Igel
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Tue Mar-29-11 06:11 PM
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The distinction is crucial.
However, it's apparently also crucial to overlook the distinction.
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| -The New Republic: Why isn’t Obama getting credit for stopping an atrocity? |
dennis4868 |
Mar-28-11 09:02 AM |
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When are we going to learn? |
Frances |
Mar-28-11 09:05 AM |
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When he does everything wrong... |
ProudDad |
Mar-29-11 11:58 PM |
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k&r |
dionysus |
Mar-28-11 09:06 AM |
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Define genocide? |
atreides1 |
Mar-28-11 09:11 AM |
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I really dont care what the legal definition is.... |
dennis4868 |
Mar-28-11 09:13 AM |
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Legal definitions are immaterial when people are getting |
shraby |
Mar-28-11 09:17 AM |
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"It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is." |
krawhitham |
Mar-28-11 02:13 PM |
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Obama is not going to get much credit these days at DU |
nevergiveup |
Mar-28-11 09:13 AM |
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you are so right! |
dennis4868 |
Mar-28-11 09:15 AM |
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There is a segment on the left that is just as reflexively anti-Obama as they are on the right. |
Pirate Smile |
Mar-28-11 09:26 AM |
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When DU is boiling over you know Obama's just made a decision. When it's quiet. It was right. |
cottonseed |
Mar-28-11 10:32 AM |
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It's how I realize people don't criticize his policies. |
vaberella |
Mar-28-11 09:20 AM |
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Atrocities are happening all around the world. Should we be stopping all of them? |
no limit |
Mar-28-11 09:30 AM |
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What a silly argument |
Recursion |
Mar-28-11 09:39 AM |
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What makes this one so special? |
no limit |
Mar-28-11 09:40 AM |
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Why should something make it "special"? |
Recursion |
Mar-28-11 09:42 AM |
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Like I said, atrocities happening all around the world. We aren't getting involved in them |
no limit |
Mar-28-11 09:46 AM |
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Again, why should something make it "special"? |
Recursion |
Mar-28-11 09:51 AM |
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If you mean what makes intervention politically tenable there, as opposed to other places... |
Recursion |
Mar-28-11 09:57 AM |
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Have we asked the arab league, france, or Italy for interviention elsewhere? |
no limit |
Mar-28-11 10:30 AM |
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You have it backwards; they asked us (nt) |
Recursion |
Mar-28-11 10:32 AM |
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That's a fair enough point. |
no limit |
Mar-28-11 10:52 AM |
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so we shouldn't save anyone then? grow a heart, pal. |
ReturnoftheDjedi |
Mar-28-11 10:48 AM |
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How do you pick and choose which ones you save and which ones you don't? |
no limit |
Mar-28-11 10:55 AM |
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Once again, you would rather help noone instead??? |
ReturnoftheDjedi |
Mar-28-11 10:58 AM |
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I would rather we don't intervine. You didn't answer my question |
no limit |
Mar-28-11 10:59 AM |
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Heart = bombing campaigns |
Union Scribe |
Mar-30-11 09:37 AM |
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Some people prefer an actual genocide to happen first... |
BklnDem75 |
Mar-28-11 09:31 AM |
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I guess because he's not stopping (or didn't stop) the "right" atrocity |
Proud Liberal Dem |
Mar-28-11 09:35 AM |
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I think alot of people here... |
dennis4868 |
Mar-28-11 09:37 AM |
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Mar-28-11 10:42 AM |
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You're saying Obama doesn't lie? |
no limit |
Mar-28-11 11:16 AM |
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yes....he may change positions.... |
dennis4868 |
Mar-28-11 11:29 AM |
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You do know the guy in your avatar picking his nose makes the exact same argument, right? |
no limit |
Mar-28-11 12:28 PM |
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for the love of god |
Dokkie |
Mar-28-11 01:17 PM |
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you really think this is about oil.... |
dennis4868 |
Mar-28-11 01:24 PM |
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Of course |
Dokkie |
Mar-28-11 02:08 PM |
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Mar-28-11 02:14 PM |
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It was the most benign example I can think of, it was a lie |
no limit |
Mar-28-11 01:37 PM |
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never saw the movie....cant afford too.... |
dennis4868 |
Mar-28-11 01:23 PM |
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I would love to see the world through such rosy glasses |
no limit |
Mar-28-11 01:36 PM |
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I never said Ds dont lie..... |
dennis4868 |
Mar-28-11 01:55 PM |
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Okay, just saint Obama then |
no limit |
Mar-28-11 02:01 PM |
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yep..... |
dennis4868 |
Mar-28-11 02:15 PM |
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Of course it is... |
ProudDad |
Mar-30-11 12:03 AM |
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Preventative War = Bush Doctrine |
Xithras |
Mar-28-11 09:38 AM |
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LOL, how does one know there will be genocide before genocide? |
harun |
Mar-28-11 09:53 AM |
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Case in point... |
BklnDem75 |
Mar-28-11 10:01 AM |
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I'll wait for the proof genocide was "going" to happen in Lybia. |
harun |
Mar-28-11 10:17 AM |
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The conflict was undertaken... |
BklnDem75 |
Mar-28-11 10:27 AM |
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Because this one is FAR from over. |
bvar22 |
Mar-28-11 10:14 AM |
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It's bad policy and sets a terrible precedent. |
Exilednight |
Mar-28-11 10:20 AM |
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HERE IS WHY HE GETS NO CREDIT |
Atypical Liberal |
Mar-28-11 10:40 AM |
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Mar-28-11 10:50 AM |
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And if you really look at the 'war for oil' |
zalinda |
Mar-28-11 11:13 AM |
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Because the US economy runs on oil and the profits generated from GDP growth need to continue |
Cali_Democrat |
Mar-28-11 02:03 PM |
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+1 |
emilyg |
Mar-28-11 01:24 PM |
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Ouch |
Cali_Democrat |
Mar-28-11 01:58 PM |
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Soo, I guess no one here drives an automobile... |
kjackson227 |
Mar-28-11 03:17 PM |
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As they say... |
Atypical Liberal |
Mar-28-11 03:28 PM |
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And, as they say... "you're entitled to your own opinions... |
kjackson227 |
Mar-28-11 04:41 PM |
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Thrilled to recommend. And three cheers for being reasonable! n/t |
Liberal_Stalwart71 |
Mar-28-11 04:00 PM |
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If Obama didn't get involved people would still blame it on it oil |
SpartanDem |
Mar-28-11 05:20 PM |
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Because It Is Hard To Prove A Negative n/t |
WiffenPoof |
Mar-28-11 05:24 PM |
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"Prevent" vs "stop." |
Igel |
Mar-29-11 06:11 PM |
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