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@shooter242
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]By this reasoning since Lebanon was harboring Hezbollah, Israel had every right to invade Lebanon and occupy it until Hezbollah was captured. But I'm pretty sure that wasn't on the liberal approved military action list.
Well, your reasoning makes several unwarranted assumptions.
The more interesting aspect of your post is: why do you continually justify your party's actions by appealing to precedents set by the party you oppose?
People with convictions do not argue that "my opponent does it too." They don't care about what the opponent says. They argue from principle and sound reason, and do not excuse their own moral failings just because their opponents do so.
Anyone who must argue by appealing to positions he formerly opposed has no basis for his arguments or beliefs. He is a political automaton, who contributes nothing and is replaceable within his party structure at the drop of a hat.
Bad arguments infallibly imply corrupt thinking.
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@shooter242
[Read the article: Mike Allen and Hugh Hewitt on the politicization of the military]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nobody, anywhere, has said that Iraq is going "well". That acceptance by one and all is what makes the "sturm and drang" by you folks so laughable. The two guys from Brookings allowed that progress MIGHT, underline MIGHT, actually be possible, and that has sent the Greenwalds of the world into a tizzy.
And the Republicans MIGHT fix the debt they created if they bet the national budget on horses. If they assume success and implement this stupid-ass plan, will you likewise blame citizens for bawling about misappropriation of their taxes?
Does it really bother you so much to see bullshit called bullshit that you have to pretend the motivation is some ridiculous self-hatred complex?
Perhaps you thought that the military would do a "Michael Moore" on itself?
They did do a Michael Moore: they produced propaganda that relies more on emotional appeals than facts.
Is that the level of honesty you expect from your employees?
It's really Bush's fault that America and it's military are compared to nazis by a Senator, murderers by a member of the House, torturers by the press, and genocidal beasts by the Lancet.
If the US army is grown-up enough to torture people, blow up women and children routinely, and to use phosphorus and landmines, then the US army is grown-up enough to handle some name-calling.
Isn't that better than just clearing out and leaving the ME to the "killing sands" like leaving Vietnam preceded the "killing fields"?
You know what would be even better? Accountability from the deluded, greedy snots that created the situation in the first place. Maybe then we won't have a third repeat of Vietnam.
LOL. you mean like kicking the game board over when you're losing? Yes that is pathetic.
People are dying needlessly by the hundreds every day, you freak.
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@shooter242
[Read the article: Mike Allen and Hugh Hewitt on the politicization of the military]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To all those commenting on Democrats "kicking over" the game board when losing I apologize. I should have said "stealing" the game board when losing.
Now your metaphor doesn't even make any sense. What exactly has been "stolen"?
Like I always say, it's the Democrats that set the standard for skulduggery, and fraud.
Yeah, well, you're completely wrong. The Republicans have shown us they're better at it. How could you or anyone else possibly disagree?
And as always, IOKIYAD.
You're the only one around here who seems to think that "Clinton did it" makes something OK.
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@shooter242
[Read the article: Mike Allen and Hugh Hewitt on the politicization of the military]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Points for chutzpah though. Heh.
Your link is completely irrelevant to this topic.
And exactly what sort of shenanigans do you think the Deomcrats are pulling? What, exactly, do you see amiss in that anecdote?
I'll tell you one thing: any anti-illegal immigrant bill that doesn't not focus on the American employers of undocumented workers is not a serious bill.
The Republicans could stop all undoc. workers tomorrow if they wanted: simply enforce large fines on the employers of undoc. workers.
As long as the Republicans avoid this obvious solution, it is impossible for anyone to take their histironics as anything but cheap political point-scoring, not any sort of solution to the situation at all.
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@Jebbie
[Read the article: Mike Allen and Hugh Hewitt on the politicization of the military]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To the party loyalist, the only indicator of quality, worth, or value is the stamp of the Party and it's Leader.
If the video he was trying to watch was all about how rich and democratic and free Bush is making the world, he'd be sniffling and wiping away tears as he lauded the brave, manly network guys as they valiantly tried, against all odds, against (probably!) a joint terrorist/Democrat/Mexican/French DoS attack and the overall general degeneration of our once Proud And Noble Race, to restore the video feed.
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@shooter242
[Read the article: Mike Allen and Hugh Hewitt on the politicization of the military]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Between that, and Obey deciding who gets what pork, without votes getting in the way, The Dems can eventually do away with voting all together.
It is an empirical fact that Republican pork over the last 7 years far exceeded all records to that time, including the days when Clinton and the Democrats had effectively free reign in DC.
Republicans plan to pay for all this pork by raising our taxes down the line. A deficit dollar spent costs America more than a tax dollar spent because of interest.
But their terrible (and anti-free market) economics aside, they cannot be excused on account of ignorance, Republicans have practically burst their guts at the public trough.
You either do not know this fact, which is your responsibility as a citizen, or you do know it and are ignoring it, which is intellectually reprehensible.
Anyone who doubts that Republican pork has been incredibly high over their recent run (but who is to lazy to google the real numbers) only need consider that Bush NEVER used one veto until July last year.
Think about that. Bush let every single thieving pork-laden bill pass through.
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@SomeNYGuy
[Read the article: Mike Allen and Hugh Hewitt on the politicization of the military]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, the fact that the dollar is constantly undermined by practices guaranteed by economics to lead to recession implies that anyone who recognizes this fact would prefer to not have a dollar.
*rolls eyes*