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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 08:09 AM
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I'm shocked, SHOCKED that the last three Americans to win Nobel Prizes have all been Democrats.
Can you *believe* that the Nobel committee doesn't credit Republicans with fostering worldwide peace?
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Ineeda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 08:12 AM
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1. Excellent point. n/t
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 10:52 AM
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2. Well, there was TR ...
but the Republicans have done everything but disown him.
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:14 AM
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5. TR != GWB (nt)
Edited on Fri Oct-09-09 11:15 AM by Nye Bevan
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:01 AM
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3. Funny that it's the Democrats who start all of America's wars.
I'm sorry, that's not funny, it's sad and pathetic.
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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:05 AM
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4. Yes, FDR bombed Pearl Harbor and faked Germany's declaration of war
against the US.

And it was that lifelong Democrat, George W. Bush, who invaded Iraq.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:20 AM
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6. Wilson -> WWI
FDR -> WWII
Truman -> Korea
JFK -> Viet Nam
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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:23 AM
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9. Yes Wilson started World War I
And FDR started World War II.

Right.

Have you EVER opened a history book? I thought ignorance of history was relegated to the likes of Kevin James. "APPEASEMENT, Chris, APPEASEMENT!"
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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:29 AM
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10. World War I...it WAS started by a Democrat!
Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, that well-known Democratic Party operative!

Don't YOU read history? :spank:
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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:36 AM
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13. The USS Arizona wasn't bombed by the Japanese
It was a controlled demolition set by Franklin Roosevelt and his gang of ~~Democrats~~ :rofl:
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 12:12 PM
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26. FDR didn't start WW2,
It had already been going on for quite some time by the time he was involved!
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:31 AM
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:33 AM
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12. FDR started WWII?
Are you really that stupid?
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:41 AM
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15. Got the U.S. involved.
Edited on Fri Oct-09-09 11:47 AM by arcadian
So yes, started the American involvement in World War II. You know that's exactly what I meant. Is that all you got, cheap school yard insults?
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:49 AM
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16. And do you remember why he started American involvement?
I can see your point in your list, why include FDR when it's completely different from the other situations?
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:56 AM
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17. Why don't you tell me.
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 12:30 PM
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29. Guy below me said it best.
We were attacked at Pearl Harbor. Remember that? Oh those evil war-mongering Americans! Oh if they had given the Imperial Japanese a chance to explain themselves! :eyes:
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LondonReign2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 12:07 PM
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22. ROFL
That damned Roosevelt! How dare he respond when Pearl Harbor was bombed!

:dunce:
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 12:08 PM
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23. He's also responsible largely for winning it.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 12:12 PM
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25. Yeah, the Russian, Chinese, British and French and various others
Had NOTHING to do with it.

:eyes:
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 12:18 PM
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27. Yes, lots of countries were involved...
Edited on Fri Oct-09-09 12:18 PM by LeftishBrit
you can't have it both ways. If you acknowedge rightly that lots of our countries were involved in winning the war, you must also acknowledge that it was raging LONG before FDR got involved.

But thanks to FDR for his great contribution to defeating the Nazis. (On a selfish level, if Hitler had won, I would probably never have existed...)
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 12:25 PM
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28. Never said that. Please point out where I did.
You're obviously not here to have an adult conversation.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 12:02 PM
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20. Wilson got us into WWI because of the Lusitania and the Zimmermann note.
We didn't get into WWII until Pearl Harbor--WE WERE ATTACKED FIRST.

I expect you've forgotten Iraq and Afghanistan--boy, it really stunk when President Al Gore declared war for no reason on both those countries, didn't it?
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LondonReign2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 12:05 PM
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21. FDR started WWII ????????
:crazy:
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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:20 AM
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7. And the one who started the first Gulf War.
That great Democrat, George H. W. Bush! :patriot:
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LondonReign2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 12:09 PM
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24. And let us not forget
When those Democrats Reagan and Bush I started Grenada and Panama.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 02:33 PM
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30. snicker, NYC Liberal. I had to read your piece a couple of times
to get it. I'm not processing very fast thing am. :)
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:22 AM
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8. Democrats started the Iraq and Afghanistan wars?
Dang, and here I'd been laboring under the misconception that the Supreme Court awarded the 2000 election to George W. Bush. Al Gore really did get more votes and won after all! And then that fucker invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. Damn. I gotta go burn my copy of Earth in the Balance.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 12:01 PM
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19. Yeah, it was really shitty when William Bryan declared war on Spain
Edited on Fri Oct-09-09 12:03 PM by Arkana
and it really stunk when FDR launched a preemptive strike on Japan and Germany in 1941.
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:38 AM
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14. Yeah, I noticed that, too. Hey, republi-CONS, CONservatives, Obama-haters, knuckledraggers...
how 'bout you show us all YOUR Nobel Peace Prize-winners, 'eh?
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 11:59 AM
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18. Where's the bipartisanship? nt
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