Now that Georgie has lost the Election...

Originally Posted by sycamore

Nope...you didn't answer my question.

After 1900, the only "good" war (if you ever can call a war good) that the US has been engaged in was WWII, IMO. I'm pretty much a pacifist, so it takes something like being attacked by another NATION, plus the holocaust for me to feel a country is doing the right thing by going to war. I'm sure some, if not many, might disagree with me on this. I think having a parent be in the military and growing up with the constant fear that my Dad might not ever come home is probably responsible for at least some of my outlook in that regard.

[OnyxCougar]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

We could then blissfully forget we ever went there.

The families of the people who died over there as a result of this guys politics will never forget.

Nor should the world forget the consequences to what happened.

If we forget we'll do it again.

[jaguar]

Good thing they never forgot vietnam or or you could end up unilaterally invading some other country on ideological grounds only to have it all end in tears.

Originally Posted by jaguar

Good thing they never forgot vietnam or or you could end up unilaterally invading some other country on ideological grounds only to have it all end in tears.

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm here?

[jaguar]

I'm a plain old straight talkin' type mari, no idea what you're talking about.
Reminds me of one of my favorite new words - sarchasm - the yawning divide between you and the person that didn't get it.

To me, it seems like the US has learned very little from the Vietnam fiasco. If we had, we wouldn't be in Iraq today.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Damn politics! Now I'm polar-ized.

[Cyber Wolf]

Ahh..here we go I know this reflects how some of us here feel about last week.

Thanks also to everyone who has offered us assistance, everyone who has sent us kudos or words of encouragement, and especially those of you who have brightened our arduous night with scads of uproarious hate mail.

They encourage any- and everyone to email them. Remember, this a time of healing!...or at least W Jr says so.

[russotto]

Originally Posted by Radar

The September 11th attacks were better news for America than this election.

Stupidest....remark...ever....

[Radar]

Stupidest....remark...ever....

It's a factual remark and only a jackass would call it stupid. George W. Bush is eliminating every check and balance in our government. When he appoints supreme court justices, he'll have NOTHING to prevent him from implementing his twisted religious agenda.

He has already murdered more than 100,000 innocent civilians, and gotten 1,100 Americans killed and counting. By the end of his term, there won't be much of America left to save.

[wolf]

Just in case you want a little something for the tree ...

[vsp]

That looks more like Liberace than Dubya.

[vsp]

Originally Posted by Radar

It's a factual remark and only a jackass would call it stupid. George W. Bush is eliminating every check and balance in our government.

How about this, as a less inflammatory version:

9/11 was the _enabler_ that defused most of the potential resistance to the Bush administration's agenda.

Stacked courts full of bible-thumpers and foreign policy that inflames friend and foe alike have the potential to be more damaging in the long run to what we currently know as America than a single terrorist attack, even one as severe as 9/11. This election set the table for both of those things to happen.

[jaguar]

This ornament has been selected from renowned designer Christopher Radko’s exclusive “Stars and Stripes Collection.”

I haven't laughed so hard in a while.

[Kitsune]

How about this, as a less inflammatory version

vsp, can you server as translator for Radar from here on out? He makes an awful lot of good points, but always manages to null them out by shooting himself in the foot through unneeded insults.