Comments on: Confirmed: Iraq Timelines Dropped http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:31:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Eric http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817983 Eric Wed, 23 May 2007 16:32:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817983 So liberal bigshots with your huge mandate of change in the last elections.......what happened? <strong> Scoreboard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</strong> It appears the American people were dissatisfied with Bush's handling of the war............ because the majority want to see victory and an increase. Not cut and run. Pelosi caved and will continue to cave under the intense pressure for America to succeed - not fail. You guys got your ass handed to you on this one...............let's hear the spin. So liberal bigshots with your huge mandate of change in the last elections…….what happened?

Scoreboard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It appears the American people were dissatisfied with Bush’s handling of the war………… because the majority want to see victory and an increase. Not cut and run.

Pelosi caved and will continue to cave under the intense pressure for America to succeed – not fail. You guys got your ass handed to you on this one……………let’s hear the spin.

]]> By: valiant venus http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817775 valiant venus Wed, 23 May 2007 15:23:37 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817775 Dear Mary - - Too bad Dems (with the exception of your Senator and a few others) didn't want to end the war - - they just wanted better office space.....the "change of address" that comes with POWER...... Dear Mary – - Too bad Dems (with the exception of your Senator and a few others) didn’t want to end the war – - they just wanted better office space…..the “change of address” that comes with POWER……

]]> By: Mary Poplins http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817491 Mary Poplins Wed, 23 May 2007 13:19:00 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817491 Happy Guy Wisconsin is not a Republican state We have a Democrat Governor and Two Democrat Senator. The only one that is delusional is you. We have Senator Russ Feingold that has been against this war from the start. and I am proud he is my Sentor. I will never, never vote for any Nut Republican. Happy Guy

Wisconsin is not a Republican state We have a Democrat Governor and Two Democrat Senator. The only one that is delusional is you.

We have Senator Russ Feingold that has been against this war from the start. and I am proud he is my Sentor.

I will never, never vote for any Nut Republican.

]]> By: Happy Guy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817452 Happy Guy Wed, 23 May 2007 12:40:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817452 Ah-ha-ha-ha, so the Dems caved in! No spine, no moral center. Did some “poll” tell them what to do again? I am not going to read through 235 comment, but looking at the last one I have to say something to #235 – Hey Mary, you say “We in Wisconsin have been trying for years to get rid of Rep. James Sensenbrenner and he is still in congress.” You have to realize. Your “We” is a minority if he keeps getting voted in. Just like the delusional idiots on this site who think the rest of the country thinks like them. ROTFL Ah-ha-ha-ha, so the Dems caved in! No spine, no moral center. Did some “poll” tell them what to do again?

I am not going to read through 235 comment, but looking at the last one I have to say something to #235 – Hey Mary, you say “We in Wisconsin have been trying for years to get rid of Rep. James Sensenbrenner and he is still in congress.” You have to realize. Your “We” is a minority if he keeps getting voted in. Just like the delusional idiots on this site who think the rest of the country thinks like them.

ROTFL

]]> By: Mary Poplins http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817435 Mary Poplins Wed, 23 May 2007 12:16:08 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817435 #57 Shane It is not that easy to vote someone out. In the first place sometimes there is no one running against that candidate. Do you want the idiot Republican back as majority. Heaven help us all if that happens. We in Wisconsin have been trying for years to get rid of Rep. James Sensenbrenner and he is still in congress. The trouble is there is not enough debates between the candidates. I have my ballot sent to me as then I can look these canidates up on the internet and make a wise decision. I am glad that Senstor Russ Feingold from Wisconsin is speaking out on this war. again. They should make him Majority leader in the Senate and we would end this war. He has been against this war from the start. #57 Shane

It is not that easy to vote someone out. In the first place sometimes there is no one running against that candidate. Do you want the idiot Republican back as majority. Heaven help us all if that happens.

We in Wisconsin have been trying for years to get rid of Rep. James Sensenbrenner and he is still in congress. The trouble is there is not enough debates between the candidates.

I have my ballot sent to me as then I can look these canidates up on the internet and make a wise decision.

I am glad that Senstor Russ Feingold from Wisconsin is speaking out on this war. again. They should make him Majority leader in the Senate and we would end this war. He has been against this war from the start.

]]> By: Paul in LA http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817413 Paul in LA Wed, 23 May 2007 10:29:21 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817413 It's not 'the issue' that swept dems back into power. That is a canard. We won in 2006 for three major reasons: • Howard Dean's 50-state policy, which filed for races which seemed unwinnable until the R scandals started. • Massive depression on the R party side, mainly because of gas prices, the fkup in Iraq, and Bush's loss of credibility. • Considerable efforts to expose and monitor our elections, including heavy scrutiny of electronic tabulation, which clipped Rove's wings. The US population elected Al Gore, elected John Kerry, and voted us more seats in Congress in 2004 and 2006 than we received. Stopping the war is a major source of anger against the Dems. Given Pelosi's rise to power as the leader of the antiwar vote in 2002, it is stupidity to continue to blame her for the vote-fraud that kept our numbers where they are, or for the Blue Dogs -- who are marginally better than R on some social issues, but otherwise gungho for war. It’s not ‘the issue’ that swept dems back into power. That is a canard.

