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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (15300)	9/20/2007 4:23:11 PM
From: DizzyG	Respond to of 224744

As a matter of fact, it is US territory, RMF. But this is the most relevant question: How many times has THAT one been hit, even though we have 160,000 troops there to defend it???? According to my research...none. If you'd like to try your own search, here are the keywords I used in Google: U.S. embassy iraq bombing Here are the only stories I could find the even came close to defending your theory: Bomb hits U.S. Embassy convoy in Kabul - USATODAY.com usatoday.com Deadly blast near U.S. embassy in Kabul - South and Central Asia ... msnbc.msn.com Not very promising, eh RMF? Looks to me like the easiest explanation is that you are suffering from BDS and simply made this up. Again, nice try. But no banana for you. Diz-

To: RMF who wrote (15300)	9/20/2007 8:04:41 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224744

The Vote on Petraeus By Tobin Harshaw Tags: Democrats, Gen. David Petraeus, the senate The Senate has voted 72 to 25 “to express the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus.” That language, of course, is longhand for slapping the liberal group MoveOn across the knuckles for its “General Betray Us” ad that ran in The Times last week. So, with the vote over, the politics can start. The Times’s Caucus Blog reports that “The ad was ‘disgusting,’ President Bush said in response to a question during a news conference. ‘I felt like the ad was an attack, not only on General Petraeus but on the U.S. military.’” “A couple of the more interesting votes: Jim Webb, who just yesterday was a Netroots hero, voted for it, even though the last thing he needs as a military guy is cover on something like this,” notes Greg Sargent at TPM Election Central. “Meanwhile, Hillary — who’s been under assault by Rudy for refusing to condemn MoveOn but who’s also locked in a tough Dem primary — stood her ground and voted No.” Even more interesting to Sargent: “Barack Obama missed the politically dicey vote today on whether to condemn MoveOn for its ad blasting General Petraeus, according to the vote’s roll call. At the same time, however, Obama was indeed present for the vote this morning that came just moments before the MoveOn one. He voted for the Boxer measure condemning the attack on Petraeus and all other members of the military.” “Looks like it was initially going to be a close vote but as it became clear that it would pass, some weak-kneed Democrats flipped to opposing it,” laments Todd Beeton at MyDD. “Makes you wonder who exactly is running the show here.” Michael Goldfarb at Global Standard has a guess: “The extent to which these bloggers believe they ‘own’ the Democratic party is striking–and I’m not sure they’re entirely wrong, either.”