Mommy! Daddy! The democrats are trying to take away my war! WAAHH!!!!!

[mopaul]

daddy you said i could have my own war and now the mean ol' democrats are trying to take it all away from me and you musn't let them! it's mine! it's MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE!
tell em' to go and git their own war, this one is mine and i don't want to share it or have them take it away from me!

can't you call uncle jim baker or uncle brent scowcroft and make them stop the mean ol' critics and anti war crazies? they wanna take away all my toy soldiers and jet bombers and tanks too, don't let em daddy!

i know i should've taken better care of my soldiers and my war but i promise i'll be gooder and i'll say my prayers and clean my room and go to church and read my bible and please, please, please don't let them take my war, Please daddy? pretty please mommy, with sugar on it?

[LiberalVoice]

1. whoa

[Freedom_from_Chains]

5. Every time he says, 'They hate us for our freedom' I just want to slap him

That is one that just aggravates me to no end. Talk about treating people like they are ignorant.

[BulletproofLandshark]

6. If it was just our freedom they hated

then it seems like western Europe would be a more enticing target than here. I've always hated that simplistic tripe, too.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

8. It reminds me of the "Evil Empire" SOTU address by Reagan

But in fairness to Reagan I read a piece several years ago that claimed that even Reagan did not like that part and got into a big row with his handles about using it. His position was that the conflict between capitalism and communism was much more complex than that, which it is, and to frame it as such was an insult to people's intelligence.

In the end his handlers won but he only used it in that address and one other time and then refused to use it. However, the political realities are that when pitching to the conservative crowd, particularly christian fundamentalist, one needs to keep things in simple binary terms, i.e. right/wrong, good/bad, up/down. Anything more complex and you loose them.

[ClintonTyree]

2. Uncles Baker and Scowcroft..........

are fed up with baby bush's antics as well. They'd do very little to help him with PR after the hideous mistakes he's made. The New Yorker article about Scowcroft's opinion of "little boots" bush pretty much summed it all up. The neo-cons shuffled the realists aside and now they're paying the price, or beginning to anyway. Baby bush still has a long way to fall and the scene when he finally hits bottom is going to be very, very ugly.

[mopaul]

3. yeah, they signed off years ago

and bush's fall will be mighty and terrible to behold.

[acmavm]

4. Yeah, and the brain dead bastard is going to take you, me, and future

generations down right along with him if our elected 'representatives' don't start making some serious moves.

[leveymg]

7. We're assuming of course that this isn't part of a hostile takeover

strategy. It follows a familiar corporate strategy: raider identifies a cash-cow for takeover; purchases a controlling interest with junk bonds; golden parachutes former management team; offshores production; lays off workforce; spins off profit centers; sells-off assets; declares bankruptcy; on to the next acquisitions target.

It can be done with countries, too. Is it inconceivable that this is just part a M&A strategy to liquidate the United States and transfer capital to higher-growth economies in Asia? What better way to hasten the process than a series of disasterous wars?

We know that BushCo has long had an unusually close relationship with the the Chinese, and the Bush management team has accelerated the liquidation and transfer of American assets.

By incompetence or design?

[jimshoes]

10. Very interesting...

the thought has crossed my mind from time to time. I guess it is possible.

[acmavm]

12. Who knows, but the whole damn evil clan is over there right now.

Poopy, blivet**, Laura, Babs (I would imagine). Wonder if they left the Toxic Twins at home?

[KG]

9. not hardly.

the dems were all for this war. they are just the first rats jumping off that ship, now that it has run aground.

[Lerkfish]

11. more fairly: they couldn't NOT be for the war.

they were in a political barrel hurtling over Niagra. Sure, you can leave the barrel...but....

I am proud of the courageous ones that did not sign on for the war, but I also remember the political landscape at the time: the white house was careful to paint any dissenters as unpatriotic, or WORSE, and with the country reeling from 9/11, that was just enough extortion to get what they wanted.

Not excusing it per se, but saying, hindsight is 20.20. very different political landscape.