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WHY I AM SUPPORTING JOHN KERRY. Risk Management (Sullivan)
The New Republic ^ | October 26, 2004 | Andrew Sullivan

Posted on 10/26/2004 1:45:29 PM PDT by ARCADIA

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To: accipter

You are a troll.


121 posted on 10/26/2004 5:22:10 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Iraq had WMD. End of story.)
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122 posted on 10/26/2004 5:24:31 PM PDT by meema
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To: conserv13
It is telling how a lot of the posters here have not made any arguments against Sullivan except that he is gay.

I only scanned Sullivan's article and found numerous factual errors and extremely weak arguments.
Those who claim Sullivan only opposes Bush because he of the gay marriage issue might well be right.

123 posted on 10/26/2004 5:32:53 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: ARCADIA

Do any conservatives look at his blog any more? Every time I take a peek, I just see warmed-over DNC talking points and interminable rants on the gay rights movement. Not much factual accuracy or historical knowledge. A complete waste of time.


124 posted on 10/26/2004 6:36:36 PM PDT by DianeDePoitiers
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To: ARCADIA
Abu Ghraib. In one gut-wrenching moment, the moral integrity of the war was delivered an almost fatal blow. To be involved in such a vital struggle and through a mixture of negligence and arrogance to have facilitated such a fantastic propaganda victory for the enemy is just unforgivable.

The idea that putting women's panties on prisoner's heads gives a moral victory to those who feed people through plastic shredders and saw their heads off in videos is beyond absurd.

Is Sullivan trying to make us laugh on purpose or what?

125 posted on 10/26/2004 6:56:03 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: ARCADIA
RECAP - I think that he makes some strong points -

The absence of WMDs is just a miserable failure, pure and simple.

Not anticipating the strength of the insurgency - also a major mistake

I have a hard time getting past these two issues as well

One of the biggest factors in the Iraq situation is overlooked by many critics, and Andrew Sullivan overlooks it as well:

The American opposition party, and the American media (but I repeat myself...), were both willing to commit treason in order to regain political power.

Dozens of American soldiers and hundreds of innocent Iraqis have paid with their lives for the aid and comfort given to the insurgents by the Democrats in Congress and in the media.

If people who worked for your company were allowed to sabotage the operations of your company for the promise of better jobs and higher pay, what do you think your place of business would look like?

It would be an unholy shambles, wouldn't it?

BTW - if Kerry gains power through these machinations, he'd better remember that TWO can play that game, and we're more practiced at tubing a corrupt administration.

126 posted on 10/26/2004 8:13:55 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Iraq: Location, Location, Location)
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To: rlmorel

Great. Thanks for saying so well.


127 posted on 10/26/2004 8:25:04 PM PDT by BethforAmerica
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To: ARCADIA

Andrew Sullivan is a gay, partisan hack.

People don't fall for this nonsense. Don't worry.


128 posted on 10/26/2004 8:34:53 PM PDT by TaxRelief (380 Tons sounds like WMD to me. One-third of a Kiloton. That's huge.)
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To: ARCADIA
The absence of WMDs is just a miserable failure, pure and simple.

Not anticipating the strength of the insurgency - also a major mistake

I have a hard time getting past these two issues as well

With that mentality, you'd have been begging for a truce in Spring, 1943 -- after Kasserine Pass.

Fortunately, you weren't (and aren't) in charge.

129 posted on 10/26/2004 8:40:13 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: ARCADIA

Did I see a link on Sullivan's website to "Fisting Saffire"?

This creep has let his faggotry take him around the bend.

He won't be missed.


130 posted on 10/26/2004 8:41:53 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: StephenNYC
Hey, I'm a Butt Pirate, too...

There is a reason you popped in here, and it's not to tell us that you are supporting President Bush.

You live in a place that encourages perverted sexuality. The people that are encouraging you to practice this unnatural self-gratification do not care about YOU; the only thing they want is a piece of your a**.

You're welcome here, but know that we will do everything in our power to bring you back into the fold of God's natural law and love.

131 posted on 10/26/2004 8:43:54 PM PDT by TaxRelief (380 Tons sounds like WMD to me. One-third of a Kiloton. That's huge.)
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To: KC_Conspirator

Both Sullivan and Hitchens are leftists...socialists...they wanted an excuse to support Kerry
and the problems of the Iraq occupation have given them one...they were never our friends.


132 posted on 10/26/2004 8:47:07 PM PDT by Bushbacker (ttl)
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To: ARCADIA
This entire article is window-dressing and not worth the bits and pixels.

We all know what this is about. The butt-sex. Addiction is terrible. It deeply affects judgment and it makes one say the most idiotic things.

I pray for Andy.
133 posted on 10/26/2004 8:55:18 PM PDT by Antoninus (A conservative bases his politics on his morals. ... A liberal bases his morals on his politics.)
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To: ARCADIA

134 posted on 10/26/2004 8:59:46 PM PDT by Antoninus (A conservative bases his politics on his morals. ... A liberal bases his morals on his politics.)
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To: mrsmith
If you'd like to defend any of his "good points", feel free to do so instead of being snide.

Okay. I consider myself fairly conservative and libertarian. I share some of Sullivan's problems with Bush, such as Bush's out of control spending and increase in the size of government, and his suppport of a constitutional amendment defining marriage.

135 posted on 10/27/2004 6:47:56 AM PDT by conserv13
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To: conserv13
It is telling how a lot of the posters here have not made any arguments against Sullivan except that he is gay.

Thank you!

136 posted on 10/27/2004 7:30:13 AM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: Dr. Frank fan
Who didn't anticipate the strength of the insurgency? It's no stronger than I anticipated it would be.

The war planners - they were thinking of bringing the troop number to 30,000 two months after "mission accomplished"

137 posted on 10/27/2004 7:33:09 AM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: Retiredforever

I don't think the prison scandal is that bad and IMHO, I don't Arabs think its that bad. Nothing like what their prisons are like.


138 posted on 10/27/2004 7:34:31 AM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: wvobiwan

Rooting is not the same thing as abetting!


139 posted on 10/27/2004 7:35:42 AM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: KMAJ2
It is the intelligence communities failure, not Bush's.

The intelligence agencies are part of the executive branch. Sorry, this is no excuse; it happened on his watch.

Is he supposed to have a crystal ball and known that Iraq's military would fold so quickly and disappear into the populace?

Come on! Even I considered that possibility!

140 posted on 10/27/2004 7:39:18 AM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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