tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post4541949962243760604..comments2024-03-25T16:03:36.810-07:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: While Petraeus Read Bush's Lies, Iraq Burned and Terrorism Grew WorseAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-40028567449877354912007-09-14T14:28:00.000-07:002007-09-14T14:28:00.000-07:00Tom Degan's Daily Rant said...May I link your site...Tom Degan's Daily Rant said...<BR/><BR/><EM>May I link your site to mine?<BR/>All the best,</EM><BR/><BR/>Tom, I am happy to exchange links. Am checkin' out your great blog as I write. I recommend the regulars here check it out. <BR/><BR/>thanks for your kind words and the fine work you are doing on your blog. You're always welcome here on our back porch. As we say in Texas, pull up a chair and "set" a spell.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-82692787890438664762007-09-14T02:58:00.000-07:002007-09-14T02:58:00.000-07:00Len, all I can sayn is that your blog is beyond su...Len, all I can sayn is that your blog is beyond supreme. Please, when you have the chance, take a look at mine:<BR/><BR/>www.tomdegan.blogspot.com <BR/><BR/>May I link your site to mine?<BR/>All the best,<BR/><BR/>Tom Degan<BR/>Goshen, NYTom Deganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17911175264811957550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-12955282146598867062007-09-14T00:07:00.000-07:002007-09-14T00:07:00.000-07:00Diane said... Bush now wants to set it up, leavin...Diane said...<BR/><BR/><EM> Bush now wants to set it up, leaving us with troops there, for many years.</EM><BR/><BR/>And I believed I wrote a piece warning that he would do just that. Indeed, Bush doesn't give a damn about human life, the Constitution, and, most of all, he cares nothing for the truth. <BR/><BR/>His worst critics now fear that the GOP will engineer another terrorist attack giving him the excuse to declare a state of national emergency and martial law. The terrorists, he will claim, "followed us home". <BR/><BR/>In fact, the terrorists ARE the GOP!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-64035092482101469702007-09-14T00:04:00.000-07:002007-09-14T00:04:00.000-07:00Christopher I said...But large numbers of American...Christopher I said...<BR/><BR/><EM>But large numbers of Americans continue to believe that “If we don’t fight them there, we’ll have to fight them here”, and that “the terrorists hate us because of our freedoms”, and that Saddam was involved in 9/11, and that most of the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqi, and that the Iraq war is still winnable. And no doubt large numbers of Americans will swallow all that General Petraeus said this week on Capitol Hill.</EM><BR/><BR/>Michael Shermer, I believe, wrote a piece entitled "Why People Believe Weird Things". If I can find it, I'll repost excerpts and credit it, of course. He wrote it, I think, before Bush crossed the Rubicon. <BR/><BR/>At about the same time, a Stanford U group rolled out their study supporting the proposition that GOPPERS have more night mares and night terrors than the rest of us. While I cannot explain why that should be the case, unless it is simply the work of a bad conscience, I do connect the Standford findings with a phrase that I sill recall from the GOP National Convention of 1992. "Reagan made us feel good about ourselves". <BR/><BR/>The GOP, therefore, is the party of extreme neuroses, characterized by extreme lack of self-esteem. Perhaps because of the horrible things to which they are as a party, as a class complicit, they feel badly about themselves and eagerly seek any absurd lie for the temporary relief it gives them. <BR/><BR/>Republicanism, then, is a psychological ROLAID, taken daily for the relief of pain and suffering. I can even recall the jingle: "plop plop fizz fizz! Oh what a relief it iz!"<BR/><BR/>BTW, Christopher, I have been remiss. I have placed a link back to your blog on my blog roll.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-27076556308853190822007-09-13T22:23:00.000-07:002007-09-13T22:23:00.000-07:00It is all about the oil, the Bush family must be m...It is all about the oil, the Bush family must be making an unbelievable amount of money off that oil. Everything else is only a smoke screen. Terrorism, fighting them there so they don't fight us here, That is simply their story to try and keep us agreeable to this crazy War. It isn't working, and people, aren't buying it.<BR/><BR/>Bush now wants to set it up, leaving us with troops there, for many years. He knows were going to elect a Democrat, and he's going to make it as difficult, as possible. So the Democrats take the blame for the eventual withdrawal from Iraq. He's also very concerned with how history views him. Bush just doesn't get it that it doesn't make any difference.Bush will go down in history as the worst President, not one of, but the worst.Diane Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04709680778603784433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-75256111851618429122007-09-13T20:54:00.000-07:002007-09-13T20:54:00.000-07:00You are but one of those Americans who’ve seen thr...You are but one of those Americans who’ve seen through all the White House lies and propaganda directed at the American people to get their tacit consent for everything done in the name of the war on terror and the invasion and occupation of Iraq. <BR/><BR/>But large numbers of Americans continue to believe that “If we don’t fight them there, we’ll have to fight them here”, and that “the terrorists hate us because of our freedoms”, and that Saddam was involved in 9/11, and that most of the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqi, and that the Iraq war is still winnable. And no doubt large numbers of Americans will swallow all that General Petraeus said this week on Capitol Hill. <BR/><BR/>Is it that Americans are uniquely gullible? Not according to an article by Shankar Vedantam which appeared in the Washington Post on September 4th 2007, which says in so many words that first impressions are the ones that stick in the human mind, no matter how often they are subsequently refuted. <BR/><BR/>Amazingly, denials tend to reinforce in the human mind what it originally learned, no matter how demonstrably untrue the original information was. Therefore myth-makers have all the advantages, and myth-busters have all the odds stacked against them. <BR/><BR/>I’ve posted Vedantam’s article on my own site if anyone’s interested. It’s worth a read, for it explains a lot.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02378087326571746733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-74546108407496884992007-09-13T15:37:00.000-07:002007-09-13T15:37:00.000-07:00Screw Bush's "intentions" in Iraq.That's putting i...<B>Screw Bush's "intentions" in Iraq.</B><BR/><BR/>That's putting it nicely. too nicely...<BR/><BR/>Diane,<BR/>They <B>have committed so many</B>... <BR/>And that line alone will set my muse forth in search of my words for the next offering. <BR/>Sometimes it only takes a word <BR/>or two <BR/>strung together by a friend <BR/>and bang; <BR/>she smacks me around- <BR/>I mean into shape- <BR/>and I begin to create. <BR/><BR/>Gotta go! Here she comes!Mark Prime (tpm/Confession Zero)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04683863540465969835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-27999834397494382472007-09-13T10:32:00.000-07:002007-09-13T10:32:00.000-07:00Yes, There has always been more terrorism under Re...Yes, There has always been more terrorism under Republican leadership, then Democrat, here are two reasons, this might be so, 1st, recently I read an interesting article on buzz flash, which explained the difference of Conservatives and Liberals by studying the brain. I do not have the article to review, so understand this is from my memory. The Conservative is more focused, control driven, where as the Liberal's mind wants to expand, is varied in its thinking, and normally excels in science.<BR/><BR/>2nd reason may be the way Democratic Leaders approach and relate to other Countries, which is thoughtful and a wanting to work <BR/>together with the other Countries, ready to seek solutions, which really ties in with the first reason.<BR/><BR/>You are right Len, these characters <BR/>that are running are government, have committed so many horrendous crimes, and need to be in prison if not worse. It appears this is not going to happen with this Congress,will it ever, who knows.Diane Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04709680778603784433noreply@blogger.com