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Originally Posted by silent_jay
Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, now I remember. Oh how wrong shrub was.
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Riddle: When is a "mission" a war? Answer: Only in the mind of a liberal
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For now, I believe I read in one of those there fancy newspapers it was closing, and the time line was a year from the date he signed the Executive Order, now that was on Jan. 22 2009, have we hit January 22 2010 already? Where the fuck did that year go and what the fuck was I on to miss it? Pretty optimistic though that you seem to think it should only take a month and a half to close it.
Now notice the date ace, notice the date
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Obama could close it now. Even Bush was planning on closing it. It is not like Obama did not have time to study the issues before taking office. He is buying time. He is looking for a way to either keep it open or transfer the prisoners.
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I should fuckin hope he does something, The US went in their balls hanging out, then quickly got them burnt when shrubs ADD kicked in and he wanted to get the man who tried to kill his daddy and was trying to build a (cough, cough) bomb.. Too bad sending more troops to Afghanistan didn't happen years ago, but dubya and rummy had a hard on for Iraq, so they went to the clusterfuck there instead of Usama. Bush sure did talk tough though, "We want him dead or alive" to "I just don't think about him all that much", of course he didn't, he was too busy having visions of Saddam dancing in his head.
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Afghanistan is truly not the place to engage in any type of ground war. History has shown that time and time again. More troops is a waste. What is needed is small special ops teams and strategic surgical type operations. A "surge" approach will fail. Afghanistan is not Iraq.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
it's kinda funny the extent to which folk like ace have to shave so much of reality off in order to make room for their obsolete conservative viewpoints to make sense.
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How much effort does it take to not understand that my position is that we should let companies like AIG fail. We should not throw good money after bad. People in the private sector know more about what they do than regulators. Bankruptcy law is an orderly approach to handling corporate failures. Government bailouts give incentive to risky behavior. The false promise of "regulation" causes people to assume more risk than they should.
Please, let me know how much effort it takes? I think even the average 5th grader can clearly understand my views.
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o and i oppose what obama's doing in afghanistan. but that, too, is yet another bush administration mess that the right would love to pretend somehow is obama's fault.
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Sorry, I am sure I missed the post where you outlined what you would have done after 9/11, perhaps you can fill me in. I agree Bush made some mistakes and tactical errors, and I clearly understand those who opposed the military approach we used with Iraq, but I don't understand what you or people who hold your view would have done.