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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 09:15 AM
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What Part of This Failed War Don't the Bush Apologists Get?
All of the "Neonuts" in Washington, the Bush apologists and the foolish Republican party partisans who feel that the troop surge will be a success should all be checked into the psyche ward at Walter Reed. And Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al should be standing trial for war crimes at The Hague.

What part of this failed war don't they get? It's not about the troops, and never has been. Aside from the immorality of this whole mess, there isn't a battle that our troops haven't won, and yet we are losing the war. How do the assholes in Washington explain that?

And as for Cheney's comments yesterday, saying that the Democrat's wishes to pull out of Iraq play right into al Qaeda's game plan, and that Congress should not be prosecuting this war, because that is what the Vietnam problem was, well....Dickie boy has a short and convenient memory. Didn't the administration have its way, lock, stock and two smoking barrels for the last four years, as to how this war has been prosecuted? It's about goddamn time Congress interfered in this gross debacle.

Impeachment, Impeachment, Impeachment!!!!!

NOW!
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 09:19 AM
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1. "True believer" conservatives are impossible to persuade
I've met conservatives who swear that the U.S. could have won in Vietnam if it had only used nukes. One of them even said, "If we had mined Haiphong Harbor..." He was astonished to hear from me (someone who was in college during the height of the war) that the U.S. HAD mined Haiphong Harbor.

There will be a similar bunch of die-hards with this war, too, I'm afraid.
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Mark E. Smith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 09:23 AM
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2. It will take a more qualified leader to defeat terrorism
Of course, the Bushlets would have you believe that the Great Vacationer is the
essential and irreplaceable man in this war.

Which is laughable.
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 09:44 AM
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5. He and Cheney are "irreplacable" to the military industrial complex.
And all of the scum who have personally profited by this "war on terra."
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 09:39 AM
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3. I suspect it played
out the same way in Afghanistan for the Soviets. They probably won most of the battles there as well but wound up leaving because to continue was simply futile. There was no upside to staying. Much the same situation we now find ouselves in in Iraq.
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 09:40 AM
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4. The part that deals with reality
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 01:04 PM
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7. I was hoping (I know it was wishful thinking ) that their dose of ...
reality came with the sweeping fall elections. Back to business, as usual for the repubs.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 09:45 AM
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6. Their minds have been reordered.
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Boogie Donating Member (202 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 01:06 PM
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8. The elite just plain don't care.
They make money either way.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 01:19 PM
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9. all of it
for the bush cabal's true constituency, the illegal occupation of Iraq is an overwhelming success
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