Comments on: Pin the War on the Wingnut http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:49:35 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: David Ehrenstein http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-422071 David Ehrenstein Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:07:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-422071 <blockquote><p>The real Manchurian candidate appeared as a bit player in the staged and nearly successful assassination of President Reagan.</p> <p>Cui bono? </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://ehrensteinland.com/htmls/g001/foster.html">Jodie Foster</a></p>

The real Manchurian candidate appeared as a bit player in the staged and nearly successful assassination of President Reagan.

Cui bono?

Jodie Foster

]]> By: c u n d gulag http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-422047 c u n d gulag Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:38:23 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-422047 <p>The “Straighjacket Express” is on the rails again, following the tracks right to the heart of darkness.<br /> The only thing adding more troops will do is add to the number of casualties. You do the math… The “Decider-in-Chief” and his love-monkey can’t, apparently.<br /> The only good thing that may come of this is that it may derail Lord McCain’s (I wish I had thought of that) Presidency. When this fails, as we all know it will, he won’t be able to say, “I told you so,” about adding more troops.<br /> Incidentally, the word “troop” in Russian means corpse.</p> The “Straighjacket Express” is on the rails again, following the tracks right to the heart of darkness.
The only thing adding more troops will do is add to the number of casualties. You do the math… The “Decider-in-Chief” and his love-monkey can’t, apparently.
The only good thing that may come of this is that it may derail Lord McCain’s (I wish I had thought of that) Presidency. When this fails, as we all know it will, he won’t be able to say, “I told you so,” about adding more troops.
Incidentally, the word “troop” in Russian means corpse.

]]> By: Anais http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421968 Anais Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:39:45 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421968 <p>Where is the 2008 candidate whose platform includes a well-thought-out way to significantly reduce our dependency on oil and lead the way to energy INdependence while having a plan to get out of Iraq? Sending more troops, as McCain advocates, should have been done in 2003. It’s too late for that now. Bring the men and women home.</p> Where is the 2008 candidate whose platform includes a well-thought-out way to significantly reduce our dependency on oil and lead the way to energy INdependence while having a plan to get out of Iraq? Sending more troops, as McCain advocates, should have been done in 2003. It’s too late for that now. Bring the men and women home.

]]> By: fahrender http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421967 fahrender Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:38:55 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421967 <p><a href="#comment-421781"><em>perris @<br /> 10 </em></a></p> <blockquote><blockquote>You break it, you buy it. Right?</blockquote> <p>well, supposedly</p> <p>that’s what powell told bush long before this war</p> <p>yet bush has yet to buy anything</p></blockquote> <p>perris,</p> <p>i have to disagree. bush has bought a lot, with our money and other people’s lives. we bought it alright. the only question now is, are we going to end further payments other than the ones which are inevitable and long term.<br /> what bush hasn’t done is admit ownership, and he’s trying to give it to whoever becomes president in ‘09.<br /> he may never admit it, even to himself, but colin powell’s admonition will haunt fuckwad until he’s dead and crispy.</p> perris @
10

You break it, you buy it. Right?

well, supposedly

that’s what powell told bush long before this war

yet bush has yet to buy anything

perris,

i have to disagree. bush has bought a lot, with our money and other people’s lives. we bought it alright. the only question now is, are we going to end further payments other than the ones which are inevitable and long term.
what bush hasn’t done is admit ownership, and he’s trying to give it to whoever becomes president in ‘09.
he may never admit it, even to himself, but colin powell’s admonition will haunt fuckwad until he’s dead and crispy.

]]> By: squiddy http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421940 squiddy Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:46:24 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421940 <p><a href="#comment-421916"><em>blub @<br /> 76 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Yeah.. wouldn’t that be ironic? Bush 43, the American Petroleum Institute President, manages to single-handledly cut off global supply. ‘course that’s probably their most fervent wet dream… The only bright spot to come out of all this will be that President Gore will have the singular pleasure of nationalizing Exxon when they try to sell oil at $300 a barrel.</p> <p><a href="#comment-421870"><em>squiddy @ 71 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Wow, oil repository #1 and oil repository #3 go to war against each other on oil repository #2’s territory. Not good at all.</p></blockquote> </blockquote> <p> Let’s try to see where this scenario would go:<br /> Massive war between the three countries, which normally would fit nicely into the military/industrial complex’s love of selling hi-tech weapons to middle east atrocities. Problem is, (for the wingnuts) unlike the Iran/Iraq war, none of the participants would be investing in hi-tech methods of fighting it, and none of them would want to buy our stuff anyway. They’d buy it all from China or Russia.<br /> Thoughts?</p> blub @
76

