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LittleBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-07-09 11:01 PM
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63. K&R! The fools who want to pull burkas off heads will piss their pants if they had to go
So sit down and shut up, or get over there and institute women's rights and all this other stuff we "need" to teach them.
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  -If you believe the Afghan War is right, will you just freaking sign up already? Ken Burch  Oct-07-09 09:14 PM   #0 
  - KNR!~  tekisui   Oct-07-09 09:17 PM   #1 
  - K&R  invictus   Oct-07-09 09:23 PM   #2 
  - if you are such an enthusiastic protestor against the war...  styersc   Oct-07-09 09:24 PM   #3 
  - I take it your joining tommorow?  Arctic Dave   Oct-07-09 09:28 PM   #6 
  - No. I'll wait to hear from the Commander and Chief to hear what  styersc   Oct-07-09 09:36 PM   #10 
     - It's not "knee jerk bluster" to say this war is unwinnable  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 09:37 PM   #12 
     - Bush ignored Afghanistan for the last six years  niceypoo   Oct-07-09 10:33 PM   #48 
     - You do realize that bin Laden is in Pakistan, not Afghanistan  IndianaGreen   Oct-07-09 09:40 PM   #17 
     - And if you remember the campaign (were you in the US during  styersc   Oct-07-09 09:59 PM   #30 
     - No he is still CIC..  CalvinandHobbes   Oct-08-09 03:37 AM   #77 
     - The Taliban  billh58   Oct-08-09 01:20 PM   #90 
     - self-delete  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:19 PM   #40 
  - There was this American man that put his son down, doused himself with gasoline  IndianaGreen   Oct-07-09 09:29 PM   #7 
  - Is there a batttalion of the handicapped?  styersc   Oct-07-09 09:37 PM   #13 
  - We got amputees still on active duty  IndianaGreen   Oct-07-09 09:45 PM   #21 
  - And yet you portray our military as captives to a terrible policy  styersc   Oct-07-09 09:51 PM   #27 
  - You hadn't said you were handicapped.  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:20 PM   #41 
  - So was his boss. The President of the United States.  Thothmes   Oct-08-09 04:58 AM   #79 
  - "Worked for Buddhist Monks protesting Viet Nam."  ZombieHorde   Oct-07-09 09:32 PM   #9 
  - Those of us against the war are trying to stop killing  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 09:36 PM   #11 
  - I oppose all war, and believe that it should be rarely pursued.  styersc   Oct-07-09 09:42 PM   #19 
  - We DO know what to oppose. The continuation of this war must be opposed  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:11 PM   #37 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Oct-07-09 10:22 PM   #42 
        - I supported Kucinich in the primaries  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:29 PM   #45 
  - On 10/7/01  billh58   Oct-08-09 02:36 PM   #92 
  - Wow  FiveGoodMen   Oct-08-09 06:43 PM   #103 
  - Those DUers that support continuing the war in Afghanistan, should trade places with our soldiers  IndianaGreen   Oct-07-09 09:25 PM   #4 
  - Seems you weren't paying attention during the campaign.  styersc   Oct-07-09 09:27 PM   #5 
  - Seems you haven't been paying attention to what has happened in Afghanistan since the campaign  IndianaGreen   Oct-07-09 09:31 PM   #8 
  - You mean soldiers were not being shot at during the campaign?  styersc   Oct-07-09 09:39 PM   #15 
     - Cute chicken hawk bluster!  IndianaGreen   Oct-07-09 09:41 PM   #18 
        - Not bluster, the very same policy that was put forward by the  styersc   Oct-07-09 09:43 PM   #20 
           - Is our tactical situation in Afghanistan today the same it was in 2008?  IndianaGreen   Oct-07-09 09:47 PM   #24 
           - That doesn't mean we have no right to oppose the war  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:08 PM   #35 
           - Repeating the phrase "Obama was pro-war" doesn't prove anything  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:30 PM   #46 
  - That doesn't mean Obama supporters can't oppose the war  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 09:39 PM   #16 
     - Then why did you support the candidate who called this war  styersc   Oct-07-09 09:45 PM   #22 
        - Was that the sole issue in the campaign?  harkadog   Oct-07-09 09:57 PM   #29 
        - Any more important then war?  styersc   Oct-07-09 09:59 PM   #31 
           - I'd say so  harkadog   Oct-07-09 10:29 PM   #44 
           - I did not give my approval to the war in voting for Obama  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:36 PM   #52 
        - It was the closest to a fully antiwar candidate that could get elected  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:01 PM   #32 
        - The president who claimed support for this war has the power  styersc   Oct-07-09 10:10 PM   #36 
           - I knew what Obama stood for. That didn't mean I was voting for the war in voting for him  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:15 PM   #38 
        - I did not have to vote against Obama to be against the Afghan war.  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:43 PM   #54 
        - Sorry, I didn't vote for Obama as  Autumn   Oct-08-09 10:50 AM   #82 
  - +1  ShortnFiery   Oct-08-09 10:55 AM   #84 
  - 'War is organised murder, and nothing else.'  IndianaGreen   Oct-07-09 09:38 PM   #14 
  - That was a response to trench warfare  WonderGrunion   Oct-07-09 09:53 PM   #28 
  - Nonsense.  spoony   Oct-08-09 02:53 AM   #73 
