This is just another demonstration that BDS is a global phenomenon. Big Whoop.

Is this the mental disorder that causes one to defend the most un-American, un-conservative policies as long as they come from Bush, even when the rest of the nation has lost their patience with his fascist leanings?

It's established that there is nothing Bush could do that would have brought any other conclusion in this report.

Except not torture people.

It's gotten to the point that I'm glad we have such a bad reputation.

Makes a little man feel tough, huh.

It makes a better bargaining stance.

Yes, failed states will be falling over themselves to get the rendition contracts.

Not only that, we are now well on our way to respect from the members of the UN.

Only $5-10-15 trillion more to spend in Iraq, then we'll finally have won and get all that precioussssss resssspect....

Following in the footsteps of Russia and China will bring cheers all around.

Well, there you have it, folks: Stalinism and Maoism are the "new conservatism" that shooter242 admires so much.

Why don't you just move to Russia or China if you like it so much. I would gladly trade YOU for any immigrant who can name the Bill of Rights, he's already a better American than you.

For some people, that seems to be their only occupation. Considering that no country is, or ever will, be perfect... you could occasionally find something positive to favorably comment upon. It would be a nice change of pace.

Krugman famously has said not one thing favorable about the Bush administration for years. That is the definition of a partisan hack.

I'll give it a shot:

Although he has killed 1000 times more people than Jeffrey Dahmer, at least he never ate any of them.

No good? How about:

Although Bush has killed at minimum 30 times more civilians than Bin Laden, at least he thought it was a good idea at the time.

No? Again:

Although Bush has done all he could to destroy our beloved Constitution and the legal traditions that thousands have struggled and died in pursuit of for generation upon generation, at least he.... hell, here I get stuck.

At least closet fascists and America-haters are easily identified by their pathetic loyalty to Bush, a man who would kill them and sell their organs to Saudi princes if the ROI was good.

I will never give up on this country.

American conservatives weren't "stabbed in the back", more like they "cut their own throats" by completely abandoning conservative principles.

They (anti-conservatively) decided they could bomb the hell out of whoever they pleased, entangling themselves in inextricable, costly, violent foreign engagements.

They (anti-conservatively) proposed to pay for it all with the idiotic idea of borrowing as much as they might need. Since there were no more limits on spending, they then proceeded to spend 3-4 times as much as the ENTIRE WAR on nothing but PORK.

Now these "conservatives" have put us so deep into debt that it is impossible to get out from under it in my lifetime, short of re-basing the currency and effectively skipping out on our debts.

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I dislike liberal policies on general principle. However, they are simply misguided. Conservatives knew better (or should have, if they've read any of the books they claim to) than to run the country the way they have. No one should be surprised by the way the war has gone OR how the economy has gone.

This outcome was inevitable once the conservatives became neocons. I got nothing but disrespect and contempt for someone who betrays their own values like that and refuses to admit they've done so.

Dear gods, do this idiots really think this occupation is "winnable" in any meaningful way? Or are they simply trying to run out the clock and hand the mess to the next Administration?

The second one. As exemplified by shooter242, there is a segment of the populace who truly believes it is the educated liberal class that brought down the US Army in Iraq.

Any way that the mess of the war and the mess of the economy can be even a quarter-way plausibly pinned on the Democrats, they will be.

If only ihre Volken had the political will to see through to the end The Great War, our beloved Vaterland would not have sunk into recession, we would not have been humiliated in the eyes of the world, our young blonde soldiers not died needlessly due to the callousness of the communist-influenced liberal class.

The fault lies not with our great Kaiser Wilhelm, a brave and patriotic man of the Volk, but with the sniveling Jewish liberal merchant class, whose congenital defeatism and constitutional weakness betrayed the virile impetus of The German Empire.

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that's exactly what you sound like to me, shooter.