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		<title>By: Lora</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lora</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1) We (Republiscums) are looking out for the world, in general.  2) Itâ€™s your party that has turned the war into a partisan issue so you can win more seats in 08â€²
Comment by Darryl

1) Which is why on global opinion polls Dumbya Bush ranks just below Osama Bin Laden and just above Kim Jong Il as &quot;the most dangerous person in the world,&quot; I suppose.  I assume you don&#039;t travel beyond US borders, because your Bush hero isn&#039;t very popular even in our allied nations like Japan, Australia, and Britain.
2) I don&#039;t agree with the first part of your sentence, but thank you for admitting in effect that the war is so unpopular that it will win more seats for Dems in &#039;08.</description>
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Comment by Darryl</p>
<p>1) Which is why on global opinion polls Dumbya Bush ranks just below Osama Bin Laden and just above Kim Jong Il as &#8220;the most dangerous person in the world,&#8221; I suppose.  I assume you don&#8217;t travel beyond US borders, because your Bush hero isn&#8217;t very popular even in our allied nations like Japan, Australia, and Britain.<br />
2) I don&#8217;t agree with the first part of your sentence, but thank you for admitting in effect that the war is so unpopular that it will win more seats for Dems in &#8216;08.<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=3947249', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: franecscoz</title>
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		<dc:creator>franecscoz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, this blog is a marvellous example of democracy. Instead, in Italy we sleep: http://www.solospettacolo.it/19072007/se-tv-fa-rima-con-blog/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, this blog is a marvellous example of democracy. Instead, in Italy we sleep: <a href="http://www.solospettacolo.it/19072007/se-tv-fa-rima-con-blog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.solospettacolo.it/19072007/se-tv-fa-rima-con-blog/</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=3946840', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: David</title>
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		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>see http://photo2text.com/</description>
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		<title>By: PaulD</title>
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		<dc:creator>PaulD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In case you haven&#039;t seen this it is (in my opinion) the best speech given on Iraq last night:

VIDEO

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In case you haven&#8217;t seen this it is (in my opinion) the best speech given on Iraq last night:</p>
<p>VIDEO</p>
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		<title>By: LiberalRebel</title>
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		<dc:creator>LiberalRebel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>See, this is the thing. Most people that are in here refuting any stance of troop withdrawal could in fact (and with very little fantasy needed to be seeing this theoretically) either one of two things...either pretty low IQ:ed closet dwellers that even though they for sure only earn 3% of what one of them hard core Neo-Con millionaires/billionaires do each months, they still want to be like them.

...or...

A group of Al quaida supporters that are pretty good in English and have been sent in here to do whatever to enable a split and spread dividing between Americans. Because if one is just slightly smart enough, one can see which group it is that are growing their powers by by the day and really are benefiting from having the US military might staying put and bleeding and wasting their men and women in that exact spot ... = Al quaida and their leader Osama Bin Ladin.

if one looks really clearly and totally with eyes blind to political partisanship at what has happened since that dreadful day when the attack was orchestrated one might see something even more horrific.

Where is the traditional fearlessness of Americans? 

Where is the pride in its laws and its own Constitution? 

Can one really state that the America of today is the same as it has always been? 

Are its citizen proud to not be sure that NSA aren&#039;t snooping by proxy on exact their home phone, PC or cellular phone? 

Has it always been ok to call other citizens of ones own country &quot;un patriotic&quot; or &quot;un American&quot; just because they do not agree with ones own political views? 

Is it cool to admire people who screams and shouts that their guests are idiots and unpatriotic for not agreeing with ones President and ones own perception on reality? 
How can one in fact be doing this during six whole years of a pathetically theatrical &quot;news broadcast&quot; and NOW when the nightmarish turn around of events suddenly be seeing the need to him self turn around and show the stomach to state a lie saying that he has never been in favor for said President (talking about your dear O&#039;Rielly) 

Is it the same to be a true American to adore and be a fan of a drag queen who tries in vane to look like a woman while acting like a blood thirsty brute who in national medias ask for democrats of opposite view to die or stating that &quot;it&#039;s&quot; wishes is to have them murdered or killed? 
(I think most of you got the character behind that one without me needing to point out the obvious to you.)

What has happened to the phrase &quot;being a proud American&quot;? I am asking this since it now has been scientifically cleared that in a few decades time there will be mostly proud Americans of Latin. Asian and Afro American descendant&#039;s and that being a &quot;Caucasian American&quot; will be pseudonymous as being part  of quite a minority of the population.

