Comments on: Bush: playing politics

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 03:07:26 +0000

If Michael Totten is right of center, then Huffington must be center left.

Totten once talked about in 2003 a bunch of Leftists and liberals leaving the Democrat party.

You have to scroll down to the end.

Oliver Kamm:

George W. Bush is truly the president, and soon once more the candidate, of the finest ideals of the liberal Left, and this blog accordingly supports him.

Roger L. Simon himself:

The Democrats should start looking for some more interesting candidates than the pack of low-rent losers they are presently proffering…. Or this lifetime Democrat is going to sit this one out. (And I’m certain I won’t be the only one.)

Good luck trying to find any Democrats that haven’t bailed yet, who are still on the level.

By: Steve Rosenbach

Steve Rosenbach — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:58:58 +0000

“…There’s Michael Totten, Michael Yon, and oh, those classical liberal guys, Victor Davis Hanson private papers and so forth….”

Thanks ymarsakar – I already read all those guys regularly – and I thought they were more right-of-center. These are the guys I almost always agree with.

Maybe I should have said, “thoughtful Democrat”? 🙂

Best regards,
SteveR

By: Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:50:06 +0000

And let's not forget Jimmy Massey, who at least honorably served, before dishonorably stabbing them in the back with lies that, by pure luck, turned out to be provably false. If Massey had just stuck to stories that no reporters had already covered, he could have been testifying at Rumsfeld's war crimes trial right now.

By: Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:42:18 +0000

Anyone can claim to be a Marine on the internet. Funny how anti-war "ex-troopers" like Micah Wright and Jesse Macbeth turn out to be frauds in the end.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:35:12 +0000

Daniel Pipes proposed exactly this: go to desert, as deterence against Iran, and secure borders to prevent weapon smuggling and foreign jihadi infiltration. Go hell out of Bagdad and Sunni triangle and be relatively safe.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:08:34 +0000

I do believe another thing steve favored, was for the American military to stay in their bases and not go out on patrols. That way, no IEDs. Course, that is like the New Orleans police department staying in their homes when Katrina hit, but still.

For someone who has been in the Marines for many years, Steve is not all that aggressive. Grim at BF said the same about Zinni, a Marine that hates war. One of those rarities, surprising, but not perhaps unexpected.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:15:38 +0000

Steve, number of German casualties, both military and civilian, for last half year of WWII exeeded 1 million, and all major cities were just heaps of rubble. A this level of destruction their will to resist was completely broken. And in Iraq the operation was very surgical, even party apparatus was left largely intact.

By: douglas

douglas — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:54:52 +0000

“There are a number of links I could provide from reliable sources that you could question, reject, accpet whatever you like – but you can do that yourself. But you don’t seem to be too inclined. I can only assume that by your refusal to answer my question before posing your own…” -Anonymous

No, I saw that you made a statement, which you take as fact, and asked you to back it up instead of asking us to do your homework, so your answer is to try it again? Right. I want to know who your ‘reliable’ sources are. I want to know how YOU define success and failure, since you’ve elected to put it into that terminology (I didn’t). Let’s hear it.

“…even while military officials on the ground have made it clear that U.S/British forces are making the situation worse.” -Anonymous

Who, exactly? John Murtha isn’t a military official on the ground.

Ymar- “steve wants to retreat, that way, he gets his problem solved without having to kill anyone.”

I think you meant Kill any more Americans. A whole lotta poor brown people on the other side of theo world are gonna die and suffer if we just retreat as Steve desires.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:58:40 +0000

Antietam, or before it anyways. General McClellan, another loyal and famous Democrat. Upholding the honor of the Democrat party it seems, by preaching pacifism, appeasement, and obstruction. Ha. Man, some things just don’t change.

By: The Bad

The Bad — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:23:16 +0000

“It seems unreasonable that a series of successes, extending through half a year, and clearing more than a hundred thousand square miles of country, should help us so little, while a single half-defeat should hurt us so much.” -Abraham Lincoln