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Democrats Take House, Senate Undecided
Every news publication on earth is saying mostly the same thing. The Democrats have taken the house picking up a sizable number of seats. But the Senate remains a tossup with a few undecided seats holding the balance. Concerns of voter fraud have been heard from around the nation as well.
Oh god, it won't be a good day till we subpoena the republicans till they piss blood. They have been busy fucking robbing the people blind through gross negligence in contracts in Iraq. They were giving out bags of money and didn't even weight the shit. That deserves some oversight.
Also I'd love to see Bush impeached for treason for the bring it on comment. Or for violating the 14th amendment for defaming US Treasury Bonds. We can impeach Cheney for trading with the enemy for dealing with Iran despite sanctions when he was head of Halliburton. But we won't because we are not like Newt, we don't impeach for adultery while we are leaving our wife who's dying of cancer to fuck our secretaries.
He won't willingly give up that Senate seat until he's dead (and even then, they'll probably have to pry it from his cold fingers).
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Actually, he also agrees with the president's views on separation of church and state (hint: Mr. Bush was never taught the concept). To quote Mr. Lieberman: "Freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion" (translation for atheists: "The establish clause does not matter"). He also has supported various efforts to hinder a woman's ability to get an abortion, and agrees with the president that the Geneva conventions are "quaint." Lieberman is, at best, a moderate Republican.
Palm trees and 8
So in other words, Congress tried to pass laws giving themselves more power and Bush maintained the status quo.
Yeah, those Social Security reform and School Voucher programs breezed right through both houses. Don't even get me started on the easy time Bush judicial nominees had it!
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."With the complete destruction of civil liberties you've pointed to" Nice strawman argument a destruction of civil liberty need not be complete to exist. nor does torture need to happen daily.... etc.
The GGP used hyperbole. I just replied in kind. I thought we were playing make believe.
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This blithe "This is how war really is. People die." just stuns me
Are you saying people don't die in war?
I am a Marine enlisted infantry veteran.
Uh-huh. You sound like a coward, not a Marine. And yes I would say that to your face if you were in front of me.
I'm former Navy, so was my grandfather (petty officer in WW2), father (retired Chief), brother-in-law, and older brother, the last two of whom are still in (one's a Commander, the other's a Captain). All of us agree, you don't win a war by making nice-nice with the enemy, you do it by killing the enemy.
Go watch Patton sometime, and understand how a real warrior approaches war. Not this chickenshit "let's all be friends" crap we've been doing in Iraq.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Yes, I'll agree that it could be better, but I responding to the GGP that called Iraq a disastrous failure, which it is not.
Of course our invasion of Iraq was an amazing success. We walked in, killed a few soldiers, dispersed a few more, captured their leader, and will be executing him shortly. And now, we can't possibly be failing. After all, how can you fail when you don't have any plans to fail at?
If Iraq is a disastrous failure, what was D-Day?
A well executed, risky plan that had a high casualty rate, but also had specific goals and plans to meet those goals. Multiple countries' armies attacked specific points along a defensive line, broke through the defensive line, and marched on through to the points they were supposed to be capturing as part of the process of attacking the defending army.
Casualty rate is merely a measure of the difference in enemy weaponry and training versus your armor and training. I can capture the hill outside my office building without even firing a shot, but doing so is rather meaningless, even if nobody died in the invasion.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.