Any ways. These Democratic senators that now are trying to do something to end the slaughtering of young American life&#039;s have at last shown that they are really trying to make an effort to abide with what the vast majority of the American people asked of them when they voted these Democrats into power last year. 
And what to me seem so unbelievable is the fact that them Republicans still can&#039;t seem to sense the soul of their very own Nation. That is a mighty soul of the majority of said nations citizens whom all and for for a long time now have repeated over and over again that &quot;enough is enough&quot;. Are those Republicans (politically speaking) suicidal? Or don&#039;t they just give a damn whether they talk, walk and mostly do act against  the wishes of their own electives? 

This President and his strange group of followers are an ensemble never before seen neither inside as well as outside the United States of America. Because there have never before been such a humongous  pile of embarrassing incompetence happening in most topics they&#039;ve put their hands on, what can only be viewed as a tremendous nonchalance against the welfare of many of their very own citizens. What about such an unprecedented amount of lies upon lies that this administration have shamelessly and bluntly been spreading repeatedly in the vane and hopeful imagination that it would enable the manipulation of ones own people, yet it was mostly spread so far outward and repeated incoherently that in the end, their chances of controlling and troubleshooting these lies are chances hastily going into that utterly hot place they as born again Christians and other fanatics really should have tried to stay away from them selves by not conducting into such unchristian doings, am I right or what? (can&#039;t nothing but smile here.) See, them so wished for &quot;perfect Rovian setups&quot; have instead turned against them Neo-cons and are increasingly becoming an unwelcome revealing of lies and crook like politically motivated maneuvers gone so astray that it is now only enforcing conclusion that these piles of evidence are clearly pointing towards. That this Neo-Conservative groups incompetence is reaching hilarious levels and is really in a no return kind of sense, out of hand. 

What else do they do? Have anyone  true republican really tried to decode the whys behind the usage of these quite unattractive,              
definitely undemocratic, uttermost intellectually dishonest and highly manipulative techniques that Bush via Rove, Rumsfeldt Rice and Cheney all to clearly have been embracing as standard work methods? 

What has been the final essence of conducting administrative missions in the hope of succeeding them aimed agendas of said group.   
Well, if one takes a good look at those enormously widened cracks in them economical bridges between poor, middle class, rich and filthy rich  within the American society, one can only conclude that the corrosion&#039;s of checks of balances and the ability to use fear mongering to utilize the reach of goals have enforced the ability to gain what some would call &quot;pointed give aways&quot;. One look at Forbes 500 have revealed the unprecedented rice of new billionaires. 891 in north America only. Doesn&#039;t it seem strange that one can trace a lot of these new billionaires have made a huge profit out of bonds that originates from the almighty weapons industry?

Let&#039;s see, I&#039;ll quote from an article by I H-Zadeh 

&quot;At the heart of the reluctance to withdraw from Iraq lies the profiteers&#039; unwillingness to give up further fortunes and spoils of war.

Pentagon contractors constitute the overwhelming majority of these profiteers. They include not only the giant manufacturing contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing, but also a complex maze of over 100,000 service contractors and sub-contractors such as private army or security corporations and &quot;reconstruction&quot; firms.&quot;
These Service contractors and reconstruction firms comes in the likes of KBR &amp; Halliburton....
 
(even if I find it hard to divide them apart sine KBR Inc is a subsidiary of said Halliburton which had Cheney as Chief in Command not long ago, what a strange coincidence huh? LOL!)

....and private armies/ security firms comes in the likes of Black Water and so on.

Oh my, It looks like a whole pile of mess that the American children of yours children&#039;s children and so on and so on and so on...will have to pay back considering those fantastically high and still ricing Public debt,  	$9 trillion (June. 2007 est.)

I will leave while letting them words by two more influential and much more forceful personalities from our past take what might be an unoccupied space of thought within you dear friends, hence them timeless phrases by two of your long gone country men who saw into the future and tried to warn us all.