We won in 2006 for three major reasons:

• Howard Dean’s 50-state policy, which filed for races which seemed unwinnable until the R scandals started.

• Massive depression on the R party side, mainly because of gas prices, the fkup in Iraq, and Bush’s loss of credibility.

• Considerable efforts to expose and monitor our elections, including heavy scrutiny of electronic tabulation, which clipped Rove’s wings.

The US population elected Al Gore, elected John Kerry, and voted us more seats in Congress in 2004 and 2006 than we received.

Stopping the war is a major source of anger against the Dems. Given Pelosi’s rise to power as the leader of the antiwar vote in 2002, it is stupidity to continue to blame her for the vote-fraud that kept our numbers where they are, or for the Blue Dogs — who are marginally better than R on some social issues, but otherwise gungho for war.

]]> By: peterh http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817401 peterh Wed, 23 May 2007 07:24:51 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817401 “so the war is the only issue with you?” It’s the issue that swept the dems back in power….it’s quid pro quo time…. “so the war is the only issue with you?”

It’s the issue that swept the dems back in power….it’s quid pro quo time….

]]> By: peterh http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817396 peterh Wed, 23 May 2007 07:10:16 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817396 John Birch is so yesterday.....Iraq is today.....thx on the P.S.....it's late :-) John Birch is so yesterday…..Iraq is today…..thx on the P.S…..it’s late :-)

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817391 JPark Wed, 23 May 2007 07:05:27 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817391 Again, John Birch Society. Look it up. Again, John Birch Society. Look it up.

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817390 JPark Wed, 23 May 2007 07:05:00 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817390 peterh, so the war is the only issue with you? P.S. It is Gravel. peterh, so the war is the only issue with you? P.S. It is Gravel.

]]> By: peterh http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817389 peterh Wed, 23 May 2007 07:02:12 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817389 If Ron Paul was running against Kucinich…..I’d vote for Kucinich If Ron Paul was running against Graves…..I’d vote for Graves Absent of any definitive positions from the dem front runners regarding Iraq **crickets**……I’m “leaning” towards Paul…. At least he’s showing more spine….. If Ron Paul was running against Kucinich…..I’d vote for Kucinich
If Ron Paul was running against Graves…..I’d vote for Graves
Absent of any definitive positions from the dem front runners regarding Iraq **crickets**……I’m “leaning” towards Paul….
At least he’s showing more spine…..

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817384 JPark Wed, 23 May 2007 06:44:28 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817384 By the way peterh, Ron Paul is a member of the John Birch Society. Do you have a problem with that? If you don't, don't even think about claiming you are liberal. By the way peterh, Ron Paul is a member of the John Birch Society. Do you have a problem with that? If you don’t, don’t even think about claiming you are liberal.

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817378 JPark Wed, 23 May 2007 06:32:30 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817378 Are you kidding, peterh? Do you actually believe anybody thinks you would vote for a libertarian rather than a dem if you weren't already a libertarian? Come on, we aren't stupid. Are you kidding, peterh? Do you actually believe anybody thinks you would vote for a libertarian rather than a dem if you weren’t already a libertarian? Come on, we aren’t stupid.

]]> By: peterh http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817370 peterh Wed, 23 May 2007 06:17:21 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817370 "now I see the light!!!" You see nothin’ but the lemming’s bright ass in front of you What I see is a dem leadership willing to sacrifice a lot more lives to further prove a dysfunctional neocon foreign policy…..like 70% of the public hasn’t already figured that out…..we all knew how a repug felt about a grunt’s life, but when politics are involved….dems appear to feel the same way….a means to an end…. “now I see the light!!!”

You see nothin’ but the lemming’s bright ass in front of you

What I see is a dem leadership willing to sacrifice a lot more lives to further prove a dysfunctional neocon foreign policy…..like 70% of the public hasn’t already figured that out…..we all knew how a repug felt about a grunt’s life, but when politics are involved….dems appear to feel the same way….a means to an end….

