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Harkin calls for troop pullout in Iraq
AP ^ | March 4 2006

Posted on 03/04/2006 3:05:04 PM PST by jmc1969

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To: Capt. Tom

That is impossible to do when your mindset is, "Islam is a religion of peace" and "We worship the same God."- tom

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That's the best explenation I've seen or heard of why we're in this shape at this time. I'd say you hit the nail on the head.


121 posted on 03/04/2006 6:49:02 PM PST by SUSSA
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To: Morgan in Denver

General Tom Harkin? First, he`s a lousy Senator, now he`s trying to be a General


122 posted on 03/04/2006 6:50:36 PM PST by bybybill (If the Rats win, we are doomed)
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To: SUSSA
We do have a plan and it will be completed. The Iraqi military will take full control and Al Qaeda will be removed from Iraq. We've made great progress on both accounts. We will complete the plan.

Your idea of minimizing our casualities seems to be very different than mine.

Actually, if the plan was to simply minimize causalities, we'd bring them home tomorrow.

If this is the plan it's a damn $hitty one.

I'm glad you're not the CIC.

123 posted on 03/04/2006 7:01:03 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

I'm glad you're not the CIC.

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So is Al Qaeda and a lot of other Mohammedans.


124 posted on 03/04/2006 7:11:42 PM PST by SUSSA
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To: SUSSA
I'm glad you're not the CIC.

So is Al Qaeda and a lot of other Mohammedans.

No they're not.

125 posted on 03/04/2006 7:25:48 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: Mr. Brightside

lol!


126 posted on 03/04/2006 8:53:17 PM PST by Atchafalaya (When you're there, that's the best!!)
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To: jmc1969

Yet another Democrat demands US surrender.


127 posted on 03/04/2006 9:28:30 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: ballplayer

Can you imagine the shape we would be in if Gore or Kerry had won instead of W. Thank you, Lord.


128 posted on 03/05/2006 4:35:19 AM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Morgan in Denver

He's a douche bag!


129 posted on 03/05/2006 6:36:09 AM PST by cjmae
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To: jmc1969
Hey!
Senator numb-nutz,


130 posted on 03/05/2006 7:18:08 AM PST by Condor51 (Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
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To: SUSSA
My question now is how do we minimize further loss of our GIs? There is no way we should be taking casualties in these numbers this long after the war, but we can't just pull out either. Someone with a better military mind than mine has to have an answer. I wonder where he is and would this administration listen if he presented a plan.

The ideal military solution would be to take the editors of the New York Times, the Washington Post and Associated Press out and shoot them for treason.

That would stop the MSM from aiding and abetting the foreign agitators in Iraq, and might even stop our press from purposely undermining the war.

Since we're not going to see this happen, I can't really see what a military commander could offer as a plan.

Could you imagine the CEO of your company announcing a new corporate plan and direction, and you and some of your fellow employees deciding that the CEO was full of it, and that your group was going to publicly talk down management daily? And the company newsletter signed on with your group, and started printing your version of "the facts"?

In the real world, your a** and your pals' a**es are gone in a week. And everybody at the newsletter is fired, too, for good measure.

Hwoever, in the NeverNeverLand of Washington and the MSM, the LieTrain rolls on and on, Hoovering up your tax dollars and getting our guys killed, all the while blaming the CEO...

131 posted on 03/05/2006 8:07:29 PM PST by an amused spectator (Bush Runner! The Donkey is after you! Bush Runner! When he catches you, you're through!)
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Could you imagine the CEO of your company announcing a new corporate plan and direction, and you and some of your fellow employees deciding that the CEO was full of it, and that your group was going to publicly talk down management daily? And the company newsletter signed on with your group, and started printing your version of "the facts"?

In the real world, your a** and your pals' a**es are gone in a week. And everybody at the newsletter is fired, too, for good measure.

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Your analogy is faulty. Your entire premise is based on a total lack of understanding of how our republic is supposed to run. The president isn’t the king. We don’t work for him. He is the help. He works for us.

Nor does he own the press. Our press is not a company newsletter in place to regurgitate the administration’s spin. The Founding Fathers established a free, independent press as a means to challenge the government and to keep our public servants’ actions open and transparent. The president can’t fire the press nor force it to support his actions and programs. Nor can he get rid of people who dislike, and criticize, his actions and programs. Were we still operating as the Founding Fathers envisioned, the people could fire the president.

It is thinking like yours that gave us presidents like Nixon, Carter, Bush, Clinton, and Bush. It is also thinking like yours that gave us an unresponsive, entrenched, congress, more concerned with personal power, and personal gain, than with freedom and liberty. Your thinking is giving us a ruling political class rather than a government accountable and responsive to the people who are supposed to be sovereign.


132 posted on 03/06/2006 4:04:35 PM PST by SUSSA
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To: jmc1969
It's amazing, for every one person zarqawi alienates in the middle east it's like he gets 2 more fans over here. God Bless us in November.
133 posted on 03/06/2006 4:06:05 PM PST by spikeytx86 (Beware the Democratic party has been over run by CRAB PEOPLE!)
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To: SUSSA
Your entire premise is based on a total lack of understanding of how our republic is supposed to run.

Your post is based on a total lack of understanding of my analogy.

This is a Constitutional website. I arrived here shortly after JR started it. All of us old dogs make our arguments from the standpoint of a Constitutional Republic, not the stinking democracy postulated by most, if not all, of our politicians.

So, I reject the body of your post, which assigns to me distasteful, illogical and untrue traits.

The fact of my analogy remains. Your bogus misrepresentation of MY post would lead to the inescapable logic that the Republican party (and ANY American opposition party!) should have taken exactly the same tack during World War II - they should have talked down the war effort daily, leaked war information to the press, and that the press should have done their utmost to sabotage the war effort, up to and including publishing future troop movements and war strategy, playing up American killed and wounded, and decrying "war crimes" by American troops.

You've shown quite the attitude throughout this entire post, and it's been an ugly little attitude.

I'm done with you.

134 posted on 03/06/2006 7:12:56 PM PST by an amused spectator (Bush Runner! The Donkey is after you! Bush Runner! When he catches you, you're through!)
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To: an amused spectator
...the press should have done their utmost to sabotage the war effort...

New York Times About To Reveal Even More Top Secret Operational Data! Big Benefit To Terrorists

As I was saying one mere day ago...

;-)

135 posted on 03/07/2006 8:28:28 PM PST by an amused spectator (Bush Runner! The Donkey is after you! Bush Runner! When he catches you, you're through!)
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To: jmc1969

Why is it so difficult to call this man and his party what they are. They are traitors and deserve neither our respect nor our pity. The deserve only our contempt.

Oh, I forgot. They may hate the war but support they troops. Never mind. /s


136 posted on 05/03/2006 6:25:50 PM PDT by mort56
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