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Old 01-11-2007, 07:39 PM   #1
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sorry, the irony escapes me.......

TW, I agree with your overall stance though your words do confuse me from time to time.
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Old 01-11-2007, 08:03 PM   #2
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sorry, the irony escapes me.......
What irony? Those simple numbers - arithmetic - are ironic? Ballpark numbers were even provided last Aug 2006 in the Holbrook / Kristol interview on Charlie Rose at Bush links Hezbollah to Ali-Q.

George Jr has Americans believe 30,000 troops in a surge will do what the military says needs hundreds of thousands. Even the NYC police department puts more armed officiers on the streets.

The mental midget hopes each Americans is so dumb to not do simple arithmetic. George Jr's legacy is at stake.
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Old 01-11-2007, 08:08 PM   #3
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Tw's annoyingly right again, a troop surge IS what is needed to win, but not what Bush is sending. The solution is either outrage the country further, send hundreds of thousands, and piss EVERYONE off, or pull out and only piss a few off.
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Old 01-11-2007, 09:33 PM   #4
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Tw's annoyingly right again, a troop surge IS what is needed to win, but not what Bush is sending.
No adult should ever care what is and is not annoying. Only the facts are important. Facts are in those numbers. The president believes us to be so dumb as to not do the numbers. Even the New York City police force is about 37,000. But only 30,000 troops (in a city where even 1/3rd of the police are believed to be insurgents) will somehow bring security to Baghdad? It is an annoying reality. He does not care about American soldier’s lives. A statement of fact from the Generals. This strategy means even higher American fatalities. But since it will take 18 month to two years, then the legacy of a mental midget president is safe. He actually believes you are that dumb. Based upon responses, both here and on the streets; George Jr apparently is correct. Americans will not even do simple arithmetic.

How much contempt does the American public really have for the troops? He can waste soldier’s lives - and so many are silent? Who really is annoying? The one who lies to even kill American soldiers - or the one who has been identifying the mental midget, bluntly, for years?

I am appalled that a scumbag president thinks nothing of killing Americans soldiers only to protect his legacy.

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Old 01-12-2007, 07:31 AM   #5
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But since it will take 18 month to two years, then the legacy of a mental midget president is safe. He actually believes you are that dumb. I am appalled that a scumbag president thinks nothing of killing Americans soldiers only to protect his legacy.
Uh, not to ruin your party or anything, because much of what you say has merit, but it is a very different world today than it was during the Nixon administration and every American will know instantly that this situation, for good or bad, lies with George W. and his legacy. Especially with people like you keeping it in our face everyday. You are not the only one tw. To your credit, there are many like you who constantly expound on your beliefs and rationals. You constantly put the information you have out there.
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Old 01-12-2007, 06:16 PM   #6
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The Cellar is far from the "general public", yesman. I find the number of people that don't have a clue, astounding. And the number that know they don't know, and don't care, appalling.
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Old 01-12-2007, 06:22 PM   #7
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The Cellar is far from the "general public", yesman. I find the number of people that don't have a clue, astounding. And the number that know they don't know, and don't care, appalling.
You found the group that Rumsfeld didn't mention (but relied on)! The uncared known unknowns!
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Old 01-12-2007, 10:40 PM   #8
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The Cellar is far from the "general public", yesman.
didn't say they were - more of a generalized statement than anything else - sorry if you took it as a negative, it wasn't meant to be.

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I find the number of people that don't have a clue, astounding. And the number that know they don't know, and don't care, appalling.
Unfortunate, but true. This laissez faire attitude causes many problems or better put allows many to happen.
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Old 01-11-2007, 10:38 PM   #9
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a troop surge ... but not what Bush is sending.
No kidding. We're "surging" to what troop levels were a couple of years ago.
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