Promises, promises. Perhaps a a little reading would benefit you as well, starting with a dictionary, so as to be able to distinguish “fact” from “assertion”. Perhaps then you might move on to the early history of Germany’s aggression prior to WWII, when Hitler literally gambled his country’s fate on whether France, Great Britain, et al., would respond militarily to the annexation of the German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia.

“repeat: there is no comparison between WWII, ( which would have been finished by now) and this quagmire”

Repeat all you like- while you may be used to repetition being equated with truth, I am not. “Finished by now”, do you say? Resistance against the Allied occupation continued for at least a few years after active hostilities ceased, and in some cases went on for decades.

“One tyrrant had the most powerful army in the world ( that would be Hitler)

the other had no navy, no airforce, no satellites, 35 years old out of date equipment and no weapons of mass destruction and no real ability to hurt anyone beyond his borders ( that would be where we are now)”

Hitler could have been defeated easily early in his conquests had the tru threat he represented been appreciated. Unfortunately, hindsight is 20/20, and all that. Just like hindsight is 20/20 with respect to WMD.

“My suggestion for Paul- have you served your country yet? Log onto GoArmy.com and find a recruiter”

Ah, the chickenhawk argument. I never get tired of that one. Might I suggest a corollary to Godwin’s Law, that when the chickenhawk argument is used, it automatically forfeits one’s position? Although it is ironic that I am invoking Godwin’s Law when I myself brought Hitler into the mix (although not to cast aspersions at bibbleman, but merely to make a historical analogy).

If you’re going to troll, at least get your facts straight.

15 Republicans won House seats by a margin of 3% or less.

The real squeaker was in the Senate, eh?

Election results in 1994 clearly indicated a repudiation of Democrats, whereas Republicans were an easy scapegoat for a fickle public’s growing dissatisfaction with our progress in Iraq.

Anyway, enjoy your slim majority while you can. With the Republicans tacking toward center on one side and the rabid anti-war/impeachment faction on the other, the recently anointed Democratic leadership is looking pretty hemmed in. If they appease the Bush haters, nothing gets done. On the other hand, if they work with Republicans as Pelosi and Reid have promised, it will be tough for them to differentiate in ‘08.

Chip

P.S. Did you claim there are one million readers over on Daily Kos? Regardless, all they need now are some intelligent writers.

If you’re going to troll, at least get your facts straight.

15 Republicans took House seats by 3% or less.

But the real squeaker was the Democrats taking control of the Senate, eh?

The 1994 election results clearly reflected repudiation of Democrats, whereas dissatisfaction with our direction in Iraq made Republicans easy scapegoats in 2006.

Enjoy your slim majority while it lasts. With Republicans tacking toward center on one side and the rabid anti-war/impeachment crowd on the other, the newly anointed Democratic leadership is looking rather hemmed in.

Chip

The democrats took the Senate and House

15 Repugs took their seats by less than 1%.

ahte to say it but this election is a complete repudiation of W, repthuglicans and yes Alex

the war

There is no comparison between the invasion of Iraq and WWII.

Please Paul, read a book.

repeat: there is no comparison between WWII, ( which would have been finished by now) and this quagmire

One tyrrant had the most powerful army in the world ( that would be Hitler)

the other had no navy, no airforce, no satellites, 35 years old out of date equipment and no weapons of mass destruction and no real ability to hurt anyone beyond his borders ( that would be where we are now)

OK? I know you wingnuts who supported this illegal laughter and you all want to paint yourselves as Churchillian forethinkers.

I know you all want to paint the opposition as neville Chamberlain appeasers.

Unfortunately you wingnuts have done this for four years and the only people it impresses is other uneducated wingnuts. We are not appeasers. we are right about this war, and you know you have a knot in your stomach about backing it, and seeing how it turned out.

Iraq is nothing like WWII.

Nothing.

Talk about historical unawareness

My suggestion for Paul- have you served your country yet? Log onto GoArmy.com and find a recruiter

there’s plenty of need for more armchair generals

let’s see, [Germany] is a sovereign nation

that have elections

they elected leaders

and their leaders have decided to [invade Poland, conquer Europe, wipe out the Jews, and spread Naziism worldwide]

so what right do we have to dictate to another sovereign nation that they may not [do this?]

that said, on the [418,500]th death in this invasion and [$2 trillion later (http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/other/stats/warcost.htm)], why does every wingnut think we have the right to tell other nations what to do, and aren’t we in enough shit already that we must go kick another hornets nest with [Germany and Japan]?

haven’t we pissed the world of enough?

don’t we have enough problems over here at home to take care of to be obsessing about every dictator that doesn’t like us?

perhaps if we had a competetnt foreign policy in place we wouldn’t have half the country willing to put tehir [own Japanese citizens in internment camps just because some Democrat in the White House overreacted.]

here’s another question for you

is every single thing that [Great Britain] does the right thing?
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Not much rewriting required at all, actually. On a related note, I am continually amazed by the utter lack of historical awareness demonstrated by so many that comment on this and other topics. I am no historical scholar, but neither am I blind to the lessons of history, especially when that history occurred a scant 60-odd years ago. I suppose it is true- we are awash in information these days, but precious little wisdom to be found (really, I don’t mean that to sound as conceited as it probably does).

I don’t know if Mahmoud would hasten the coming of the 12th imam by vapourizing the Dome of the Rock Mosque. Number 2 in Islamic holiness after Mecca/Medina. Then again, anything is possible and thinking that islam can attribute sacrilege to religious objects and places may be a stretch.

The American people did not vote against the war as is the current talking point on CNN, KOS and Radio America. Far from it. In fact the only candidate that ran on a explicit anti-war stump (Lamont) was defeated. Most Democrats ran on a “Change of course” agenda. The most outspoken anti-war democrats are the incumbents in congress, who did not run. And the Murtha/Pelosi democrats have not had their way since taking the helm. Think about it for a second before you spout the america voted against the war bullshit. In fact the jury is out on how the red state freshmen vote on this and other conservative type issues.

As unhinged as CIndy and the other far left have been, they have caught on to this faster than the lefty blogsphere.

Iran doesn’t have elections in the true sense of the word. Candidates on the ballot are hand picked by the supreme council. Last election 1000s of opposition candidates were disqualified from running. Those aren;t elections, thats a sham and a gambit to impress upon the impressionable that it is a democracy. Ask Iranian student leaders, Tehran Bus Driver Unions and any womens groups if they live in a democracy. Or if they feel free for that matter.

America does have the right to tell others what to do and say. Because we are a free market, capitalistic democracy and a super power that has never endured a dictatorship in its 200+ yr history. I am not ashamed of my country’s unique position in the world. I would rather America have this preogative than the feckless UN or any other type of multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, supra-national body. And that is essentially the crux of the left right argument when in comes to foreign policy. Distrust of our own government versus distrust of other national governments/UN.

Gateway Pundit offers a translation of Nancy Pelosi’s demands that the United States surrender in Iraq…