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2005-12-15 Iraq

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Posted by Claper Choluter8856 2005-12-15 16:51|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Bush claimed the U.S. went into Iraq so that it would not have to fight this "war" on U.S. soil. But the contrary is happening. The turmoil is coming to U.S. soil with a vengeance.

The difference being that it's not the jihadis that's bringing it here. It's being sown and cultivated by home grown traitors.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-12-15 20:21|| 2005-12-15 20:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Is this moron comparing political disagreement at home with people getting blown up by bombs at home?

Just wanna make sure I didn't misread that cause it is just so over the top stupid I feel like I must be mistaken.

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2005-12-15 21:23|| 2005-12-15 21:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, getting your head hacked off by Jihadis is EXACTLY the same as listening to Cindy Sheehan bloviate. /sarcasm

Posted by DMFD 2005-12-15 21:33|| 2005-12-15 21:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Article: But no one discusses what kind of civil war might be in the process of developing in the United States.

I'm trying to figure out whether the author is threatening to take up arms against the elected government of these United States. Or maybe he's saying that lefty criticism of the Iraqi campaign is the moral equivalent of civil war.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-12-15 21:45|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-12-15 21:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Lefties like you Wallerstein are welcome to start a civil war. I promise you'll die quickly, but no promises about cleanly. See, you lefties forget who serves in the armed forces, and who owns the guns as civilians... hint: its neither you nor the left.

Bring it on.

Posted by Oldspook 2005-12-15 22:45|| 2005-12-15 22:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Immanual Allerstein: Yale Sociologist.

Author of: 'The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System'

I have made an effort to piece apart what I think of as the five major cleavages of our modern world: race, nation, class, ethnicity, and gender.

I have to acknowledge that there were three turning-points in my political and intellectual development. The first, as I have already indicated, was my struggle with the issues that have plagued the left for most of its organizational history â the struggle between the Second and Third Internationals. The second was my encounter with Africa and with national liberation movements, which enabled me to put the debates of the Internationals into their proper context, as essentially debates primarily within the pan-European world, debates that ignored the fundamental ongoing polarization of the capitalist world-economy. And the third was the world revolution of 1968, which I experienced directly at Columbia University

I acknowledge a continuing intellectual debt to Marx, Freud, Schumpeter, and Karl Polanyi.

In his own words, an old Marxist, ivory tower socialist at an Ivy League bastion of liberalism.

Now do you understand why he is such a self-aggrandizing lefty nutsack?

Posted by Oldspook 2005-12-15 22:54|| 2005-12-15 22:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Asylum shit, top quality.

Posted by twobyfour 2005-12-15 22:54|| 2005-12-15 22:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Ah yes, one of the "notables" from my old school, SUNY-Binghamton, deigns to honor us with his pithy comments. My logic prof, in shooting down fuzzy-minded liberalisms, used to say "young man, that argument might pass muster with Wallerstein and his acolytes but it won't wash in my class..."

Posted by MarkB 2005-12-16 00:03|| 2005-12-16 00:03|| Front Page Top

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