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Good article. I've given up talking with folks who oppose the war/can't stand GW/etc at work concerning these matters. It's not worth it, we are never going to agree on the issues and I got sick of hearing after 5 minutes into a discussion that GW is a druggie and/or a drunk and/or GW is doing "his Daddy's work", blah, blah, blah.

It makes them mad when I won't engage them in a discussion on these topics.

or GW is doing "his Daddy's work", blah, blah, blah.

I know what you mean. My boss is a kool-aid drinking Dem. This is his favorite slam against GW, not bright on his part considering he just took over the family business from his own father. I pointed this out to him the other day when he started in on W. He said "That's different!" I asked how, and after much sputtering all he could come up with was politics is a popularity game and W benefited from his father's popularity. Whatever.

No matter what facts I present to him when we argue politics he will NEVER change his mind. "War is for oil, blah, blah, blah..." and he never has facts, only his opinions that he doesn't even know why he has them.

I think I also lost a friend over the war. I told her we should kick a** and take names in Iraq and I haven't heard from her since. Oh well.

This goes to show that there is not much difference between the radical left and the radical right. Both sides are invested emotionally rather than intellectually.

Philosophies are not a straight line - where you go left or right and become further away the farther you go, but rather a circle. Where if you go to far, you will bump into the other side.