Comments on: Bush And Brown: The “Love Actually” Reject Script http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:04:34 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Cujo359 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396405 Cujo359 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:29:39 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396405 <p><a href="http://cujo359.blogspot.com/2008/04/theres-courage-under-fire-then-theres.html" rel="nofollow">Thanks for</a> that Kung Fu Monkey link, Christy. It really is depressing sometimes to watch what’s happening to us. It’s nice to know there are at least a few of us who can put things in perspective.</p> Thanks for that Kung Fu Monkey link, Christy. It really is depressing sometimes to watch what’s happening to us. It’s nice to know there are at least a few of us who can put things in perspective.

]]> By: previouslyTdash http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396074 previouslyTdash Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:12:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396074 <p>Christy, there is also a battle between TN, GA and AL over water right now. The Chattahoochee water flows and potential land grab into what is now TN by GA for <a href="http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_124695.asp" rel="nofollow">Nickajack Lake water</a>. There fighting in court about it.</p> Christy, there is also a battle between TN, GA and AL over water right now. The Chattahoochee water flows and potential land grab into what is now TN by GA for Nickajack Lake water. There fighting in court about it.

]]> By: wigwam http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396068 wigwam Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:09:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396068 <blockquote><p>Incompetent stubbornness in military leaders has needlessly cost many lives. Bush/Cheney are classic examples of it. </p></blockquote> <p>For example, the battle of Stalingrad, which was the beginning of the ending of the starting of the finish for Hitler.</p>

Incompetent stubbornness in military leaders has needlessly cost many lives. Bush/Cheney are classic examples of it.

For example, the battle of Stalingrad, which was the beginning of the ending of the starting of the finish for Hitler.

]]> By: HualangPompooey http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396047 HualangPompooey Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:59:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396047 <p>Whoa…it is a known fact that George Bush and Karl Rove had a book reading contest that would have both of them read more than 100 books a year…</p> Whoa…it is a known fact that George Bush and Karl Rove had a book reading contest that would have both of them read more than 100 books a year…

]]> By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396041 dmac Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:55:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396041 <p>edteller-i didn’t find the article you were looking for, and looked for a while, but found a way cool site…</p> <p>has all kinds of fec info, and articles and political contributions stuff, on the right side a menu had complete list of pacronyms for federal pac’s, which i ’ve been looking for for a while….</p> <p>i went there because of the rahm/don young description from the google description for the article link…..</p> <p>so, maybe this site can help you in the future if you didn’t already have it.</p> <p><a href="http://moneyline.cq.com/pml/home.do?DoFn=WYS6SD0005108" rel="nofollow">http://moneyline.cq.com/pml/ho.....6SD0005108</a></p> <p>google description<br /> Rahm Emanuel , D-Ill.: Our Common Values PAC • Rep. Don Young , R-Alaska: Midnight Sun Political Action Committee Pre-Runoff …<br /> tray.com/cgi-win/x_byst.exe?DoFn=WYS6SD0005108 - 46k - Cached - Similar pages</p> edteller-i didn’t find the article you were looking for, and looked for a while, but found a way cool site…

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i went there because of the rahm/don young description from the google description for the article link…..

so, maybe this site can help you in the future if you didn’t already have it.

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]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396038 earlofhuntingdon Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:52:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396038 <p>Agreed. Incompetent stubbornness in military leaders has needlessly cost many lives. Bush/Cheney are classic examples of it.</p> Agreed. Incompetent stubbornness in military leaders has needlessly cost many lives. Bush/Cheney are classic examples of it.

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396028 earlofhuntingdon Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:44:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396028 <p>Occupiers routinely occupy countries that do not want them. That’s the nature of imperial conquest from the Babylonians to the Romans, the French and English to the Americans. </p> <p>Resistance is not futile, but it takes a sustained campaign and many lives to oust the occupier. Success usually comes when the occupiers home front accepts that occupation is no longer worth the candle. Make it hurt on the home front, start taxing the number of windows in 18th century London, stop buying Manchester cloth in 1920, start sending 1950’s kids from Lyon and Poitier home in a box, exhaust Elysee’s or Downing Street’s or the Fed’s coffers at any time, and politicians soon discover the merits in compromise and withdrawal. The metaphor with sexual deflation is apt.</p> <p>That’s why Bush’s Reaganesque Hollywood fiction of ”fighting ’em <em>there </em>so we won’t haf to fight ’em <em>here</em>” is so uninformed and dangerous. It’s a tool to control domestic political opponents, not an effective method of lowering threats from insurgents.</p> Occupiers routinely occupy countries that do not want them. That’s the nature of imperial conquest from the Babylonians to the Romans, the French and English to the Americans.

Resistance is not futile, but it takes a sustained campaign and many lives to oust the occupier. Success usually comes when the occupiers home front accepts that occupation is no longer worth the candle. Make it hurt on the home front, start taxing the number of windows in 18th century London, stop buying Manchester cloth in 1920, start sending 1950’s kids from Lyon and Poitier home in a box, exhaust Elysee’s or Downing Street’s or the Fed’s coffers at any time, and politicians soon discover the merits in compromise and withdrawal. The metaphor with sexual deflation is apt.

That’s why Bush’s Reaganesque Hollywood fiction of ”fighting ’em there so we won’t haf to fight ’em here” is so uninformed and dangerous. It’s a tool to control domestic political opponents, not an effective method of lowering threats from insurgents.

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396027 Christy Hardin Smith Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:43:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396027 <p>Burnside is a really, really good example, and one that had slipped my memory. Thanks much for the reminder…</p> Burnside is a really, really good example, and one that had slipped my memory. Thanks much for the reminder…

]]> By: Crosstimbers http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396020 Crosstimbers Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:39:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396020 <p>Yes, but there are a thousand other examples where bad leadership led to disaster. Raven mentioned the Ia Drang Valley. I often thought of Fredericksburg during the Civil War, when Burnside could only think to to assault repeatedly uphill, over open ground, where every square yard was covered by twelve Confederate rifles. He did it three times. </p> <p>Gallipoli seemed particularly useful,however, because the Republicans kept wanting to talk about Churchill and compare Democrats to Chamberlain.</p> Yes, but there are a thousand other examples where bad leadership led to disaster. Raven mentioned the Ia Drang Valley. I often thought of Fredericksburg during the Civil War, when Burnside could only think to to assault repeatedly uphill, over open ground, where every square yard was covered by twelve Confederate rifles. He did it three times.

Gallipoli seemed particularly useful,however, because the Republicans kept wanting to talk about Churchill and compare Democrats to Chamberlain.

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396016 Christy Hardin Smith Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:37:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/bush-and-brown-the-love-actually-reject-script/#comment-1396016 <p><a href="http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/fdl-welcomes-sen-john-kerry-on-net-neutrality/#respond" rel="nofollow">Sen. Kerry is chatting live</a> in the current thread — please drop in and ask your questions on net neutrality or just thank him for coming by to chat today. Thanks, all!</p> Sen. Kerry is chatting live in the current thread — please drop in and ask your questions on net neutrality or just thank him for coming by to chat today. Thanks, all!

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