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Isn’t the word: ignoble?
Announcing that you have a straw in your grip and exulting in your success is still described as ‘grasping’. Perhaps if those of your persuasion (classic liberal?) were more adamant about the need to
focus more energy on Afghanistan, we might be seeing some return on our $8 Billion per month investment which has been irresponsibly allocated to Iraq.
There is nothing ignoble about our efforts in Afghanistan.
Do Proggs believe there is anything noble aside from their supercilious attitude? If so, I haven’t seen it.
Noble efforts aside, do any of you folks recognize the need for more than band=aids in Afghanistan?
What do you recommend, ‘cleo?
Are you talking gauze and Neosporine?
“What do you recommend, ‘cleo?”
The answer is implicit in the first comment. Shall I draw you a picture?
We need to crush them under 500,000 bootheels, instead of this Imperial Occupation teh Bushitler has chosen to lie us into.
Shall I draw you a picture?
Since you haven’t been able to put a single coherent thought together in at least two years now, that is probably not a bad idea. Do you need us to get you some crayons?
Yes, please. A picture would be nice and explicit, I hope.
And after that, remind me which candidate is liable to take care of that for us.
Bmoe is right. Muzzies understand bootheels. Public schools that allow highheels, not so much.
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You just can’t make this stuff up.
M c C a i n
I spelled it out for Cleo.
we might be seeing some return on our $8 Billion per month investment
%, please.
Shall I draw you a picture?
You don’t have to paint me a picture.
The handwriting’s on the wall.
It’s very plain to…
No, wait.
implicit
Go salute yourself.
Punk.
Godspeed the sons and daughters of liberty.
Liberty.
It’s bad enough I have to wet-nurse Montgomery, but I don’t have to put up with that crap.
Cleo,
I’ve been there twice. Rather than make condescending comments about “noble efforts” I want you to draw me a picture.
And since I’ve actually had eyes on, I’ll expect your picture to bear some resemblance to the things, places and people I’ve seen. Any time you’re ready….
guinsPen,
It’s .738% of GDP monthly.
I’m waiting for General Cleo’s erudite explanation.
I read this thread twice.
Will cleo ever draw that damn picture. I am being 100% sincere. Because to tell you the truth I have had thoughts along the same lines as cleo in regards to Afganistan and Iraq. I’ve mentioned in here in the past that I thought that we (the U.S.) should have continued to concentrate their focus (complete) on Afganistan instead of opening up a new front in Iraq. Now, I admit I’m not privy to any more information than the shit given us by the media, so I may have been wrong as Iraq has gone better than I expected. But, if Cleo could please convey his/her thoughts/ideas/plans by way of either a coherent comment or a detailed picture, that would be swell.
I think Cleo’s still sharpening her Crayolas.
You see, if we had not invaded Iraq, all of the foreign fighters that went there would never have thought to pour into the Afghan-Pakistani border region and make the already precarious situation there a nuclear crisis years before now.
That’s the magical world of cleo, in a nutshell.
No, Karl, you don’t have it, quite.
You may search the world without finding a better exemplar of the Mooreonic Convergence than Semanticleo. She isn’t stupid, precisely, but her mentation pattern has a limit point; when you reach that, it causes a hard reset. She believes, you see. When you ask her for evidence to back up her belief she will obfuscate, blather, and change the subject until pressed really hard, whereupon the limit trips and she drops out, to return later beginning from zero, as if the previous interchange had never occurred. It’s entertaining, in a sad sort of way, the first ten or so times you watch it. After that it’s like a video game written by a programmer with the imagination of a flatworm — you always kill the identical monster with the identical blow.
Her belief is jingoistic to a degree that would make Teddy Roosevelt blush. What makes it seem otherwise, including to her, is that it’s negative jingoism — every evil, every violent act, every controversy, every inflamed hangnail on the planet is caused by the intervention and/or simple existence of the United States of America, by jingo! In order to create idyllic conditions, it is therefore necessary and sufficient to remove American influence.
If challenged on those terms she will protest that no, it’s only the policies and practices of George Bush, Richard Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, et. al., that cause the heartache. When she is pressed, though, you will find that she includes the partition of the Middle East by Churchill and friends, the elevation of Abdulaziz ibn Saud, and the suppression of the Mossadegh regime in that category. Challenge her on it, and you get a reset.
In the specific case of Iraq, prior to the horrid injustices perpetrated in 2003 Iraq was a peaceful nation of bucolic goat and camel herders, dealers in fair-trade commodities, and women chattering happily as they brought water from the communal fountains, whose children happily flew kites in the peaceful poppy fields in the bright twilight. In order to return to that idyllic state, it is only necessary to bring George Bush and, for completeness, Donald Rumsfeld, to Baghdad in chains, behead them underneath Saddam’s “crossed swords” statue, followed by the American troops crawling on hands and knees back to Basra and the waiting ships, dragging the headless corpses behind. After that will be a short period of readjustment (including some regrettably violent episodes, as the Iraqis unleash their frustrations; look away), then a return to perfect peace and a restoration of America’s image as Good and True in the world in general. What could possibly go wrong?
Regards,
Ric
Typical drive-by Cleo. How can the “substance” of your comment be addressed when it’s so skeletal? But then that’s your strategy, oui? Provide just enough thesis to allow endless moving of the goal posts.
I wanted to say more but I see Ric covered it with considerable aplomb.
Ric,
I get it; it was really more the effort/reward ratio stepping in, as I was off to do the Howard Dean post. Glad you covered it in full.
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