True. Just like the theory that the sun revolves around the earth has yet to be proven.
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Here's another lie that the left repeats until "true". The US gave $300M to the Taliban. 100% false yet repeated over and over.
Here's another lie that the anti-american right repeats until 'true:' Iraq tried to obtain uranium from an African country. 100% false yet repeated over and over.
Actually, SJO insinuated that the gas attacks were of Iranian origin because of the type of gas used. Of course that really wouldn't make any sense since the victims were sympathetic to Iran...But people tend to spew alarmist conspiracy theories (no matter how ridiculous) ... whatever it takes to stick it to whomever
The point isn't so much whether it was Iraq or Iran who gassed the Kurds. There are facts to support both sides of the argument, but the media and the administration has indelibly carved out the popular perception that Iraq was the sole culprit. This emotionally loaded issue has been misrepresented to sell the war to the US public. Even if it was Iraq that was responsible, this horrendous activity occured at the end of the Iraq-Iran war...a period when the Saddam Hussein was allied to the United States.
No. It's really not. And I read it. A far better read for YOU would be McGovern's "The Case for Liberalism" from Harper's a few months ago. Your local public library will have a copy.
Move along, DanMacMan, until you learn what the words evidence and documentation mean.
The articles I linked to are no different in their use of evidence than are the various leftist articles written that quote certain "un-named inside informants" that defame our President and his Administration.
The articles I linked to are no different in their use of evidence than are the various leftist articles written that quote certain "un-named inside informants" that defame our President and his Administration.
Oh but it is. It's a propagandistic piece of drivel masquerading as journalism. It's jingoism. It's dishonest.
I don't feel like parsing the whole thing for you (I will, if you ask).
As for your so-called "leftist articles . . . that defame our President and his Administration," I'm assuming you think that "defaming the President and his Administration" is a bad thing? Or that it's unpatriotic to do so? Seriously. I want to know the answer.
When you say 'we' are you saying that you are one of Bush's oil and war cronies or are you naively assuming that this war is being waged for the benefit of the American people?
I don't claim them as unpatriotic, just that they are simply written out of the utter distaste for President Bush, and for no other reason.
Really? Are you sure? You don't even see your own rhetoric here, do you? These lefties, they're so infantile, so lacking in ideas, so intellectually dishonest, that they attack the president simply because they don't like him. And that's childish, you know.
It can't have anything to do with politics. They're just acting like little kids.
By the way, you didn't answer my question. It was this:
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As for your so-called "leftist articles . . . that defame our President and his Administration," I'm assuming you think that "defaming the President and his Administration" is a bad thing? Or that it's unpatriotic to do so? Seriously. I want to know the answer.
The point isn't so much whether it was Iraq or Iran who gassed the Kurds. There are facts to support both sides of the argument, but the media and the administration has indelibly carved out the popular perception that Iraq was the sole culprit. This emotionally loaded issue has been misrepresented to sell the war to the US public. Even if it was Iraq that was responsible, this horrendous activity occured at the end of the Iraq-Iran war...a period when the Saddam Hussein was allied to the United States.
And what do past alliances have to do with current events? The United States was allied against Japan and Germany once upon a time.
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Originally posted by giant
Like when they said aluminum tubes were for an Iraqi nuclear program. Except that was the anti-american right.
I guess that's yet to be proven.
Here's another lie that the left repeats until "true". The US gave $300M to the Taliban. 100% false yet repeated over and over.
Originally posted by Scott
I guess that's yet to be proven.
True. Just like the theory that the sun revolves around the earth has yet to be proven.
Here's another lie that the left repeats until "true". The US gave $300M to the Taliban. 100% false yet repeated over and over.
Here's another lie that the anti-american right repeats until 'true:' Iraq tried to obtain uranium from an African country. 100% false yet repeated over and over.
Originally posted by Scott
I think that's yet to be prove too. Pardon me if I don't take the "UN"'s word for it.
Here's a hint.
Keep diggin that hole.