     &quot;The military-industrial-complex [would] cause military spending to be driven not by national security needs but by a network of weapons makers, lobbyists and elected officials.&quot;

    - Dwight D. Eisenhower

    &quot;There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.&quot;

    - General Smedley D. Butler


Thanks for the word - LiberalRebel</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>See, this is the thing. Most people that are in here refuting any stance of troop withdrawal could in fact (and with very little fantasy needed to be seeing this theoretically) either one of two things&#8230;either pretty low IQ:ed closet dwellers that even though they for sure only earn 3% of what one of them hard core Neo-Con millionaires/billionaires do each months, they still want to be like them.</p>
<p>&#8230;or&#8230;</p>
<p>A group of Al quaida supporters that are pretty good in English and have been sent in here to do whatever to enable a split and spread dividing between Americans. Because if one is just slightly smart enough, one can see which group it is that are growing their powers by by the day and really are benefiting from having the US military might staying put and bleeding and wasting their men and women in that exact spot &#8230; = Al quaida and their leader Osama Bin Ladin.</p>
<p>if one looks really clearly and totally with eyes blind to political partisanship at what has happened since that dreadful day when the attack was orchestrated one might see something even more horrific.</p>
<p>Where is the traditional fearlessness of Americans? </p>
<p>Where is the pride in its laws and its own Constitution? </p>
<p>Can one really state that the America of today is the same as it has always been? </p>
<p>Are its citizen proud to not be sure that NSA aren&#8217;t snooping by proxy on exact their home phone, PC or cellular phone? </p>
<p>Has it always been ok to call other citizens of ones own country &#8220;un patriotic&#8221; or &#8220;un American&#8221; just because they do not agree with ones own political views? </p>
<p>Is it cool to admire people who screams and shouts that their guests are idiots and unpatriotic for not agreeing with ones President and ones own perception on reality?<br />
How can one in fact be doing this during six whole years of a pathetically theatrical &#8220;news broadcast&#8221; and NOW when the nightmarish turn around of events suddenly be seeing the need to him self turn around and show the stomach to state a lie saying that he has never been in favor for said President (talking about your dear O&#8217;Rielly) </p>
<p>Is it the same to be a true American to adore and be a fan of a drag queen who tries in vane to look like a woman while acting like a blood thirsty brute who in national medias ask for democrats of opposite view to die or stating that &#8220;it&#8217;s&#8221; wishes is to have them murdered or killed?<br />
(I think most of you got the character behind that one without me needing to point out the obvious to you.)</p>
<p>What has happened to the phrase &#8220;being a proud American&#8221;? I am asking this since it now has been scientifically cleared that in a few decades time there will be mostly proud Americans of Latin. Asian and Afro American descendant&#8217;s and that being a &#8220;Caucasian American&#8221; will be pseudonymous as being part  of quite a minority of the population.</p>
<p>Any ways. These Democratic senators that now are trying to do something to end the slaughtering of young American life&#8217;s have at last shown that they are really trying to make an effort to abide with what the vast majority of the American people asked of them when they voted these Democrats into power last year.<br />
And what to me seem so unbelievable is the fact that them Republicans still can&#8217;t seem to sense the soul of their very own Nation. That is a mighty soul of the majority of said nations citizens whom all and for for a long time now have repeated over and over again that &#8220;enough is enough&#8221;. Are those Republicans (politically speaking) suicidal? Or don&#8217;t they just give a damn whether they talk, walk and mostly do act against  the wishes of their own electives? </p>
<p>This President and his strange group of followers are an ensemble never before seen neither inside as well as outside the United States of America. Because there have never before been such a humongous  pile of embarrassing incompetence happening in most topics they&#8217;ve put their hands on, what can only be viewed as a tremendous nonchalance against the welfare of many of their very own citizens. What about such an unprecedented amount of lies upon lies that this administration have shamelessly and bluntly been spreading repeatedly in the vane and hopeful imagination that it would enable the manipulation of ones own people, yet it was mostly spread so far outward and repeated incoherently that in the end, their chances of controlling and troubleshooting these lies are chances hastily going into that utterly hot place they as born again Christians and other fanatics really should have tried to stay away from them selves by not conducting into such unchristian doings, am I right or what? (can&#8217;t nothing but smile here.) See, them so wished for &#8220;perfect Rovian setups&#8221; have instead turned against them Neo-cons and are increasingly becoming an unwelcome revealing of lies and crook like politically motivated maneuvers gone so astray that it is now only enforcing conclusion that these piles of evidence are clearly pointing towards. That this Neo-Conservative groups incompetence is reaching hilarious levels and is really in a no return kind of sense, out of hand. </p>
<p>What else do they do? Have anyone  true republican really tried to decode the whys behind the usage of these quite unattractive,<br />
definitely undemocratic, uttermost intellectually dishonest and highly manipulative techniques that Bush via Rove, Rumsfeldt Rice and Cheney all to clearly have been embracing as standard work methods? </p>
<p>What has been the final essence of conducting administrative missions in the hope of succeeding them aimed agendas of said group.<br />
Well, if one takes a good look at those enormously widened cracks in them economical bridges between poor, middle class, rich and filthy rich  within the American society, one can only conclude that the corrosion&#8217;s of checks of balances and the ability to use fear mongering to utilize the reach of goals have enforced the ability to gain what some would call &#8220;pointed give aways&#8221;. One look at Forbes 500 have revealed the unprecedented rice of new billionaires. 891 in north America only. Doesn&#8217;t it seem strange that one can trace a lot of these new billionaires have made a huge profit out of bonds that originates from the almighty weapons industry?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see, I&#8217;ll quote from an article by I H-Zadeh </p>
<p>&#8220;At the heart of the reluctance to withdraw from Iraq lies the profiteers&#8217; unwillingness to give up further fortunes and spoils of war.</p>
<p>Pentagon contractors constitute the overwhelming majority of these profiteers. They include not only the giant manufacturing contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing, but also a complex maze of over 100,000 service contractors and sub-contractors such as private army or security corporations and &#8220;reconstruction&#8221; firms.&#8221;<br />
These Service contractors and reconstruction firms comes in the likes of KBR &amp; Halliburton&#8230;.</p>
<p>(even if I find it hard to divide them apart sine KBR Inc is a subsidiary of said Halliburton which had Cheney as Chief in Command not long ago, what a strange coincidence huh? LOL!)</p>
<p>&#8230;.and private armies/ security firms comes in the likes of Black Water and so on.</p>
<p>Oh my, It looks like a whole pile of mess that the American children of yours children&#8217;s children and so on and so on and so on&#8230;will have to pay back considering those fantastically high and still ricing Public debt,  	$9 trillion (June. 2007 est.)</p>
<p>I will leave while letting them words by two more influential and much more forceful personalities from our past take what might be an unoccupied space of thought within you dear friends, hence them timeless phrases by two of your long gone country men who saw into the future and tried to warn us all.</p>
<p>     &#8220;The military-industrial-complex [would] cause military spending to be driven not by national security needs but by a network of weapons makers, lobbyists and elected officials.&#8221;</p>
<p>    &#8211; Dwight D. Eisenhower</p>
<p>    &#8220;There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.&#8221;</p>
<p>    &#8211; General Smedley D. Butler</p>
<p>Thanks for the word &#8211; LiberalRebel<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=3945249', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ringo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ringo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Joe Lieberman seems to be the only decent Democrat left in the Senate...Oh wait, Lieberman&#039;s not a Democrat anymore. 

