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  • @Mona

    [Read the article: Jamie Kirchick's fantasies of the grave Muslim threat]
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    OBL is number 1. Every other Muslim who has ever even spoken to a relative of OBL is Al Qaeda's Number 2 operative. A lot of the latter have been killed per the Bush Admin, but they are legion.

    Heh, Bush himself is more closely linked to OBL than some of these guys they've dragged in.

  • @shooter242

    [Read the article: Jamie Kirchick's fantasies of the grave Muslim threat]
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    "If I meet these whores I will have the honor – I repeat, I will have the honor – to be the first one to cut the heads off Madonna and Britney Spears if they will keep spreading their satanic culture against Islam," said Muhammad Abdel-Al, spokesman and senior leader of the Popular Resistance Committees terror organization.

    http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57596

    But no worries, Glenn has assured us that this can't happen.

    Don't you yourself support the bombing of women and children, the use of torture, the use of land mines, the use of white phosphorus in an offensive capacity, and haven't you yourself called for ramping up these attacks, even though they have already killed more people than all Islamic terrorist attacks?

    And isn't your justification for this sin nothing but the opinion that we are in a "war of civilizations"? That the Muslims are trying to force their culture on the USA and install Sha'ria law? Have I got you wrong?

    I guess the difference between you and those OTHER hate-filled, violence-loving pricks is that you are content to let others do your ideological dirty work.

  • @tiberius

    [Read the article: The endless, meaningless blather from the Washington establishment]
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    It sucks that people see a value in the war being fought that goes beyond the simplistic view of the world he has.

    What value is that, oh nuanced one?

  • @Svensker

    [Read the article: The endless, meaningless blather from the Washington establishment]
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    If they saw images of caskets coming home, of blown up Iraqi kids and crying mothers

    This is what gets me. It really bothers me to see kids with their legs blown off from land mines, or covered in white phosphorus burns... these are just brutal weapons.

  • Just in case...

    [Read the article: The endless, meaningless blather from the Washington establishment]
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    ... any readers are unaware of the historical origins of the "stabbed-in-the-back" narrative:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolchsto%C3%9Flegende

  • @shooter242

    [Read the article: The endless, meaningless blather from the Washington establishment]
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    As I always say, who is greedier - the person that wants to keep more of their own earnings, or the person that covets those earnings for himself?

    I dunno... but certainly the stupidest person is the one who lets huge debts, on average, exceeding his entire yearly income, be levied on him by his government and still believes that his taxes have been lowered.

    One might go so far as to say the greedy bastard has it coming, getting suckered into debt like that. If he hadn't been so greedy, he would have read the fine print and understood what sort of deal he was actually signing on to: a real shitty one.

  • @shooter242

    [Read the article: The endless, meaningless blather from the Washington establishment]
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    It seems to be the curse of liberalism to never be happy with anything, because it's never perfect.

    I guess the curse of neoconservatism is to become everything you ever hated about liberals (big federal gov., no morals, high taxes, no rights, no free market, whiny PC attitude) and not even understand what has happened.

  • @nasalfibre

    [Read the article: The endless, meaningless blather from the Washington establishment]
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    You can engage in all the purple rhetoric you like, but it will surely backfire on you in 2008.

    Buddy, nothing's going to backfire on me. I could give a shit which party is in power, I'm only interested in deeds. You "team players" need to quit the tee-ball squad and join the real world, where more matters than the color of your uniform.

    And I don't think it's "purple rhetoric" keeping Kucinich and Paul down.

    You think you can dish it out, but you won't be able to take the return fire.

    What "return fire" do you think the neocons possibly have?

    "Oooh, the democrats are wussies, we're burly, muscled, oiled men, who are so manly, we'd even torture children. We'll open up TEN guantanamos! We'll listen to EVERYONE'S phones, 24-7! You won't be able to buy a pack of smokes or get on a bus without your federal ID card! Otherwise... TERROR!"

    Yeah, everyone LOOOOOVES that kind of stuff.

    Completely empty. No content. All bluster. All empty-sacked, big-mouthed nonsense.

    Not everyone is as gullible as you, nazifrappe, my bet is you're waaaayyy down there on the gullibility bell curve.

    The ONLY plan neocons have is to keep people scared to death of terrorists so they can grab personal power. That's it. Everyone knows it. At my job, everyone agrees, whereas 2 years ago, that wasn't the case.

    Nobody buys this garbage but you, the press, and the few other gullible rats who haven't left the sinking ship yet.

    Rudy will crush you:

    Let the drag-queen nazi try. He's an embarrassment to America and everyone hates him and his policies. The ONLY point he has in his favor is the nut-flexing tough-guy act that you swoon for.

    If that WERE enough to carry him through the election (I have real doubts it is at this point), his numbers will tank directly afterwards when it's revealed what an incompetent, corrupt, selfish, useless career politico he is. He'll be completely hampered in his ridiculous plans, and he'll leave office in disgrace.

    Convince me otherwise, smart guy.