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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-19-06 04:05 PM
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5. What is victory? When everyone who opposes their county being invaded and occupied is dead?
When Iraq's oil has been mostly harvested mostly for the benefit of four large multi-national oil companies?
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  -Fooled Again: Robert Gates Lines Up With Bush: bigtree  Dec-19-06 03:56 PM   #0 
  - No surprises there.  devilgrrl   Dec-19-06 03:57 PM   #1 
  - It's only fair.................  90-percent   Dec-19-06 04:04 PM   #4 
  - It will only hasten the  malaise   Dec-19-06 04:09 PM   #7 
  - Nope, no surprises there.  cwydro   Dec-19-06 06:29 PM   #32 
  - That is the dumbest article I've ever read. Really did we think Gates would align with Dems?  xultar   Dec-19-06 04:00 PM   #2 
  - oh, it can't be the dumbest.  bigtree   Dec-19-06 04:07 PM   #6 
     - Why would he assume the Dems in the senate thought Gates would be for withdrawal?  xultar   Dec-19-06 04:34 PM   #14 
        - I guess he looked at their statements of praise and assumed they believed him  bigtree   Dec-19-06 05:05 PM   #18 
           - Yeah but they never asked about withdrawal. Candor does not mean he won't be a bushbot.  xultar   Dec-19-06 05:32 PM   #25 
  - They all have the same bosses. Too bad it's not The People. n/t  Junkdrawer   Dec-19-06 04:00 PM   #3 
  - What is victory? When everyone who opposes their county being invaded and occupied is dead?  indepat   Dec-19-06 04:05 PM   #5 
  - What is failure?  BeFree   Dec-19-06 07:06 PM   #33 
  - Everyone had to know this would happen  liberal N proud   Dec-19-06 04:09 PM   #8 
  - let's see--the man is a repuke, nominated by the jerk currently soiling the people's house, and we  niyad   Dec-19-06 04:11 PM   #9 
  - duh!! n/t  judaspriestess   Dec-19-06 04:14 PM   #10 
  - Duh for DU'ers perhaps  bigtree   Dec-19-06 04:16 PM   #11 
  - Does anyone really believe even for a moment the US occupation in Iraq will end...  GreenTea   Dec-19-06 04:25 PM   #12 
  - I got suspicious when he started taking pucker lessons from JoeMentum.  Tierra_y_Libertad   Dec-19-06 04:25 PM   #13 
  - i can't believe anyone in this world expected anything other than a bush-gates alignment.  flordehinojos   Dec-19-06 04:46 PM   #15 
  - Only an idiot would have been fooled by Gates. Or a calculating politician.  scarletwoman   Dec-19-06 04:59 PM   #16 
  - i've given up hoping for good motives from Senate Democrats  MrCoffee   Dec-19-06 05:01 PM   #17 
     - I don't bother hoping, I figure continuous prodding is what's called for.  scarletwoman   Dec-19-06 05:10 PM   #20 
        - there's no nuance in the MCA  MrCoffee   Dec-19-06 05:13 PM   #22 
           - Sounds like a plan. I just wish it had worked better with Lieberman.  scarletwoman   Dec-19-06 05:20 PM   #23 
              - hey, Holy Joe was MY Exhibit C!!!  MrCoffee   Dec-19-06 05:46 PM   #27 
              - Oh, go ahead and be snarky. I'm actually quite fond of snark!  scarletwoman   Dec-19-06 05:57 PM   #28 
              - defenestration!  msedano   Dec-20-06 07:57 AM   #40 
  - Who was fooled? Not me (n/t)  Catch22Dem   Dec-19-06 05:06 PM   #19 
  - I read a UK take on this article which framed the question  bigtree   Dec-19-06 05:12 PM   #21 
  - CIA  Parche   Dec-19-06 05:31 PM   #24 
  - The Saudi's warned the US. last week what would happen if we pulled out of Iraq  Imagevision   Dec-19-06 05:41 PM   #26 
  - Bush doesnt know how to nominate anyone but a "yes" man n/t  LSK   Dec-19-06 06:08 PM   #29 
  - This reminds us we need a SLOVER ...def not a DECIDER esp a ABUSIVE DECIDER  opihimoimoi   Dec-19-06 06:22 PM   #30 
  - Hillary Clinton and...the Senate Armed Services Committee praised Gates for his "candor"  Earth_First   Dec-19-06 06:26 PM   #31 
  - I think the word "victory" is irrelevant to the US in Iraq.  notmyprez   Dec-19-06 07:28 PM   #34 
  - Who was fooled?  MrSlayer   Dec-19-06 07:30 PM   #35 
  - I am shocked, who would have possibly thought Bush would pick someone who tows the Admin. line?  MN Against Bush   Dec-19-06 07:58 PM   #36 
  - i am shocked that he was unanimously confirmed by dems!  tomp   Dec-20-06 08:59 AM   #44 
  - "If we had known how Gates would turn out, we would have NEVER voted for him"  Truth Hurts A Lot   Dec-19-06 08:07 PM   #37 
  - conventional wisdom my ass  rman   Dec-20-06 03:58 AM   #38 
  - Rumsfailed was following what Busholini wanted.  Disturbed   Dec-20-06 04:57 AM   #39 
  - M$M and govt officials suffering from collective amnesia?  rman   Dec-20-06 07:59 AM   #41 
  - Obviously this Congress has wanted this war from the get-go. When  leesa   Dec-20-06 08:19 AM   #42 
  - Speak for yourself Mr Parry.  Sentinel Chicken   Dec-20-06 08:26 AM   #43 
  - He would never have been nominated if that weren't the case  Norquist Nemesis   Dec-20-06 09:01 AM   #45 
  - Robert Parry's Consortium News is independent journalism at its finest.....  charles t   Dec-20-06 12:01 PM   #46 
  - Well DUH.  sparosnare   Dec-20-06 12:04 PM   #47 
  - I heard it on NPR yesterday  tavalon   Dec-20-06 04:01 PM   #48 
 

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