I guess that means that there isn&#039;t a single decent Democrat left, just a bunch of sour-faced, bitter, defeatists and a few raving anti-American nutjobs.

The Democrat party is rotten to it&#039;s core.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joe Lieberman seems to be the only decent Democrat left in the Senate&#8230;Oh wait, Lieberman&#8217;s not a Democrat anymore. </p>
<p>I guess that means that there isn&#8217;t a single decent Democrat left, just a bunch of sour-faced, bitter, defeatists and a few raving anti-American nutjobs.</p>
<p>The Democrat party is rotten to it&#8217;s core.<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=3945184', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: katy</title>
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		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>why are some voting AFTER the roll was read?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>why are some voting AFTER the roll was read?<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=3945136', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: KYJurisDoctor</title>
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		<dc:creator>KYJurisDoctor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ALL the showboating in Congress accomplished last night was ... NOTHING! Now that&#039;s PATHETIC.

http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://OsiSpeaks.org</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ALL the showboating in Congress accomplished last night was &#8230; NOTHING! Now that&#8217;s PATHETIC.</p>
<p><a href="http://OsiSpeaks.com" rel="nofollow">http://OsiSpeaks.com</a> or <a href="http://OsiSpeaks.org" rel="nofollow">http://OsiSpeaks.org</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=3945128', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: doro</title>
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		<dc:creator>doro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt; So, we might have the dumbest congress in history having a dumb-off with a dumb president.

