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endarkenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 12:45 PM
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No, Iraq Wasn't a 'Distraction'

What if FDR had stuck to fighting the Japanese in the Pacific?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122325789365506701.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Ah rightwingworld, a separate reality, or better yet a surreality, where 2+2=5.

The thesis from these neotards is that Japan is to Al Qaeda as Germany is to Iraq. Of course that has a few problems, such as Japan and Germany were two world powers in a military alliance fighting to overthrow the established world order in order to rule the planet on their terms, while al qaeda (aka Japan in neotard world) is a gang of violent criminals that do not pose a real existential military threat to any nation, and regardless, there simply was no alliance between al qaeda and Iraq. In fact quite the opposite: Iraq considered jihadist al qaeda type fundamentalist organizations a direct threat to their continued secular hold on power in Iraq. In addition, Iraq (aka Germany in the dementia known as neotardism) unlike Germany of 1941, was not a first rate global military power, nor even a second rate global military power. Iraq in 2003 was not even much of a regional military power. Iraq posed no threat to anyone.

One thing I do admire about neotards is their willingness to continue to prattle absolute horseshit long after the stench has filled the room and the audience has fled. They are persistent.

p.s. these clowns are McCain's foreign policy advisors.

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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 12:52 PM
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1. A neo-con's reliable point of argument: The World War II analogy
We've heard it all over and over again:

Bush is Churchill or FDR.

Bin Laden or Saddam is Hitler.

The Democrats are just like Neville Chamberlain and the appeasers.
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