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Monday, April 28, 2008 07:28 AM

@Electro Robot

Your post made sense and is a logical argument.

Now swap variables and replace the variable "Jew" with the variable "Moslem".

It still makes sense and is a logical argument.

"Jews" are not the problem. "Moslems" are not the problem. "Christians" are not the problem.

The problem are those who wish us to hate each other and kill each other as long as we buy the weapons from them and those people who are stupid enough or crazy enough to go along with them.

Most good people want the same thing - Peace on Earth and Goodwill towards all.

Monday, April 28, 2008 07:16 AM

It isn't the Jews.

It is the stupid crazy warmongering idiots who support the warbuckers. They use Israel and the our Judeo-Christian-Islamic mythology to sell war.

They also make a lot of money providing the "enemy" with weapons and wherewithal also.

Catch 22.

There are a lot of schizophrenics, paranoics and psychotics who lap this stuff up like pablum. Teaching children that they are hated and that people want to exterminate them is a great way to produce a schizophrenic, paranoic and/or psychotic person. Pharmaceuticals to the trick with a lot less work, as is evidenced by at least one editor of an website I know of.

Any sane person abhors war and oppression.

Too bad the "mental health" industry is only geared towards selling drugs that produce even more mental illness which explains a lot since so many people are whacked on antidepressants and antipsychotics - most of which are made from pesticides.

Try not to make this a "Jewish" issue as race and religion are merely tools used to market war and justify killings and atrocities.

McCain and Clinton pander to this are are joined at the hip with the warbuckers. Just because Obama is smart enough to keep his mouth shut is no indication that he is a "peace" candidate. His backers are smart enough to know the real money is in restarting the cold war.

Bush and Gore didn't say anything about the plans to invade Afghanistan and Iraq either.

If you do not support war, your only options are to vote for McKinney or Nader and those votes will not be counted anyway.

Monday, April 28, 2008 01:10 AM

@DanielGree

There is a fundamental difference between attacking military targets and specifically targeting civilian targets. The people who won World War II did not win by attacking military targets, they won by the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians. Firebombing cities is a war crime that did not get prosecuted.

Granted, it was a war, but we fought it dirty. War is like that, but killing civilians has no honor and is shameful enough where we don't like to think about it. Because we are the "good" guys.

That being said, World War II was the last time we were actually fighting a war to defend our country by any stretch of the imagination. Since then we have not been fighting the good fight - not once.

Sunday, April 27, 2008 06:49 PM

@HornetDriver

So when are you shipping out to Iraq?

You have enlisted, haven't you?

You believe this BS, don't you?

Sunday, April 27, 2008 04:51 PM

@HornetDriver

I'm not the gullible one and those "meds" are made from pesticides.

Arizona is very pretty.

Those last Bin Laden videos look like could've been done by the Jib Jab folks. Next time they should hire ILM and have Bin Laden do some Yoda Jedi Kung Fu moves. Run one of those before the election and you will be voting for McCain!

Sunday, April 27, 2008 01:02 PM

@vercingetorix

Bin Laden denied involvement in 9/11 via a videotaped message. It was real and it was him. The videotape in which "he" admitted responsibility of 9/11 was a guy that was clearly not him - shorter nose, different face and different beard. The most recent videos have been cheap CGI efforts - most noticeable in the dyed beard video. The newer videos have also been very low quality. HD cameras are cheap and plentiful - even in the Mideast. Since there have been no denials of the phony videotapes and audio tapes, it suggests that he is dead, otherwise he would have said something. The team assigned to the task of finding Bin Laden has been reassigned to real tasks. No one is looking for Bin Laden because they know he is dead.

The Bin Laden family and the Bush family have close business and personal ties, the alternative being that he has been retired or incarcerated since his position as a US intelligence operative is no longer active. I think that keeping him alive is too risky and finding a dead body is bad for the war on terror.

The legend lives on even though the flesh does not.

Emmanuel Goldstein works for Big Brother.

My guess is they killed him when they picked up some "product" from him and he was expecting a suitcase full of cash. Afghanistan was always about the heroin and that was planned way before 9/11. Bin Laden would have been a problem for the Sunni against Shia scam the contractors set up and had to be eliminated in order to keep this thing going on.

Can you imagine Bin Laden not saying something about Sunnis and Shias killing each other? That would have been an affront to him just as much as our military bases in Saudi Arabia.

Our "enemy" doesn't want him dead either.

If he is alive, let's see some HD video of him and actually see his lips move this time.

Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:32 PM

Two KKK references in a row!

Make that three.

What's that smell, Joan?

Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:28 PM

Does the KKK have a branch in San Francisco?

Maybe Joan could start one and commensurate with those who agree with her assessment of the Reverend Wright. Maybe Fox News could use another phony "Liberal" on the Sunday Morning War Propaganda programs - the demographic of White Women afraid of Black Men has been too long overlooked and neglected.

Salon could use another editor.

Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:13 PM

@weeping for brunnhilde

Joan will feel much better if a Woman bombs the hell out of Iran rather than a Black Man.

You've come a long way, BABY!

Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:08 PM

@cythera45 and electro robot

Most anti-liberals believe that War is Peace, Slavery is Freedom and Ignorance is Strength.

No, they are not conservatives, they are not moderates, they are fascists.

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