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But his supporters on the board were pretty rabid over the past few months. The quieting of them today has been rather nice actually. :D |
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- in Mexico we weren't dealing with millions of fundamentalists in a region rife with centuries-old religious in fighting; Iraq isn't a frontier nation like America was - North Americans displaced Natives and Mexicans in Texas and elsewhere not just in geography but in population (Native Indians are a exceptionally small minority in their own homeland ). The base in Iraq with our 30,000 troops, or however many we leave there are going to be under constant "insurgent" violence. The Iraqi population is going to remain the significant majority and I'm guessing they're going to keep their religion and perspective of infidel invaders in their holy land. - Wars aren't fought the way they used to be. Conquerors in the past often slaughtered entire populations to mold nations into what they wanted. Sheer force and large-scale unfettered brutality doesn't go over well today. |
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The contradiction with increased spending on education is that (if I'm not mistaken), America spends more on education than just about every nation on earth. It's not the money or lack thereof in education that's causing American kids to fall behind in academics. Pumping more money in education has been a nice catchphrase for decades now but the increases have failed to yield significant gains in academic success. Who knows, maybe it's a question of exactly where that money is going. Something is broken and blindly pouring more money into it isn't going to fix it.
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I hope they all die. All of them.
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I have no party affiliation. I vote for the best candidate or the lesser of the evils if I have to. Usually, I have to. |
So you think the neo-cons will elect McCain and a Jewish VP over the Dems?
(I doubt Clinton or Obama will select each other for VP if either of them wins the Presidency - and I think they know this about each other. That kind of ticket is too brash). I'd say nothing is a sure thing in this election. It seems like it could still go any way. |
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Pretty amazing one of the Keating Five has half a chance to become president. You think anyone will care if Dems try to republicize it? I'm assuming most have forgotten or don't know. |
McCain scares the shit out of me. that is one angry dude.
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No way that he'd pick Huckabee for VP.. Maybe for something else.
McCain said this morning that in Iraq, we'll move to a supporting role, and eventually withdraw. He's lucky that some unscrupulous opponent doesn't take that and say he's laid out his "timetable" for "surrender".. heh. Dirty politics bites both ways. If it hadn't been a live thing, I'm sure that line would have been changed. Not because it's WRONG or BAD, but because he's used similar phrases from others and turned them into "timetables for surrender". They all suck.:error |
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