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Geoff Gibson
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Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | 1  

It's so super-secret it doesn't exist.

Or maybe its kept with the Colonel's recipe.  Have you thought about that?!?!?

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Wow, I'm absolutely in the minority here...

Unless the situation gets a whole lot worse in Iraq, I support staying in it for at least several more years at near current troop levels, and maybe decades at reduced levels.  I think that's the only option we have that has a shot at salvaging something halfway good out of this.

And by 'good', I mean a relatively stable and free democratized, Western-allied, nation in the Middle East, while avoiding a civil war.  There's no guarantee we'll get there, but I think it's the only decent path we have out of this.

I completely agree on this.  While we shouldn't have ever gone in, in the first place, now that we are there, a fast pull-out would do a lot more harm than good.

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We're gonna MSG our way out of Iraq?
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Geoff Gibson
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Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:19pm | IP Logged | 4  

Toed:

As someone who voted for Bush in 2000 all I can tell you is I am sorry -- I didn't know when I pulled the lever that he would start this war.  I understand how you feel, believe me.

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Kevin Hagerman
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It is the 2004 voters who can't pretend ignorance.  And there were a LOT of them.
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Geoff Gibson
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We're gonna MSG our way out of Iraq?

Kevin: There is strong evidence of the Colonel's role in all things secret.  Here is some testimony to that: 

Stuart Mackenzie: Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
Tony Giardino: So who's in this Pentavirate?
Stuart Mackenzie: The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, *and* Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee *beady* eyes, and that smug look on his face. "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"
Charlie Mackenzie: Dad, how can you hate "The Colonel"?
Stuart Mackenzie: Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass!

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Michael Roberts
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Did anybody really believe that a privileged, failed business man, drug
addict, C student could pull off, let alone conduct something so complex as
nation building?

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There are plenty of reasons to attack Bush, but I don't think his college
grades should be one of them. Neither Gore nor Kerry were great students.
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Christopher Alan Miller
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Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | 8  

It is the 2004 voters who can't pretend ignorance.  And there were a LOT of them

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And a lot wish there was a better candidate to choose.

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Kevin Hagerman
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Posted: 11 June 2008 at 1:46pm | IP Logged | 9  

This is where voting AGAINST someone comes into play.  Saddam Hussein would have been preferable to another term of Bush.
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Christopher Alan Miller
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How do you expect to be taken seriously when you make absurd statements like that?

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Michael Roberts
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Saddam Hussein would have been preferable to another term of Bush.

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You are so wrong. Saddam would have plunged us into a never-ending war
with Canada to get back at Terrance and Phillip.
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Michael Roberts
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How do you expect to be taken seriously when you make absurd statements
like that?

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Kevin expects to be taken seriously?
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