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by smirk5 October 3, 2007 7:41 AM EDT
The Cover of American Conservative Magazine has a picture of Petraeus with the caption: Sycophant Savior.

What does Sycophant mean?
a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.

Interesting that the "Conservatives" have little to say about that.
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by October 3, 2007 7:26 AM EDT
CBS wrote:

""I believe we acted appropriately at all times," Prince, a 38-year-old former Navy seal, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee."

Even in the killing of the Iraqi by a drunken employee of Blackwater?

Erik Prince - you are a lying piece of sh|t and deserve to have a bullet put between your eyes.
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by October 3, 2007 7:22 AM EDT
The only good Blackwater employee is a dead one.

These child killers should be treated with absolute contempt and disgust.

Eric Prince should be torn limb from limb by the families of those Iraqis who have been killed by his terrorists.
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by lars008-2009 October 3, 2007 6:18 AM EDT
THOMAS JEFFERSON KICKED FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAMIST ARSES 200 YEARS AGO,,,

IT WAS THE CORRECT THING TO DO THEN,,, AND IT IS THE CORRECT THING TO DO NOW,,,

America and the Barbary Pirates: An International Battle Against an Unconventional Foe
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjprece.html

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry

One ought never to turn one''''s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Winston Churchill

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." Albert Einstein
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by j-whitman October 3, 2007 4:13 AM EDT
S-dubya,,,,,, Wanna talk about Bush''s lie''s or Blacwater USA''s Erik Princes connection to the Bush family ????
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by j-whitman October 3, 2007 4:11 AM EDT
S-dubya,,,, Some people are wondering when you & your dishonorable GOP will stop playing politics with our nation & troops
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by brianbwb-2009 October 3, 2007 4:03 AM EDT
Grandstanding again or are they sincere this time? Who knows with our "new congress" ?
Posted by radiob,

I lean heavily toward grandstanding. That is all that our politicians have been doing since Ford, and there is too much bribery going on to stop it now.

Blackwater is "connected", so abandon all hope of seeing any responsibility laid anywhere near where it belongs.

Even the politicians currently screaming bloody murder will suddenly be strangely and deafeningly silent when it comes down to what to do about it.

Take the premise that the US government is completely corrupt, base your analysis and predictions on that premise, and be amazed at how accurate your predictions will be.
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by speakinup October 3, 2007 2:50 AM EDT
The Dems should be asking Pelosi about when she is going to fulfill her first 100 days agenda.
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by alphaa10-2009 October 3, 2007 2:47 AM EDT
lars008 once dutifully used the phrase "Islamofascism", as taught by Limbaugh and others of the Faux News Network. Lately, however, sensing the absurdity, lars008 has begun to use the mutant neologism, "fascist nazi terrorislam".

Mutant, because National Socialism has little in common with a theocracy, even a militant one. Mutant because Lars008 needs to consult his dictionary with words like "fascism"-- a term more closely describing the Amerika uber alles alliance of American defense contractors and the neocons (and their favorite front men, Bush and Cheney).

And mutant, finally, because Lars008 understands only how to Google for a pastiche of history and politics. With his trusty search engine, Lars008 stirs in quotes on a whim from Jefferson, Churchill and for good measure, adds whiff of Aristotle. This method is the equivalent of sending a teen pop music critic to cover Carnegie Hall.

The difference between Google and scholarship is patient, scrupulously honest effort-- many years of it-- to understand the dimensions of your chosen subject.

And finally, Islam. Lars008 has visited every hate site devoted to "exposing" Islam, and knows chapter and verse of what the sites have told him. That makes him a propagandist, but hardly an authority on Islam. All to say, once again, there is much more to even this subject than Lars008 ever imagines.



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by condumism October 3, 2007 2:46 AM EDT
"Blackwater chairman Erik Prince vigorously defended his private security company"

Erik Prince is a Fascist Anarchist gone wild. Who cares that this GOPig was a Navy Seal welfare recipient? This ConDumb is yet another reason to take back America from the corrupt, Corporate Scum that now have free reign to do whatever they want in the USA (or elsewhere!) Thank you Ronald Reagan ( and your conservative predessesors) for selling out to Corporate lobbyists, clearly the number one group for going unchallenged in the destruction of America.
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by speakinup October 3, 2007 2:44 AM EDT
alphaa10 - hah - you are a crack up! Imagine anyone believing ANY of these sites you have quoted. Hah -ha, the DNC.

Now, list the lies that Pelosi fed you... I imagine you can find them on one of these sites, she-it, she''s in the single digits for popularity.

Glad you could be service to yourself. You have a great time thinking about how your loser (Hillary) is going to be humiliated. $5000 for every child born - a plain bid to buy the votes of the Congressional Black Congress. Nothin but name recognition, and pardons served by her husband - between BJs. Yeah, and Far Left idiots like you talk about family values.

Eat it up sucker.
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by searingtruth October 3, 2007 2:39 AM EDT
"Our representatives had become politicians, precluding all hope of justice."
SearingTruth

A Future of the Brave - www.searingtruth.com
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by radiob-2009 October 3, 2007 2:35 AM EDT
Perhaps we should all invest in buying some "flea" collars for the 536 poodles and mail them to House, the Senate and the White House.
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by radiob-2009 October 3, 2007 2:31 AM EDT
Grandstanding again or are they sincere this time? Who knows with our "new congress" ?
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by searingtruth October 3, 2007 2:17 AM EDT
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
Thomas Paine, Dissertation on First Principles of Government, December 23, 1791

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by alphaa10-2009 October 3, 2007 2:11 AM EDT
http://wwSpeakinup said, "Give me the list of broken promises the Pres has made..."
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Enjoy! It has been a pleasure serving you.

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http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/01/broken_promises.php

http://www.meforum.org/article/1715

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There surely is more to come.
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by searingtruth October 3, 2007 2:07 AM EDT
"And so, just as Hitler and Stalin before them, Bush and his henchmen recruited brutal sociopaths to torture and murder, accounting only to their personal will. Lending them, wholeheartedly and enthusiastically, all necessary moral and legal blessing.

I have always been curious, and wondered, who the the American people thought were torturing and murdering in our name."
SearingTruth


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by rafterman1 October 3, 2007 2:02 AM EDT
Mudrose spewed:
===The guy''''''''s a Navy seal. Just like the Dimnowits to ***** on a soldier past, present and future===

Let''s look at hte neocon''s record: Max Cleeland ***** on. John Kerry ***** on. Rush''s fake soldiers. Numerous vet lib posters on this board ***** on. Rejecting calls for proper rest and training. Cut funding for the VA. Repubs have ***** on vets all the time. Repubs only praise the military when they need them to die for their policies.

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by ioweign October 3, 2007 1:36 AM EDT
IOWEIGN - so I see Social security as a good thing. It was an EXCELLENT Idea. FDR was one of the very best Presidents we''''ve ever had.

But, then you get Johnson deciding to move the earmarked funds into the General funds - probably a legacy that is worse than his trying to micro-manage bombing targets in Vietnam. And Carter expand SSI to immigrants that never paid a dime into SS. So, this is just typical mismanagement combined with tax and spend economics; the only way Democrats know how to govern.

Your last statment is obviously devisive along party lines, so why don''''t you answer the question of what do you think of Hillary''''s $5000 per baby, since you are spoiling for a fight ?

Posted by speakinup at 07:54 PM : Oct 02, 2007

Hillary''s $5000 is campaign rhetoric like Barack''s retiree''s making $55,000 or less would be tax-free. They both sound great but they are not practical with this National Debt.

Didn''t we just get a Fed Tax rebate for the Telephone Excise Tax ??
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