Posted on 08/03/2004 12:09:31 PM PDT by dead
Mr. Perlstein,
I, for one, enjoyed your visit here and hope you find time to come back.
Although I don't agree with your views, I admire the 'nads it took to come here and defend them.
Dead, good job.
Rick, please butch it up.
Friends don't let Friends cite Joe Wilson as a source for anything, not after his justifiably painful horsewhipping by Glenn Reynolds, Gregory Djerejian, and Andrew Sullivan.
Self-promoting phony. "Politics of Truth" indeed. Even the Kerry people were smart enough to remove the link to Wilson's website.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
It would seem that you are the pot calling the kettle black considering how much you and your publication shilled for Bill and Hillary during their reign of terror.
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Are you serious? Did you really read the Voice in the '90s? Clinton was attacked from the left ALL THE TIME.
We have a Bingo!!
Although I don't agree with your views, I admire the 'nads it took to come here and defend them.
What VC said.
Agreed. Carter cured me of liberalism back in the '70's.
As a NYC school teacher, I cannot even take a student for a slice of pizza without parental consent but the pro-choice movement has managed to usurp parental rights in this regard. Never are the stats for abortion-related mothers' deaths discussed but we are continually fed images of hangers and back alley abortions.
The abortion industry has nothing on Halliburton IMHO. The Democratic Party machine seem to want to keep the poor and ignorant on the pro-death plantation while the elites want to control the population by any means necessary. BTW Margaret Sanger was a racist while Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were vehemently opposed to abortion. Food for thought.
I am kind of disappointed ... I fired off 13 posts to him on the thread. And to make it easy, asked direct questions in each one.
ZERO replies.
I think my questions were too high calibre for him to spit back quickly. I respect his willingness to show up and all, but didnt really make much headway in actual debate.
If he wants to get back later I'm all ears (or eyes).
I was in Hitchcock-Snell, fourth floor, in a room that was rumored to have been Leopold and Loeb's. I did a flyby a couple of weeks ago on my way to O'Hare but couldn't figure out whether Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap was still open or not.
Oh, and is Regenstein still sinking into the muck?
Be Seeing You,
Chris
My point was against people that make bold claims but can not back them up with facts (Perlstein). Beyond that I am not sure what you are talking about.
1. Bush weapons inspector David Kay says there is no evidence. David Kay was on the ground for months investigating the activities of Hussein's regime. He concluded "But we simply did not find any evidence of extensive links with Al Qaeda, or for that matter any real links at all." He called a speech where Cheney made the claim there was a link "evidence free."
2. The 9/11 Commission says there is no evidence. The staff report of the 9/11 commission concluded that there was "no credible evidence" that Hussein and al-Qaeda were collaborating. According to the commission, Bin Laden was hostile to Hussein's secular government and Hussein never responded to requests for help in providing training camps or supplies.
3. Colin Powell says there is no evidence. In January, Colin Powell said there was no "concrete evidence" of a connection between Hussein and al-Qaeda.
4. The U.N. says there is no evidence. Michael Chandler, The chairman of the Security Council group monitoring sanctions against al-Qaeda said there was "no evidence of a link between the terrorist organization and the former Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein."
We either do this or nuke the place. Or, we eventually get nuked ourselves.
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Nuked by who? Any conceivable enemy MIGHT have less than a dozen warheads. We have thousands. Any country that nukes us would be glass before sunset. Come on. You can come up with a better argument than this for invading Iraq.
As wifh many lberals - you begin the debate with a 'when did you quit beating your wife" type statement and expect an honest debate.
Iraq has been an oustanding success. millions of people are now free;a brutal dictator and staff are either dead,captured, or hiding; thousands of terrorists have been killed or captured. Most ot the services have been restored some are better than before the war. As wars go, casualities have been very light. Iraq has it's own govt.
The only people that believe if is a failure are those who want us to fail. Terrorists, France, N Korea, Hollywood and fhe radical left.
Think about it - an article in the newspaper described Kerry's camp as being "Giddy" when fhey found out that the economy didn't do as well ae expected-
They are excited when another soldier is killed, another terrorist attack takes place, or anofher dictator calls us names or threatens us.
How can Kerry be that cold and mean?
How can you debate issues when the issue is made up or based on a false premise?
I believe fairy dust is harmtul for our children, Sen Kerry hae been a miserable failure in fhe Senafe protecting us from fairy dust. He has had 30 years to pass a law banning it and did nothing.
unfortunately, I shall not be in New York
unfortunately, I may not on this forum express my advice to those FReepers who shall, and might chance upon some such f***wits committing this vile act...
I shall say this to any of you who are telepathic and take my loudly-thought but untyped advice to heart: I shall gladly contribute to your legal defense fund if you need it.
Actually, I believe David Horowitz had a session on FR some years ago.
"Of course, two years after Bush made his pledge, only 2 percent of the AIDS money has been distributed (in any event, it will mainly go to drug companies). And appearing earnest in the presence of African Americans has been a documented Bush strategy for wooing moderate voters since the beginning."
Are you of the opinion that mans supposed destruction of the rainforest is quite possibly causing the extintion of plant and animal species that could hold the key to finding the cure for AIDS and other viruses?
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Sounds possible, though I don't know how you'd prove it. The theory sounds a little fanciful. Who has advanced it? I've never heard it before.
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Also, is it possible that of the nearly 40 million aborted babies since 1973 that several of them could have been the scientist that would have discovered said cures?
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Terrible argument. Could have been the mad scientist who hatched some genocidal plan for mankind. This is just silly talk.
IIRC - only because he wasn't LEFT ENOUGH
Obviously you are mistaken. As for Republicans controlling both houses, a majority of one is hardly an argument for unprecedented control and many of those with Rs in front of their name vote more along the lines of Tom Daschle than, say, Rick Santorum. The Republican House gets things passed in good time. They die in the Senate.
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