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Uh, oxymoron?
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$2,000 for lunch?!? Miss America better be blowing me under the table for that kind of cash....
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Well, a truly free nation doesn't.... Now, if we could find one on this planet....
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Without editorializing too much, where is the ire at Mr. Bush's fundraising. He's going out and rasing huge amounts of money, absolutely enormous.
Clinton was rightfully criticized about some of his more questionable fund raising tactics, but, as I recall, he excoriated in the press and in the right wing punditocracy not only for the amounts he raised, but for the zeal with which he went out to raise it.
Why are things different now?
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Once again the Bush Administration is worse than I had imagined, even though I thought I had already taken account of the fact that the Bush administration is invariably worse than I can imagine. ~Brad DeLong
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'Cos he's a Republican and therefore any money he raises will be for the good of the country!!!
...and because taking the piss out of Bush for being a bit of a thicky is so much funnier.
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" We have more work to do in Iraq. A free Iraq, a peaceful Iraq will help change an area of the world that needs peace and freedom. A peaceful Iraq and a free Iraq is part of our campaign to rid the world of terror. And that's why the thugs in Iraq still resist us, because they can't stand the thought of free societies. They understand what freedom means. See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. There will be a free and peaceful Iraq. What's taking place in Iraq is the evolution of a society, to be democratic in nation -- nature, a society in which the people are better off."
So, basically, Iraqis are resisting US forces because we're making them too free, and they don't like it?
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Well,they're heathans after all. That's why Bush is not attempting to block the legions of Christian missionaries flocking to Iraq to "show them the way". If anything makes the Iraquis hate us forever, it'll be these asshole preachers trying to undermine Iraq's culture and religion (farther than it already has been anyway).
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Well, know we know why our government has attacked Afghanistan and Iraq openly, and is gearing up and rattling sabers with Syria, North Korea, China, Libya, Pakistan, and who knows where else. What with the Patriot Act, the DMCA, and all sorts of other "liberating" legislation, we're not a fr--
*numerous men in black suits and sunglasses carry Dan away*
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So, basically, Iraqis are resisting US forces because we're making them too free, and they don't like it?
They see us as an invading army. Which we are. What they fail to realize is that this is not a bad thing. Like I've said before, all terrorists are idiots, because they either have no idea what their goals are, don't understand the ramifications of those goals, or don't have any idea how to accomplish those goals. In this case, they don't seem to understand that attacking US soldiers will not remove us from the country, nor would removing us from Iraq actually do anyone any good.
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quote:They see us as an invading army. Which we are. What they fail to realize is that this is not a bad thing. Like I've said before, all terrorists are idiots, because they either have no idea what their goals are, don't understand the ramifications of those goals, or don't have any idea how to accomplish those goals. In this case, they don't seem to understand that attacking US soldiers will not remove us from the country, nor would removing us from Iraq actually do anyone any good.
I wonder if you would have made the same responce to French resistance fighters durin WWII? They are fighting to remove invaders for the same reason the French resistance attacked the Germans who were occupying their country.
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