  - Which would mean we'd have abolished slavery fifty years earlier  Ken Burch   Oct-08-09 02:47 PM   #96 
  - The biggest democracy in the world was created without firing a single bullet  Garam_Masala   Oct-08-09 10:18 PM   #107 
  - The only winners in war are bankers and the weapons manufacturers.  harun   Oct-08-09 02:51 PM   #98 
  - Sign up to fight em over there  Oregone   Oct-07-09 09:46 PM   #23 
  - Deleted sub-thread  Name removed   Oct-07-09 09:51 PM   #26 
  - Deleted sub-thread  Name removed   Oct-07-09 09:49 PM   #25 
  - Logic fail.  Odin2005   Oct-07-09 10:04 PM   #33 
  - How so?  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:07 PM   #34 
  - We liberal asked right-wing chickenhawks to enlist, or enlist their children  rmp yellow   Oct-07-09 11:06 PM   #64 
  - What I want to know is...  MellowDem   Oct-07-09 10:18 PM   #39 
  - NO, it's totally different  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:24 PM   #43 
     - Well then why the hell didn't Obama join...  MellowDem   Oct-07-09 10:34 PM   #50 
     - I don't drive a car.  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:41 PM   #53 
     - I enjoy eating fish. I don't go fishing.  WonderGrunion   Oct-07-09 10:43 PM   #55 
     - I'm also a vegetarian. So I hardly endorse your inconsistency there.  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:45 PM   #56 
        - Ah you're an animist  WonderGrunion   Oct-07-09 10:47 PM   #57 
           - Animism is a religion. You don't have to worship animals to decide not to eat them.  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:48 PM   #58 
              - No, but you consider plant life worthy of killing for your survival  WonderGrunion   Oct-07-09 10:56 PM   #60 
                 - I don't treat myself as a paragon  Ken Burch   Oct-08-09 12:20 AM   #70 
     - You support killing...  MellowDem   Oct-07-09 10:59 PM   #62 
     - There were very few chickenhawks in World War II  Ken Burch   Oct-08-09 12:24 AM   #71 
     - They certainly do have to perform pretzel-like acrobatics  spoony   Oct-08-09 03:09 AM   #76 
        - Why are these people so obsessed with defending this war?  Ken Burch   Oct-08-09 03:31 PM   #99 
     - nicely played.  dionysus   Oct-08-09 12:38 PM   #88 
     - If you back pulling out right now, you are backing the deaths of other people.  Turborama   Oct-08-09 03:40 AM   #78 
        - NOTHING HAS IMPROVED.  Ken Burch   Oct-08-09 02:45 PM   #95 
           - I CALL BULLSHIT!  Turborama   Oct-08-09 08:34 PM   #105 
              - Even if that counts as improvement, it can't require MORE war  Ken Burch   Oct-08-09 08:58 PM   #106 
  - Wow. It's the left-wing version of the "love it or leave it" argument!  msallied   Oct-07-09 10:32 PM   #47 
  - No. It's consistency.  Ken Burch   Oct-07-09 10:34 PM   #49 
     - No one is EVER 100% consistent in any of their arguments  msallied   Oct-07-09 11:06 PM   #65 
        - Most inconsistency doesn't involve demanding death while avoiding it oneself  Ken Burch   Oct-08-09 03:33 PM   #101 
  - Deleted sub-thread  Name removed   Oct-07-09 10:36 PM   #51 
  - I thought war was hell -- turns out, it's actually just this thread  dave29   Oct-07-09 10:56 PM   #59 
  - And that's the correct response to this thread.  WonderGrunion   Oct-07-09 10:58 PM   #61 
  - K&R! The fools who want to pull burkas off heads will piss their pants if they had to go  LittleBlue   Oct-07-09 11:01 PM   #63 
  - I want cops to make sure my streets are safe.  msallied   Oct-07-09 11:10 PM   #66 
  - You're ignoring the major difference  spoony   Oct-08-09 02:59 AM   #74 
     - That is not what the OP has stated throughout this thread  msallied   Oct-08-09 12:14 PM   #86 
  - when the Taliban and al qaeda take control of Afghanistan when our troops instantly leave  citizen snips   Oct-07-09 11:22 PM   #67 
  - They can't be stopped by outside force anyway.  Ken Burch   Oct-08-09 12:26 AM   #72 
  - which is why we need to stay long enough to build up the afghan forces  citizen snips   Oct-08-09 10:37 AM   #80 
     - I wouldn't want to live there NOW. It's not better NOW and we can't make it better  Ken Burch   Oct-08-09 02:41 PM   #93 
  - Have you always been so vocal a proponent  spoony   Oct-08-09 03:00 AM   #75 
     - have you always wanted the Afghan people to live under terrorists?  citizen snips   Oct-08-09 10:39 AM   #81 
        - Lol, wow you sure burned me with that right wing talking point.  spoony   Oct-08-09 10:52 AM   #83 
        - There's no possibility of them ever having anything good  Ken Burch   Oct-08-09 02:43 PM   #94 
  - I'm 12  tranche   Oct-07-09 11:56 PM   #68 
  - It is interesting how this argument evaporated after Jan. 20th  Prism   Oct-08-09 12:09 AM   #69 
  - So is it ok...  MidwestRick   Oct-08-09 11:27 AM   #85 
  - Midea Benjamin believes in fighting this war. She is gong to take her children  avaistheone1   Oct-08-09 12:25 PM   #87 
  - I believe in universal healthcare, but I'm not a doctor.  ieoeja   Oct-08-09 01:08 PM   #89 
  - You didn't just go there did you?  SIMPLYB1980   Oct-08-09 01:23 PM   #91 
  - You aren't advocating killing anybody.  Ken Burch   Oct-08-09 02:49 PM   #97 
     - I used to favor the death penalty, but wasn't an executioner. (nt)  ieoeja   Oct-08-09 03:32 PM   #100 
        - It's good you changed your mind, then.  Ken Burch   Oct-08-09 03:34 PM   #102 
  - Isn't this just  billh58   Oct-08-09 07:34 PM   #104 
 

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