bush/Blair Conference

LoneStarMadam wrote:

candidone1 wrote:

So, just to get this straight, are McG and LSM suggesting that things in Iraq have been going well, that the civil war had been anticipated and a plan is in place to combat it, and that a successful democracy has been established there....and that anything less than Bush's original "war plan" (if we can call it that) constitutes "cut and run"?

I can only speak for myself, & no, i do not think it's going well, nor do I believe that anyone has said of late that it is.
So far mostly, if not just, the left have said that there's a civil war, which, BTW, a cicvil war is between different people in the same state/country, everybody knows that the insurgents/terrorists are the ones causing most of the trouble in Iraq.

The insurgents and terrorists are Iraqis too, madam.
Some, not all, & the money is for sure coming from Iran & Syria to support these insurgents.
I just heard John Kasich, a former Republican Rep call the war a "civil war" & he used Bosnia & Lebanon as examples. I disagree, Iraq is not the same as Bosnia nor Lebanon, well, maybe Lebanon since Iran does support Hezbollah.
Cycloptichorn

LoneStarMadam wrote:

Setanta wrote:

McGentrix wrote:

Setanta wrote:

You sure sound like a sourpuss lately, McWhitey. Should i remind you of your remark in another thread about the spirit of the season? Or did you just turn Buddhist again, and now choose to ignore your own horsie poop?

*sniff-sniff*

The only horse-shyte around here is being shoveled by you Setanta. As always.

Talk about slow on the uptake--allow me to remind you both that you can't do anything to piss me off, and allow me to remind you of the pot/kettle conundrum.

Who? Moi? I'm not trying to pi$$ you off, just answering in kind & I'm certinly not pi$$ed off.

You hittin' the sauce again? I responded to McG--which is why i quoted him in my response.

Try to keep up, and pay attention, 'K?

LoneStarMadam wrote:

I hope & pray for the best

I think this nicely sums up the US strategy in Iraq.

I don't take strong drink.

"Both" refers to my reminding McG that he can't piss me off, and reminding him of the pot/kettle conundrum.

These sorts of things don't sink in well with you, language-wise, do they?

Chuck Robb, a former Democrat Senator from Va said much the same thing that Panetta said, he too was on that Iraq Report.
This is a sticky wickett that won't be an easy feat to do, we stay in Iraq or we leave, either way this president will be called a "war mongerer" or as bad, "John Murtha". I believe he should listen to his generals in the field. Not armchair generals watching the news or sittin behind a keyboard. Whatever it is he does, I hope & pray for the best for our military.

No sliding at all, i was reminding McG of two previous remarks i had made to him--and so i used "both." It's a simple enough passage in English. Why don't you go back, and keep re-reading it until understanding dawns on you.

I'm fluent in English and French, and speak a little Korean and Spanish--but mongerer is new to me. Can somebody 'splain that one to me?

I'm glad there's no "smell" option on this computer . . . i'm bettin' the gin fumes would knock me over . . .