Yeah.. wouldn’t that be ironic? Bush 43, the American Petroleum Institute President, manages to single-handledly cut off global supply. ‘course that’s probably their most fervent wet dream… The only bright spot to come out of all this will be that President Gore will have the singular pleasure of nationalizing Exxon when they try to sell oil at $300 a barrel.

squiddy @ 71

Wow, oil repository #1 and oil repository #3 go to war against each other on oil repository #2’s territory. Not good at all.

Let’s try to see where this scenario would go:
Massive war between the three countries, which normally would fit nicely into the military/industrial complex’s love of selling hi-tech weapons to middle east atrocities. Problem is, (for the wingnuts) unlike the Iran/Iraq war, none of the participants would be investing in hi-tech methods of fighting it, and none of them would want to buy our stuff anyway. They’d buy it all from China or Russia.
Thoughts?

]]> By: Art http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421919 Art Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:18:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421919 <p><a href="#comment-421797"><em>egregious @ 22 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>If we want to have an impact on who is nominated by the Republicans we need to start getting OUR wurlitzer cranked up asap. </p> <p>McCain is all war all the time. His being a POW you’d think would argue against being prowar. But instead I think it’s like his being the victim of domestic violence, waiting for one’s own turn to be on top, inflicting violence on others to show one’s own power and control.</p></blockquote> <p>So true. I’ve known many an infrantry man from wars starting with WWII to the present, and it’s a rare twisted mind that comes out of that hell eager to wish it on others, particularly for a <b>war of choice</b>.</p> <p>Dangerous. McCain could actually be darker than the bushco team. We ignore these signs at our own peril.</p> egregious @ 22

If we want to have an impact on who is nominated by the Republicans we need to start getting OUR wurlitzer cranked up asap.

McCain is all war all the time. His being a POW you’d think would argue against being prowar. But instead I think it’s like his being the victim of domestic violence, waiting for one’s own turn to be on top, inflicting violence on others to show one’s own power and control.

So true. I’ve known many an infrantry man from wars starting with WWII to the present, and it’s a rare twisted mind that comes out of that hell eager to wish it on others, particularly for a war of choice.

Dangerous. McCain could actually be darker than the bushco team. We ignore these signs at our own peril.

]]> By: blub http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421918 blub Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:16:52 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421918 <p>Investment advice for the penumbra of the Bush regime: invest in bicycle manufacturers. Or a good horse.</p> Investment advice for the penumbra of the Bush regime: invest in bicycle manufacturers. Or a good horse.

]]> By: blub http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421916 blub Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:14:05 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421916 <p>Yeah.. wouldn’t that be ironic? Bush 43, the American Petroleum Institute President, manages to single-handledly cut off global supply. ‘course that’s probably their most fervent wet dream… The only bright spot to come out of all this will be that President Gore will have the singular pleasure of nationalizing Exxon when they try to sell oil at $300 a barrel.</p> <p><a href="#comment-421870"><em>squiddy @ 71 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Wow, oil repository #1 and oil repository #3 go to war against each other on oil repository #2’s territory. Not good at all.</p></blockquote> Yeah.. wouldn’t that be ironic? Bush 43, the American Petroleum Institute President, manages to single-handledly cut off global supply. ‘course that’s probably their most fervent wet dream… The only bright spot to come out of all this will be that President Gore will have the singular pleasure of nationalizing Exxon when they try to sell oil at $300 a barrel.

squiddy @ 71

Wow, oil repository #1 and oil repository #3 go to war against each other on oil repository #2’s territory. Not good at all.

]]> By: Boudica http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421895 Boudica Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:22:17 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421895 <p>Make that “proves”.</p> Make that “proves”.

]]> By: Boudica http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421893 Boudica Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:19:34 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/16/pin-the-war-on-the-wingnut/#comment-421893 <p>Everyday, John McCain prooves why he graduated last in his class.</p> Everyday, John McCain prooves why he graduated last in his class.

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