Comment by german t. cruz â€” July 18, 2007 @ 9:19 am&lt;/em&gt;

Given the fact that they caved in to Mr Bush&#039;s veto last time, this evaluation may be quite correct, accidentally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em> So, we might have the dumbest congress in history having a dumb-off with a dumb president.</p>
<p>Comment by german t. cruz â€” July 18, 2007 @ 9:19 am</em></p>
<p>Given the fact that they caved in to Mr Bush&#8217;s veto last time, this evaluation may be quite correct, accidentally.<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=3945103', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: katy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/17/live-blogging-the-senate-iraq-filibuster/comment-page-23/#comment-3945088</link>
		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ugh... remind me i can&#039;t do that very often...

drinking my coffee... cspan in the background...

i hear mcconnel refer to &quot;the junior senator from connecticut&quot;...

did i ??? ... because it happens that he was talking about

LIEberman... oy...

such hooey...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ugh&#8230; remind me i can&#8217;t do that very often&#8230;</p>
<p>drinking my coffee&#8230; cspan in the background&#8230;</p>
<p>i hear mcconnel refer to &#8220;the junior senator from connecticut&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>did i ??? &#8230; because it happens that he was talking about</p>
<p>LIEberman&#8230; oy&#8230;</p>
<p>such hooey&#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=3945088', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: PaulD</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/17/live-blogging-the-senate-iraq-filibuster/comment-page-23/#comment-3944923</link>
		<dc:creator>PaulD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here is the best Video from last night. Totally worth watching

VIDEO:
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is the best Video from last night. Totally worth watching</p>
<p>VIDEO:<br />
<a href="http://beta.redlasso.com/Community/ClipPlayer.aspx?i=8d314ed8-57a0-4427-bfe7-f652600f7683" rel="nofollow">http://beta.redlasso.com/Community/ClipPlayer.aspx?i=8d314ed8-57a0-4427-bfe7-f652600f7683</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=3944923', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Candyce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/17/live-blogging-the-senate-iraq-filibuster/comment-page-23/#comment-3944904</link>
		<dc:creator>Candyce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If Bush is so dumb how come the galaxy of superior brains in the senate and the house cannot defeat him.
Comment by german t. cruz

You really haven&#039;t been paying attention, have you?  The county fair is thataway--------&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If Bush is so dumb how come the galaxy of superior brains in the senate and the house cannot defeat him.<br />
Comment by german t. cruz</p>
<p>You really haven&#8217;t been paying attention, have you?  The county fair is thataway&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;&gt;<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=3944904', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bruce Gorton</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/17/live-blogging-the-senate-iraq-filibuster/comment-page-23/#comment-3944901</link>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Gorton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>german t. cruz

Watch an American movie. See the dumb guy? He&#039;s the hero. See the smart guy? He is the villian.

Americans, from a very young age, are taught to idolise the stupid and be suspicious of the bright. It is in most American entertainment: The worst an idiot is, is harmless, and that is about the best the intellegent can manage.

Consequently, in American politics, having brains is a liability, not an asset.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>german t. cruz</p>
<p>Watch an American movie. See the dumb guy? He&#8217;s the hero. See the smart guy? He is the villian.</p>
<p>Americans, from a very young age, are taught to idolise the stupid and be suspicious of the bright. It is in most American entertainment: The worst an idiot is, is harmless, and that is about the best the intellegent can manage.</p>
<p>Consequently, in American politics, having brains is a liability, not an asset.<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=3944901', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: german t. cruz</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/17/live-blogging-the-senate-iraq-filibuster/comment-page-23/#comment-3944893</link>
		<dc:creator>german t. cruz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is wonderful and pathetic at the same time. Kind of girls gone wild in the senate floor. Teddy should be screaming: Toga!! toga!!! toga!!! while holding the two frumps from California in their yellow polka dot bikinis underlaid with Depends. Chappaquidick was never this much fun.

They all should be wearing jammies with footsies and hold a blanket for a collective photo shot.

