Being opposed to the war is "liberal"?

pasadenademocrat

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Thu Jul-17-03 09:46 PM
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Being opposed to the war is "liberal"?

Why is it whenever the media talks about Dean, they say he is liberal because he opposed the war. Is being in favor of the war moderate? Than what is conservative, unilateral thermonuclear war?

Some conservatives and moderates opposed the war. Only PNAC neo-cons and sell out dems were united in their support of the war.

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okieinpain

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Thu Jul-17-03 09:55 PM
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1. npr played a clip today where he said that the tories where acting

like opportunist liberal democrats.

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lcordero

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Thu Jul-17-03 09:55 PM
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2. Besides the body count and this being an unjustified war?

Edited on Thu Jul-17-03 09:59 PM by lcordero

I don't see how anybody can be for taking on a (50-60 years) long term commitment that will cost billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars.
Using a credit card to pay for education is an investment, using a credit card to buy somebody else a gun so that they may kill is stupidity.
I see this as my "conservative" view of war. War hurts the bottom line.

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shance

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Thu Jul-17-03 11:33 PM
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3. THANK YOU****

As if opposing this bogus deal is a liberal issue! Whaaaaa? Ive looked in Websters and cant seem to find it anywhere. Must be that anything they oppose falls under their liberal terminology. (Imagine that)

Thanks for hitting it square on.

Of course you would wouldnt you? You're a Californeeian** like me. :)

LA here ***

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inthecorneroverhere

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Fri Jul-18-03 12:00 AM
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4. agree with you

Many tories in England opposed the war. Some of them have taken very principled stands in Parliament.

A number of parties on the right in Europe, most notably Jean Marie LePen's party in France, also opposed the war. In the United States, Pat Buchanan, who is hardly a leftist, opposed the war.

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redeye

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Fri Jul-18-03 12:03 AM
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5. That depends...

...the liberal position is anti-war, any war. The conservative position is split between neo-conservatives, who support the war, and isolationists, who do not. There are a few progressives who do support the war for humanistic, greater-good-for-the-greatest-number-of-people reasons, like Thomas Friedman, but they're a dead minority in the progressive/liberal community.

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w4rma

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Fri Jul-18-03 12:40 AM
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6. more specifically, the most liberal position is anti-war, any war (n/t)

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Terwilliger

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Fri Jul-18-03 12:48 AM
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7. because those are the buzzwords

its a way to easily categorize diametrically opposing viewpoints into ideological camps

Trouble is, nothing is black and white...so the media should be ignored

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