I guess this is what "winning" looks like to the rightees. ...Nice job guys. Nice job...

Sunni Arab Bloc Quits Iraqi Government
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070801/D8QO82000.html

tyrannical history and rule-by-sword mentality that has been bred in since the birth of civalization??

The is only ONE thing that will "stop the violence" in that region for any length of time (or at least for whatever the "half-life" is...)

I'm all for melting that sand-city into a giant glass bowl...

you're a fascist asshole - one who hollers about dishing it out, but doesn't have the brains or guts to do the dishing - let alone think of living with the consequences, or imagining what it would be like if they returned fire.

You're so brave, BenD, posting pictures of nukes.   Now if you had the same sort of nerve in real life, you could travel in Europe as a football thug.  And that will happen when hell freezes over.  It takes all the nerve you have just to lock people out.

So cower in the woods, BenD.

But not seeing any posts from you, I assumed your case-worker wasn't allowing you to have internet time...

As for the "dishing it out", I'm all for it as long as it can be quick, and produce a lasting result... But I suspose a fearless foot-soldier like yourself would prefer hand-to-hand combat with every terrorist-muslim in Bagdad... To which I say PLEASE go and do that! Whether you susceeded or failed it would still produce a result I'd be happy with...

This is a serious question . . .

Why has democracy been a comparative success in Turkey?

They are Muslim. They have a long and storied past not dissimilar to the rest of the Middle East to their immediate south.

I don't think the Brits ever strolled through Turkey and drew arbitrary lines on the ground with their giant sized piece of sidewalk chalk. Could that be part of it?

listening to the Mayor but he is not very informative. May God have mercy.

since the Traitor Party has made undercutting the President, THEREFORE HIS ARMY, their #1 priority, the fencesitters don't want to side up with us lest they get the South Vietnam circa 75 treatment

so the place has stayed fucked up longer than planned.

At least local LA television has their priorities straight.

is one area I truly believe both conservatives and liberals agree, sucks.

I've been back over there last night and looked at it first-hand, it's difficult to get the brain around...

I'm glad your fine, buddy. Take care.

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and He was just 6 time zones late.

j/k

ROFLMAO ... Good one. If there is a God I doubt she keeps different time zone data.

I'm not saying that Lohan and Beckham are viable news judgments but why would a local LA station be covering a story in Minnesota?  It should be left for the network news to cover unless there is a legitimate LA angle to the story.

Drive down to Long Beach and look at the Terminal Island Bridges, for yourself. Specifically I urge you to look at the Gerald Desmond Bridge between Long Beach and Terminal Island, perhaps the most rickety bridge in the state. They have been doing patchwork repairs for years, but the ARCH Design of the bridge was simply not designed to withstand the frequent and heavy use by 80,000 pound semi-trailers.

Don't you think it would be useful for you as a taxpayer to understand some of the infrastructure dilemnas we are facing so that we can respond rationally to options. Perhaps the focus of our Democratic Senators and Congressman would be better spent addressing these issues than this whole bullshit about Alberto Gonzalez.

Ah whats the use, go back to your Entertainment Tonight show.

(1) Turkey ain't Iraq.  Every country is different.

(2) Turkey's secularization came from within.  It wasn't imposed from outside.  And that's true of most lasting changes.

If we really to change Iraq, we'd have taken a lesson from the Soviets.  Forget sending the Marines - send McDonald's.

Iraq was most recently the leftover of the Ottoman Empire.  The core of course became Turkey.  The outlying provinces in the Arabian peninsula stayed mostly in the 17th century.

Probably had more to do with social and economic patterns.  But it does cast doubt on any neocon PNAC  bull-in-china-shop theories.

if he Dummycrappers would just agree we were winning, then we would win.  

As long as nobody argues, everybody's happy.  

So don't be a TRAITOR, just STFU!

if he Dummycrappers would just agree we were winning, then we would win.  

As long as nobody argues, everybody's happy.  

So don't be a TRAITOR, just STFU!