Letters to the Editor
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Kewl!
That's a list of issues that, like, me n'Tiffany and the girls at Delta Zeta can like totally understand. We just can't wait 2 hear what our super role model Maureen Dowd will have to say about it all. All the rest of the news is, y'know, like a SNOOOOZE!
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fun-nee
The party of George W. Bush making jokes about presidential candidates padding their resumes. If only they weren't blind to irony.
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Of course!
Of course the Republicans want people to focus on inane and trivial matters. If people focus on real substantive issues they're going to realize that they actually favor the Democrats.
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Will you...
be thinking about the soldiers when you tell their families that their effort was always a waste and they were just stupid pawns in an unjust war?
Will you be thinking of the soldiers there now who believe in what they are doing as you abandon them?
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I certainly hope...
...no troops get blown up while the republicans are playing their W2W4 game. They should probably pay a little more attention to the american people and how they can work for us instead of playing a grab ass TV game.
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Truth
Will you...
be thinking about the soldiers when you tell their families that their effort was always a waste and they were just stupid pawns in an unjust war?
Well, if the truth will help prevent this crap from happening again.... the the truth should be told no matter how painful.
Do you think the Tillman family thinks their son died for some noble cause? Do you think the others all think that? The people I work with who have lost family members in Iraq think the deaths were a waste. The people I know who have been stop-lossed and are returning to Iraq think it is a waste. Many soldiers believe they are being used. They certainly are not the ones getting rich off this war.
tiberius, if you think the war is just, why aren't you over there fighting? Why aren't you risking your life for a war you seem to strongly support, at least while behind a keyboard. Is being one of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders as close as you will allow yourself to get?
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Can't believe they showed their cards this way
Basically, the RNC just showed us how they intend to "frame" the Democratic candidates: Hillary's a phony, Edwards is too good looking, Obama exaggerates, Joe Biden is a Northeastern Liberal, Chris Dodd is invisible and Bill Richardson ... well, whatever the fuck they are trying to say about Bill Richardson. That one made no sense.
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Skool Sux!
The RNC is being run my Mrs. Daniel's 8th grade class! Sweet!
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Adult Supervision
The comedian Blake Clark famously said that the Army is like the Boy Scouts, except for the adult supervision. This observation seems to apply to the RNC as well.
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yes, I'm feeding the troll
Will you be thinking about the soldiers when you tell their families that their effort was always a waste
We've been telling them that since long before any soldiers were sent to Iraq. Anyone who was paying the slightest bit of attention in 2002 knew that going into Iraq was nothing but a waste. I will be -- and have been -- thinking about how sad it is that it's taken five years and thousands of fatalities for so many Americans to finally understand what we knew before anyone had to die.
Will you be thinking of the soldiers there now who believe in what they are doing as you abandon them?
No, I'll be thinking about how we're trying to bring them home to their families instead of leaving them in Bush's ego-feeding meat grinder.
And now I'm done feeding the troll.
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"Abandoning"?
Tiberius: If what you mean by "abandoning the soldiers" is leaving them in Iraq at risk for extended periods of time for no good purpose, then I agree with you. I would rather come home a live pawn than a dead pawn.
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Tiberius
Am I the only one who has noticed an oddly strong similarity between tiberius and the rather odious, juvenile troll of not so long ago named joe?
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athenian...
only a "progressive" who thinks he has the only answers would call someone offering a different opinion a troll.
You should have enough conviction in your beliefs that you can weather another's opinions.
And before you slander me anymore I did use the name joe here until they changed the policies and the name was taken.
Now you can go back to name calling.
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We knew it was wrong and we said so, Joe
Tiberius,
I, and many others who comment here, spoke out and tried our damnedest to keep this war from starting. We knew it was a bad idea before the war. We listened to Hans Blix, to Mohammed El Baradei, and we knew Saddam Hussein had no nuclear program, no weapons of mass destruction. We told whoever would listen that the Sunni, Shi'a, and Kurdish factions in Iraq would fall into conflict if we invaded. We knew that the stuff being pushed about Ansar and about Saddam Hussein having such complete control over the country that he must have supported Zarqawi was not true, and we said so. We said so because we saw a quagmire coming. We said so because the United States had a standing policy against preemptive war dating back at least to our criticism of the Japanese during World War II. We said so because we didn't want our soldiers blood spilt over specious excuses in Iraq. We said so because we had friends we didn't want to have to go. We said so because we didn't want the "ships of state to rush and drown in sand."
The responsibility of telling the troops what came of their losses lies with those, like yourself, who advocated this war. Don't try to hang the day of reckoning when we stand before the people who have sacrificed and admit the war was not a good idea on those who said so when saying so should have made a difference. For once in your life, take responsibility for your opinions and actions, and your support for the Iraq war. Cassandra was not to blame for the Trojan Horse.