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  •  Nail on the Head (4.00 / 6)

    Rove, anyone?  Look at the man's political career and you'll see this is a trademark move.  Beat bad news about your guy to the punch with trumped up (or blatently false) news that makes your guy look like a hero.  

    I don't mind so much the fact that we went to war for Iraq.  But come on... we charge in with minimal ally support, we rush straight for the capital, we don't secure the borders, we leave weapons dumps unguarded, we disband the Iraqi army to reform as insurgents, we are overly delinquent in training Iraqi armed forces, and we undersupply crucial equipment to both their soldiers and our soldiers.

    How badly the administration has handled the war itself is far worse than us un-seating Saddam without cause (the man was evil).  If we're upset about anything we should be upset about how our troops have been and continue to be unnecessarily exposed to extremely dangerous conditions.  

    Those are your sons and daughters, your brothers and sisters dying in our name and it's been a complete joke from the begining.  Bush deserves to be impeached and put infront of a warcrimes tribunal.    

     

    When they kick at your front door, How you gonna come? With your hands on your head - Or on the trigger of your gun : The Guns of Brixton

    by nonoose on Sat May 07, 2005 at 07:06:41 PM PDT

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    •  Kerry (4.00 / 5)

      John Kerry was trying to get the point across, I think, about how badly botched the war had been, whether or not you agreed with whether it should have been conducted or not.  Now, I happen to think that going to war under flimsy, let along false, pretenses is impeachable.  Especially since the American people weren't terribly interested in liberating Iraqis, but were VERY interested in protecting their own asses from those WMD, and especially since it is our own kids and their families making the sacrifice.  But Bush makes a TERRIBLE warmonger;  he doesn't supply the troops and he listens only to those with which he agrees.  After their FUBAR advice is revealed for what it is, he promotes them!

      While the wealthy get their tax cut, and their growing estates get passed on with no contribution to the infrastructure or governmental systems that make it possible for them to accumulate so much wealth, the people sacrificing for this war are being asked to have their children burdened with a $39,000 tax bill for each one that is born.

      Political compass: -5.50 econ, -5.79 libertarian/authoritarian

      by billlaurelMD on Sat May 07, 2005 at 08:37:58 PM PDT

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      •  This is sickening (none / 0)

        Especially how you've pointed out the sacrifices made by those of us at the bottom of the financial scale.  War is good business, eh? Horrible.

        War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

        by Margot on Sat May 07, 2005 at 10:53:55 PM PDT

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    •  Please think this through again (4.00 / 3)

      I don't mind so much the fact that we went to war for Iraq.

      We're talking about a manufactured threat to justify an illegal war setting a dangerous preemptive precedent - -  for power and profit.  Nothing about this war was "for" Iraq.

      by debraz on Sun May 08, 2005 at 03:42:50 AM PDT

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