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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Sep 1st, 2007, 01:09 AM
Colin Powell's job was to steer this country in the right direction. He did that. That was an ideological move, not a political one. Politically, the very worst thing this administration could have done is basically what will go down in history, but history will also show that America, once again and despite it's Socialist Cancer, rose to the occasion ideologically.
That being said, what we will hear from Patraeus is going to be a report on the security situation in Iraq. Patraeus is a military General, not a political hack. You cannot possibly sit there and try to sell me on the idea that you were expecting a report from a military General to update us on the political situation.
We are looking for a security environment in that country in which people can express themselves politically without getting kidnapped and beheaded. Patraeus and his "Surge" is there to serve that end. If you want a report that says Iraq's political environment is all ship-shape and hunky-dory and shit, I would kindly ask that you first prepare one for your own country, or any other Western Nation for that matter, so we can see what that might look like. Personally, I don't recall ever hearing of a free country where the political situation was anything more than a haphazard mess.
Let's all sit down and hold our own government to the same sort of standard you guys are preparing to hold that of Iraq to, Ok? How's that War on Poverty going? Let's talk about Race-relations! Wanna compare the per-capita imprisoned between the good ol USA and Iraq?
Please, please, please, Max: Please tell me by what criteria you are preparing to judge the "political situation in Iraq." I really am sitting on the edge of my seat here.
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mburbank~ Yes, okay, fine, I do know what you meant, but why is it not possible for you to get through a paragraph without making all the words cry?
How can someone who obviously thinks so much of their ideas have so little respect for expressing them? How can someone who so yearns to be taken seriously make so little effort?!
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