Also, “Fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here.”

Will NO ONE ever respond to that?

I know what let’s do. Have our recession in Portugal, so we don’t have to have it here. If Portugal doesn’t “like it” that is irrelevant when measured fujitsu fpcbp49 battery,fujitsu fmvlbp103 battery against how much we DO like it, and what it protects us from.

Me too, by heaven! Every time I hear it I am helpless to do other than yell at a Tv that can’t hear me, gosh dammit!

Also, “Fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here.”

Will NO ONE ever respond to that?

I know what let’s do. Have our recession in Portugal, so we don’t have to have it here. If Portugal doesn’t “like it” that is irrelevant when measured against how much we DO like it, and what it protects us from.

After all, we can do whatever the fk we want. THAT much is totally obvious.

The candidates who will clear out of Iraq were eliminated early in the “democratic nomination process,” and it couldn’t have been done without us.

Unfortunately it isn’t just the right who says and thinks that. I have heard both Obama and Clinton say they will leave some troops in Iraq to “protect American interests”. I would like to know what interests that would be. Would it be the embassy we built with foreign labor on land we appropriated from the Iraqis, or maybe the permanent bases, again built with foreign labor on land we appropriated from the Iraqi’s. I’m kind of thinking that the Iraqi’s may want to have their land back and may not agree that those facilities belong to America. Then again, they may be referring to the Iraqi oil as “American interests”. I certainly hope that is not the case with Obama and Clinton. I know that’s the case with McBush.

And after a time where they can blame anything that goes wrong with the evacuation of our troops on President Obama. Then they will say that the Democrats “lost” the war, even though there is no way to lose an occupation.

Of course it wouldn’t. Our government says there are maybe 1,000 AQ in Iraq (if that). When we leave the people of Iraq will kick their butts out of their country. So, if they really are AQ (which I doubt), they will just join Osama & his followers in Pakistan where they are being protected by Musharuff. I’m betting that there are at least twice as many real AQ out there since Bush invaded Iraq. Bush gave them a perfect recruiting ground. Good job Bush!

-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud

Blistered souls float scattered about,
adrift on a sea of pain.
Crimson waves of death crest near,
as The Decider lies in vain.

Fear the horde, no, the other horde,
he plies throughout the land.
As our children’s children disintegrate,
perhaps an eye, or yet a hand.

He says he guards our very lives,
the existence of civilized man.
But in the alleys of ancient Baghdad,
America’s Best wish he’d share his plan.

Vacant cries of “who could have known?”,
amidst the pyres of World Trade.
Lay bare the myth of his compassion,
“My Pet Goat”, his cowardly shade.

Proxy war and proxy dead,
to The Shrub it matters not.
Provided Dick can exercise Options,
as long as Haliburton stays red-hot.

Treasure bled in flesh and gold,
across dunes of soulless oil.
Simmering cauldrons of historic hate,
churned to a gently rolling boil.

The Burning Bush admits no errors,
nor the ditch into which we’ve steered.
Back into the breach he madly proclaims,
after all, “you volunteered”

RJF

Why do you read that rag “the Oregonian”? I took that rag paper for about a month, along with the Corvallis Gazette Times and gave up my subscription after a couple of months. Neither paper reported what was important and their letters to the editor and editorials were skewed right.

Actually, I started and stopped the Gazette Times three times. I sort of wanted my local news but eventually couldn’t put up with the rightward slant of the newspaper. A funny thing happened after my third quit. The editor of the newspaper actually called me to ask why I had started then stopped the newspaper three times. I told him it was because the newspaper did not report the important news and it was slanted right with its editorials and letters printed. He actually told me that they print EVERY letter they get so if they are slanted right, it’s because Corvallis is slanted right. I reminded him that I had submitted several letters to the editor that had never been printed and that Corvallis is decidedly left in it’s political leanings. I concluded with the thought that maybe the problem was that no self-respecting Democrat would be caught dead subscribing to their newspaper.

Al-Qaeda is getting mostly what is wants out of 9/11, yet we’re the “defeatocrats” and “loonie left-wing bloggers”

No, we’re the strategists. The rest of ‘em are knee-jerk warmongers.

Exactly. It could have been ended in Tora Bora. Mostly.

But instead, they allowed OBL to slip away into pakistan where he could establish a new base and rebuild is organization. And then we further inflamed things by invading Iraq. Which became a powerful new recruiting tool for AQ, further swelling their ranks and becoming a new powerful base for AQ in addition to the base OBL had rebuilt in Pakistan.

Nearly everything this administration has done in the last 7 years has made AQ more powerful and more of a threat to us.

Now were told we have to stay in Iraq so we can be safe… and fight AQ…

I somehow doubt that even if we did ‘win’ in Iraq, that wouldn’t mean the end of AQ, or the threat that they now represent.

Indeed, if this administration had no intent to protract this conflict and keep it to the point, they would have allowed then-BGen Mattis’ task force to surround Tora Bora. But, by denying his request and invading Iraq, they lured Al-Qaeda to different regions to impose themselves on other innocent people.

Containment works. We’ve known for years why this administration didn’t want to keep it down to size. Their obsession with oil and privatizing overlooks the dangers of creating new terrorists.

If the little guy with the swagger and smirk and fragile ego won’t listen to the 75% of Americans who think, why should he listen to some cheesy propped up puppet?