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- Tuco - I'm goint to pass your post along to my Obama diehards. I loved it .
- This poll is right in line with the Gallup tracking poll.
- Well said, Goldwater and Reagan must be turning in their graves.
- maybe the vetting was closed door.
- that would be cool.
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But hey, this is America, where idiots rule...and what matters in a candidate is whether you'd want to drink beer with him, not where he stands on issues or whether he has any brains.
So thank you Connecticut, for not rising above our collective national bar of stupidity, and voting in a true shit heel career politician and traitor to the Democratic party! You rock!
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You're an idiot. If Gore had been elected then.... (drumroll please) Joseph Lieberman would probably be the FRONTRUNNER for the Democratic nomination for President his year. And he would have been the VP for the past eight years. Next time, THINK before you talk... it'll all do you liberals some good.
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His scorching of the earth will not go unpunished; he is destroying his political career and will be a pariah in both parties before this is all done.
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Bush and Lieberman are the same exact people and stand for the exact same things that they did a few years ago and yet these dopes that gave them 4 to 6 more years in office knew what they were getting.
All this Lieberman would lose today stuff is completely useless because we're stuck with him and there's nothing we can do about it now.
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He effectively loses all the benefits of being part of the majority party (because he's NOT) and the idiots who voted for him lose the benefit of having a high seniority majority party senator.
Everyone gets their just desserts.
Time to step up and help out folks:
http://www.actblue.com/page/jimthatcher
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If I may take the liberty of speaking for the Democrats, at least, I expect they didn't know that Lieberman would be campaigning for the nominee of the Republican Party at this moment, and even doing so beyond our country's shores.
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Quit drinking the koolaid and get back to reality.
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With Bush, it's the same thing. He's not a different guy today compared to who he was in 2004. Like Lieberman, Bush hasn't changed at all. So why the shift in support against them?
What we know about these two men today is what we knew about them during their re-election campaigns. For people to now say that they are against them today after voting for them two or three years ago is moronic when they knew exactly what they were going to get out of these people.
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I told ya so...I told ya so...many of you scoffed at my comments for the last few months about Obama being just another politician...change will not come to Washington...just more of the same.
Obama rewrites Iraq plan
By MIKE ALLEN | 7/3/08 4:16 PM EST
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Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) promised primary voters a swift withdrawal from Iraq, in clear language still on his website: “Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months.”
Not anymore. Heading into the holiday weekend, Obama and his advisers repudiated that pledge, saying he is reevaluating his plan and will incorporate advice from commanders on the ground when he visits Iraq later this month.
A top Obama adviser said he is not “wedded” to a specific timeline, and Obama said Thursday he plans to “refine” his plan.
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If you read some of my earlier comments I stated the American people were mad as hell with GWB for the lack of a coherent strategy to finish off the job in Iraq. People think Iraq was a complex operation...it really wasn't...we toppled Saddam in a few days. The problem was we also toppled the government and it's national security and tried to rewrite a country with minimal US presence necessary...we should of done 1 of 2 things: first, we could've toppled Saddam and left the Baathist regime in place with a clear warning or second, use the Powell doctrine of going in with overwhelming force and we could've immediately established security...I would've preferred #1.
The reason why Obama is smartly changing his position and deceived primary voters because he knows that we are winners...the U.S. is the #1 world's superpower and even though we were frustrated and pissed with GWB about Iraq...WE WANT TO WIN!
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Deep down you know your hatred of Bush surpasses your love for this country and thats vile and sick.
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Being in Iraq has nothing to do with love of country. The president's first priority is to the safety and secruity of the US. Being in Iraq does not meet that end. Our military is stretched too thin and we are not prepared to confront other security threats around the world.
Idiot like you apparently love Iraq more than you love the US.
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Hey Dave, you want to see the shiny ball, right? be good, Dave, and you can see the shiny ball!!!
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I know you're desperate to find a way to bring Obama down but you're wasting your time--at least with people here--because McCain is not an option. Even if Obama "softened" on Iraq, there are still a million reasons we support him over McCain.
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I've got news for you...as a military man with some connections here is what the generals are going to tell him when he goes to Iraq: "Senator Obama, I know it is going to be difficult and tough in the months/years ahead but we are making tremendous progress and you know what...we can win this thing. The Iraqi Government is finally starting to meets it's benchmarks, the Iraqi Military is getting better by the day, Al Quada is getting their asses kicked here and the people are slowly but surely getting tired of the violence and want reconciliation."
He is going to have to throw all that out the window to keep a primary promise of having a timetable...he won't do it...willing to bet a Big Mac Meal on it but more importantly, he shouldn't have made the irresponsible promise in the first place.
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Love how Repubs always shoot their mouths off - or plunge us into unnecessary wars - without first getting their facts straight.
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While american dems and liberals everywhere donated to get Lamont elected over the (now) independent Lieberman that ALL dems and libs were angry and fed up with, IT WAS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WHO HELPED LIEBERMAN TO CAMPAIGN AND WIN AGAINST LAMONT WITH HIS HELP IN FINANCING.
