Posted on 10/23/2006 3:14:21 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
I believe it has existed in every war going back to the Revolution. It is certainly not helpful, but I think we will survive.
Seems to me you're the one fixated on Bush, just as Lindsey is fixated on Rummy because Rummy makes his friends' lives in JAG and Defense deseredly hell.
If you bothered to read one comment in this thread you'd find most of the critisism centers on Lind's statement about the war NOT Bush. It may come as a shock to you but most of us don't hold Lind's ingratiating MSM statements about the war to be tolerable because we don't hold them to be truth. Bush isn't a factor here in most of our opinions, except for you apparently.
Graham is not helping matters with these comments three weeks before the election. He is also doing the bidding of the media.
Can't we reinstitute the old adage: "If you can't say anything nice, just don't say anything at all" That would shut up SO MANY people in Washington DC!
You nailed it!
He's not married.
*crickets*
I wish I had your confidence. Do you have anything online I can go read to support that this has gone on (at this level, I don't mean that no one ever played politics during a time of war)? I would like to think that you're right and it's not a big deal. But it feels like a real big deal. Especially after growing up a military brat during the Vietnam war and watching what role the media and politics played in that loss.
susie
Can't we reinstitute the old adage: "If you can't say anything nice, just don't say anything at all" That would shut up SO MANY people in Washington DC!
Not really, the entire town would be going around saying stuff like, "Hey, nice tie!" and "Really like your shoes!"
I'll say the person on the right.
Nice try TROLL! Pfft...
Won't do them any good in my case. I voted this AM as soon as early voting began. Straight R except for Governor Hairdo.
Wow, lidsey graham is a republican? I thought he was a RINO.
I know exactly what you mean. But, remember...
This is not an isolated slice of time in Iraq.
This is about two weeks to a major United States mid-term election. The terrorists in Iraq may be inhuman jerkoff a$$holes, but most are assuredly not dumb.
They KNOW their only chance is to turn the American public against the war and influence politics in this country.
Your negative emotions are what they want to elicit. They WANT the same effect on US elections they had in Spain and with the help of the Liberals and MSM in this country, there is a chance they well succeed.
We are at one point in a battle in a long war. We are going to have worse weeks at some point ahead. Keep a steady strain! As a country, we need to do that as well.
I'll look for something credible and send it to you if I can find any. I just know from reading and studying history that this kind of stuff is part of American culture. During the Revolution a large segment, possibly even a majority, of colonists were loyal to England. In the Civil War Lincoln was maligned in cartoons and editorials. His approval rating was probably in the 20s or 30s in the part of the nation that didn't seceed. Wilson, Roosevelt, and Truman also took huge amounts of criticism and were hated by large sections of the population.
Troll? I've been here 3 years longer than you have.
You're probably right. Has the press also always been rooting for the other side? Maybe things aren't as bad as I think they are.
susie
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