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Actually, this is the exact diary except for the extended remarks so the above disclaimer isn't exactly correct.
I had my first taste of the DailyKos thought police yesterday and have to say I am pretty disappointed in the the rhetoric that passes for debate on DailyKos! I am new to this site but I find it lacking the robust exchange of ideas I had expected having heard a lot of good things about the site. It started after I posted a diary yesterday that said I hoped John Kerry would shut up about setting a deadline for withdrawal and instead put the focus BACK on the incompetence of the GOP and Bush White House. I was trying to say that it may be the right thing to do but if we don't choose our tactics carefully we may alienate the general voters and lose another election by being painted as weak on National defense.
You might have thought I called for the beheading of school children or something!