!?!?  Nope, it only works to a degree, at which point lower taxes mean lower revenue.

Actually, it might be better to research the Pres. Clinton method of increasing revenues, normalizing taxes and decreasing spending to create the ONLY US BUDGET SURPLUS IN THE PAST 37 YEARS!!!!

Then Pres. Bush comes into office, increases spending like a crack-whore with a stolen credit card, be the ONLY PRESIDENT TO CUT TAXES DURING A WAR, and create the largest deficit in history.

Sorry, sweetie, when it comes to fiscal responsibility, Republicans gave up that distinction in the 80&#039;s when they said &quot;deficits are good!&quot;.  Republicans are now the &quot;borrow and squander&quot; party, hands down.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#35 &#8211; &#8220;Research the JFK, Reagan and Bush models of increased tax revenues due to lowered rates.&#8221;  If that were completely true, then why not make all taxes 0.00001% and get 99.99999% more revenue, right?!?!?  Nope, it only works to a degree, at which point lower taxes mean lower revenue.</p>
<p>Actually, it might be better to research the Pres. Clinton method of increasing revenues, normalizing taxes and decreasing spending to create the ONLY US BUDGET SURPLUS IN THE PAST 37 YEARS!!!!</p>
<p>Then Pres. Bush comes into office, increases spending like a crack-whore with a stolen credit card, be the ONLY PRESIDENT TO CUT TAXES DURING A WAR, and create the largest deficit in history.</p>
<p>Sorry, sweetie, when it comes to fiscal responsibility, Republicans gave up that distinction in the 80&#8217;s when they said &#8220;deficits are good!&#8221;.  Republicans are now the &#8220;borrow and squander&#8221; party, hands down.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1029208', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: yangho</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/25/iraq-report-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1029170</link>
		<dc:creator>yangho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#24
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I liked the way the way President Bush boiled down the coming election into two distinct areas of relevance:
1.) Who do you trust to protect the American people?
2.) Do you want your taxes raised?
Comment by mighty+aphrodite&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Who do you trust to &quot;protect&quot; the American people? It should be not a single person or a leader(or ruler?). It is Democracy, Liberty society. Bush sounds like anti-democracy, and I &#039;m not surprised many &quot;slave-mind&quot; ppl applaud for that. They should live in totalitarian society where always have a BIG BOSS protect them.</description>
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I liked the way the way President Bush boiled down the coming election into two distinct areas of relevance:<br />
1.) Who do you trust to protect the American people?<br />
2.) Do you want your taxes raised?<br />
Comment by mighty+aphrodite</p></blockquote>
<p>Who do you trust to &#8220;protect&#8221; the American people? It should be not a single person or a leader(or ruler?). It is Democracy, Liberty society. Bush sounds like anti-democracy, and I &#8216;m not surprised many &#8220;slave-mind&#8221; ppl applaud for that. They should live in totalitarian society where always have a BIG BOSS protect them.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1029170', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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