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still trying to win the Vietnam war

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Why does Harry Reid keep insisting that, "Lieberman votes with us on everything except the war," when it isn't true? This time it's tristero providing a simple answer to a not-so-simple question. The trouble with intellectual exercises is that you need an intellect first. Trying to answer the question by making stupid experiments in the real world that involve the

recently that Reverend John Hagee, as a prelude to the visit to New Orleans in April, 2008 by his most famous fan, John McCain, has amended his comments about Hurricane Katrina. On September 18, 2006 Hagee told Terry Gross of National Public Radio, as reported

that he considers to be parasites who are sucking off of hard-workin’ Amurricans. In Lenin’s way of thinking, though, it is men like Hagee - who live off of, and prey on, the ignorance, the religious superstitions and prejudices of people - who are the parasites. Come to think of it, perhaps old Vladimir Ilyich was right on that count. Phil Duert still considers himself a Christian - albeit, admittedly, non-churchgoing - but the question does occurs to him - why do ordinary

"is popular among American military officers of a certain age, who believe if only they'd had gutsy political leadership, support from the homefront, and a willingness to steamroll North Vietnam with overwhelming force, we might have won the war." http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/12/mccain/index.html BlogRevolution!

continue with a connection to the Burmese junta. - Another look at the Story of Stuff. - Racial politics not just Black and White. - Mark Morford lays out 10 ways to blow your tax rebate. - How the Pentagon controlled news coverage through military analysts that were on the take from the Bush administration all along. - Amanda Marcotte hosts Jeffrey Feldman at FDL, to discuss the outright barbarous language that the hardly-ever-Right uses to poison US politics. In comments, David Neiwert recommends

The central truth of the 2008 election is that, with the exception of a few relatively inconsequential and symbolic matters, John McCain enthusiastically embraces the Bush/Cheney worldview in every way that matters. John McCain is the ultimate embodiment of America’s hoary, Vietnam era “stabbed-in-the-back” myth. We should fight wars with massive bombing campaigns and unleashed force, unconstrained by excessive concerns over “collateral damage” and unimpeded by domestic questioning. That’s how we could have (and should have)

The central truth of the 2008 election is that, with the exception of a few relatively inconsequential and symbolic matters, John McCain enthusiastically embraces the Bush/Cheney worldview in every way that matters. John McCain is the ultimate embodiment of America’s hoary, Vietnam era “stabbed-in-the-back” myth. We should fight wars with massive bombing campaigns and unleashed force, unconstrained by excessive concerns over “collateral damage” and unimpeded by domestic questioning. That’s how we could have (and should have)

still trying to win the Vietnam war