Posted on 11/24/2006 6:46:08 PM PST by kristinn
And you pound your keyboard making fun of people who actually ARE conservatives.
It's not that hard to figure out.
You're not a conservative. I am. That makes you mad.
I know...I was lurking and reading this thread all last night...and couldn't post...it just made me sad.
But, today, I just decided to jump in...for a while.
it'll be trite and oh,so discredited to mention the Kurds
Ohio, I feel your pain.
Ooops, sorry. That reminds me of someone.
Don't despair. We've gone through this before. All would be different if the dems hadn't taken the house and the senate. There are a lot of people here who are lacking courage in the face of losing. It's sad.
But, remember, when Dr.Deb decided to leave? I can't remember which huge divisive controversy that was even.
But, she stayed and, although I don't think she posts much on threads like this, she is a great treasure on the Day in the Life thread, providing us with all sorts of information and links.
This too will pass.
But if you don't want to hang around and fight with idiots, who can blame you? Just don't leave us DILifers.
Yes indeed.
I was there and it was embarrassing.
My buddy Flyer had the pictures but unfortunaltely he is dead now.
A Northerner prancing about with a clipboard presuming to give orders to Texans isn't taken well here.
actually, it would be irrelevant---since quote was regarding the Iraqi population at large.
The Kurds haven't murdered thousands of our men and women.
The initial mission was honorable, and absolutely the correct thing to do.
But the fighting seems to have morphed into an inter-religious rivalry hatred rather than a jihad against the West.
Yes, the USA still has a vital interest in seeing Iraq become a stabilized 'modern' nation, but seeing our good brave US soldiers and Marines getting killed while separating two nutball groups is something that the American public sees as very distasteful.
hey, he got half of it exactly right,thanks for posting the unremembered half ( must have hurt you to have to do it, but it shows some integrity at least)
Top US senator urges Tehran-Washington talks over Mideast situation Berlin
Nov 25, IRNA
Germany-US-Iran
The powerful chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Lugar on Saturday called for direct talks between Washington, Tehran and Damascus over the latest developments in the Middle East.
"I am among those who advocates talks between our government, Damascus and Tehran after a certain point," Lugar said in an interview with the Berlin-based Der Tagesspiegel.
The Republican senator from the US state of Indiana added that American President George W. Bush had gradually abandoned his earlier unilateral foreign policies for an increasingly multilateral approach, citing US-European cooperation on the question of Iran as well Washington's support for the six-party talks with North Korea.
Lugar has repeatedly said direct talks between Iran and the US would be "useful".
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-16/0611255020155942.htm
Yeah, that was Clinton's exit strategy, too. So, can you explain what Bush meant, then???
Distasteful?
Odd choice of words.
But, I suspect that, like the dems, you don't know what to do either.
I am trusting that the President, the generals and others in the administration will figure out how to handle this better.
everybody knew the Baathists weren't going to greet us as liberators. Is that irrelevant too?
And here I was waiting for D@mned Yankee #sshat. You feelin' OK today?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Did he step on your cowboy boots with his sissy boy sandals?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Of course it is, unless you are claiming that the sunni insurgents, the shia death squads, and Madr militia, and "al-Qaida in Iraq" (non of whom existed until we invaded) are ALL Baathists.
On the other hand, I don't think they want us to win any great victory either - because if we did, their people might want democracy too, and we might be inclined to push a bit harder for regime change in those places.
I think they are happy to keep fomenting the insurgency right now.
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