I like the different format. You are so calm here and the birds flying does add a nice contrast.
A kid I knew just was killed over in Iraq. He is the firs one I knew. I am not more pissed than I was before, just more sad for his family.
All of the troops I know (including a few nameless recruiters) do not think that supporting the troops means agreeing with Bush, but it seems like the kids who tout that line are getting all the air time.
My colleague in the reserves is in Bagdad (toss in an h there somewhere eh?) and he says it's been more calm than not lately.
A political Brit I know likens our pulling out to a surgeon leaving and operation in progress. I keep thinking that the patient keeps pulling out the stitches, but what do I know?
T.I.M. - self defense is at times essential. Destroying buildings, lives and communities by remote control in a conflict begun on a lie and perpetuated on a foundation of shifting sand doesn't qualify as self defense in my book.
Forming a more perfect union, saving the Union and Defeating Nazi Fascists, all seem like war was ultimately good though the details get awful murky.
Tell your Brit friend that a surgeon begins every procedure with the right tools, assistance and knowledge. Just because a person is standing above a patient with a knife and some knock-out gas and begins cutting does not make that person a surgeon.
If that butcher begins hacking away at limbs and internal organs, it's a good thing that they stop before any more damage can be done.
Metaphors aside, before the problem can be fixed, an admission that there is a problem is the first and crucial step. Accountability to the citizenry is a reality long overdue in the Fiasco Kid's administration.
I say double the amount of spending in the next proposed bill. Keep the withdrawal deadline. Send it back to shrub and make him veto it again.
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War, HUH! What is it good for?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN'!!!
I like the different format. You are so calm here and the birds flying does add a nice contrast.
A kid I knew just was killed over in Iraq. He is the firs one I knew. I am not more pissed than I was before, just more sad for his family.
All of the troops I know (including a few nameless recruiters) do not think that supporting the troops means agreeing with Bush, but it seems like the kids who tout that line are getting all the air time.
My colleague in the reserves is in Bagdad (toss in an h there somewhere eh?) and he says it's been more calm than not lately.
A political Brit I know likens our pulling out to a surgeon leaving and operation in progress. I keep thinking that the patient keeps pulling out the stitches, but what do I know?
T.I.M. - self defense is at times essential. Destroying buildings, lives and communities by remote control in a conflict begun on a lie and perpetuated on a foundation of shifting sand doesn't qualify as self defense in my book.
Forming a more perfect union, saving the Union and Defeating Nazi Fascists, all seem like war was ultimately good though the details get awful murky.
Rebecca,
Tell your Brit friend that a surgeon begins every procedure with the right tools, assistance and knowledge. Just because a person is standing above a patient with a knife and some knock-out gas and begins cutting does not make that person a surgeon.
If that butcher begins hacking away at limbs and internal organs, it's a good thing that they stop before any more damage can be done.
Metaphors aside, before the problem can be fixed, an admission that there is a problem is the first and crucial step. Accountability to the citizenry is a reality long overdue in the Fiasco Kid's administration.
I say double the amount of spending in the next proposed bill. Keep the withdrawal deadline. Send it back to shrub and make him veto it again.
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