Clarification needed: How the F do Pelosi's words put lives at risk?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

This one is really beyond me. I really think DeLay sniffed to much exterminator chemicals man!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Ruling through fear

Scare the shit out of the American people and no one will dissent eventually. That's been the Republican way since 9/11.

[trotsky]

2. Simple.

Disagreeing with the president = putting our troops' lives at risk.

(DISCLAIMER: This equation not valid when troops are deployed under a Democratic president.)

[Cocoa]

3. Sadr is rallying around Pelosi

his militia is now carrying posters of Nancy, she's their new hero.

[truthspeaker]

4. it's as bullshit now as it was 35 years ago

Same bullshit Nixon tried to say about people protesting the Vietnam war.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. Its a good thing no one from this admin worked for Nixon.......wait

nevermind

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. The usual spin is...

...as follows:

Those kinds of comments undermine the leadership of the president, which destroys the confidence of our troops, which puts them at a greater risk for harm, because they cannot do the job they were sent to Iraq to do if they question the leadership of the man who sent them there.

That's it, in a nutshell, more or less.

[Terran]

6. DeLay should demand an apology from Bush

for putting American lives at risk by allowing his administration to out a CIA agent. But of course that won't happen.

[11 Bravo]

7. Words spoken loudly and clearly

ie those undistorted by Bush's dick in the speaker's mouth, are by definition dangerous.

[ithacan]

9. "America" = Bush

just like, 65 years ago, "Germany" = Hitler...

Same deal, "leader"/Fuhrer is equated to the fatherland.

Criticism of Fuhrer = treason to the fatherland.


edited to fix bad math...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Speaking of which

It was 1944. The world was in war, against the most evil regime there EVER was. And yet, some "traitor" was actively working to unseat the POTUS. Did people call him a Nazi?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

12. The person you refer to - did he happen to be a relative of the current

POTUS? Just wondering!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. I admit I haven't the foggiest idea who ran (R) in 1944

Much less his background. Help please?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. I checked - it was Thomas Dewey

He attacked Roosevelt quite a bit - even insulting his dog

[No2W2004]

21. and Fala was pissed off!

Here's what DeLay's masters are up to: Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. -H. Goering

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

22. That quote gets me every time - if every American could hear that quote

I think the wool would drop from their eyes

[lovedems]

11. I asked that question last night to a Vietnam vet on DU last night

and asked if the troops felt betrayed by comments like this and the response was no, it is a smokescreen.

I strongly believe the troops don't like being there as much as we don't like them there. There have been so many mistakes I think it would be disrespectful to the the troops NOT to discuss the mounting failures!

It was also pointed out that Abu Garaib put the troops in more danger then anything Pelosi could say.

The republicans *should* be ashamed of themselves for using the troops as pawns to silence public dissent. They are "fighting for freedom" yet being used as an excuse to "shut people up"??? I hope the troops see how the administration is using them and I hope they vote the chickenhawks out!

[Atman]

14. I think the pubbies meant their POLITICAL lives!

eom

[Loonman]

15. Didn't Dewey (I think) refer to FDR as a "tired old man"?

During WWII?

As usual, Republicans are talking out of their asses.

[seabeyond]

17. quit telling me to shut up

i will not. i see bush doesnt make good choices. tis my job to say it out loud. we all see and know. so whatever to your garbage, i wont shut up

and you cant make me, wink

ya i think pelosi and all of us need to tell this small group of white males that have been telling us the way it is and we all need to shut up. the de lays of the world havent done such a hot job, he needs to shut up. ah randi and her shut up. we dont use in our house, so a hard word for me to say. not so harsh with a smile on my face though.

[madrchsod]

18. the truth will set you free

pelosi has the guts to tell the truth ,no one else has. simple words tell the truth far better than the lies that delay and the right wing will attack her on. finally we have someone who will speak out against bush..thanks nancy. i know your dad is proud of you.

[RandomKoolzip]

19. What are you doing out of the Lounge?

I keed you!

Answer: they don't. A republican is speaking those words, so you can easily deduce that they are, at best, exaggerations, and at worst, lies. Remember, a republican will only tell the truth if it will make him money.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. Or get him off the hook - I.e inform on another!

Scum I tell you.

Some times I turn off the music and venture into some actual political discussions - then some new fucking abhorrant set of circumstances sends me skittering back to the sauna-like warm safety of the lounge.

[Bandit]

23. I get it ~ If we all praise our great leader our troops will be safe

Never again will we have an enemy fire upon our soldiers if we just tell the world how great our leader is.