Displaying 1,471 To 1,500 Of 18,974 Comments Understanding How the Military Works You are mistaken, I’m not looking for a place to post, I already have one right here, and as a co-founder I can tell you that we welcome different opinions here but expect to be told why you hold that opinion which so far you have not done. You have just criticised others for having theirs. » Posted By Kalima On June 17, 2014 @ 9:02 pm How about admitting when you are wrong and replying to those who gave you the proof that you were wrong? Engaging in conversation to prove your point, has nothing in the least to do with writing an essay. You have been asked many questions here on this site, a chance to explain your point of view, yet you choose not to answer. For instance this one by AdLib yesterday. “JJF, is there anything negative that you attribute to the Bush Presidency due to any of the decisions Bush made?” Choicelady gave you a wonderful explanation in her reply to your one comment here, did you even read it? Or when I gave you the links that clearly stated that the release of what you claimed to be a dangerous terrorist five years ago by the President, was in fact at the time a man considered from his history so far, as minimum risk, and not the dangerous terrorist you continuously claimed him to be. Hardly a platform for engaging in a conversation. » Posted By Kalima On June 17, 2014 @ 8:56 pm Murph, you have to actually be engaged in a conversation to accept a challenge, so far I see no sign of that from said poster, but I do see disruptive behaviour, and yes, “hit and run one liners” is what I used in a conversation with a friend just now. If you don’t have a substantial argument, refuse to open offered Iinks from members, and are proven wrong every time, then why are you here if not to disrupt? I have a name for that behaviour. We are not amused, and our patience is wearing thin. » Posted By Kalima On June 17, 2014 @ 8:24 pm The Bush Legacy 2.0: The Dissolving of Iraq Into Warring Factions Aren’t they all, funk? They are still clinging to Clinton’s cigar in the Oval Room’s broom cupboard. » Posted By Kalima On June 14, 2014 @ 9:57 pm Excellent funk, there is nothing like facts to debunk all the old, worn out lies constantly in motion on the Republican side. Meant to give you a thumbs up, sneezed, and clicked the thumbs down by mistake. So sorry. 😳 Maybe someone would be kind enough to fix my embarrassment? » Posted By Kalima On June 14, 2014 @ 1:28 am Yes GreenChica if they had more than disputed lies, they wouldn’t keep asking the same questions on other posts, and would try to argue their point. How can one debate without actual valid facts? Beats me. By the way, welcome to The Planet. » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 10:30 pm He is not the undisputed leader, he is one of many ISIS leaders, and coming from someone in the party that couldn’t be bothered to go after bin Laden, your concern about dangerous “terrorists” is priceless. http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2014/02/13/Exclusive-Top-ISIS-leaders-revealed.html For your further information he was viewed a as minor threat when released. So you are wrong again, when he was released he was not “a dangerous terrorist”. Oops,sort of shatters your whole argument. Who Is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 10:10 pm And Bush who gave birth to them. » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 9:17 pm Maybe you should broaden your outlook and see what is said in the rest of the world. I’m not American, don’t vote for anyone, yet these facts have been all over the globe for years. When someone doesn’t want to learn the truth, they close their eyes and their ears which is what you have been doing since you came here. Did you even read the links that so many went to the trouble of posting to you? » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 9:14 pm My pleasure NoMan. There is a name for someone who posts only negative comments on every post so far, and comes to stir up trouble with proven lies. Then goes away when confronted with actual facts. I’ll leave to you to guess what it is. » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 9:05 pm Fixed it NoMan, I’m queen of the butterfingers and do it quite often. 😀 We are willing to give people a free platform to speak, it’s when they break our rules in our Terms of Use that AdLib and I take action. » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 8:37 pm I disagree on his take on Syria and believe it was Russian interference, and foot dragging from other countries. Otherwise Tomasky is spot on as usual. —- GOP IRAQ HYPOCRISY HITS OVERDRIVE http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/16/gop-iraq-hypocrisy-hits-overdrive.html » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 7:15 pm Perfect and so true. Loved it! 😆 » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 6:31 pm Didn’t funksand debunk this recently on the outlandish post with links to what the Dems you are accusing actually said before it was tampered with by your side? Why bring up an argument you have already lost? Here, let me refresh your memory. JumpingJackFlash says: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/343870/why-did-we-invade-iraq-victor-davis-hanson funksands says: http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 6:15 pm Hi monicaangela, the problem is that it’s their choice, rather like sticking your fingers in your ears and repeating “La, la, la” when someone is saying something you don’t like. I did it as a child, but never as an adult. » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 5:09 pm But, but… monicaangela, that’s Obama’s debt don’t you know. They conveniently forget all about that it belongs to them. Never mind that the President has managed to reduce it considerably. They are not very good with maths so will say as they do with everything, that he fudged the numbers. Reminds me about the conversation we had the other day about very rich people getting a free meal from their friends. » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 4:47 pm I wonder why? Do