]]> By: BK http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817362 BK Wed, 23 May 2007 06:02:43 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817362 What an ingenious stratagem by the Democrats in the Congress. I could only chuckle at the news coverage this evening. Everyone from Oberman, to the Man in the Moon, wringing their hands, proclaiming a total defeat for the Democrats, when a 2 year old can see the truth. After the back and forth of the last few weeks, with the big bad veto, and the rest, The republicans have won the battle, an once again took total 1000% lock stock and barrel ownership of the Iraq war. Along with all the death and destruction. The Democrats have begged the republicans in the Congress to join in a bipartisian effort to end the fiasco, but the republican would have none of that. After the smoke clears in a few days, the republicans, and the Press, will wake up to the simple fact, they have been out maneuvered by their own vanity. I knew the democrats would do this weeks ago. Fight like Cat and Dog, and then all of a sudden hand the Executive every demand for a blank check that has been made. If there were ever a question about Iraq being a republican war, this supposed cave in has taken away all doubt. Now we hear the faint "wait until September" refrain in the background. When September comes, the republican rank and file will once again demand yet another carte blanch, and the Democrats will, after a short exercise in Glockenspiel, give them every penny and every brigade the republicans will yet again demand. We all wake up in Ides of March 08, with the Election looking us in the face, and the voters will have more than ample evidence of just who insists on these blank checks, and a continuing Stalingrad on the Tigris hanging like a hangman's noose on the republican party. Ya can't have it both way guys. I cannot believe the republicans are being this short sighted, but what the Hell. Let the Games begin. What an ingenious stratagem by the Democrats in the Congress. I could only chuckle at the news coverage this evening. Everyone from Oberman, to the Man in the Moon, wringing their hands, proclaiming a total defeat for the Democrats, when a 2 year old can see the truth. After the back and forth of the last few weeks, with the big bad veto, and the rest, The republicans have won the battle, an once again took total 1000% lock stock and barrel ownership of the Iraq war. Along with all the death and destruction. The Democrats have begged the republicans in the Congress to join in a bipartisian effort to end the fiasco, but the republican would have none of that. After the smoke
clears in a few days, the republicans, and the Press, will wake up to the simple fact, they have been out maneuvered by their own vanity.
I knew the democrats would do this weeks ago. Fight like Cat and Dog,
and then all of a sudden hand the Executive every demand for a blank
check that has been made. If there were ever a question about Iraq
being a republican war, this supposed cave in has taken away all
doubt. Now we hear the faint “wait until September” refrain in the
background. When September comes, the republican rank and file will
once again demand yet another carte blanch, and the Democrats will,
after a short exercise in Glockenspiel, give them every penny and
every brigade the republicans will yet again demand. We all wake up
in Ides of March 08, with the Election looking us in the face, and the voters will have more than ample evidence of just who insists on these blank checks, and a continuing Stalingrad on the Tigris hanging like a hangman’s noose on the republican party. Ya can’t have it both way guys. I cannot believe the republicans are being this short sighted, but what the Hell. Let the Games begin.

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817357 JPark Wed, 23 May 2007 05:46:23 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817357 I see peterh, dissent within. Yeah, that makes sense. Dissent within means voting for Republican allies Libertarians. Got it. Thanks for the clarification of what being a good Democrat means. I would have thought that would be illogical but now I see the light!!! I see peterh, dissent within. Yeah, that makes sense. Dissent within means voting for Republican allies Libertarians. Got it. Thanks for the clarification of what being a good Democrat means. I would have thought that would be illogical but now I see the light!!!

]]> By: peterh http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817326 peterh Wed, 23 May 2007 05:14:56 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817326 "A man of principles" I am a man of principles……what part of it did you not decipher….like I should friggin’ ask….. “A man of principles”

I am a man of principles……what part of it did you not decipher….like I should friggin’ ask…..

]]> By: peterh http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817320 peterh Wed, 23 May 2007 05:11:29 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817320 "Somehow that doesn’t give you much credibility." And you show zero cred with regard to dissent within….again…FO “Somehow that doesn’t give you much credibility.”

And you show zero cred with regard to dissent within….again…FO

]]> By: Paul in LA http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817311 Paul in LA Wed, 23 May 2007 05:05:55 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817311 "I dropped out of the dem party right after the dems joined the repugs on the footsteps of the capital in denouncing the 9th circuit in their decision on the “god” item in the pledge of allegiance." I see. So you have withdrawn your vote over a meaningless fluff issue that has no actual impact on anything. A man of principles. I will ---not---- support any party that allows our money to say 'In God We Trust.' Have they no shame? “I dropped out of the dem party right after the dems joined the repugs on the footsteps of the capital in denouncing the 9th circuit in their decision on the “god” item in the pledge of allegiance.”

I see. So you have withdrawn your vote over a meaningless fluff issue that has no actual impact on anything.

A man of principles.

I will —not—- support any party that allows our money to say ‘In God We Trust.’ Have they no shame?

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/comment-page-5/#comment-3817309 JPark Wed, 23 May 2007 05:05:23 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/22/confirmed-iraq-timelines-dropped/#comment-3817309 So, you defend yourself as a member of DU but then you equate DU to freeperville. Somehow that doesn't give you much credibility. So, you defend yourself as a member of DU but then you equate DU to freeperville. Somehow that doesn’t give you much credibility.

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