Then, on the other hand we have GWB. So far he has repeatedly lied about Iraq (that they were connected to 9/11, that they supported Al-Qaida, that they had WMD's) in order to have his little war with them.
Iraq used WMD and violated the Iraq War I truce agreement. The time was ripe to finish the job.
That war has killed thousands of American soldiers, while injuring a lot more.
The actual war dead numbered only in the 100's. We successfully conquered a nation of 25 million with a 1 million man army with 200,000 troops in a week. Amazing.
It has killed tens of thousands or Iraqis, while injuring a lot more.
Regrettable, but consider the ongoing carnage of Saddam's thugs and it doesn't seem much.
His vice-presindet is directly connected to a company that makes huge profits off the war.
He fully divested from Haliburton before running for VP.
The selection of US post-war civil-administrators was made based on their support for Bush, instead of their qualifications, so the end-result was a disaster.
Would it make sense to reinstall the Baathists to their regular posts. An absurd suggestion.
Bush has defended the US use of torture, Bush is responsible for Guantanamo Bay,
I prefer the term "aggressive interogation". Nations at war must keep prisoners somewhere. The Geneva Conventions say so.
Bush is responsible for the illegal phone-tapping of US Citizens.
Yes, he does. He supports eavesdropping *international* phone calls of US citizens chatting with their Al-Qaida buddies in Pakistan.
He was informed of the threat Katrina posed, yet he afterwards claimed that he was not informed.
A city lying below sea level gets hit by a category 4 hurricane and you expect the President to stop it? What can he do if 100's of 1000's ignore the evacuation warning. The rebuilding is proceeding very well. Economic growth rates on the gulf coast are among the highest in the US.
The president who had the blowjob was dragged to courts and humiliated. Millions of tax-payer money was wasted on it. The other president hasn't been dragged to court. In fact, nothing has happened to him.
He was not dragged through the courts. He was deposed in the process of being sued by Paula Jones, and lied about Monica Lewinski. He was impeached by the House of Representatives for lying but the motion did not pass by 2/3s.
Only in America? Americans: On the one hand I feel sorry for you. On the other hand I'm wondering what the hell happened to you.
Mainstream America loves George Bush because they believe in the same things. Self-reliant families, educational and economic opportunity, faith, national defense - in short, the American Way. I feel sorry for you in Europe who are mired in discredited, feckless, socialist thinking. Whether you like or hate America, the whole world (Russia, China, India, Europe,...) imitates US style turbo capitalism, often poorly. I wish you would also embrace the profound ideas that motivate it?
No, he is a villain. He was dishonorably discharged. He made slanderous blanket accusations against is comrades in arms. He is reprehensible and a buffoon. "Reporting for duty", indeed.
If my boss, or co-worker, or the guy down the street, or you, or my dad, gets a blowjob from a consenting woman, and then fibs about it because it's embarassing, I just don't care. It's trivial in context, and even if infidelity is involved, that is between the man and his wife.
Any business executive would be fired for being caught doing this. The rest of your post is the standard relativist diatribe.
President routinly lie ON TAPE about WMD's reasons we went to war, and even what he said no less than a week prior to saying he didnt say it.
I actually did vote for the 87 billion dollars before I voted against it. -- John Kerry
Where do you liberals learn to speak like this? I am proud of our military's performance in Iraq. The lightning attack, the shock and awe, prying Saddam out of a hole. You can't blame them for the civil war.
Or having a Vise Pres who can either never be found, or is busy shooting his hunting buddies in the head.
If that is what you have on Vice-President Cheney, I'd say he's done pretty well.
The GOP is losing ground because they deserve to lose.
Historically, the ruling party loses seats in the 6th year of a presidency. A loss of 40 seats is average. The projected loss of 15 is no big switch. America likes divided government. It is really only imperative that the GOP keep the Senate so that it can continue to stock the supreme court with conservative justices.
It starts at the top, and all the way down they are rotten. The sheer number of scandals is a very good inidcator that they need to gut the party and remove the cancers from within.
Yes, scandals like this, and this turn my stomach.
Yes, I can't wait to see who
With vaudvillians like Kerry, Dean, and Hillary loose in the land I expect YouTube to stay well stocked!
it's "mudslinging" when some racist asshole gets caught on tape and this horrid abberation of a human is brought to the attention of the public so they can decide if they want a racist in office?
I don't think race was behind Senator Allen's comment, but rather his annoyance and revulsion that the opposing campaign would send a political monkey to videotape his campaign events.