you think it could be because he made a promise to the American people to end the war, and is a man who keeps his promises? Would another 1,000 troops and thousands more innocent Iraqis have been more to your liking? I suggest you read AdLib’s reply to you above, it might clear up some of your obvious misconceptions. » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 4:26 pm Sorry, Bush made the plans for the pull out, the President just followed through on it. Who owns it? » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 4:12 pm Iraq was never stable, not even way before the last troops left. That was just propaganda by those unable to state the truth. Your side claiming victory with the “surge” ignored the gathering storm of small groups of insurgents. » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 4:03 pm Don’t speak to me as if I were a 6 year old, I know who your President is, and he clearly promised to end the war in Iraq, which he did. So Bush hiding out at his ranch saying he knew this would happen, is the sign of cowardice in my book. Saying he didn’t make any mistakes and sleeps well at night after so many died, is unforgivable. Debating who to blame is viable because none of the Bush admin has taken responsibility. Shameful. Maliki was chosen by Bush. A Shiite bent on revenge for years of oppression by the Sunnis, and without allowing them enough representation in the government. Republicans have a history of blaming the other guy, it’s much easier than taking the blame. Good luck with that because not everyone is wearing blinkers. » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 3:39 pm Good leaders don’t invade a nation that poses no threat to theirs, and then blame the next leader for their own incompetent mistake of invading in the first place. Good leaders take responsibility for their fuck ups. Has Bush? He broke it, he owns it. » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 3:06 pm ISIS’S SECRET ALLIES http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/13/isis-s-secret-allies.html » Posted By Kalima On June 16, 2014 @ 3:17 am Choicelady, you are correct, Saddam posed no threat to the U.S. or the U.K. only to his own people, the Shia, the Kurds, and those who spoke out against him. The discovery of so many mass graves after the regime scattered or were caught, and testimony at the trials of the regime proved that. Their nuclear capabilities were the possession of old and useless odds and ends found all over the country, and heralded by the bush conspirators of proof that he had WMDs. The small amount of mustard gas was originally obtained from the U.S. government, and used on hundreds of unsuspecting Kurds from 1987 in at least 40 villages until the main attack in 1988 on Halabja which people then called genocide. If we were so concerned about genocide, how do we explain Rwanda, Bashir’s ethnic cleaning in Dafur, the rapes and murders in the Congo,or the world’s non action in Syria with over 100,000 deaths? It was oil and greed that headed the advance into Iraq, and now this bunch of thieves and war mongers sit there in denial, blaming your President. What lily-livered cowards. » Posted By Kalima On June 15, 2014 @ 7:10 pm Blair’s denial posted on this morning’s MB,and the huge disappointment about the outcome of The Chilcot Inquiry. —- Dream on Tony. Tony Blair: ‘We didn’t cause Iraq crisis’ http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27852832 —- Chilcot inquiry accused of whitewash over letters between Blair and Bush Sir John Chilcot and Cabinet Office agree the ‘gist’ of the exchanges can be made public, but not the full correspondence —- Blair’s Iraq war secrets: Chilcot should publish and be damned In trying to keep Bush’s conversations with Blair secret, the US is taking ‘exceptionalism’ too far » Posted By Kalima On June 15, 2014 @ 6:21 pm Hello ExFan, yes he is and he certainly knows his facts about the ME. Been reading him for many years now. Always interesting. » Posted By Kalima On June 14, 2014 @ 12:24 am Great article, AdLib. Sorry for the hit and run, but just wanted to post these links before my morning starts. Be back later. —- The Second Iran-Iraq War and the American Switch http://www.juancole.com/2014/06/second-american-switch.html —- The Fall of Mosul and the False Promises of Modern History http://www.juancole.com/2014/06/promises-modern-history.html —- Fareed Zakaria: Who lost Iraq? The Iraqis did, with an assist from George W. Bush There is also this from Thursday’s MB. —- The Unknown Known, Sky Atlantic, review: ‘Donald Rumsfeld exposed as a failure’ Christopher Howse reviews The Unknown Known (Sky Atlantic), Errol Morris’s portrait of the former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld » Posted By Kalima On June 13, 2014 @ 2:48 pm No Longer Lost: Finding a New Home at Daily Kos and PlanetPOV Hello monicaangela, and many thanks for your donation, we really appreciate it. Take care and see you again soon. » Posted By Kalima On June 14, 2014 @ 4:06 pm Hello monicaangela, and thank you for your kind offer to donate, it is very much appreciated. When AdLib and I can’t swing it anymore, we will of course let our members know. Thanks again for the offer. Take care and see you again soon. » Posted By Kalima On June 13, 2014 @ 11:17 pm Ok. 😆 » Posted By Kalima On June 13, 2014 @ 11:12 pm Then that’s the way WP rolls, and we can’t fix that. I don’t get alerts when I post my updates on MB, it makes sense to me because it’s only set up to alert us about replies to our comments. » Posted By Kalima On June 12, 2014 @ 6:25 pmComments Posted By Kalima
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I think everyone here is forgetting the bipartisan support for the war in Iraq and why we went. Here’s an excellent article spelling out the reasons. Give it a read.
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Jack, for your reference, here are the actual full quotes including context. Anything after October 1, 2002 is based upon the altered National Intelligence Estimate provided to Congress by the Bush Administration.
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