“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift
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"The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital." - Bill Maher
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"The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go

It's a cruel ... cruel summer"

Friday, June 04, 2004

Don't believe the BCF's new spin:

The Iraq situation (Or Great Mess-o-potamia as Jon Stewart calls it!)
IS NOT like WWII.

Even the right-wing Chicago Tribune is saying this is horse sh . . . uh, stuff.
Drawing erroneous conclusions
Bush, Rumsfeld, misinterpret our war history
-Steve Chapman, 6-3-2004

. . ."Americans were not willing to go to war with Japan to free China and Korea from colonial rule, or to save Germany's neighbors from being swallowed up, or to rescue Jews from slaughter. It was only when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and Hitler declared war on us that we mobilized to fight.

Americans had no alternative. We had been attacked, and defeat was unthinkable. If it meant losing nearly 300,000 soldiers in combat, or twice that many, the price had to be paid.

Those were not wars of choice. They were not undertaken to pre-empt alleged dangers, to bring salvation to oppressed peoples, to set an example of democracy to other nations, or to cow potential aggressors. They were about government's gravest and most basic responsibility: national survival." . . .
CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THIS GREAT ARTICLE

Expect the righties to spew this nonsense over and over and over in the next week.

-Prodigal Son