But if politician gets a BJ in his office given by some reasonably 'OK' looking fat chick and it's plastered all over the media (would have been on the net too if there were video of it) it's "fair and balanced reporting".
Slick Willy did the office of President great damage and tarnished his own legacy with his disgusting acts and subsequent coverup. Indeed the old media failed to protect their darling, as new media outlets (Fox News, conservative talk radio) kept America informed. The event was certainly newsworthy.
Sayonara assholes...
Probably the House. The Senate is less likely. Senator Allen's campaign is a toss-up. This trend should hold if the demos don't deliver anymore gifts like Senator Kerry's arrogant insult. Hopefully Howard Dean in on the campaign trail. But I trust Na-Speaker Pelosi, Jack "Cut and Run" Murtha, Dick Durban, Hillary and others to quickly offend mainstream voters and ruin their chances in 2008.
Lets say we in the US stop "wasting energy" and cut CO2 emissions 20%. What am I buying for the sacrifice? I have read that full enactment of Kyoto would lower global average temperature by 0.05 deg C at an annual cost of $100 Billion. It is natural to question: Who is asking for my money? What will they do with it? Why should I trust them.
British politics is positively ablaze with global warming hysteria. A prominant economist heaps uncertain economic reasoning on top of even more uncertain climate science and you expect me to hand over my wallet to "experts"? My guess is that this kind of buffoonery is now required of anyone seeking higher office in Britain. Is potential warming really your top issue? More than world poverty, your own economy, nuclear proliferation? Do you really think you can beneficially manipulate climate by rationing CO2 emission when you cannot predict climate in the first place? Madness.
I made my original post to counter the mindless Bush criticism on which readers reflexively squander their mod points. You call it trolling. I call it debate.
Consider how the next president, likely Democratic, will use this law to squash the "2nd Amendment" gun fetishists when gun control laws provoke them, escalating the conflict to forced universal disarmament.
I am not really a 2nd amendment type, so I don't understand your rant. The next presidential election will be interesting. The demos will trot out their quadrennial carnival of fools for the primaries: Hillary, Kerry, Gore, Barack Obama. I like our chances!
The dying Wilson, the corrupt Nixon, the isolated second term Reagan, the far more isolated Bush - IMHO these are all situations where the nation was not governed effectively and a Westminster system democracy would have replaced the President with little upset for the benefit of the nation.
How foolish. The American electorate often prefers divided government. Some of our most prosperous periods have been marked by it. The idea that an elite deciding the length of a term for a high office to avoid "upset" is repugnant to Americans. The peaceful transfer of power is one of our greatest acheivements and sets an examnple for the world, rarely followed.
As for your comments on torture - a more mature and Christian inspiried attitude should be considered. I'm surprised the very loud God botherers in the USA never seem to have read the book they are talking about.
The Bible inspires different people in different ways. You in Europe may offer your throats to the Islamists if you like. They will be happy to oblige you. In the US we realise we are in a knife fight with these degenerates. They will not find it easy to operate here again.
I think the Republicans can find several better canditates - it is a pity that the US system does not allow the majority party which is even the same party as the President to replace him without the certainty of losing the next election.
You mean like the parlimentary system where citizens abdicate the elective powers to party insiders? Please. The US system of 3 branches has functioned well enough thoughout history, don't you think? As for torture, those islamist rats have earned every lash.
We all want a revolution. The last few revolutions have been nonstarters, in 2004, 2002, and 2000 - the bad guys won. It's probably time for industrial-strength revolution, impeachment, because the regular revolutions, elections, aren't enough. We'll have the regular revolution first, then see how much we can fix without lowering the boom on Bush. But since he's hell-bent on tyranny, we'll probably have to impeach him, too.
I am glad the President has the foresight to establish legal mechanisms to quell violent insurrection instigated by the liberals. He is a very wise man. I only wish he could run for 3 terms. Given the war on terror he would be justified.
You better lighten up there son, there is nothing "grown up" about the way america has acted in recent years. Dangerously adolescent comes to mind, or if I was in a more hatefilled mood, psychopathic. One who has no regard for others and uses them only for his own gains, without empathy or remorse.
What do you expect of "comrade wolf". I should think you would admire President Bush's UN diplomacy in dealing with Iran and North Korea. Democratic leadership will put and end to dangerous adolsecence. They will be feckless and adolescent.
Probably because it's easier than predicting how technological innovation and the ebb and flow of the global economy will totally change the entire equation long before these simplistic predictions ever come due.
Missing in the article was any assessment of the exploration potential of 100,000+ miles of continental shelf around the world. The Chevron find in the gulf of Mexico is an example of what awaits.
