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I wish our only problem was global warming and fighting over 1973 Roe v Wade. Bush-Cheney have already hurt more people around the globe than global warming or abortion rights.

Our troops are being killed in Iraq faster than I can change numbers in my yard. The crooks are already tallying the votes from the November elections. Asa may have won already, Duke Cunningham and Bob Ney may have won in a quick write in vote. You can rest assured 100% of the evil at their command is being used to hand us a 3rd crooked election.

The Republicans seem to have no fear that they can cross a line and cause war IN the United States. They don't understand how empires fall, nor do they care. Their GET MINE NOW mentality is going to cook our gooses. We're hanging by a thread now.

In 2010 we can devote double the attention to global warming. Between now and then, job 1 is to rid the earth of the Bush administration and put the Republican Party back in the bottle where it came from and make double sure the cap is on tight. It's our kids lives we're risking.....we have to get this one right.

DBI,

I think you're right. But, global warming is another issue against the Republicans, so we can't lose sight of it from that perspective.

That video is classic. It's a little old, but pertinent nevertheless.

"Our troops are being killed in Iraq faster than I can change numbers in my yard."

Change numbers in your yard? Are you keeping count in your yard?

You wouldn't have liked D-Day. You would have been busy proving that the war was a failure because of how many men died that day.

Funny video, though. Really.

I do have a question, though. The global temperature is apparently at a 500 year high. What were we doing back then to cause global warming?

One more, the temperature on Mars has been increasing at a similar rate over the last few years. Is the Mars Rover to blame?

Comparing the Iraq War to WWII?

If you can't see the differences between the two, you're too hopeless a nutcase to be dealt with.

As for your global warming "facts," cite your sources. It's not that I don't believe you, it's that I don't believe you.

If a reason why we're failing in Iraq is fatalities, as suggested by dbi, why isn't fair to compare the fatalities to other wars? (We're not failing in Iraq, btw.) Just recently, it was trumpeted that the war in Iraq had surpassed our time in WWII. If it's fair to mention that, which many libs on this blog did, why is it unfair to make other comparisons. Please enlighten me.

Climate change on Mars:

http://www.govertschilling.nl/nieuws/archief/2001/0107/010717_asu.htm

So, is it the Mars Rover?

Earth's temperature at 400 year high, sorry not 500 year high:

http://www.forbes.com/business/healthcare/feeds/ap/2006/06/22/ap2833658.html

What were we doing back then to cause global warming? I'm dying to know.

We appear to be failing in Iraq because we don't know why we're there. We don't know why we're fighting. We don't know who we're fighting. Our leaders have no plans for victory or any exit plans.

Our generals just wrote off the entire left side of Iraq and Bush says he rarely thinks about Osama. Meanwhile Afghanistan sets new records in opium poppy production under the watchful eyes of Americans and continues to divide up under various powerful war lords.

Do ya think any of this has anything to do with the fact that the majority of those in the White House have only seen wars on TV and at the movies and have zero experience in war time service or combat?

It would be like making me an OBG/YN for a week. Sure I've seen women parts and I likes women parts. But when I get past the begging part, and the lovin part....well, I wouldn't know how to change the oil on a fallopian tube or rotate worn ovaries.

Iraq will be like every war we've fought since WWII, we'll blow the bejesus out of Iraq, kill a whole bunch of them, while losing a bunch of our troops and then someone will come along and say enough is enough, pull our troops out and change the national subject to something else. Notice we haven't won a war since 1945 and no Grenada doesn't count.

Bless the 58,209 US soldiers that died in Vietnam, they died doing the right thing in the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. Not one good thing came out of their sacrifice.

Here we are doing it again, even more poorly than we botched the Vietnam War. We're living a big mistake right now and in 20 years no one will admit they supported the war in Iraq....no one.

I know why we're there and you are ignoring why we're there.

Civil war in Iraq = winning
Destroying the planet = things are just fine.

Just another day in the alternate universe of "if we believe hard enough that a lie is truth, it turns into truth."

DBI asked "Do ya think any of this has anything to do with the fact that the majority of those in the White House have only seen wars on TV and at the movies and have zero experience in war time service or combat?"
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Yes, yes, yes. Yes, TV and the movies make conflicts look exciting, especially when you can justify the whole adventure as being a noble cause.

For weeks and months leading up to the invasion, the big-talkers shouted talking points that were straight out of a script written for TV.

The war was approached like a football bowl game -- East against West -- or something like that. We were itching to prove that WE RULE. We're the roughest and meanest. Nobody insults our team without paying the price.

Our cheerleaders held pep rallies and whipped up the adrenaline of every legislator, news reporter and TV watchin' couch potato in the land. Big Biz tycoons and sycophants drooled over the popcorn, hotdogs, and beer concessions.

So we took our team over there to whip the socks off Saddam's East team. We had our winning strategy all figured out. After winning the game, we surrounded Iraq's Goal Post ... uh, sorry ... their Oil Ministry, and declared the game was over.

The rules say you don't score after the game ends.

But the big game wasn't over.

It wasn't a football game.

It was was a made-for-TV war.

And everything on TV has sponsors .... and the Bush-Cheney-Halliburton Syndicate sponsored this program.

"Civil war in Iraq = winning
Destroying the planet = things are just fine."

Wow, that's so profound.

"DBI asked "Do ya think any of this has anything to do with the fact that the majority of those in the White House have only seen wars on TV and at the movies and have zero experience in war time service or combat?""

I think that dbi thinks that's a clever way to insult the president. If what we see in movies was the reason we went to war, then we're still doing better, because in most war movies a significantly larger percentage of people die than have died in Iraq. Once again, there's a reason why the vast majority of people in the military support the war. In fact, there is a higher rate of reenlistment among men who have seen combat in this war.

For the rest of what your wrote, it was drivel.

Oh yeah, way to ignore the subject, again.

"For the rest of what your wrote, it was drivel."

Great comeback.

Could you maybe list for us, instead, some of the positive effects of our involvement in Iraq? Oh, and you can leave off that one about Sadam being out of power. We know that one.

"Could you maybe list for us, instead, some of the positive effects of our involvement in Iraq?"

Why don't you ask the 30,000,000 people who are now free?

"Oh, and you can leave off that one about Sadam being out of power. We know that one."

Why would I leave that off? That's like saying, "you can't count defeating Hitler as a positive, because we already know about that. And if you don't think Saddam is comparable to Hitler, ask the Kurds what they think.

You mean "free" as in free of electricity, food, running water? That's exactly what the extremists want. They then come in and offer those necessities to win the hearts of the people. Then, they embed and kill people - American and Iraqi.

Now, the main problem anyone has with the war in Iraq is that we were lied to about why it started. Sounds impeachable to me. And I don't mean that to be "insulting" to the president. I mean it as the truth.