Comments on: Old News

by: felicity smith

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:40:29 +0000

I think you’re right Joany. Bush has always seen himself as another Lincoln, a liberator of the oppressed. Funds are being raised as we speak to put him on Mt. Rushmore. He’ll say that Lincoln started a civil war, leaving out the fact that the South was seceding from the Union. Actually Bush will be the inadvertent progenitor of a new form of government, an ineptocracy.

by: Swami

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:11:38 +0000

I must be getting punchy..I think I just read that Bush will be stopping off in Islamabad. Pakistan in an effort to spruce up our image with Muslims…Did I read a joke?

Joanr16 — I would agree with your assesssment. However, not everybody would, I read a post over at LGF where they described the situation in Iraq and being the “age old conflict between the Sunnis and the Shites”. Nothing new here?

Civil war?..naw..Just minor labor pains for the birth of a new freedom loving and democratic Iraq..

by: joanr16

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:38:53 +0000

Friends, please correct me if I’m wrong, but is this the first time in history that U.S. military intervention STARTED a civil war in a foreign country? We blundered into an existing civil war in Vietnam. The CIA’s meddling may have set the fuse for a few in Central America. But it seems to me, this is new.

by: yellowdog democrat

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:00:15 +0000

Bush has destroyed our creditability with the entire world with his torture treatment. Why would any Muslim nation want to deal with us?

by: Swami

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:42:10 +0000

Anonymous— We’ll stay the course because it’s the foolish thing to do..Bush’s only option is to continue to sell pipe dreams of freedom being on the march and defend his arrogant blunder in Iraq with more lies and deceptions. If Bush had an ounce of wisdom he’d take heed of the old addage -The truth is always an option- and tell the American people what they already know, that Iraq is a lost cause and he never should have deceived us.. A sincere confession of his lies would be accepted by the American people. We are quick to forgive human weakness when displayed with a contrite spirit..But we bristle at the haughtiness and arrogance we have seen thus far from Bush…Remember back to the second inauguration? It was arrogance incarnate. A real leader would have adorned himself in a cloak of humility..but not Bush!

by: renate

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:00:27 +0000

If Iraq is not in a civil war I like to know what a civil war is.

never did I understand what exactly he did about terror that was so great? Afghanistan is getting bloodier by the day and Iraq is a mess and Guantanamo destroyed the moral high graounds for the US.

by: Steve Nichols

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:52:31 +0000

I have a few Main Street Republicans who have been friends for years. One stopped voting Republican prior to 2004 because he couldn’t stomach the anti-gay bigotry. He was a family man and the founder of a moving company with $3 million in annual revenues.

Another was a friend from law school, we both started when we were about 40. He was a former CFO at a gun company. He’s pretty sheepish when we talk about Bush, and for some time has recognized he is worthless as a leader.

Over the past 5 years I have gradually moved to the position that I will not entertain anyone who supports the Republican Party, until such time as it purges its various bigots–anti-black, anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-Moslem. The Republicans have spent 40 years opening the doors to various bigots, and they now form the base.

These days, anyone who supports the Republican party is either a bigot, or is someone who tolerates bigotry (same difference, morally).

by: Edward Deevy

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:51:32 +0000

I’ve been watching the unfolding debacle for the past few days and thinking about the conflict between the facts on the ground and what we are told by the neo-con cheerleaders. This post validated what I was thinking. The general testifying before the Senate committee this morning said this past week was “significant.” That’s about as close as any of these guys has come to accepting that hell is breaking loose…and there is nothing we can do about it.

by: Anonymous

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:06:11 +0000

We have been told lies once again everything is going great in Iraq not true. A poll taken on how the troops feel about being in Iraq they want out. The civil war in Iraq has started and it not going to stop anytime soon. However, things that can be done are redeploy our troops,complete withdrawal of all forces,stay the course which is foolish. By the way Bush and Co poll continue to drop to 34%. It seems Bush and Co are caught between a rock and hard place cannot see the forest for the trees. I like the idea that the chorus for the I word is gathering steam.