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2007-02-18 Home Front: Politix

Poll: Support for Iraq War Up ~~Slightly~~ One Third vs. Month Ago

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Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The donks can't allow these poll numbers to rise like this.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-02-18 00:14|| 2007-02-18 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 We've been waiting for a strategy for victory rather than one for running in place. Americans rally around a winning strategy, not the fecklessness over the past two years (or more).

The donks have to ask themselves about their current position should the offensive be successful.

Posted by Captain America 2007-02-18 00:43|| 2007-02-18 00:43|| Front Page Top

#3 You didn't carry the 7 TW, are you sure of your math?

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-18 00:56|| 2007-02-18 00:56|| Front Page Top

#4 > The donks can't allow these poll numbers to rise like this.

Hmmm, the media has some work to do.

Posted by DMFD 2007-02-18 00:58|| 2007-02-18 00:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Come on people. Your president LIED to you. Are you to ashamed to admit that you were dooped? Be a man and admit that you were shammed by this dumb ass in the white house. There are no WMD's in Iraq (the pretext for war), remember? He's stripped civil liberties, Katrina???, what about Abu Ghraib (oah yeah, you americans don't equate arab life with anything of value). Well, how about the deficit, the fact that your income taxes are going to Israel rather than to your kids' school. Maybe you don't give a shit about your kids (likely the case). If you did, then you would not be defending this idiot in office. Name me 1 good thing about George Bush, or this administration. NOTHING- You idiots vote a FACE in and allow Rove and Cheney to run the show... This isn't democracy. Europe has a better idea of democracy than does this country.

You idiots are going to be the third world soon. And all because you are too greedy.

Posted by Arabi 2007-02-18 05:48|| 2007-02-18 05:48|| Front Page Top

#6 When arabs equate arab life with anything resembling value , then I may jump on the band wagon , till that point , I dont see why I should . For centuries you have been fighting over each other , clammering for rights to act as despots , selling each other out to the highest bidder . No finer bunch of inbred religious half-wits have ever walked the face of the planet . The problem is that during the last 25 years they have been trying to export , by violence and fear, their shit pit religion to countries that dont want it .
And you say we are at fault , re-assess your views and come back when you have a clue . In fact dont come back .

WE AINT INTERESTED .

Now off into your corner like a good little peasant , and go farm your your badly managed plot of dust.

charra alaik!

Posted by MacNails 2007-02-18 07:33|| 2007-02-18 07:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Bush lied, Arabs died.

Well as they say - Just because the premise is false, it doesn't mean the conclusion is invalid.

Posted by phil_b 2007-02-18 07:58|| 2007-02-18 07:58|| Front Page Top

#8 "Arabs love death more than Westerners/Israelis/Americans/[your favorite nationality here] love life," scream poor Mr. Arabi's beloved leaders, and he complains when we give them the death they so lust for? Charra alaik! indeed.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-18 09:33|| 2007-02-18 09:33|| Front Page Top

#9 RantBurgers avert yawls ears, I gotta tell our new buddy some serious truth.

Here's the deal Mr. Arab (if that's your real name) we all knew there were no WMD in Iraq and they were unlikely to ever get any. The real reason we invaded Iraq is because it was Spring and we were feeling collectively happy. And when Americans are happy we turn to slaughtering idiots in third world countries with our oil. It's just the way we are. It makes us extra-happy to kill innocent nits. I assume you kinda had a hunch about this aspect of the American psyche, if so tell your friends that your were correct. We love a war, especially in the Spring, new life, new death a very yin-yang thing no? Yawl get the death of course and we get the oil. So, my advice to you is to make your time.

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-18 10:13|| 2007-02-18 10:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Name me 1 good thing about George Bush, or this administration. NOTHING- You idiots vote a FACE in and allow Rove and Cheney to run the show... This isn't democracy. Europe has a better idea of democracy than does this country.

Ahem. Pardons me as I ar an ignorant redneck, but,

1) He did not panic when informed that the WTC had been hit by terrorirsts while sitting in front of a classroom full of children thus panicing them as well. In this he showed restraint and moral fortitude which is something I cannot say about Islam in general or Islamofascists specifically.

2) He waited 6 months before sending our troops into Afghanistan and gave the Taliban plenty of opportunity to turn OBL over to legitimate authorities. In this he again showed moral fortitude and forthright determination which again, is more than I can say for Islamofascists who strike out at anything and everything in their sight.

3) He waited and debated via the UN before sending the troops into Iraq when he had absolutely every right to do so immediately due to Iraq's repeated violoations of ceasefire terms. In this he showed a clarity of vision, a thoughtful process, and a determination to do the right thing no matter the cost even when he was being told that the war would cost 30 thousand American lives and bring about an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

4) He forthrightly and with determination has followed a course which, however faulty, he thought was the right one again showing moral fortitude and thoughtfulness even in the face of moral and ethical cowardice in Congress, the Senate and the American people (a minority thereof I should add).

5) In the face of moral and ethical cowardice and an unConstitutional attempt by Congress and the Senate to seize Presidential authority in a time of war he has continued to maintain that course outlined above and has steadfastly refused to back down from his position as Commander In Chief in accordance with the Constitutional authority granted to him.