Never say never. You might have noticed the mention of the PETM (Palaeocence-Eocene Thermal Maximum) by a previous poster.
I did notice. I also know that it wasn't a major extinction of the kind that the article suggests. You can't refute that the major extinctions are caused by cold. If the original artcle claimed less my point would be less valid. There is a good chance that warming will increase the diversity of species.
Declassified State Dept. memos from about a year ago indicate Kennedy was strongly thinking of pulling all American military out of Vietnam before his reelection campaign.
Uh huh. Face it, that drug-addicted, philandering leftist prince dramatically escalated the conflict, your lamest of revisionism notwithstanding. Hardly the act of a president who wanted to "cut and run". Not that I care, mind you. I wish Johnson has the stones to do right by our servicemen and win the thing.
As is always the case when confronted with facts, you neocon illiterates always refuse to address said facts. Instead you jump to another tangent, easily argued - but why bother - as you'll fail to answer that one (because you never, ever even took high school physics V = G * T, etc.) and just jump to another. I can easily tell you never programmed as any form of symbolic analysis is way beyond you -- you remind me of a kid named Tommy Cobb, always claiming he wanted to join the Marines as soon as he finished high school and fight the commies. Of course, he had to take a year off first to right his expensive - daddy-given motorcycle across country. Of course, he injured himself - so he would say - and therefore was 4F (of course...). You can always spot a rodger-dodger, sonny....
Fact: Al Qaida prospered under the inept leadership of Clinton. Fact: under President Bush all areas of homeland security have dramatically improved. Fact: President Bush removed grave security threats in Afghanistan and Iraq, leading to unpresidented economic prosperity in the US. As for the rest of your rant - ??? And I am not a neocon. I fancy myself a Reagan conservative, God rest his soul.
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Iraq used WMD and violated the Iraq War I truce agreement. The time was ripe to finish the job.
The actual war dead numbered only in the 100's. We successfully conquered a nation of 25 million with a 1 million man army with 200,000 troops in a week. Amazing.
Regrettable, but consider the ongoing carnage of Saddam's thugs and it doesn't seem much.
He fully divested from Haliburton before running for VP.
Would it make sense to reinstall the Baathists to their regular posts. An absurd suggestion.
I prefer the term "aggressive interogation". Nations at war must keep prisoners somewhere. The Geneva Conventions say so.
Yes, he does. He supports eavesdropping *international* phone calls of US citizens chatting with their Al-Qaida buddies in Pakistan.
A city lying below sea level gets hit by a category 4 hurricane and you expect the President to stop it? What can he do if 100's of 1000's ignore the evacuation warning. The rebuilding is proceeding very well. Economic growth rates on the gulf coast are among the highest in the US.
He was not dragged through the courts. He was deposed in the process of being sued by Paula Jones, and lied about Monica Lewinski. He was impeached by the House of Representatives for lying but the motion did not pass by 2/3s.
Mainstream America loves George Bush because they believe in the same things. Self-reliant families, educational and economic opportunity, faith, national defense - in short, the American Way. I feel sorry for you in Europe who are mired in discredited, feckless, socialist thinking. Whether you like or hate America, the whole world (Russia, China, India, Europe,...) imitates US style turbo capitalism, often poorly. I wish you would also embrace the profound ideas that motivate it?
No, he is a villain. He was dishonorably discharged. He made slanderous blanket accusations against is comrades in arms. He is reprehensible and a buffoon. "Reporting for duty", indeed.
Any business executive would be fired for being caught doing this. The rest of your post is the standard relativist diatribe.
Apparently. This covers it.
Less cynical Americans call them heroes.
I prefer to think of it as "staying on message". Politics is about consensus.
Where do you liberals learn to speak like this? I am proud of our military's performance in Iraq. The lightning attack, the shock and awe, prying Saddam out of a hole. You can't blame them for the civil war.
If that is what you have on Vice-President Cheney, I'd say he's done pretty well.
Historically, the ruling party loses seats in the 6th year of a presidency. A loss of 40 seats is average. The projected loss of 15 is no big switch. America likes divided government. It is really only imperative that the GOP keep the Senate so that it can continue to stock the supreme court with conservative justices.
Yes, scandals like this, and this turn my stomach.
With vaudvillians like Kerry, Dean, and Hillary loose in the land I expect YouTube to stay well stocked!
I don't think race was behind Senator Allen's comment, but rather his annoyance and revulsion that the opposing campaign would send a political monkey to videotape his campaign events.
