How can you so easily forget the Bush-derangement of liberals opposed to the war. There were, of course, those liberals opposed to the war in Iraq. The one in Afghanistan was the "good one," right?

Where do you get this baseless crap?

Let's start with the last part first.

1) All "liberals" do not think alike.

I defy you to prove that American "liberals"- a term that gets sloppily employed as a synonym for "the Left", "The Democratic Party", and "political opponents of George W. Bush", despite the fact that no one with two brain cells to run together for more than three seconds could take seriously the idea of those categories being identical- are united on the idea of Afghanistan being "the good war."

(By contrast: for evidence that almost all American Republicans did think alike, in virtual lockstep, during the Bush Jr. era, there's no better historical archive than Glenn Greenwald's columns from 2002 and 2003, which document their craven fealty to him.)

I supported the Afghanistan incursion as a justified self-defense measure. It was presented to the American public as a snatch-and-grab of Osama bin Laden and a take-down of the Al Qaeda training camps.

I didn't sign on to spending 1/2 trillion dollars over the last eight years on that country, to seemingly no purpose but providing Gladiator School to American infantry troops.

As to "Bush derangement" it seems to me that you still haven't gotten over your Bush derangement.

You evidently aren't ready to acknowledge that the Americn public was lied into supporting an aggressive invasion of a ofreign land with a defanged military. And those lies are in retrospect even more transparent now than they appeared at the time.

I doubt that you're ready to acknowledge that George W. Bush at one time explicitly requested the power to detain American citizens solely on his personal command, or on the authority of his "deputies", either. If George W. Bush had obtained that power, nothing would have restrained him from turning this country into Dirty War-era Argentina.

I'm not saying he would have done it- although his family and allied political connections to historical neofascist elements in the Southern Cone of South America are easily traceable. The point is that you- and all of the other Bush followers- would have trusted him with that power, in the year 2002.

Although there's plenty more to be said on this issue, that's sufficient for now. I'll stop here.

Cognitive Dissonance sometimes expresses itself as physical symptoms, RobbySh. I hope I haven't given you the hives.

Wall Street, Hollywood, Entertainment and Rock stars make millions and the majority are progressive liberal because conservative artists are black balled by the so called party of tolerance .

At this point, "Barry", you've simply gone off the deep end.

First, let's get this out of the way quick: of the four categories you've named, one does not fit. "Wall Street."

Second of all, Wall Street has more political power than the other three categories combined. (Especially "rock stars", LOL. I don't think all the American citizen "rock stars" combined amount to more than $2 billion in assets. And you can sell a million records these days and not be able to afford a 2-bedroom apartment.)

Do you really think that "the Hollywood Entertainment Complex" can match the contributions and political influence of one oil or coal company, like ExxonMobil or Peabody?

What upsets you is that you watch a lot of TV, and therefore you hear various entertainers, actors, and musicians providing their views on television...and many of them are known to air views that you don't agree with.

That doesn't change the fact that the very same TV provides more air time to Glenn Beck alone than to the entire "Hollywood elite." Glenn Beck, that late-blooming autodidact who found all the answers in the works of the late Cleon Skousen. An ex-shock FM radio jock, who joked about...

if misogyny- or sheer human cruelty- were anything like the hot-button issue that one single racially tinged remark is in the hypocritical American communications media, Glenn Beck would have been tossed out on the pavement a long time ago. And there he is, with his 10-year $60 million contract for that White Minstrel Act..and you complain about "conservatives" being "blackballed."