6) He has, in the face of moral and ethical cowardice on the parts of our so-called "allies" around the world, and a world body that is morally, ethically, and economically bankrupt, refused to have America back down and has used military force with a restraint and manner of ethical standards that has resulted in more American soldiers dying than might have been necessary if they had not had their hands so tied. This has angered many on the American right (and in the center), but also shows a moral and ethical integrity that is above reproach, something that cannot be said, again, about our Islamofascist and other enemies who, willingly and without remorse or conscience, target civilians within their own communities without restraint in an effort to sow terror and destruction.

There're six good things about our President.

In addition, let's talk about European democracy and the slide towards America being a third-world nation. Nothing could be farther from the truth. European democracy in a word, isn't. It is a conglomeration of socialist, communist, and morally, spiritually, economically, and ethically bankrupt societies who stab each other in the back more often than not, who backstab the people who have protected them for more than 60 years, who spent blood and treasure to free them and protect them from fascism and communism, and who undercut their allies at every turn. In addition, Europe is rapidly sliding towards third-world status as it is outbred by its Muslim population, as it spends more and more money on social programs for unemployed immgrants while at the same time taxing its own citizenry at levels far higher than those which drove this nation to sever its ties with England, and as it drives its own economy full speed ahead towards socialist ruin.

An' all that's just from a ignorant redneck hick who grew up a Yankee in Ohio (we pronounces it "Hya' ya'll) and currently lives in Mexiforny.

Arabi - Have the moral and ethical integrity to 'fess up and tells us where ya'll 're really from. You're no more arab than my shoes are.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-02-18 10:42|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-02-18 10:42|| Front Page Top

#11 oah yeah, you americans don't equate arab life with anything of value

A practitioner of the Religion of Beslan purports to have some concern for the value of human life.

Piss off, you halfwit.

Posted by Fred 2007-02-18 12:07|| 2007-02-18 12:07|| Front Page Top

#12 You idiots are going to be the third world soon. And all because you are too greedy.

Hmmm. ~~As*hole~~ , I mean, Arab may have something. Let's go Third World. Let's have a revolution just like they do there. And then let's use every weapon we have in the toybox against our enemies, just like they do there.

Doesn't sound so funny anymore, does it?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-02-18 12:15|| 2007-02-18 12:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Come on Arabi

Your prophet LIED to you: there is NO Allah and God hates the murders, lootings and rapes perpatrated by Muslims for satisfying the meagalomania from your false prophet. What is awiating Jihadis is HELL.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-02-18 12:28|| 2007-02-18 12:28|| Front Page Top

#14 Oh, and the creature attempts to bring up Abu Ghraib - where Americans put ladies' underwear on the heads of bad guyz.

Abu Ghraib's the place the Baathists - you know, the Arab Rennaissance - had their shredder. It's where those same Baathists made their own home movies of themselves snapping people's bones, hanging them, and otherwise getting their sexual jollies in that peculiarly Arab manner. I believe they're still available online, but if they're not you can probably make do with some vids of the Lions of Islam cutting the heads off some elderly NGO ladies or some Filipino laborers.

Posted by Fred 2007-02-18 12:31|| 2007-02-18 12:31|| Front Page Top

#15 EXCELLENT THREAD! I'm laughing out loud.

#10-FOTSGreg: BRAVO!! Very well-said.

Posted by cajunbelle 2007-02-18 12:41|| 2007-02-18 12:41|| Front Page Top

#16 Fred gets fired up! I like it :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-02-18 12:42|| 2007-02-18 12:42|| Front Page Top

#17 Please go back to noodling FredThing.

/arabs everywhere

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-18 13:08|| 2007-02-18 13:08|| Front Page Top

#18 You idiots are going to be the third world soon. And all because you are too greedy.

If we windup becoming the 3rd world, it will happen because we let too many of you leaching, non-assimilating pecker~~heads~~woods into our great country. When was the last time you took a ride in an Arab designed car, flew on an Arab designed plane, looked at pictures taken by an Arab designed space probe/rover? Oh...never? Sure, that doesn't surprise me. Goat-humper boy!

Posted by Omolurt Elmeaper6990 2007-02-18 13:32|| 2007-02-18 13:32|| Front Page Top

#19 That WaPo Walter Reed article really had me in the dumps this morning, but between FOTSGreg and Fred - there's a smile on my face! Thanks, guys!

What does FOTS stand for, anyway?

Posted by Bobby 2007-02-18 13:42|| 2007-02-18 13:42|| Front Page Top

#20 Everyone get together and curse Arabi's mustache. And the camel he came in on.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-18 13:47|| 2007-02-18 13:47|| Front Page Top

#21 And the camel he's been humping?

Posted by JohnQC 2007-02-18 15:28|| 2007-02-18 15:28|| Front Page Top

#22 stinky Arabi: Name me 1 good thing about George Bush

he's not an Arab.

Posted by RD 2007-02-18 15:44|| 2007-02-18 15:44|| Front Page Top

#23 FOTSGreg, I'm not even half through the 'burg this fine Sunday and you've already impressed me with two fine comments. WELL DONE!

Posted by RD 2007-02-18 15:46|| 2007-02-18 15:46|| Front Page Top

#24 Thanks, everyone. I just got annoyed with the troll and had a burst of inspiration. Actually, I think everyone here has done a fine job of doing the Mexican hat dance on ole' Arabi's sorry head.

Bobby, FOTS stands for "Fire On The Suns" a 4X space opera play-by-email wargame I've been running online since 1995.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-02-18 16:27|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-02-18 16:27|| Front Page Top

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