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To your assertion that "fixing inequality and stagnating incomes" should be at the center of liberal political appeal, I reply "it is". Income redistribution is high on the list of priorities for most liberals, taking money away from people who have worked to earn it, and giving it to people who have not.
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Then why did Clinton pass a capital gains tax cut? Why does Kerry promise to lower taxes on 99 percent of American companies (when 60 percent already pay no taxes!).
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I also assert that making this "income equality" the center of liberal political appeal is dangerous, considering what we are facing now in the world. Focusing on destroying terrorism should be the primary focus of any political party in this day and age and anyone that doesn't see that is blind. How can we redistribute the incole if we're all dead??? Priorities...priorities...priorities
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Well, that is why I think we shouldn't have distracted ourelves from the struggle against Al Q with an invented grievance against Iraq, thus turning Iraq INTO a terrorist haven.

"Well, that is why I think we shouldn't have distracted ourelves from the struggle against Al Q with an invented grievance against Iraq, thus turning Iraq INTO a terrorist haven."

Rick, respectfully, the "grievance" with Iraq is not invented. I, personally, don't think we should have let them go on shooting at our planes. Act of war comes to mind. But you must see that this "war" is more than just Al Quaeda. There is a huge network of various terrorist networks out there, loosely linked, and they are all a problem. Hussien supported them as he could, and that included the Palistinian homocide bombers, to whose families he sent large sums of money. It is hard to wrap your mind around the extensive nature of this struggle, but it is important to do so.

again: turning it into a terrorist MEAT GRINDER.

a "haven" is a place you go to hide, a place that is safe.
a "meat grinder" is where you go to die - and that is what the foreign arab jihadis are doing.

take off the peacenik blinkers for just one minute and you will see that this is a very good thing.

"Well, that is why I think we shouldn't have distracted ourelves from the struggle against Al Q with an invented grievance against Iraq, thus turning Iraq INTO a terrorist haven."

1. The United States is not "distracted from the struggle against Al Q".

2. The grievance against Iraq is not invented, just ignored by you.

3. Iraq was already a terrorist haven, (also ignored by you), and now that the Iraqis have tasted freedom, they are taking up arms against the terrorist themselves. You know the old saying, "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he can eat for the rest of his life" does apply to freedom in Iraq, also.

I believe there was a place in Iraq called salmon pak (name may be wrong) But it was a terrorist training camp.Thus are going there could not turn it into a terrorist haven it already was.