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Back to Ahmadinejad: The Bollinger/Ahmadinejad farce

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Iranian University Invites Bush To Speak

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'BLITZER: How much longer will U.S. taxpayers have to shell out $2 billion a week or $3 billion a week as some now are suggesting the cost is going to endure? The loss in blood, the Americans who are killed every month, how much longer do you think this commitment, this military commitment is going to require?

[House Minority Leader John] BOEHNER: I think General Petraeus outlined it pretty clearly. We're making success. We need to firm up those successes. We need to continue our effort here because, Wolf, long term, the investment that we're making today will be a small price if we're able to stop Al Qaeda here, if we're able to stabilize the Middle East.'

Criticism has focused on 'small price', but the ideas that AL Qaeda can be stopped, and the Middle East stabilised, by what's happening in Iraq are also pretty dumb, aren't they?

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'On the campaign trail he [Giuliani] has already indicated that he could see no difference between al-Qaida and Iran. "Their movement has already displayed more aggressive tendencies by coming here and killing us," he told supporters in New Hampshire, blithely ignoring the fact that if there is one group that the ultra-Sunni Osama bin Laden hates more than Americans it is the Shia Iranians.

Taxed with this technical detail he responded: "They have a similar objective, in their anger at the modern world."' commentisfree.guardian.co.uk

This seems to be a common theme, not only for Republican presidential candidates - that somehow there's one entity (often labeled with the meaningless but handy neologism 'islamofascism') that perpetrated 9/11 and can be defeated by force of arms in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and (though with much more attention to 'collateral damage') throughout the West. How dumb.

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'The United States called on Turkey "to refrain from actions inside Iraq that could cause an international crisis".' news.bbc.co.uk

What, actions like invading it for no good reason, decapitating the government and providing no effective replacement, destroying the infrastructure both physical and social, attempting to grab national assets, flooding the country with billions of dollars and thousands of weapons which were not kept track of, expressly allowing mercenaries to run riot, cutting oil deals with breakaway regional governments, ignoring a refugee crisis which is spilling into neighbouring countries...?

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Calm down, NNN, you may blow a gasket.
You seem to be keeping this thread open all by yourself.

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Well, feel free to contribute something. There must be billions of dumb things said every day, around the world.

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NNN, I think he just did

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NNN, I think he just did

Yes! Dance girl is correct, I did contribute something. Thank you dance girl.

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Well, feel free to contribute something. There must be billions of dumb things said every day, around the world.

Scotty is one of our most dependable contributors, as dg so accurately observes.

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Here's a contribution. Sorry it's not about Iraq or the Administration

The Irish Times has reported the arrest of a thief. The gardai [police] told the man that he'd been arrested because he had been identified. The man replied " That's nonsense! I was wearing a balaclava and gloves"

As denials go, that does lack a certain something

[A balaclava is a knitted,tight fitting, hood which covers the whole head leaving just a slit for the eyes]

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Well, feel free to contribute something. There must be billions of dumb things said every day, around the world.

Scotty is one of our most dependable contributors, as dg so accurately observes.

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Speaking of dumb statements............
They just keep popping up.

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'AT his confirmation hearings last week, Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush’s nominee for attorney general, was asked whether the president is required to obey federal statutes. Judge Mukasey replied, “That would have to depend on whether what goes outside the statute nonetheless lies within the authority of the president to defend the country.”' Michael B. Mukasey

The president is above the law? But not a statement dumb enough to lose Mukasey the job, it seems.

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'AT his confirmation hearings last week, Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush’s nominee for attorney general, was asked whether the president is required to obey federal statutes. Judge Mukasey replied, “That would have to depend on whether what goes outside the statute nonetheless lies within the authority of the president to defend the country.”' Michael B. Mukasey

The president is above the law? But not a statement dumb enough to lose Mukasey the job, it seems.

Is that as 'dumb' as it seems at first? Doesn't the President have certain prerogatives under the constitution which he may exercise in defending the country (essentially in time of war), the exercise of which might inevitably mean that he defies existing statute?

The judge may have been answering as a lawyer ( and a very careful academic one at that

) might he not ? Granted, the answer sounds alarming as a general proposition and the words 'defending the country' sound imprecise

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The article linked to points out that the 'president has no supreme, exclusive or trumping authority to “defend the nation.” In fact, the Constitution uses the words “provide for the common defense” in its list of the powers of Congress, not those of the president.'

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Clinton and Bush on terrorism - which sounds dumber?

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I wonder why we never see remarks like the following?

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House Democrats prevented Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) from forcing a vote Tuesday on his resolution to officially reprimand Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) for suggesting last week that U.S. troops in Iraq "get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."

Could it be because you don't want to post dumb statements by Democrats?

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“One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Tuesday, stressing the need to pass the Democrats’ comprehensive energy package.

Moments later, when asked by a reporter if he really believed global warming caused the fires, he appeared to back away from his comments, saying there are many factors that contributed to the disaster.

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I wonder why we never see remarks like the following?

Yes! It's a conspiracy! The truth is being nefariously hidden! It's all so unfair!

Scotty, feel free to post as many dumb remarks by Democrats as you can find. I'm sure there are plenty every week.

Actually, isn't the post that has excited most comment on this thread so far the one concerning Kerry's dumb attempt at a joke about education and ending up in Iraq? Kerry's a Democrat, isn't he?

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