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Leonardo -> RE: Charlie Wilson's War / Conservatives Upset (12/23/2007 9:19:30 AM)
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Actually, WWI was an extension of unresolved answers from the 19th century. Wilson didn't get us into WWI, the outrage of the people because of the German attack on the Lusitania (in which Germany had publicly advertised the risks in all major US media at the time) wherein the outrage was due to the deaths of high-society folks (had it been regular working class folks, there would not have been such an outrage).
However, if you check history, you may have correctly then surmised that I was referring my comments to The Great Depression, oh and Viet Nam (if you check your history, you'd find that US involovement started with Eisenhower [a republican, not a democrat] in an effort to protect French and American interests in rubber trees)... and yes, it was escalated under democrats trying to fix our involvement which we had no business being involved in Viet Nam, but once in (hmmm like Iraq's misconstrued premise of quick in and out at first), the problem became how to get out gracefully (hmmm, like Iraq, which I predicted from the very beginning it would be another Viet Nam)...
Oh, and the mess brought on by Tricky Dicky (which republicans still try to make excuses for), which, ironically, brought on an "oil shortage" (funny thing that the only "oil shortages" and price gouging to follow have occured under republican presidential rule)... and brought about another economic recession which would have culminated into another Great Depression had not the safeguards been in place (that were established under FDR [Democrat])...
And then Jimmy Carter had only 4 yrs to attempt to fix the problems left him, whereby then the country elected a bad actor to be a forgetful president who took credit for many of the things already in place under the Carter administration (yes, even the hostage crisis situation).
Then we have another republican president under the "read my lips" fallacy... who was, de facto, the real reason for the Iraq situation we're in now, just daddy bush didn't finish what he started so his son had to try and bail out his reputation.
And, I guess the only thing republicans have to talk about of Democrats... is the topic that keeps coming back up... oooo that Clinton likes sex with women. And republicans don't like sex? Republicans don't have extra-marital sexual encounters? Hmmm. Who's the guy who got busted for being a bathroom bandit? What about the guy who was playing with page boys? Oh, and the catholic preists who like to play with little boys?
Democrats are not perfect. We never have claimed perfection. The point, which whooshed past most folks who practice the "white-hat principle" is that people in glass houses should not throw stones.
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