Letters to the Editor
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The Tooth of Crime!
Here's what. First, we recognize that the Bush administration committed a crime in the name of the American people. Then we do what it takes, both psychologically and financially, to repair the crime.
Or, we could just elect Obama, and watch all those guys try to square their present course of action with the possibility of legal, let alone moral or financial accountability which comes with an Obam administration. The War On Iraq will come to a grinding halt!
My little ax-grinding aside, that was a wonderful paragraph quoted. Like a vision of a different, and better world.
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"The War On Iraq will come to a grinding halt!"
Whatever you have to tell yourself. Does that mean that we'll still have 50k troops there guarding "our" military bases?
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would like to be lwm - The dude is a fountain of information - Seriously - and we are able to do the German too:
"Zwischenzustandsbericht" and "Freistilschwimmer" are our favorite words.
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@Derbig
It sounds like your doc studied under the CIA with encouragement of The Dick and your moosette under Rove. Good thing they didn't wire your fingers.
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I am L.W.M.
I'm L.W.M.!
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@ Defending our Freedom, What's your point?
You posted an article that claims the recent attack on the Green Zone was facilitated by Iran. Okay. Aside from the fact that that this is unlikely and unnecessary, (the resistance has mountains of weapons from the pre-war stockpiles, they don't need Iranian weapons or expertise (see my earlier posts), what's your point?
Is it your contention that simply because some guy in Iraq says so, it must true? Do you still believe these guys, and if so - why?
By your handle "defending our freedom" I assume that you are defending it from Iraq and not just from behind your keyboard? Btw, from whom are you defending? Islamofascists? Liberals? The corporatocracy?
Hows that search for the WMD going?
Just so you know, you sure are not defending my freedom. And if you are. Please. Stop.
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@LWM
I'm with you LWM, all the way! Any man who could "wet start" a jet like John McCain is a true American Hero! Just ask the crew on the Uss Forrestal!
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Timberman finds A new way to whine?
Omooex, you can't have it both ways. If we're one person, you can't claim you're being ganged up on. If we're not, that makes you either a little dumb, or a little paranoid. I'd also add that advice from Bucky and Chris doesn't confer quite the distinction on the recipient as one might suppose.
-- William Timberman
Timberman you old faker; you yourself admitted that lwm uses untold sock puppets here. I did not give advice, just told what most old regulars here already knew.
You remember the horrendous time that the fellow you claim to love gave Mona for merely admitting to being a libertarian which is the same as admitting to being a Classic Liberal. We watch thread after thread disrupted and you say, "go lwm go". No wonder the lad omooex wondered if the two of you were the same person.
I sometimes wonder if you really do 'love' his tactics as you so often claim, or are just afraid to say that the disruption is an impediment to reaching any understanding here. But then, perhaps you are trying to tell us that this is no place to reach understanding.
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@Iran 'behind Green Zone attack'
That's one hell of a porous border.
I looked at one report in the BBC. Petraeus makes no mention of what group they suspect launched the rocket and mortar attack. If it's Sadr's Shia militia, well... they sure might have some Iranian weapons. That's not news. It would be news if a Sunni group or AQI is behind the attack, but they don't say. Proxy warfare is nothing new and we've been doing it since WWII. We are the only ones allowed to do that, help our friends and allies? No wonder people hate us. If some Iranian munitions are making it into Iran to arm Shia allies, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is an act of the Iranian government. But they know what "plausible deniability" is too.
This is really a tempest in a teapot. Much ado about nothing.
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no, not that simple
derbig, it is also claimed that LWM is also a bunch of other names posting here besides your, and also posited as a remote possibility that Greenwald is also posting under a non de plume at times, and WT was also suspected of perhaps being someone else as well. So it seems quite complex to me.
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I am vaguely insulted
That I have not been accused of being a sock puppet. Having said that, I am not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
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Saint Barack Saves the World....
The difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama will try to make sure our friends don't think we are dicks for dropping DU on their neighbors, but we will still drop it, while Bush just doesn't care. Nothing new, Obama is trite CFR propaganda wearing a new suit. There will be more military intervention and Dictoraid this cycle, no matter who sits on the throne, the only difference is what kind of humanitarian language, if any, they use to church up their warmongering rhetoric.
http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_02_25/cover.html
Obama continually criticizes the Bush administration for pursuing its interests on the international stage instead of spreading “values” and “principles.” He says Iraq was a war based “not on principle but on politics.” Yet if there could be anything worse than the Bush foreign policy, it would be Obama’s principled meddling. At least interventions driven by narrow interests and politics have some kind of endpoint: when the interest has been protected or the political goal realized, the intervention might come to an end. Obama, by contrast, inflamed by his self-defined “values” and motivated by a vision of good versus evil in which it is America’s role to lead the world toward its “common humanity,” would be more reckless and unwieldy than Bush ever was. There is nothing quite so dangerous as a well-armed leader convinced that he has an historic moral purpose on the world stage.
Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address wouldn’t require much work: George W. Bush delivered the first draft in 2005.