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I was torn there for a second (but only for a second)

Sorry, Madam Speaker, sometimes the U.S. doesn't lose and there's nothing to do about it. Shucks.

And I had some premium lines lined up for Speakeress Pelosi.

In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead. (Rule #11 of the public policy process)

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Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words...-Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes

...I'd say that government nannyism is a failure. Social Security's terminal downward spiral and Democratic denial of the need for reform = failure. Nancy Pelosi's botox addled speakership = failure.

If any of those failures were remotely as successful as our fight against Al-Qaeda in Iraq, perhaps I'd take the Democrats a bit more seriously.

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"We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged." - Colonel Henry Knox

No facts whatsoever may get in the way. Reality is to be ignored at all costs.

And the is one of the leaders of our government. When -- if ever -- will some of these people wake up and realize that, as sitting Congressional leaders, their words and actions do have consequences -- that it is not a game???

But those darn Iraqis and Americans just refuse to cooperate and retreat.
But Obama will see to all of that. Afterall, what is a bigger change than to go from winning a war to losing one?

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who have any idea how to prosecute a war mainly due to the fact that they aren't trained for the job. Didn't we learn from Vietnam and first Iraq conflict that our Military does an outstanding job until the politicians decide to jump back in and tell them how to do their job? It's happening again and we will lose again if they don't shut up and let the military do what they are trained to do. I hate people who don't learn from past mistakes!

Must have sent her a "strongly worded email..." :>

I'd even bet they put something in it about "Thspeekin twoof to powuhr!"

The esteemed speaker claims that the surge is a failure because the Iraqui parliment isn't getting enough done.

Wonder if she's taken a close look at her own accomplishments in the last year?
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"You can't save the Earth unless you're willing to make other people sacrifice" - Scott Adams (speaking through Dogbert)

"Al-Qaeda in Iraq faces an “extraordinary crisis”. Last year's mass defection of ordinary Sunnis from al-Qaeda to the US military “created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight”. The terrorist group's security structure suffered “total collapse”.

Excellent news. With this "total collapse" of AQ in Iraq, how can anyone deny that we have now defeated the terrorists "over there" rather than in our own cities. We have won the war in Iraq.

Considering that there was no such thing as "al Qaeda in Iraq" until after Bush sent troops in for no reason, destroying the infrastructure and wrecking the society of a country from which not one individual ever attacked or threatened to attack the United States; then I'd say all this Hooray Three Cheers for Militarism is a bit unfounded.

How is that so many people can so readily admit that government is incompetent and ruins everything when it intervenes at home; but when someone suggests that government intervention abroad is unwise or has adverse effects, they act like such a statement is absurd or borderline treason?

Could it be that such people are completely full of it? That they don't really have any real convictions or beliefs; they just latch onto emotionally-based appeals tossed out to them by pandering politicians?

I think so.

Nancy contradicts herself in the same breath. I was listening to this nonsense on TV yesterday:

This is a failure. This is a failure. The troops have succeeded, God bless them.

So.... the troops have managed to both fail and succeed at the same time? Say what, Nance?

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