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@tiberius
[Read the article: Angry, hateful liberal bloggers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sure that's what Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl were thinking before their heads were cut off.
You're pathetic.
What's pathetic is focusing on these kinds of examples while doing your damned best to ignore EVERY OTHER FACTOR AT WORK.
What do you think Iraqi kids were thinking as their legs were blown off by US land mines? What do you think American soldiers thought as Iraqis attempted to chase them out of their neighborhoods? What do you think Americans will be thinking when our economy completely tanks due to anti-conservative Republican policies called "low taxes" by damned liars?
What do you think your government is thinking as it pays Blackwater billions it doesn't have?
What will our grandchildren be thinking as they read the history of the USA and realize there was a time when they were actually guaranteed certain rights that now are gone?
Islamist violence is a problem. It is not the problem you think it is. You utterly lack perspective. You are choosing to be stupid.
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@tiberius
[Read the article: Angry, hateful liberal bloggers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't believe that America, or the current administration, are the source of the world's problems.
Obviously America is not the source of all the world's problems. There are lots of other countries. Equally obviously, America is the source of SOME of the problems in the world. Those are the ones that us Americans can fix.
Can you hold those two non-conflicting thoughts in your head at the same time? Good, I knew you could!
I believe we are the greatest opportunity for the world.
I believe that, too.
For Glenn to suggest that being forced to kneel in front of a terrorist and be killed is just a fantasy is insulting to the people that have died at their hands.
That's not what he suggested. He clearly suggested that for most Americans, the threat of death by terrorist is very low.
Since none of you chickenhawks are going to Iraq anytime soon, it's not a worry for you, is it.
This is a fact, no matter how much you may pretend or wish it otherwise. And we have an example right in the post of a neocon wishing and fantasizing that a "liberal" (in neocon-speak, anyone who is against idiot wars and idiot policies) be blown up by a terrorist.
What happened to Nick Berg was not a fantasy. The wish to see a liberal bombed by a terrorist is clearly a fantasy. The idea that it might happen to you, sitting on your butt, typing away, is clearly a fantasy.
Please try to distinguish these things, there is more than one topic of discussion.
Just imagine how upset you'd be if he suggested that the Bush administration wasn't killing people in Iraq for oil and money.
Well, I doubt those are the ONLY two reasons, although they're certainly factors.
See, tiberius, life is complicated. There is never ONE bad guy, nor ONE good guy. Only little kids and neocons think so.
I know the difference between fantasy and reality.
I'll believe it when I see some evidence of it.
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@shooter242
[Read the article: Angry, hateful liberal bloggers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are either making a joke or are completely retarded. I'm up in the air as to which!
So here's a situation where Ramadan decorations were banned, so Halloween and Christmas will be as well. This is the edge of the slippery slope. What should the district do? Ban all holidays, some, or none?
I thought most schools already had to have "Fall Festivals" instead of Halloween parties because of paranoid fundies who think Halloween is Satanic?
Am I wrong?
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oops, that was me.
[Read the article: The conservative vision of America, by National Review]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]didn't mean to post as Anonymous on encryption.
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@Chris Dowd
[Read the article: The conservative vision of America, by National Review]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I still marvel at the truly bizarre and creepy transformation of the "conservative" movement into the state loving band of DC lickspittles and supremely stupid cowards it is today.
No kidding. The most upsetting part is on the personal level, people who I thought were thoughtful active participants in democracy turned into zombies overnight. Turns out they just liked Limbaugh.
There is not ONE criticism of Clinton from the '90s that could not be leveled at Bush with as much or more justification.
Getting called "liberal" (as an intended slur) for pointing this out was sort of funny for a while, after 6 years, it's gotten OLD.
I can deal with liberals and conservatives. That's the American politics I understand.
I can't deal with the endless fever for bombing kids and I can't deal with the utterly ignored budget crimes and I can't deal with people who would do ANYTHING for any man who says he's an authority. I can't deal with pre-emptive nuclear strikes and torture being taken seriously as official policies. I can't deal with a national ID card after being told my entire childhood how lucky I was to live in America where nobody asks for "papers, please."
Republican craziness has completely subverted and supplanted whatever value their movement had in the 90s.
FWIW, I still love my country and fear my government.
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@Chris Dowd
[Read the article: The conservative vision of America, by National Review]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, exactly! The same thing has happened with torture. In movies, books, etc. if you wanted to set up how utterly evil and depraved the villain was, you'd have him torture somebody. The good guy is set up as automatically good because he doesn't act like that. Prior to "24", the main associations torture had was the Spanish Inquisition and the Viet Cong.
But when the popular tide shifts so dramatically, I don't know what can be done about it, other than agitating like a washing machine and trying to get people to stop and think for a second.
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"I love my country, my government fears me."
[Read the article: The conservative vision of America, by National Review]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That IS better!