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Bert Robbins

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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Harry Krause wrote:
JohnH wrote:
On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:27:09 -0400, Harry Krause

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Bert Robbins wrote:
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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basskisser wrote:
Harry Krause wrote:
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:58:47 -0400, Harry Krause
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wrote:
Don White wrote:

Why are you dissin' the French? They softened the Viet Cong
up for you
al through the 50's and you still couldn't win.
Courtesy of the Paris "peace" talks?

I'll diss the french on that one
What's absolutely amazing is that we didn't seem to learn much
from our
war against Vietnam and its various "insurgencies." I'm hearing
the same
sorts of really stupid talk from our Prez and company about our
war
against Iraq as I remember from the late 1960s and early 1970s,
and
there is still a large percentage of American people who
actually
believe the Chimp-in-Chief and his henchmen. When will they ever
learn?
I'm not sure you can directly analogize the Vietnam conflict with
the
Iraqi War, but I get your point.
No, the conflicts are not the same, but the callousness,
stupidity, and
b.s. coming from our national leaders is pretty much the same. I
watched
Rumsfeld testifying last week, no, telling one lie after another
last
week. It was an incredible performance.
Hell, all of the talk radio Fox news types are saying we are in WW3
and
claiming that this is just like the rise of the Nazis in the late
'30s.

All you have to do is get past your hatred for the Bush
administration and "Big Oil" and things will become clear.
You've got it backwards. Any chance that if Bush had NOT invaded
Iraq, he would have more friends, or at least more people who would
patiently wait for him to vanish from public life? Or, do you think a
person's deeds are not connected with his reputation?
I thought it was the intent rather than the action that determines the
effectiveness of a person or a project?

And, if Pres. Bush had stayed out of Iraq the BP pipeline wouldn't
have rusted and corroded?

If Bush hadn't lied us into Iraq and remained there, there likely would
be more oil on the market, with disruptions of supply, at lower prices,
and Iran wouldn't be so aggressively pursuing our demise, North Korea
might be behaving, and Hezbollah wouldn't have invaded Israel.

Many of the serious problems the world is facing right now can be
attributed to the ignorance, hubris, stupidity, laziness and utter
incompetence of Bush and his administration.

Glad you asked.
And Hurricane Katrina wouldn't have happened and all those charter boats
would be operating and the shrimp boats would be catching shrimp and
Safeway wouldn't be making a fortune on imported shrimp and we'd all be
happy ever after, Amen.
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John

Silly boy. I was discussing acts and reactions for which Bush can be held
strictly accountable. While Bush is responsible for pooching the federal
planning and reaction to Katrina, he didn't cause the storm. Apples and
oranges.
Of course Harry is going to attempt to limit the debate to what thinks he
can win.

Are you thinking anyone should seriously entertain an idea as stupid as
"Bush caused the storm"?

Sure, you believe in black helicopters and I bet you are one of the 1/3
of Americans who believe that Bush blew up the WTC and that the Pentagon
was hit by a missle?