Originally posted by Eugene
Actually, SJO insinuated that the gas attacks were of Iranian origin because of the type of gas used. Of course that really wouldn't make any sense since the victims were sympathetic to Iran...But people tend to spew alarmist conspiracy theories (no matter how ridiculous) ... whatever it takes to stick it to whomever
The point isn't so much whether it was Iraq or Iran who gassed the Kurds. There are facts to support both sides of the argument, but the media and the administration has indelibly carved out the popular perception that Iraq was the sole culprit. This emotionally loaded issue has been misrepresented to sell the war to the US public. Even if it was Iraq that was responsible, this horrendous activity occured at the end of the Iraq-Iran war...a period when the Saddam Hussein was allied to the United States.
Originally posted by giant
Here's a hint.
Keep diggin that hole.
Yea I think you'll be diggin' out of one when everything is known.
That jingoist bastard.
Originally posted by groverat
Noam Chomsky told me that it was "undoubtedly true" that Iraq gassed its own civilians.
That jingoist bastard.
If that's the reason we're invading, then we've got a hell of a lot more invading to do once we're done in Iraq.
Cheers
Scott
Originally posted by DanMacMan
An interesting read for you lefties.
No. It's really not. And I read it. A far better read for YOU would be McGovern's "The Case for Liberalism" from Harper's a few months ago. Your local public library will have a copy.
Cheers
Scott
Originally posted by giant
Move along, DanMacMan, until you learn what the words evidence and documentation mean.
The articles I linked to are no different in their use of evidence than are the various leftist articles written that quote certain "un-named inside informants" that defame our President and his Administration.
Originally posted by DanMacMan
The articles I linked to are no different in their use of evidence than are the various leftist articles written that quote certain "un-named inside informants" that defame our President and his Administration.
Oh but it is. It's a propagandistic piece of drivel masquerading as journalism. It's jingoism. It's dishonest.
I don't feel like parsing the whole thing for you (I will, if you ask).
As for your so-called "leftist articles . . . that defame our President and his Administration," I'm assuming you think that "defaming the President and his Administration" is a bad thing? Or that it's unpatriotic to do so? Seriously. I want to know the answer.
Cheers
Scott
Originally posted by midwinter
Seriously. I want to know the answer.
I don't claim them as unpatriotic, just that they are simply written out of the utter distaste for President Bush, and for no other reason.
Originally posted by midwinter
If that's the reason we're invading, then we've got a hell of a lot more invading to do once we're done in Iraq.
Of course that's not the reason, I was just responding to SJO's conspiracy theories.
Originally posted by groverat
Of course that's not the reason, I was just responding to SJO's conspiracy theories.
I know. I was just ribbin' you.
We're invading to defend freedom, right?
Originally posted by stupider...likeafox
When you say 'we' are you saying that you are one of Bush's oil and war cronies or are you naively assuming that this war is being waged for the benefit of the American people?
Correct, I'm a Texas oil tycoon.
Originally posted by DanMacMan
I don't claim them as unpatriotic, just that they are simply written out of the utter distaste for President Bush, and for no other reason.
Really? Are you sure? You don't even see your own rhetoric here, do you? These lefties, they're so infantile, so lacking in ideas, so intellectually dishonest, that they attack the president simply because they don't like him. And that's childish, you know.
It can't have anything to do with politics. They're just acting like little kids.
By the way, you didn't answer my question. It was this:
As for your so-called "leftist articles . . . that defame our President and his Administration," I'm assuming you think that "defaming the President and his Administration" is a bad thing? Or that it's unpatriotic to do so? Seriously. I want to know the answer.
Cheers
Scott
Originally posted by sammi jo
The point isn't so much whether it was Iraq or Iran who gassed the Kurds. There are facts to support both sides of the argument, but the media and the administration has indelibly carved out the popular perception that Iraq was the sole culprit. This emotionally loaded issue has been misrepresented to sell the war to the US public. Even if it was Iraq that was responsible, this horrendous activity occured at the end of the Iraq-Iran war...a period when the Saddam Hussein was allied to the United States.
And what do past alliances have to do with current events? The United States was allied against Japan and Germany once upon a time.
Originally posted by Eugene
And what do past alliances have to do with current events? The United States was allied against Japan and Germany once upon a time.
Past alliances make us complicit in past atrocities, and past atrocities are at least part of the justification for current events.
Cheers
Scott