Posted by zeugma on March 10, 2006, at 15:18:10
In reply to Re: Can u help... » AuntieMel, posted by wildcard11 on March 10, 2006, at 12:53:52
I must say, like Sen.Arlen Specter when confronted with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' responses to questions about the constitutionality of President Bush's actions, that this thread "defies logic and plain English."
If you are pro Hitler and I am Jewish, then you wish to exterminate me.
If you are pro Saddam and I am a Marsh Arab, then your 'pro' attitude towards him meant that my extermination weighed little with you (a group he exterminated in the early 80's when Donald Rumsfeld was supplying him with chemical weapons meant as a realpolitik deal to keep Iran in line, Mr. Rumsfeld felt that if Saddam used these generously supplied weapons to reduce Iraq's ethnic diversity, that was Mr. Hussein's own business).
If you are a person who thinks Donald Rumsfeld is a competent man, then you are able to rejoice in his statement that Iraq "is not in civil war at the present time, by most experts' calculations" (question: How many experts did it take to figure out that the U.S. Civil War had begun?)
I am pro-Vermont, I think it is a beautiful state that everyone should visit, and I am pro-impeachment, and if I only leave the details vague, as Mr. Rumsfeld does as to whether Iraq is now or ever will be in a state of civil war, then I will never break the civility rules, because I will say PRO-, PRO-IMPEACHMENT, IMPEACHMENT IS AN INTERESTING THING, but leave who is being impeached, and for what reasons, as mysterious and impenetrable as a White House press conference.
Which, by the way, is part of the reason I detest said denizens of the White House. And so I will not make my language as meaningless and CIVIL as theirs. Wishing that Saddam Hussein can list among his crimes 9/11 may make certain segments of this board happy, even juibilant, but we will wind up wishing away our own minds, as it appears numerous people have already, not referring to anybody on this board, Auntie Mel has done as good a job as possible at making a contradiction plausible, I do not say that invidiously, because literally NO ONE could make sense of the policy of this Politics board, except Mr. Rumsfeld, who knows how to supply chemical weapons but relies on experts to define 'civil war' and 'torture', when what is really being tortured (besides hapless U.S detainees and Iraqi Army prisoners) is our dignity and any sense of justice.
"Live free or die"
and visit the Green Mountain State while you're at it, it's quite beautiful.
-z
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