Wow, sensitive, aren't you? Fine, report me for abuse. Hasn't happened yet, so I'm due.
As for reading comprehension, I suggest you need to work on your reading comprehension skills, too. My comment about President Bush being hung was meant in the figurative, not the literal. Even a semi-lucid leftist such as yourself should have been able to figure it out. "
You still need reading comp. work, friend. I said that I almost reported abuse, but did not, nor have any intentions of doing so now. I just have issues with a phrase that calls for hanging the President that I helped elect in 2000 (thus putting your pathetic "semi-lucid leftist" remark to pasture permanently). I don't agree with everything Bush does (stupid Medicare Socialism, even-worse open-border policy with Mexico during the WoT), but I hardly wish for his demise.
"You do amuse me when you rant about my just starting to care that Iraqi children were being starved by sanctions. Oil for Food was supposed to take care of this, right? Saddam was contained, Oil for Food was providing humanitarian relief, etc etc."
I amuse you? How do I amuse you? Am I funny? Like a clown? (apologies to Joe Pesci) Regardless, I didn't care for the Iraqi people then, nor do I now. I also don't buy all this phony compassion from people today. I don't think many Americans truly 'care' about the Iraqi people, but will say anything to appear 'righteous'.
"As I said, you seem to believe that continuing in a mistake is the best policy, whereas I admit our prior policy was a mistake, and changes needed to be made. "
And as I said, I never once typed here or elsewhere that removing Saddam was a mistake. More reading incomprehensibility on your part. I think we should've removed his ass in 1991.
"So, where am I being inconsitent? "
You're continued, incorrect assumptions that I'm pro-Saddam and leftist, for starters. I despise Al Gore more than I despised Clintax. At least with Clintax, you knew what you were getting, whereas Gore was more of a snake. With a lockbox.
"Pardon for my grammatical mistakes and errors in tense. I had no idea this was a course in English, where I was being graded for what I write. /sarcasm"
Not sure if I pointed out any grammatical errors in your post. I generally avoid that sort of behavior, but if I did, I'm sure your prose deserved it.
Your original line about selling WMD to Saddam involving prior administrations was a policy mistake. Since rectified.
You "almost" reported me for abuse? Sounds threatening, kind of like my phrase about President Bush being "hung."
You Sir are an AH!
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