Comments on: McCain: Questions About Length Of Iraq War “Insulting” http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:04:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: pizzmoe http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1270368 pizzmoe Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:37:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1270368 <p>The man is extraordinarily dull. Can he possibly win this election?</p> The man is extraordinarily dull. Can he possibly win this election?

]]> By: jwoods526 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1269002 jwoods526 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:22:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1269002 <p>As I said before: how can he campaign on perserving the Bush war if the popular opinion in 2006, which has only escalated, was that we need to end this war now? The general election is going to be hard fought on this topic.</p> As I said before: how can he campaign on perserving the Bush war if the popular opinion in 2006, which has only escalated, was that we need to end this war now? The general election is going to be hard fought on this topic.

]]> By: globalcitizen http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268978 globalcitizen Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:03:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268978 <p>Good find. We just need to record what he says and play it back to people from now until November.</p> Good find. We just need to record what he says and play it back to people from now until November.

]]> By: globalcitizen http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268975 globalcitizen Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:01:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268975 <p>Slight variation: “No Peace Before 2108″ — he’s not too sure it won’t be 12,008. But, it will be really hard to think of a reason for staying once the oil is gone.</p> Slight variation: “No Peace Before 2108″ — he’s not too sure it won’t be 12,008. But, it will be really hard to think of a reason for staying once the oil is gone.

]]> By: RantingRaver http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268962 RantingRaver Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:47:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268962 <p>Geez. Why don’t we just nuke Iraq and Iran right now? If we don’t do that, then clearly we should release our most lethal biological weapon onto the world (after giving the richest Americans the antidote of course) to ensure that we are the only ones allowed access to the World’s natural resources. We’ll have to leave a couple of poor people alive so that we’ll have slaves… We just can’t have savages and barbarians using perfectly good resources that the United States should be using. This is the only sure way to ensure our safety!!!</p> <p><a href="http://rantingraver.com" rel="nofollow">RantingRaver.com</a></p> <p>[In case your sarcasm detectors didn’t get tripped, I’m being facetious.]</p> Geez. Why don’t we just nuke Iraq and Iran right now? If we don’t do that, then clearly we should release our most lethal biological weapon onto the world (after giving the richest Americans the antidote of course) to ensure that we are the only ones allowed access to the World’s natural resources. We’ll have to leave a couple of poor people alive so that we’ll have slaves… We just can’t have savages and barbarians using perfectly good resources that the United States should be using. This is the only sure way to ensure our safety!!!

RantingRaver.com

[In case your sarcasm detectors didn’t get tripped, I’m being facetious.]

]]> By: Prairie Sunshine http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268930 Prairie Sunshine Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:27:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268930 <p>Sun Tzu–Guess he skipped that class at the War College.</p> Sun Tzu–Guess he skipped that class at the War College.

]]> By: brendanx http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268887 brendanx Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:53:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268887 <p>The “only thing”? The Webb amendment was no small thing.</p> The “only thing”? The Webb amendment was no small thing.

]]> By: nomolos http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268832 nomolos Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:27:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268832 <blockquote><p>David Brooks (journalist)</p></blockquote> <p>Hah!</p>

David Brooks (journalist)

Hah!

]]> By: bonkers http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268831 bonkers Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:27:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268831 <p>HA! Ain’t that the truth…</p> HA! Ain’t that the truth…

]]> By: kirk murphy http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268828 kirk murphy Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:26:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/12/mccain-questions-about-length-of-iraq-war-insulting/#comment-1268828 <p>oh cripes - I can’t wait until the nominations are over.</p> <p>I blame Kodak.</p> <p>When they stopped making projectors, they opened a vast rent in the national psyche.</p> <p>Perhpas after the nominations are done we’ll see something useful come out of that void.</p> <p>Until then, the partisans’ projection war seems likely to continue unabated - and unedifying.</p> <p>Two corporatist candidates who both fund this obscene illegal war and both serve the lethal industries that give them money - as distinguishable in their ethics as the Crips and the Bloods.</p> <p>And about as pathetic an excuse for blood-letting: textual, verbal, or literal.</p> <p>Do I want to vote for a woman who is passively/actively complicit in ecocide and votes to keep funding our illegal immoral war in Iraq, or an African-American who is passively/actively complicit in ecocide and votes to keep funding our illegal/immoral war in Iraq?</p> <p> BFD.</p> <p>What a farce. The only thing that saddens me more than this complete non-choice is all the energy wasted on the pretext that either ambitious empty vessel differs meaningfully from the other in their policies.</p> <p>I’d call them shiny objects, but if they’re so goddamn shiny, how come both of their deeds and actions - and their fervent mouthpieces’ mindless, ceaseless cheerleading/trash talk - just make me wanna hurl?</p> <p>Of course, trashtalking about sports contests also make me wanna hurl - but at least the narcissistic gazillionares onto whom their hapless rapid fans project their own passions and hopes don’t even pretend to serve us.</p> <p>What pathetic choices. What pathetic “fans”. What a pathetic discourse.</p> <p>I can’t wait til the nominations for the Democratic wing of the corporatist party are over.</p> <p>May the empty vessel win!</p> <p>As one of them surely shall.</p> oh cripes – I can’t wait until the nominations are over.

I blame Kodak.

When they stopped making projectors, they opened a vast rent in the national psyche.

Perhpas after the nominations are done we’ll see something useful come out of that void.

Until then, the partisans’ projection war seems likely to continue unabated – and unedifying.

Two corporatist candidates who both fund this obscene illegal war and both serve the lethal industries that give them money – as distinguishable in their ethics as the Crips and the Bloods.

And about as pathetic an excuse for blood-letting: textual, verbal, or literal.

Do I want to vote for a woman who is passively/actively complicit in ecocide and votes to keep funding our illegal immoral war in Iraq, or an African-American who is passively/actively complicit in ecocide and votes to keep funding our illegal/immoral war in Iraq?

BFD.

What a farce. The only thing that saddens me more than this complete non-choice is all the energy wasted on the pretext that either ambitious empty vessel differs meaningfully from the other in their policies.

I’d call them shiny objects, but if they’re so goddamn shiny, how come both of their deeds and actions – and their fervent mouthpieces’ mindless, ceaseless cheerleading/trash talk – just make me wanna hurl?

Of course, trashtalking about sports contests also make me wanna hurl – but at least the narcissistic gazillionares onto whom their hapless rapid fans project their own passions and hopes don’t even pretend to serve us.

What pathetic choices. What pathetic “fans”. What a pathetic discourse.

I can’t wait til the nominations for the Democratic wing of the corporatist party are over.

May the empty vessel win!

As one of them surely shall.

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