KaskadskyjKozak

Yeah, as if there are 80 million kids who have no health care right now I love how the supposedly starving, suffering masses magically appear in left-wing rhetoric when a Republican administration is in power, and disappear when a Democratic administration is in power - irrespective of any substantive difference in funding of government bureaucracies.

I could only expect such an oversimplification and gratuitous attack from a mental midget such as yourself The point is not the "source" of OBL's hatred. The question is whether the US chooses to ignore its enemies or act to counter them. And of course, "how" to do it.

The status quo had a non-zero cost - enforcing no-fly zones, stationing troops, playing cat and mouse games with Hussein as he repeatedly moved troops towards Kuwait, then withdrew. And lest we forget, the reason OBL turned Al Qaeda's collective sights on the US was the "disgrace" of having infidels stationed on the hallowed soil of Mohammed's home land.

For the cost of the Iraq War (so far) we could give every child in US full health coverage for a year, probably more ( > 100 million child-years of health coverage). This is such a dishonest rhetorical tactic - as if doing nothing in Iraq would not have "cost" us. Just as doing nothing before WWI and WWII cost us - big time. Bury your head in the sand and wish away all the problems... isolationism, yeah, that works.

Maybe? We would NOT riot over it. Iranians, Palestinians and others have been burning flags for 20+ years, and there have never been ANY riots in the US over that. What a crock of shit. That just isn't happening - nor will it. Personally I'd rather they wiped their ass with old glory than riot and murder. Maybe we could subsidize their angst by providing flags to desecrate. They can even have at it and flush bibles down the toilet for all I care.

It's interesting how everyone is ignoring a glaring aspect of this issue: that the "muslim street" is so whacked that the idea of flushing printed paper down a toilet incites them to riot. It's friggin' paper with ink on it - that's it. BFD.

How about the Suiattle River Road / Vista glacier approach?

definitely a party foul. for shame, for shame

Fair enough... I think the place we can all have common ground is that the "imminent threat" argument was never proven and that invading Iraq "just in case" was a mistake...

that's not the way I remembered it... France, Germany, Russia all opposed the war ostensibly because the WMDs could be "contained" through continued sanctions, and the weapons inspectors just "needed more time" to find them.

Nobody was arguing whether Hussein had WMD prior to the war (at least of the chemical and biological sort) - the argument was merely whether said weapons constituted an *imminent threat*. How convenient it is to brush that under the rug now...

no, that makes you an arab-hating racist.

That's the logical result of toeing the line of political correctness. With no profiling this is what you get.

It's a Freudian slip Whatever... whereever... whenever you fuck with someone's car, you could get caught. What comes around, goes around, and you might get a taste of that vengeance. You know that's what I meant.

Come on, don't be so naive...that's what the cover of night was invented for! If it's at a trail head, you could be unpleasantly surprised at just about any time of day or night...

Live by the sword; die by the sword. OK, if some renegade wants to slap a bumpersticker on the DFA'baru's rear window, the Doctor will just have to suffer the consequences. or if they catch you throwing one on their car and smash your face in... vengeance is useful...

Live by the sword; die by the sword.

Will you quite using this picture it is driving me crazy must... find... noose...

"my precious"

diversity

global warming

that's hot

they're jealous 'cos she's way out of their league

I think that the french fry guy (who is clearly an emissary from hell) is staring at me...

that cartoon scares me