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Old 11-20-2009, 01:38 PM
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The thing that dismays me is the seeming reluctance of the Democrats to roll that POS back or repeal it altogether.

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That's because they are scared the Republicans will call them weak on the 'war' on terror. They need to remind everyone that the last Republican President to win a war was Teddy Roosevelt.
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As it turned out many of the stories that came out about the 'rape of Kuwait' were just that - stories, made from whole cloth.

The Kuwaities were slant drilling into Iraq's oil fields as well. Regardless, while we were 'freeing' them all their able bodied men were boozing it up in Europe.
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They need to remind everyone that the last Republican President to win a war was Teddy Roosevelt.
A war of choice, a war of aggression and a war for empire, with a manufactured excuse for starting it (the USS Maine).

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I'd say Iraq is won.

We've always been an empire - an 'Empire of Reason'.

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I'd say Iraq is won.
You mean because we took Saddam out and "gave them Freedom & Democracy"?

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Pete, c'mon! You can do better than that crap!

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Old 11-20-2009, 02:23 PM
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Iraq will descend into civil war as soon as we leave or shortly thereafter. The Shiites hate the Sunnis and both of them have been screwing the Kurds since heaven knows when.

So what was the reason.
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Old 11-20-2009, 02:31 PM
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So what was the reason.
Honest to God, I would love to know. Why were the so intent on going back into that hell hole? Please, don't give me the WMD crap. And if it was oil, haven't we kind of fucked that up?
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No Eddie, I was trying to wrap my poor mind around the "empire of reason" bit, perhaps I should have settled for a chorus or two of Jingo Bells.
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Empire of Reason is the Founders' term, not mine.

Ever wonder why NY is the 'Empire State'?

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Most of them voted for it in the first place.

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