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Neocons May Get the Last Laugh
The Los Angeles Times ^
| March 3, 2005
| Max Boot
Posted on 03/03/2005 12:49:34 PM PST by quidnunc
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posted on
03/03/2005 12:49:34 PM PST
by
quidnunc
To: quidnunc
I've heard the weather in Hell has cooled down quite a bit...
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posted on
03/03/2005 12:52:25 PM PST
by
TheDon
(The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
To: quidnunc
A big TOLD YA SO to all the small minded hand wringing liberals out there.
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posted on
03/03/2005 12:55:24 PM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: TheDon
I've heard the weather in Hell has cooled down quite a bit...
its running out of virgins
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posted on
03/03/2005 12:55:31 PM PST
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: quidnunc
Don't see President Bush being called a dumb cowboy too much anymore do we?
To: quidnunc
You know, it's fun to be right!
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posted on
03/03/2005 12:55:43 PM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(Condi Rice: Yeaaahhh, baybee! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350654/posts)
To: TheDon
Yes, truly. I'm trying to figure out how I can start selling long johns and wool blankets down there.
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posted on
03/03/2005 12:56:35 PM PST
by
taxcontrol
(People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
To: SF Republican
I liked the Liberal hype at the beginning of the President's first term of office. They said that Bush had no 'foreign policy' experience. How much experience does it take to know right from wrong? How much experience does it take to take a position and go forward? The Liberals make everything way more complicated than it ought to be and then achieve NOTHING.
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posted on
03/03/2005 12:58:23 PM PST
by
SMARTY
To: TheDon
I've heard the weather in Hell has cooled down quite a bit... Too bad. There's so many people I'd truely love to see get their arse's cooked good.
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posted on
03/03/2005 12:59:41 PM PST
by
An Old Marine
(Freedom isn't Free)
To: TheDon
SO IT WOULD SEEM....
To: SMARTY
The Blue state snickering is petering out.
To: quidnunc
A little self-congratulation by Max, himself a neo-conservative.
To: quidnunc
Yes, there is a reason why the MSN downplays this Baghdad takeover.
A change to Democracy in the Arab world. Unheard of never ever imagined nor could it happen, yet this media plays things low, in cool down mode.
Bush, the one who already was out of office up to 7:00 on election day, shows up as this winner too?
And then an election soo dangerous that a delay needed to be called till things cleared up?
Move MSN, on to the next opportunity and drip him up with Social Security.
The liberal wing can't stand things any longer and would choke if Bush wins another one regardless of what happens to the youngsters.
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posted on
03/03/2005 1:34:40 PM PST
by
hermgem
To: SMARTY
It's one thing to be ignorant but know it. It's much worse to be ignorant and think you know something. Republicans and conservatives don't know everything. But liberals have put themselves in the position of believing that they are the sole repository for all that is good, beautiful, and true in life. The fact that they actually know next to nothing about how things really work clearly illustrates them as the jackasses they are as the mideast developments are proving. Not for nothing is their symbol a donkey.
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posted on
03/03/2005 1:35:31 PM PST
by
driftless
( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
To: quidnunc
maked for later review.
"I told you so" ping.
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posted on
03/03/2005 1:38:37 PM PST
by
IMRight
To: quidnunc
It might be just a tad too early to be self-congratulatory. Yes, elections were a smashing success in Iraq, but there are still over 100,000 Americans armed to the teeth over there propping up the results of that election. Far too many times before we have declared victory and disappeared, only to have the festering sore we left behind turn to gangrene.
I have never been in favor of George's Excellent Adventure in Iraq and still oppose the action on principle, but you can't argue with results. Now is the time to make sure we walk out the door upright, with well wishes behind us instead of backing out, wary of flying daggers.
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posted on
03/03/2005 1:45:59 PM PST
by
NCSteve
To: NCSteve
It might be just a tad too early to be self-congratulatory. It's definitely too early to be self-congratulatory, and nobody should kid themselves into thinking that the transformation is going to be complete overnight. However, it's not a matter of whether or not it's going to happen, it's just a matter of when.
Some time in about five to ten years from now, Bush's strident opponents and mockers are going to look every bit the bunch of fools as Reagan's did after the Wall came down and Eastern Europe was finally freed. The Arab tyrannies are just as doomed to eventually go on the ash heap of history.
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posted on
03/03/2005 1:51:25 PM PST
by
jpl
(Islam is a religion of peace, as in "Rest in Peace".)
To: jpl
The Arab tyrannies are just as doomed to eventually go on the ash heap of history.I certainly hope you are right. However, Arab tyranny has a 1500 year history whereas Communist Totalitarianism was a relative Johnny-come-lately. That's not to belittle Reagan's accomplishment by any means. The Soviet menace was more subtle but far more deadly than the threat from Arabic Islam.
If a short taste of Democracy and freedom is all that is needed to overcome 15 centuries of cultural indoctrination, then I will be very impressed. The cynic in me doubts that very much, though.
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posted on
03/03/2005 2:05:31 PM PST
by
NCSteve
To: quidnunc
At the time, this kind of talk was dismissed by pretty much everyone not employed by the White House as neocon nuttiness. Never underestimate the real effects of "neocon nuttiness".
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posted on
03/03/2005 2:28:47 PM PST
by
eskimo
To: NCSteve
You have apparently known very few if any expatriots from Iraq or Iran. The two dozen or so I have worked with have been very ready for democracy, and Saddumb only survived by the great and explicit threats he held over the fate of families. More than one who I knew "had to go back" in order to save their family from threats. This is not a stupid people, and I predict that in 15 years they will be a huge technological force in the MidEast.
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posted on
03/03/2005 4:12:24 PM PST
by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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