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2006-11-29 Iraq
Gaffney: The new groupthink
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Posted by .com 2006-11-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Years ago > Saving The Dems, Lefties, Euros, Socialists, Commies, Enviros, + Radical Muslims, etc. .....................@ from themselves, THUS OUR GLORIOUS REWARD. WE'RE THE FIRST ONES THAT HAS TO CONCEDE, SURRENDER ANDOR DIE.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-29 00:30||   2006-11-29 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 The problem is this simple: if the US moves out, the Ayatollahs move in. We have to play the Sunni Card while we can, but we can't do it by remote control.
Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-11-29 00:33||   2006-11-29 00:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Ain't gonna happen. Not much gonna happen. The groupthink is limited to groups that have no decision-making power. Check out Bush's speech in Riga today. Same as before. I say it's 50/50 that there isn't even a pro forma head-fake at a sham conference - but it's more like 99/1 that nothing substantive will change.

Meanwhile, the "no worse enemy" part of the Marine formula has long since been discarded by our forces in Iraq. If you're AQ, you're in trouble. If you are the far more important quiet collaborator with AQ - can we dig you a well? do you have a job? did we offend you?

Seems unlikely the "commission" will have even a single sentence worth reading, as they'll of course not go anywhere near the subject of how to actually fight in Iraq.
Posted by Verlaine 2006-11-29 00:43||   2006-11-29 00:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Is Baker still a registered agent of the Saudis?
Posted by 3dc 2006-11-29 04:48||   2006-11-29 04:48|| Front Page Top

#5 The State of the Union address will turn into a repudiation of the ISG Surrender Dorothy Iraq strategy and a put up or shut up challenge to Pelosi & Co.

Bush's strategy is to time his public statements carefully, not to try to flood the zone every week. Remember Roosevelt made only 30 Fireside Chats in 12 years as president. That's less than 3 per year. Bush spent a lot of public statement chips leading up to the election. Speaking out now would do no good. So he's letting the other side have its head for a while. Then he will deflate them all in one night from the bulliest pulpit of them all.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-11-29 09:08||   2006-11-29 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Can we start bombing Iran now please?
Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-29 09:46||   2006-11-29 09:46|| Front Page Top

#7 --Bush spent a lot of public statement chips leading up to the election. --

And a lot of good that did us, he should have used the budget veto chip on a few occasions.
Posted by anonymous2u 2006-11-29 10:47||   2006-11-29 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 When people that care (patriots)don't have the power to do anything other than verbally spout off, it's all over...
Put your heads between your legs and kiss yur asses "Goodbye!
Political interests have the Country hog-tied. Thanks to the Pols; were fucked! Please advise. a DOD rantburger drone.
Posted by as 2006-11-29 21:05||   2006-11-29 21:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Is Baker still a registered agent of the Saudis?
Hard to say. I'm a little bleery-eyed: searching through Google brought me page after page of 9/11 Conspiracy Theory links and similar Left and Lefter claptrap.

I finally found the FARA page of the DOJ, but the latest semiannual report I could find was for the first half of 2005.

How long is the registration good for? Or is it one of those things that once you have it, you have it until you explicitly de-register?
Posted by eLarson 2006-11-29 22:35|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-11-29 22:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Take a deep breath, as. Enough of those here who are (or aren't) talking are in places where they can do what's necessary, as well. It'll be ok, I promise. ;-) You just make sure your bit goes as it ought, too, 'k? Remember, President Bush long ago promised that this would be a long war, and most of it would take place in the shadows out of our sight... even out of yours. But historically the covert stuff hasn't changed all that much regardless which party was in power, and when it's all over we'll sit down for a nice cup of tea and exchange those tales that can be told. I intend to find it all fascinating, and I'll even make the scones that BA is so very fond of.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-29 23:37||   2006-11-29 23:37|| Front Page Top

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