Thanks for the evasive answer. I take that as a yes, although when people get laid off, they tend to get sicker, so if you’re selling medical equip., you might be doing okay.

I have the kind of a job in which job layoffs and a slow economy actually creates demand.

So . . . we’re doing great under Worst. President. Ever.

Ah, I see it now. The scales have fallen from my eyes. Blacks are simply too stupid to vote Republican.

Thanks for clearing that up.

One word: paragraphs.

And the morale problem this can create spreads well beyond only a few dozen soldiers. It’s why cowardice and desertion of one’s post in battle are dealt with so severely in most armies, including ours.

Is it too late to ask you to go away and not come back, Door King?

Nobody, not even Bush, knows what we’re funding over there. Nobody, and I mean nobody, knows what our goal is in Iraq. What angers many Democrats so strongly, in fact, is that Republics accuse them of cowardice, treason, wanting to cut and run, etc., yet Republics have absolutely no clue what winning in Iraq means. It’s easy to see that their idea of winning is this: we win when a Republic president tells us we win, and not before.

So we squander billions in Iraq, we perversely question the patriotism of Americans who ask what we’re borrowing to spend on in Iraq (as if this is some kind of low treason), yet nobody — NOT ONE AMERICAN — can tell us what “winning” there means.

And about a third of voting Americans think Augustus Stupidus is a frickin visionary, a modern American prophet in fact, for putting us in this position.

it is beyond all definition of bizarre.

And if you can, then could you share it with George Bush? Cause he she the hell doesnt know what it means!

Eldridge Cleaver
Frederick Douglass
James L. Farmer, Jr.
Roy Innis - founder of C.O.R.E.
James Meredith
Jesse Lee Peterson
Sojourner Truth

And if you didn’t mean to call YOURSELF a racist, why did you do so? Your argument against me works perfectly well against you. To a ‘T’, in fact. You have NO ANSWER.

I meant to say EXACTLY what I said, and what I said was ABSOLUTELY clear to any honest hearer–that is, to anyone who grants that I do, in fact, know the racial and ideological characteristics of the Bush Administration’s appointees. To a dishonest hearer, such as yourself, it was not clear, whether through honesty or malice I cannot say. I suspect malice.

Regarding the claim that my invective toward you was racist…how, precisely? Perhaps in Republican world, where calling out a white racist–like you, Boxlock–is the only thing that counts as a “racist” act.

Given your expressed attitudes of racial prejudice and racial hostility, Boxlock, you are utterly discredited as a source of definitions as to what does and doesn’t constitute racism.

The Republican Party has NO elected officials serving in a national office. NOT ONE. No African-American Republican has served in national ELECTIVE office since J.C. Watts left the House in 2003. Think maybe it has something to do with the Republican Party become the home of white southern racists?

And it is UTTERLY racist of you to assert, Boxlock, that African-Americans are so stupid that they can’t see past the Democrats’ “false promises” to vote Republican. Honestly.

“There have been several Blacks who have been elected to public office over the years, by the way.” Many more than “several,” the vast, vast majority of them Democrats. Here’s a list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_in_the_United_States_Congress

Your racism ranges from patronizing dismissal to outright villification. It is the perfect complement to your argumentative dishonesty and willful inconsistency.

You don’t know what you don’t know, Boxlock. That must be a painful thing to admit for someone of your advanced years.

Kinda slow, huh.

Sure hope you don’t work on commission . . .

I think the point which needs to be made is that it was one individual leader who took them out of the battle and not simply the Iraqi soldiers who quit.

That officer needs to be fired and disciplined.

However, there were still many other units of the Iraqi military which stayed and fought.

I do hope this situation is dealth with appropriately.

If I want to feel totally rotten and dismal, all I have to do is come here to the WE Blog and read what Liberal Progressives write.

Some of the most negative based, comments of spew that anyone can read if they really want to feel bad about themselves and wave around their flag of victimhood like some sort of anti-victory banner.

sad.

Yeah, a big difference that shows the extent to which African-Americans loathe the GOP.

Boxlock, you’re beat and beaten badly.

You’re like the Black Knight in that Monty Python movie: both arms and legs cut off, his torso sits on the ground–”come back and finish me off, you wimp!”

You absolutely have been petty enough to use whatever point you could seize on to win an argument, as the discussion of the lack of Republican African-American ELECTED officials shows.

For your criticism to have been correct, you would have had to assume that I had never heard of Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Rod Paige, Clarenece Thomas, or Alphonso Jackson–a ridiculous assumption. But because you could not go on the attack without it, you made it.

For you to accuse me of making a FACTUAL error rather than an ARGUMENTATIVE error, you would have to assume that a) I had never heard of Powell, Rice, Page, Thomas, and Jackson, or b) that I neither knew they were African-American nor Republican. Those are patently false, cheap assumptions–but they were good enough for you to use in order to try to defend the Repubican Party against the factual charge that it cannot and will not elect even ONE African-American to a national office in the House or Senate.

Was it necessary for me to stipulate that these officials be “elected?” No. Because EVERYBODY KNOWS that the GOP has appointed select African-Americans to certain positions (where they are either denied any real power–Rice–or set up as the fall guy for the administration–Powell), that would have been a ludicrous thing for me to argue, now wouldn’t it, Boxlock?

And yet you accuse me of arguing for it. So you are willing to accuse me of making an obviously ignorant, ludicrous argument, in order to prove yourself right. CF2K may be many, many things, but “ignorant” demonstrably isn’t one of them.

Judging by your defensiveness, Boxlock, sounds like calling you “petty” hit the mark.

That is the problem that sadly even Mc Cain has no answer for except to keep on keeping on.
I pointed to the real driving force of why we do not simply admit this mistake and back out.
The job is to keep the United States from being labeled the aggressor in this. Its to un ring the bell we rang, yes that means there is no end to this. It calls for certain facts to be ignored by the world and or overlooked.
We will keep this folly up until no one remembers that the reasons given were not valid and that all the people that died because of it are forgotten in time.

What is the criteria for the job to be finished in Iraq?