Op-Ed: The Iraq War Quiz

Wow! (0.00 / 0)

Just, "Wow!"

Thank you, Reed.

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by: denniscmcgrath @ Sat Jul 22, 2006 at 12:28:12 PM UTC

Many Thanks, Sir! (0.00 / 0)

These are the kinds of facts and figures that WILL NOT be lost on the average voter of any political persuasion. Pocketbook issues.

We need much,much more of these sorts of things raised and raised again in the runup to November. Hammered, if you will.

There are those that would say that the electorate is not sophisticated enough to grasp these facts and you would lose their interest. Poppycock. Just keep bringing it back to their taxes and the things that could be done if even a portion of this money was returned to NJ. Things like proprety and school tax relief.

They'll grok it.

Excellent stuff, sir. If the State Dems are not using your talents to craft party message, I would suggest they get on the good foot real quick now. They are missing a pearl in their midst.


The nom de plume has a long and distinguished history.

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by: Tandalayo Scheisskopf @ Sat Jul 22, 2006 at 13:38:48 PM UTC

that's a lot of arabic scholars... (4.00 / 1)

...but the one that jumps out at me is #6.

Imagining how many new jerseyans are uninsured and how much this war is costing is sobering indeed.


activist for hire.

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by: Jay Lassiter @ Sat Jul 22, 2006 at 17:21:51 PM UTC

There Will Be Hell to Pay... (0.00 / 0)

...when ordinary working people start actually UNDERSTANDING and ACCEPTING the reality that they/we were conned into this war.  As it is now, most Americans are STILL in the dark about many of the dirty little details that underpinned the fallacious "case" for the Iraqi invasion.

It was, pretty much, all lies.  Whether some of the people telling the lies actually believed them to be true is between them and their God....for now.  At some point soon I pray they'll all be testifying before real investigatory bodies under penalty of perjury.

The agenda for invading and occupying Iraq was extant long before 9-11.  The lying bastards in charge of our government seized upon the tragedy of the 9-11 attacks to promote this war of their own choice!

Meanwhile, many of the sobs who were actually responsible for 9-11 were allowed to escape.  Why?  The most charitable rationale is because Bush and his cronies diverted resources to the Iraq "operation" that should have been used to capture and kill those who actually attacked us!

Scores of thousands of innocent Iraqis have been killed and/or seriously injured.  Millions of them have come to hate the USA with a passion most Americans can't even conceive of.

How crazily pissed of would YOU have to be to strap an explosive vest and self detonate just to take out some of "the enemy"? 

Of course terrorism is wrong and evil and STUPID! What these insanely hate filled killers don't understand is that they have played right into the hands of our own military industrial complex and of the trans-national big oil interests that have profited from the Iraqi invasion/occupation to the tune of hundreds of billions of OUR dollars!!! 

Much of our "war" on terrorism has merely served to spread and intensify the disease we were told it was to cure.  If there's a hundred gallons of mercury spilled in front of your house you don't "clean it up" by bombing it!  That only spreads and diffuses the toxin.

Our own brave American military has spilt blood and lost life in service to a pack of lies promulgated by a President who clearly needs a nation distracted from reality at all costs.

Let us pray that Democrats with spines get enough of a majority to overcome all the fixed voting machines and that they take the House and Senate away from these rotten partsans who have collaborated with the Bush administration by continuing to cover up how and why we REALLY were misled into this hell hole of a disaster.

When/if the average American comes to understand what's really been going on; Impeachment and removal from office will be the least of the Bush/Cheney troubles.

These people are either the most massively incompetent and delusional leaders in the history of this nation, or they are criminals. Either way they need to be removed from office and held 100% accountable.  Even a drunk driver who doesn't intend to kill innocents can be held criminally accountable under extreme circumstances.

George Bush and his cronies are drunk with their own power.  Many many good and innocent people have paid for that intoxication with their lives.  The wrongness cries out to the Heavens Above; and it MUST NOT STAND.

Mark my words; if the forces of Bushism manage to get away with this and then succeed in somehow blaming all the downstream repercussions/blowback on their domestic political opposition and any Americans who dared to speak out against the lies....we will have lost our democracy. 

In that dark scenario we will be living in an America in which "patriotism" will be defined as lockstep submission to the party line and those who effectively object/protest will be stained with the label of terrorist sympathizer (at best).  In that America the the perfidies of Senator Joe McCarthy era will seem mild in comparison.

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by: Nick Lento @ Sat Jul 22, 2006 at 23:25:47 PM UTC

Pssst. Nick..... (0.00 / 0)

That's the country we live in now, I hate to tell you.

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by: brilliantatbreakfast @ Mon Jul 24, 2006 at 01:32:24 AM UTC

Again, We Disagree (0.00 / 0)

Things can get a lot worse.  And they can get a lot better.  Nothing is written in stone.  We Americans still have the power/possibility of altering the course of our own history.

Again, I understand why you feel that way...but I don't believe it's productive to be defeatist.

The primary reason Rove/Bush et al have gotten away with this crap (i.e. they're still in office and not in jail) is that most Americans don't know and understand what we do. 

On one level the problem is a (simple ;-) matter of communication/education. Of course when everything is factored in, it all gets complex.  The challenge is difficult; but not impossible.

I say we must use all the tools of democracy at our disposal to fight the corrupt/proto-fascistic infection of our society.  We must fully use our freedoms or they'll be taken from us. 

You seem to believe it's too late.  If I'm wrong and you struggle you've lost nothing. If I'm right and you don't struggle; you just might lose everything.

 

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by: Nick Lento @ Mon Jul 24, 2006 at 05:28:53 AM UTC

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