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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (749142)

10/24/2013 3:53:20 PM

From: SilentZ

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Z, you never liked the war in Iraq. In fact, you agreed with those who thought America would fail in its goals to democratize Iraq.

Were you HERE from 2001-2003? It's pretty well recorded that I was a pretty strong cheerleader of the war in Iraq until less than a month before it, when I started hearing crap from the administration about the war paying for itself and Iraq being easier than Afghanistan because there was no history of ethnic strife in Iraq (???). It wasn't until a couple of years later that it hit me that democratic states can't make non-democratic ones love democracy by killing their families. Now, I feel like an idiot about it.

I spent from 1999-2003 reading Project for a New American Century type bullshit about how we needed to go to war with Iraq, Iran, Syria, the Palestinians (though at the time I would've said there was no such thing as Syrians). I spent endless hours from 2000-2002 arguing against Ted about Israel. I was against Bush's foreign policy because I was more hawkish! In March 2001, a friend and I started writing a book about how the West had the right to just start bombing every totalitarian Muslim country. In December of 2002, I had to do a college marketing project selling a product. I decided to sell a doctrine called "OK, We'll Bomb You Then" (OKWBYT). Which advocated bombing pretty much any country that disagreed with us, including North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and um, Canada. Which I am this close to uploading to YouTube... (EDIT -- I just looked at the paper that went along with the presentation. I, um, co-authored it, with, um, Karl Rove)

So I don't know who the HELL you think you're talking to. But you should. Because you were here then. I'm SURE Ted remembers.

>I'll wait for your response so that I can show you that the latest Democrat meme regarding Republican opposition to ObamaCare is stupid.

Go for it.

-Z