If Bush is so dumb how come the galaxy of superior brains in the senate and the house cannot defeat him. Perhaps his dumbness is a special power from Ork that enables a magic far too powerful for mere human smartness to penetrate or could it be that that those who are so smart really aren&#039;t. So, we might have the dumbest congress in history having a dumb-off with a dumb president. Wow. I rather go to the county fair to watch the big sow and her 23 piglets.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is wonderful and pathetic at the same time. Kind of girls gone wild in the senate floor. Teddy should be screaming: Toga!! toga!!! toga!!! while holding the two frumps from California in their yellow polka dot bikinis underlaid with Depends. Chappaquidick was never this much fun.</p>
<p>They all should be wearing jammies with footsies and hold a blanket for a collective photo shot.</p>
<p>If Bush is so dumb how come the galaxy of superior brains in the senate and the house cannot defeat him. Perhaps his dumbness is a special power from Ork that enables a magic far too powerful for mere human smartness to penetrate or could it be that that those who are so smart really aren&#8217;t. So, we might have the dumbest congress in history having a dumb-off with a dumb president. Wow. I rather go to the county fair to watch the big sow and her 23 piglets.<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=3944893', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Candyce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/17/live-blogging-the-senate-iraq-filibuster/comment-page-23/#comment-3944888</link>
		<dc:creator>Candyce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can someone tell me what happens at 11am?  Is Reid really going to go to cloture at that time?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can someone tell me what happens at 11am?  Is Reid really going to go to cloture at that time?<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=3944888', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: multilee</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/17/live-blogging-the-senate-iraq-filibuster/comment-page-23/#comment-3944883</link>
		<dc:creator>multilee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is Graham joking?!?!!?  I swear I&#039;m about to throw up my breakfast with the crapola he&#039;s trying to sell....just the way he worked in Iran into his diatribe is an insult!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is Graham joking?!?!!?  I swear I&#8217;m about to throw up my breakfast with the crapola he&#8217;s trying to sell&#8230;.just the way he worked in Iran into his diatribe is an insult!<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=3944883', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Candyce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/17/live-blogging-the-senate-iraq-filibuster/comment-page-23/#comment-3944882</link>
		<dc:creator>Candyce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How disingenous Graham is!  Trying to sell us on the idea that passage of Levin/Reed means all our troops will be out by May of 2008 and Al Qaeda and Iran will take over Iraq.  No one has ever said we&#039;d be out by May, only that we&#039;d begin redeployment in April.  No one thinks we can completely withdraw in 30 days.  It&#039;s physically and logistically impossible.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How disingenous Graham is!  Trying to sell us on the idea that passage of Levin/Reed means all our troops will be out by May of 2008 and Al Qaeda and Iran will take over Iraq.  No one has ever said we&#8217;d be out by May, only that we&#8217;d begin redeployment in April.  No one thinks we can completely withdraw in 30 days.  It&#8217;s physically and logistically impossible.<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=3944882', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: DM</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/17/live-blogging-the-senate-iraq-filibuster/comment-page-23/#comment-3944881</link>
		<dc:creator>DM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#1145 ~ The blogging stopped because voting was suspended until 5am.  I&#039;m just disappointed that it didn&#039;t resume at 5am, apparently Kerry was talking this morning and it would have been nice for him to remind everyone that the Army will be getting more done before breakfast than they will do all day.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#1145 ~ The blogging stopped because voting was suspended until 5am.  I&#8217;m just disappointed that it didn&#8217;t resume at 5am, apparently Kerry was talking this morning and it would have been nice for him to remind everyone that the Army will be getting more done before breakfast than they will do all day.<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=3944881', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Candyce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/17/live-blogging-the-senate-iraq-filibuster/comment-page-23/#comment-3944879</link>
		<dc:creator>Candyce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cripes, here&#039;s Lindsey Graham.  I&#039;d like to see Webb pummel him again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cripes, here&#8217;s Lindsey Graham.  I&#8217;d like to see Webb pummel him 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=3944879', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: veritas</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/17/live-blogging-the-senate-iraq-filibuster/comment-page-23/#comment-3944878</link>
		<dc:creator>veritas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The longer the Dems &quot;allow&quot; these corrupt Repugnants to define themselves as having the blood of our fallen patriots on their hands, the greater these  class action suits against each Republican Representative will grow - holding each pro-war Rethug&#039;s feet to the fire and hitting them in the pocketbook for the deaths they&#039;ve brought about.  I can understand Pelosi&#039;s rationale since these lawsuits are being organized right now; however, there comes a point of diminishing returns which, I believe, is right now.  There&#039;s enough direct vote support evidence (prima facie) to bring about these lawsuits against the GOPers personally so let&#039;s get on with the impeachment.

I must say that the Dems may have outsmarted their evil twins on this one though.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The longer the Dems &#8220;allow&#8221; these corrupt Repugnants to define themselves as having the blood of our fallen patriots on their hands, the greater these  class action suits against each Republican Representative will grow &#8211; holding each pro-war Rethug&#8217;s feet to the fire and hitting them in the pocketbook for the deaths they&#8217;ve brought about.  I can understand Pelosi&#8217;s rationale since these lawsuits are being organized right now; however, there comes a point of diminishing returns which, I believe, is right now.  There&#8217;s enough direct vote support evidence (prima facie) to bring about these lawsuits against the GOPers personally so let&#8217;s get on with the impeachment.</p>
<p>I must say that the Dems may have outsmarted their evil twins on this one though.<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=3944878', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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