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2006-11-09 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by ed 2006-11-09 10:21|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What do you expect from an adult, US voter? Foresight? Wisdom? Intelligence? Most of them were too busy watching reality TV, or Okra Wimpy.

Now it's kerrykennedypelosimurtha's turn to lead the US to the promised land.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2006-11-09 12:36|| 2006-11-09 12:36|| Front Page Top

#2 I must apologize to the appeasers, cowards, media tools, and dhimmis of Spain. They at least had a mass casualty attack to push them over the edge.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-11-09 13:48|| 2006-11-09 13:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Need another box of tissues?

The GOP lost an election. Get over it. Did you really think they were going to control the whole USG forever? The Dems aren't going to lead the US. They'll control the Congress in a couple of months, but the GOP still has the Presidency and near-complete control of the conduct of the war. The idea the Dems will defund the war with troops in the field is a paranoid fantasy. They're nowhere near that stupid, or that brave. They will whine, and look into some things GOP chairman would have been happy to leave under the rug. Some of that may be helpful in the long run. Or not. The US and the war effort will survive it.

If AQ thinks this is some big victory for them, they'll learn better soon enough. The Viet Cong never brought down an American landmark, and nobody in either party has missed the difference. This isn't the end of the war effort, it's a partial changing of the guard five years in.

The sad thing is, if the Rumsfeld decision had been announced last week, when it was already a done deal, there's a good chance that would have been enough to hold the Senate at least. I've got to think Cheney's "we'll do what we want no matter what the voter's do" statement last week pissed off a least the 3 in a thousand voters in VA that put Webb over the top (if that's the way it turns out).

And hey, isn't being defeatist when the enemy can hear you supposed to be bad form?

Posted by Whairong Elmereger3072 2006-11-09 13:58|| 2006-11-09 13:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Nobody here is crying. The real crybabies are the fools who will try to shut down the war.

"The idea the Dems will defund the war with troops in the field is a paranoid fantasy."

I don't think they will have the votes, but I am willing to consider the possibillity that they do. Is an insulting dismissal all you have in opposition? Who are you to contradict the publicly stated positions of thousands of Democrat activist? Should we just take your word for it that they don't mean what they say. You are very fond, it seems, of telling other people not only what they should think, but what they do think.
It is a lie that nobody has missed the difference between this and Vietnam. Did you not hear Ted Kennedy say that Iraq is another Vietnam? Have you not heard the likes of Alan Colmes and a chorus of other Dem media authorities demand to know why war is necessary even in Afghanistan?
I would respect the Dems' position more if they were honest about it, something we did see from the Spanish leftists.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-11-09 14:37|| 2006-11-09 14:37|| Front Page Top

#5 The Dems will get Bush to Re-deploy (save his legacy), then they will de-fund the Iraqis. 1975 - Deja Vu all over again. Helicopters taking off from the roof of the US Embassy, ferrying people to Jordan. The difference this time will be instead of Boat People we will have Camel People.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2006-11-09 14:48|| 2006-11-09 14:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Mideast Media Hail Bush Defeat

Arabs Link Republican Loss to Iraq War

Iran: Democrats' victory a way to exit from Iraq quagmire for US troops.

Tibi rejoices at Republican losses

Nope, no hope for AQ in any of that.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-11-09 14:59|| 2006-11-09 14:59|| Front Page Top

#7 "Did you really think they were going to control the whole USG forever?"

Incidentally, this is one of the dumbest strawmen ever posted here. What complete, braindead, adolescent arrogance.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-11-09 15:12|| 2006-11-09 15:12|| Front Page Top

#8 France rejoices at Bush defeat
From ~~La Merde~~ Le Mond:

'Spirit of War Subsides'

Last evening in America ... the spirit of war subsided, with its procession of speculating Texas oilmen and maniacal fundamentalists.

Posted by Media Monkey 2006-11-09 15:31|| 2006-11-09 15:31|| Front Page Top

the GOP still has the Presidency and near-complete control of the conduct of the war

Somebody'd better tell Bush that.

He looks broken.

Posted by JSU 2006-11-09 16:21|| 2006-11-09 16:21|| Front Page Top

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