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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 05:33 PM

    To Jim White

    "There has not been an attack. "

    Glenn, it would be very interesting for you to contact Kondracke and ask if those very same acts, "under orders and with patriotism", would be worthy of punishment if they had been unsuccessful and we had been attacked.

    -- Jim White

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    Permalink Thursday, January 8, 2009 08:13 AM

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    I'm not going to bother reading your other letters, to get a sense of "who you are" or any of that silly tripe. I'm going to judge you on the ignorance I read now. That junk you wrote is typical stupidity I read when lurking at the reichwing blahgs. You not only apologize for Junior dropping the intel ball and letting the attacks occur (which was his first impeachable offense), now you want us to drop to our knees and profusely suck his ass for keeping us "safe" ever since then, praise baby jayzus. If that'd been Jimmy Carter (and definitely Slick Williness), he would have been impeached in short order, for Dereliction of Duty (the Duty being taking heed of the warnings that were ignored-re C. Rice and others). But you, in typical king worshipping rethug fashion, want to give him a medal for fucking up. Your idiotic and twisted (punks like to twist things) suggestion to ask Kondracke blah, blah, blah, is about as useful as tits on a boar hog. Who in their right mind is going to attempt a repeat of 9/11 with what little comparative resouces they have? Are you out of your freakin... skip it. I just answered my own question. They got our ATTENTION and that means MISSION REALLY ACCOMPLISHED. What an asinine comment.

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