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The war cannot be won militarily.Do parrots really think they can pass themselves off as military experts?

Seems you'd be in as good a position as anyone to answer that question since your military expertise apparently allows you to confidently assert the opposite. Of course I could point out that many 'actual military experts' seem to agree that the war cannot be won militarily, but I realize that your criteria for deeming someone a military expert will depend primarily on whether they agree with your beliefs or not.

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If a democrat was president all the conservatives would be protesting the war.

No, probably just the assholes masquerading as conservatives like yourself who've proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that their chief area of concern is not the good of the country, the good of Iraq or indeed any good, but simply taking any opportunity for lambasting democrats and 'liberals'.

Your staggeringly utter inability to deal with any given issue without invoking this relentlessly polarized caricature in your head--representing, arbitrarily, the absolute unwavering and uniform antithesis of all you consider decent, practical and effective--definitely does tend to make one think that a superfluous little detail such as 'the opposition doing the right thing' (if such a thing were indeed even possible in the version of the world which filters into your cramped little skull) would never, ever sway you from your jolly and purely imaginary crusade against them.

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The war in Iraq is a horrible mess.Another proclaimation by the make believe military experts. Wars are generally messy but the parrots seem to think they should be quick and neat like some G-rated hollywood depiction.

Yeah, it isn't nearly so romantic when you strip away the flag draped coffins and patriotic soundtrack, and it aint saturday afternoon paintball.

But, wasn't it 'your team' who claimed the war would be so cheap, quick, and neat--a virtual liberated glee club? And gee, I thought it was also part of the 'liberal agenda' to actually complain about the G-rated hollywood depiction of the war we are getting!

Did I miss the new liberal parrot handbook?

I'm almost certain the average 'liberal' is probably blessed with enough basic human empathy to have a clearer picture of the reality of war than you do, which is why they don't like it much and why they feel a damned good reason is needed for it.

Your poster boy for the reason to go to war is hung and buried. For years you claimed with every fiber of your little typing fingers that the evil bastard must die so that Iraq could become master of its own destiny, certain they'd choose good ol' American democracy as their model for progress, which, you assured us, would be as easy as picking out a new wardrobe at the mall of governments under armed escort. And for years the 'liberal' antiwar argument has been that this was sheer fantasy, that the reality would be far more difficult and that even the best case scenario would fall short of this imaginary panacea. Now you're faced with the reality and the difficulty but still don't bother to concern yourself with it in any real way, instead squawking Stay The Course bwawk Stay The Course simply because that's what you've been taught to say.

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The U.S. military is overstretched and about to break.That's a years-old squawk that isn't much repeated because the prediction by the pretend-military experts just never happens.

Actually it's probably not repeated much because whether or not it's true, it has, or ought to have no real purpose in an argument for or against a war. War is a neccessity, right?

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Everyone hates the U.S. because of the Iraq war.Propaganda has always been a component of warfare and when you have millions of brainless parrots, even with no reason of their own to hate the U.S., you can get them squawking whatever you want and make it seem like it's true.

I can't help but wonder what conservative website you're parrot-phrasing, but besides that, I think a fair amount of people hated the U.S. well before the Iraq war and obviously, even well before 911. What concerned and concerns a lot of people is that certain jihadists, people who easily think of war in terms of generations, were able to so easily exploit this and get exactly the reaction they were looking for from people like you, in a timely and choreographed fashion, to solidify and amplify their cause.

If there were a bit of sense in the "war on terror" it would in fact be a war against the hatred of America that brings terrorism about, not a feeding frenzy held in its honor; certainly not a platform for parrots like you to announce to the world that it can go to hell over and over and make people consider that all Americans might be as thoughtless, flatulent and vile as you.

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mandatory squawks:Any negative news about Iraq and republican politicians.

forbidden squawks:Anything positive about Iraq (heroic actions, successful missions). Anything positive about republican politicians (booming economy, lower taxation).

As far as the political commentary, you're simply being a parrot pointing out the color of other parrots.

As far as Iraq, it's certainly not our fault that the airwaves are not constantly awash in all those wonderful humanitarian documentaries that are unfolding.



...Oh, but wait, liberals control the media don't they.

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