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Can easily write this as you're not reading this. Or do you?
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11-10-2006, 10:59 AM | #63 |
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I suspect Hipp won't be here too often, though.
After all, he DOES have a life outside the Cellar. I can appreciate how embarrassing it is for him to hold such a ridiculous opinion; that we vote with him in mind. He just can't address it. Too painful.
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11-10-2006, 11:17 AM | #64 |
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Glatt - its not that it was specifically said, its just the attitudethat seems to dominate. I knew going into this that my opinion would be very unpopular with the majority, but I still haven't heard anything that would cause me to alter my opinion. It SEEMS to me that the democrats didn't really WIN seats, the Republicans LOST them. And there is a huge difference there. I don't see where the democratic candidates direction or ideas (clears throat) were the reason for them being elected. It was simply a backlash against the Republican party.
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The Democrats aren't going to be able to do jack now that they have Capitol Hill. Bush will fight them at every turn, and all the moderate republicans lost their seats. It's just fiercely partisan Republicans, fiercely partisan Democrats, and a smattering or moderate Democrats left now. Gridlock. To use a car analogy, this election was about putting the brakes on. The next election will be about a new direction, if any. Or maybe taking the brakes off again. We'll see. |
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Yup. The situation sucks. And the American public is fickle. They supported the Iraq war when it began, and now they don't.
But how long do you give it to win a war like this? And shouldn't you expect to see some progress? At some point, shouldn't you look at the lack of progress, and the fact that we don't control one square inch of Iraq outside of the airport base by Baghdad, and draw the conclusion that we aren't winning? At that point shouldn't you contemplate cutting our losses? The overwhelming majority of Iraqis now think that Iraq was better under Saddam than under the US. They all hate us, not just the insurgents. It's that bad there. We already lost the damn war. You can keep hanging on to save face and claim we haven't lost yet, but the reality is very grim. Is it worth 50 soldiers a month so we can claim we haven't lost yet? The only way I see to get victory out of this war is to triple the number of troops. We should have done that in the first place. I don't see it happening . Neither party would support that. |
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And now we have an al-Qaeda honcho audibly though not visibly pleased that there are Democrat majorities in the House and Senate, in the expectation that these will be wimpier. Kiss of death -- to be compared with getting an endorsement from the Klan.
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#2 50,000 people die each year from traffic accidents alone. 50 a month is not very many (Although I think the actual number is more like 75 anyway) #3 I couldn't possibly agree with you more. |
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Meanwhile, that option still remains to save Afghanistan. Afghanistan is also falling. As Iraq has demonstrated, by the time most citizens appreciate a need for that option, then that option has expired. We have precious little time left to save a losing war in Afghanistan. And yes, that should be obvious to you more than a year ago. Iraq is all but lost. And defeat in Afghanistan is not far behind - if you truly grasp military principals. Yesman06 - your conclusions are presented without underlying reasoning. For example, what is the purpose of war? If you have a solution for Iraq, then the answer is easy, simple, and obvious. What is the purpose of war? |
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you understand that the dems are the same brand of scum and villainy as the reps, just a slightly different flavor?
The Onion gets it. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54918
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Just because a new crew has taken over this runaway train doesn't make everything all nice nice. It's going to take a a lot of time and effort to stop this train and get it safely back to the station. Don't forget Bush is still the conductor....lord of the train.
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