How did you know they were posters? Were they all working on laptops and letting you see that they were logged onto the Dope?
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Yeah, but it’s a stupid comparison, and if you really believe it, you’re a paranoid hysteric, and if you don’t, you’re a hyperbolic asshole.
“Oh, woe is me! The current administration, which will be out in two years, is making policy decisions I don’t like. Now I know how the victims of a genocidal tyrant feel!.” I mean, come on, grow up.
If you want to be even more depressed, you might pick up a copy of Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII (updated through 2003).
A rather sobering read… It reads like a reference guide- the countries are even listed in alpha order.
This administration? How about every administration since WWII? And probably well before that?
Although, yes, I agree that things are getting very, very bad.
Nor was it in Afghanistan until a) the US stimluated fundamentalist Islam and the Mujahideen, and b) a backlash both domestically and from the Western community (tacitly supporting any opposition force) gave rise the the people who are so vexed with us of late.
Stranger
They were burning my dog.
No, you stupid fuck. Oh woe are the people in Iraq whose country is in a civil war, whose citizens are being murdered by the thousands, all for the sake of this fucking power-hungry administration’s political gain. Woe are the prisoners who are being held captive who-the-fuck-knows-where in secret fucking prisons not on U.S. soil, being treated who-knows-how, which is really fucking scary, given that we already know how this fucking administration feels about torture, their lameass protestations notwithstanding. Woe are all of us who are terrified, not by Islamic terrorists, but by how this fucking arrogant, war-mongering administration is spurring them on, inciting them to want to do worse to us than happened on 9/11/01. Woe are all of us who are feeling powerless to stop the Machine that continues to run roughshod over our civil liberties, all in the name of some abstract “War on Terror” that they’re fueling! Woe are all of us who are rightfully fearful that this Machine is big enough, powerful enough and hungry enough to continue to maintain control of every branch of our government, effectively making the concept of “checks and balances” something our great-great-grandchildren will study in History class. Woe are all of us when these power-hungry, war-mongering, arrogant jackasses, basically come right out and say they want an American ruled world!
People are dying. People are being herded off to secret prisons. People have been treated inhumanely. People are heading towards the probability of ethnic genocide in a country we so carelessly and callously invaded!
And this is why my (smarter than I) husband said this horrible feeling I’m having is probably more like the non-Jewish Germans, who weren’t the ones likely to be herded up and murdered, but who nonetheless felt terrified and powerless to do a damn thing to stop or prevent it.
Perhaps it is a stupid comparison, but your cavil was not about the quality. You accused her of both making the comparison and denying making the comparison in successive breaths. Not what she did.
As for being out in two years, we can only hope. There is no guarantee that a victorious Repub presidential candidate in 2008 would not be GWB redux, drawing his orders from the same crowd that Bush the Lesses is taking his cues from.
Exactly. For example, I don’t think that Dubya can grow a moustache.
-Joe
Nor is he a vegetarian.
They are evil rocks.
It was transparent nonsense to anyone familiar with the history of large-scale warfare, which is why senior military officials were and are both on and off the record questioning statements by the Secretary of Defense regarding the effectiveness and timeline of operations. This constrasts strongly with the effective Powell Doctrine applied in Gulf War I.
Whether we needed to invade and overthrow the existing regime is a political question (one that the previous Bush Administration answered with a definitive, “no”). Once it was decided that we needed to do so (regardless of the legitimacy of the claim) then the responsibility was to commit to a comprehensive and realistic plan for doing so, instead of muddling about, alienating coalition members and the international community, and pretending like we’d have the whole situation fixed in a couple of months.
Stranger
“all for the sake of this fucking power-hungry administration’s political gain.”
See, this is why you’re being paranoid. You think the administration has some great vast plan to set up a totalitarian dictatorship, end civil liberties, and take over the world, and every action they take is in furtherance of this plan. Are people dying in Iraq? Sure, but that’s as much, if not more, the fault of the various insurgent groups, who want to, depending on their group, set up an Islamic theocracy, ensure Sunni dominance over the Shi’ites, or get revenge on the Sunni for past oppression. None of these groups are acting with the best interest of the Iraqis in mind, and, for the most part, we are. We’re trying to set up a stable democracy there. We’re doing a pretty crappy job, and sure, the administration needs to be taken to account for its failures, but its ignorance, not malice.
As for the “secret prisons”, you might not like them, but the criminal justice system isn’t really set up to handle terrorism prosecutions on this scale, with this level of secrecy. Places like Gitmo are sorting themselves out, and while there probably are innocent people there who shouldn’t be, again, it’s a mistake and not intentional.
As for “inciting the terrorists”, they don’t really need the help. The terrorists are going to act against us no matter what the Administration says or does. Your “machine running roughshod over our civil liberties that will grow powerful enough to maintain control forever” thing, I don’t even know how to respond to, but I’ll bet you any sum you want to wager that by the end of January, 2009, this current administration is out of the White House and a new one is in, and that the whole “continue to maintain control” thing will stop in 2009.
As for an “American ruled world”, we already have one, and have had one since the fall of the Soviet Union. We’re the only superpower, and the only nation with the resources and will to project power anywhere around the world.
And btw, the non-Jewish Germans weren’t “feeling the darkness that their government was bringing, desperately not wanting it, but also being utterly powerless to prevent the doom that was about to befall them.” The fuckers loved Hitler, and loved the Nazis, especially while thing were going well, and all the stuff the Nazis did, the average German approved of.
That would be the neocon/freemason/reptilian/military/industrial cabal that’s secretly controlling all aspects of US policy and picked Bush to be their powerless mouthpiece and puppet, right?
Well, yes but no. Can’t get as much mileage out of voter fraud as they used to, as when “Landslide Lyndon” flat out stole his first Senatorial election. That was after he fought double dirty, Texas style. You can trim a bit here and there, but if the electorate is 60/40 there just isn’t that much you can do, Diebold notwithstanding.
What grinds my 'nads is access to voting, how consistently people who live in the less affluent districts have to wait on line for hours to perform the same civic duty/privilege as their fellow citizens in districts that can afford more convenience. This is benign neglect in action. The Pubbies know goddam good and well that so long as people in predominately poor districts have to wait four hours to vote, that will suppress Dem turnout. So they get all pious and self-righteous about not “interfering” with local voting.
How much money would it cost to provide standardized voting machines with verifiable paper trails to every district in the nation? And if voting is a fundamental right, isn’t *access * to voting equally important?
But back to the question: yes, they have certain unfair advantages. Which we will have to overcome. We shall overcome. We must. Nothing less than a complete and unequivocal rout will do it. The ghost of Tom Paine is watching, lets make him proud!
Sic 'em!
Good going, Captain Amazing…
You, you…you linked to an anti-Bush cartoon! Curses, my evil plan has been foiled again! Curse you and your meddling <shakes fist>
Nonsense! The Freemasons have nothing to do with it. And while reptiles are strongly represented, one cannot overlook the influence of the slime mold community.
Get used to it.
:rolleyes:
Go to Hell, CA. I’m tired of the Bush apologists with their noses firmly nestled in the man’s rectum trying to explain away every aspect of this administration’s insanity. I’m tired of you and your compatriots waving away every misstep and deliberate attempt to get around the law and the standards of what American stands for that these people commit. Personally, I think the country would be in much better shape without the hordes of Enablers who constantly prop up this morally crippled White House.