Failure to note this recent Iraqi request, and the passage of the resolution, perpetuates the GOP policy of paying lip-service to the importance of “Iraqi sovereignty” — while making unilateral decisions about that country from safely inside the Beltway.

There should be hell to pay – and no one in the media has picked this up yet. Go figure.

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His “by the numbers” facts are, I believe, copied from an email that was making the rounds two or three years ago. He must have been at the far end of the email chain.Lots of leftie bloggers debunked them at the time.

The only difference in the blogosphere, is people like Mel get corrected. Our problem is that people like Mel are running the News Departments of most media outlets in the country.

Therefore, millions hear the lies over and over again every day.

Cooper gives some speeches about what the American dream and the American way are really all about that will put tears in your eyes.

Longfellow Deeds: From what I can see, no matter what system of government we have, there will always be leaders and always be followers. It’s like the road out in front of my house. It’s on a steep hill. Every day I watch the cars climbing up. Some go lickety-split up that hill on high, some have to shift into second, and some sputter and shake and slip back to the bottom again. Same cars, same gasoline, yet some make it and some don’t. And I say the fellas who can make the hill on high should stop once in a while and help those who can’t. That’s all I’m trying to do with this money. Help the fellas who can’t make the hill on high.

If we want a symbol around which we can unify, in contrast to the bombastic, arrogant Ann Coulter Republican, it’s the humble decency of Longfellow Deeds.

I especially like the work FALSE to number 1. I, of course, absolutely believe that a one word response is all that is needed to counter this, or any, discussion. Brilliant!

There was a link, genius. The news story I linked to showed that your claim was false.

Be advised: The Mahablog motto is “I ain’t your monkey.” If you come around here dribbling lies and trying to pick fights, don’t expect me to drop everything and perform tricks for you. I am being unusually indulgent in discussing anything with you at all. But if I go to the trouble of providing a link, don’t you dare say that I provided only a one-word answer.

As to the UN doing anything. They sent someone for a day then pulled out.

Who said anything about the UN?

As to Hitler declaring war on us. Was that serious?

Yes it was. It’s also the historical record..

There was no way to take that declaration serious as there was no way Germany could have attacked us.

Germany had already attacked us by attacking U.S. naval vessels. Their attacks killed 115 crewmen of the destroyer U.S.S. Reuben James in October 2001, more than a month before Pearl Harbor. That’s more sailors killed than by the al Qaeda attack on the U.S.S. Cole. And you think we should have just ignored that? Germany wasn’t really serious? How naive.

German U boats were active in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Florida before Pearl Harbor. Had Germany taken over Britain, as it was trying to do, North America probably would have been next.

There is no way to get the international community to do anything.

Had we something approximating an actual leader in the White House on 9/11 instead of a smarmy little frat boy, the international community most certainly could have been willing to join us in a real “war on terror.” Unfortunately we had Bush — a.k.a. The Prick that Roared — and unfortunately he and his crew were fixated on a plan to invade Iraq that made absolutely no sense.

This is a discussion of views.

No, it isn’t. It’s you spewing what you’ve been brainwashed to believe, and me attempting to correct you.

Do personal attacks bring any discussion forward?

You lost the moral high ground when you posted rightie propaganda on my blog. And when you wrote “I especially like the work FALSE to number 1. I, of course, absolutely believe that a one word response is all that is needed to counter this, or any, discussion. Brilliant!” when I had, in fact, provided a link, you earned a place of honor in my “banned” filter.

Finally,

As to where I was when the WTC was attacked. I was looking out my window.

And your window was where? My point is that most real New Yorkers would have told me what block they lived on — “I was on the fourth floor of a building near the corner of Vesey and West Broadway,” for example. Or they would have said “Tribeca” or “Battery Park City” or some such. That’s why I offered my location, to see how you’d respond.

I can’t prove you weren’t really anywhere near the financial district on 9/11, but I suspect you were not. In any event, the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers can’t stand Bush and were opposed to the invasion of Iraq all along, including the hundreds of thousands (at least) who witnessed the destruction of the trade center. I’ve talked to lots of New Yorkers whom I know for certain were very close to the WTC when it was attacked and who have not been bamboozled by the Bushies, as you have been. So the implication that somehow you have some kind of special insight because you were nearby when the WTC was destroyed is way bogus.

How intelligent.

Maha,

I like the one word reply to items my list. I especially like the work FALSE to number 1. I, of course, absolutely believe that a one word response is all that is needed to counter this, or any, discussion. Brilliant!

As to where I was when the WTC was attacked. I was looking out my window. I saw the second plane cross and turn into the building. I saw people jump from the building, not on TV, but close enough to hear the bodies hit the ground.

As to the UN doing anything. They sent someone for a day then pulled out.

As to Hitler declaring war on us. Was that serious? There were many people in the U.S. that did not want us to go to war against Germany. There was no way to take that declaration serious as there was no way Germany could have attacked us.

I find it amusing that when people have nothing to say that come up with things like to Kool-Aid comment.

Howard,

There is no way to get the international community to do anything. Look at the ambiguity of this community. In Iraq we are told we should have involved other countries, in Iran people complain we are not talking to them one on one.

Howard, are you the musician?

To all,

This is a discussion of views. Do personal attacks bring any discussion forward?