Slick Willy did the office of President great damage and tarnished his own legacy with his disgusting acts and subsequent coverup. Indeed the old media failed to protect their darling, as new media outlets (Fox News, conservative talk radio) kept America informed. The event was certainly newsworthy.
Probably the House. The Senate is less likely. Senator Allen's campaign is a toss-up. This trend should hold if the demos don't deliver anymore gifts like Senator Kerry's arrogant insult. Hopefully Howard Dean in on the campaign trail. But I trust Na-Speaker Pelosi, Jack "Cut and Run" Murtha, Dick Durban, Hillary and others to quickly offend mainstream voters and ruin their chances in 2008.
Who is upmods such infantile attempts at humor?
No, I haven't. Looks like it has grown slightly since 2000. Thanks President Bush!
Last I saw the Chinese were grovelling to collaborate with the US in manned space flight and were spurned.
Lets say we in the US stop "wasting energy" and cut CO2 emissions 20%. What am I buying for the sacrifice? I have read that full enactment of Kyoto would lower global average temperature by 0.05 deg C at an annual cost of $100 Billion. It is natural to question: Who is asking for my money? What will they do with it? Why should I trust them.
British politics is positively ablaze with global warming hysteria. A prominant economist heaps uncertain economic reasoning on top of even more uncertain climate science and you expect me to hand over my wallet to "experts"? My guess is that this kind of buffoonery is now required of anyone seeking higher office in Britain. Is potential warming really your top issue? More than world poverty, your own economy, nuclear proliferation? Do you really think you can beneficially manipulate climate by rationing CO2 emission when you cannot predict climate in the first place? Madness.
Ah, but I did, and I effectively refuted the idea, you ninny.
Really? I didn't realise home defense enthusiasts used C4 to defend their homes and property.
I made my original post to counter the mindless Bush criticism on which readers reflexively squander their mod points. You call it trolling. I call it debate.
I am not really a 2nd amendment type, so I don't understand your rant. The next presidential election will be interesting. The demos will trot out their quadrennial carnival of fools for the primaries: Hillary, Kerry, Gore, Barack Obama. I like our chances!
How foolish. The American electorate often prefers divided government. Some of our most prosperous periods have been marked by it. The idea that an elite deciding the length of a term for a high office to avoid "upset" is repugnant to Americans. The peaceful transfer of power is one of our greatest acheivements and sets an examnple for the world, rarely followed.
The Bible inspires different people in different ways. You in Europe may offer your throats to the Islamists if you like. They will be happy to oblige you. In the US we realise we are in a knife fight with these degenerates. They will not find it easy to operate here again.
You mean like the parlimentary system where citizens abdicate the elective powers to party insiders? Please. The US system of 3 branches has functioned well enough thoughout history, don't you think? As for torture, those islamist rats have earned every lash.
I am glad the President has the foresight to establish legal mechanisms to quell violent insurrection instigated by the liberals. He is a very wise man. I only wish he could run for 3 terms. Given the war on terror he would be justified.
Uh Huh. Ahmedinejad is as crazy as a March hare.
Not nearly as freightening as the reactors and fuel they provide for Iran.
Great. Then they don't mind giving the IAEA unfettered access like every other nation that signed the NPT. Oops. You are either gullable or deceptive.
Dubious.
What do you expect of "comrade wolf". I should think you would admire President Bush's UN diplomacy in dealing with Iran and North Korea. Democratic leadership will put and end to dangerous adolsecence. They will be feckless and adolescent.
Missing in the article was any assessment of the exploration potential of 100,000+ miles of continental shelf around the world. The Chevron find in the gulf of Mexico is an example of what awaits.
I did notice. I also know that it wasn't a major extinction of the kind that the article suggests. You can't refute that the major extinctions are caused by cold. If the original artcle claimed less my point would be less valid. There is a good chance that warming will increase the diversity of species.
Make things up in the present! Here is our best understanding of causes of the past mass extinctions:
There has never been an extinction event caused by global warming. Warmth is conducive to life.
Uh huh. Face it, that drug-addicted, philandering leftist prince dramatically escalated the conflict, your lamest of revisionism notwithstanding. Hardly the act of a president who wanted to "cut and run". Not that I care, mind you. I wish Johnson has the stones to do right by our servicemen and win the thing.
Fact: Al Qaida prospered under the inept leadership of Clinton. Fact: under President Bush all areas of homeland security have dramatically improved. Fact: President Bush removed grave security threats in Afghanistan and Iraq, leading to unpresidented economic prosperity in the US. As for the rest of your rant - ??? And I am not a neocon. I fancy myself a Reagan conservative, God rest his soul.