YEP, YOUR OBAMBI DID THAT! DO YOU CARE YET ?
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Most of the US Congress is pro-Israel, as most Americans are.
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I agree...Obama has never gone against his party on anything...We need to increase oil production (since OPEC isn't going to do it) and work towards alternative energy solutions...you have to do both! This is both a short-term and long-term problem but he is only looking at the problem 15 years down the road. It's the same party that wants to take over the oil industry.
The hypocrisy on this board and among the moderator amazes me...here we have a party pandering to the left saying..."make love, not war" in effect and yet behind the backs of the doves, they are planning a continuing presence in Iraq just like the Republicans...different, but same. I can guarantee you 4 years from now when President Obama has US bases in Iraq, we are going to hear the same people who were against this war...justify it! It's not about the policy...(albeit some) but most don't give a shit about the War, Oil, Taxes, it's about their candidate.
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Um, fantasizing about people getting killed is something I'd rather not do. Do you think everyone is as sick as you are?
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There is no definition of WIN.
The oil wars were (are) exactly that, for OIL.
Simply put we hired some oil guys (BUSH CRIME FAMILY) to get us some oil. REMEMBER DADDY BUSH---before he was President, he was HEAD OF THE C.I.A!!
The going's been more difficult than our government (EXXON) figured it would be; however, as of last week, it's all coming together nicely.
Our government (EXXON) didn't even have to spend it's own money---it spent the resources of it's sham corporation (United States of America).
NOT to worry though, we've got the Rubber Chicken (Pelosi) and girly-man Reid. Now there's a pair who certainly wishes we'd WIN IN A HURRY...as it's getting harder and harder for them to pretend outrage.
As for Obama---WE'RE GOING TO BE WHINING UP A STORM LIKE THE PAPER TIGERS WE ARE...AFTER HE DOES NOT: (A) END THE WAR (B) VOTE FOR HR 676-HEALTHCARE FOR ALL (C) LET OUR BORDER GUARDS OUT OF PRISON (D) QUIT SPYING ON OUR CELL PHONES (E) ADDRESS MASS TRANSIT (F) SIGN THE KYOTO TREATY...BLAH BLAH!
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You seem to be suggesting Muslim people do not seek peace and harmony. They do, take it from someone who has spent more time in the Middle East than you'll ever have. To this day, there are southerners who cannot stand people from the North and it took the Feds to intercede in South as late as the 60's. Almost 200 years after the birth of our country. Our country didn't form over night and it was unfair to suggest the Iraqis could do it in months when it took 15-20 years for us to do so after our declaration of independence.
Winning is defined as an Iraq that is at peace with itself...Shia and Sunni. Will there be occasional violence...yes. Not too long ago a few white men chained a black man through the back of a pickup truck and drug him on the road until he died. Get off your high liberal horse.
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July 6, 2008
Iraqis lead final purge of Al-Qaeda
Marie Colvin in Mosul
American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.
After being forced from its strongholds in the west and centre of Iraq in the past two years, Al-Qaeda’s dwindling band of fighters has made a defiant “last stand” in the northern city of Mosul.
A huge operation to crush the 1,200 fighters who remained from a terrorist force once estimated at more than 12,000 began on May 10.
Operation Lion’s Roar, in which the Iraqi army combined forces with the Americans’ 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment, has already resulted in the death of Abu Khalaf, the Al-Qaeda leader, and the capture of more than 1,000 suspects.
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The group has been reduced to hit-and-run attacks, including one that killed two off-duty policemen yesterday, and sporadic bombings aimed at killing large numbers of officials and civilians.
Last Friday I joined the 2nd Iraqi Division as it supported local police in a house-to-house search for one such bomb after intelligence pointed to a large explosion today.
Even in the district of Zanjali, previously a hotbed of the insurgency, it was possible to accompany an Iraqi colonel on foot through streets of breeze-block houses studded with bullet holes. Hundreds of houses were searched without resistance but no bomb was found, only 60kg of explosives.
American and Iraqi leaders believe that while it would be premature to write off Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni group has lost control of its last urban base in Mosul and its remnants have been largely driven into the countryside to the south.
Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s prime minister, who has also led a crackdown on the Shi’ite Mahdi Army in Basra and Baghdad in recent months, claimed yesterday that his government had “defeated” terrorism.
“They were intending to besiege Baghdad and control it,” Maliki said. “But thanks to the will of the tribes, security forces, army and all Iraqis, we defeated them.”
The number of foreign fighters coming over the border from Syria to bolster Al-Qaeda’s numbers is thought to have declined to as few as 20 a month, compared with 120 a month at its peak.
Brigadier General Abdullah Abdul, a senior Iraqi commander, said: “We’ve limited their movements with check-points. They are doing small attacks and trying big ones, but they’re mostly not succeeding.”
Major-General Mark Hertling, American commander in the north, said: “I think we’re at the irreversible point.”
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