Sometimes I have to laugh…
In the post below about the crackdown in Fallujah I said:
“I’m sure a bunch of whiny liberals will go apoplectic that we are building a police state– blind to the fact that this is a temporary measure.”
Then, right on schedule comes, said whiney liberal, blind to exactly what I said he would be blind to. For some odd reason, despite my prediction, he was the first to trackback.
Liberals’ ineptitude would be more humorous if not so patently predictable.
UPDATE: Let me say about about the “whiney liberal” in question. Bill is OK. (2 Updates below the fold)
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I actually posted before you said anything. I was just giving my readers your point of view.
Not whining in response.
This whiny liberal also took your side on another issue if you check your trackbacks.
Pre-emptive whining? =)
Bill,
You’ve done an excellent job ignoring the substance of my post.
P
All I did was link to your post – – when you wrote it after mine.
Very testy this morning Paul.
(drawing recalcitrant children close enough to slap both into headlocks)
“Okay kids. Here’s the deal. Neither one of you were first. Forward to Chapter Two.”
haha, good.
I don’t care who wrote it first, I am just saying I can’t be blind to your point, if you hadn’t made it before I made mine.
Sigh:
Who wrote what first is meaningless. You are using that to cloud the issue.
The issue is that you purposely ignore that this is a temporary state until they finish securing the city.
You just keep ducking that and talking about who blogged what when.
Obviously you didn’t read my post.
The issue is that you purposely ignore that this is a temporary state until they finish securing the city
The issue is, it seems to me, that the brain trust running this cluster-f**k have yet to get anything right the first time and they have shown an easy desire to lie rather than accept accountability.
Why should we trust anyhting they say?
We should instead trust the people who have predicted disaster at every turn, and at every turn been shown to be wrong?
Any childish petulant petty partisan MoveOn.Org dipwit can just sit on their ass and pick nits. That’s easy. It doesn’t take any amount of brains, character, or wit at all.
And it doesn’t take any especial skill to keep doing it even though every prior attempt at prediction has come up voided. All it takes is a complete lack of shame and a talent for bold-faced ignoring of the past.
Hmm insults veiled in compliments – – you are stealing my MO now. 🙂
Thanks for the debate.
“Obviously you didn’t read my post”
WTF? You wrote about 5 words???? For the sake of my sanity, please clip whatever you said in your post… what I am missing?
I read it 10 times and I am missing your big solution.
Please feel free to share.
We should instead trust the people who have predicted disaster at every turn, and at every turn been shown to be wrong?
A great turn at a strawman fallacy!! I am rather certain one would be hard pressed to find a group from either side’s mainstream “who predicted disaster at every turn”.
More to the point, here we go at yet another ad hoc program to get control of a situation that we never should have never lost control of in the first place.
I am rather certain one would be hard pressed to find a group from either side’s mainstream “who predicted disaster at every turn”.
Keith G, where exactly have you been?
Perhaps you forget they call Afghanistan a quagmire before we even went in????
Perhaps you forget they call Afghanistan a quagmire before we even went in????
Some did. Some of us were cheerleading the 82nd and 101st to unloose some major whoop-ass. Many of us, including me, had tears in our eyes as stories of devotion to duty and comrades drifted back to the states from the old silk road
That, my strawman-flinging friend was an apple.
Now as far as the orange:
The war of chice known as the Invasion of Iraq, 1003, is a mismanaged, resouce chugging wank-fest.
sorry, I neglected to edit before posting. arrrrg!
Well, I don’t agree with my own commentor. I actually like and praise your site, and don’t think you are anything evil – – just Republican. Which, I guess some would argue is evil, but not me. Misguided would be more appropriate :-).
Paul, I have been here in the reality-based world.
In that world we are taught to be suspicious of superlative-based arguments as in: “All repugs are/always (fill in the blank).”
Then there is first hand experience. The liberal to moderate crowd I know 1) strongly supported Afghanistan 2) many were a bit skeptical about Iraq but chose to give GWB the benefit of the doubt. 3) now they have strong reactions to being mislead, and even flat out lied to, by our so-called moral leadership.
If your life makes more sense with an “us against them” construct, than so be it. Believe me when I state that none of my cohorts take any pleasure at noticing how screwed this pooch is.
Read the compliment from the liberal commenter again. It looks suspiciously like something generated by one of those moonbat argument generators that made the rounds a month or so ago.
This really is the most fascist site on the Web. Even the fonts used by its contributors are fascist!
/moonbat
Paul, you are SUCH a poseur.
You’ve been called a Neo-Nazi Fascist? Big deal. If you look at it more carefully, he was calling all of us (you, me, and Kevin) the Neo-Nazi Fascists. You weren’t even singled out by name.
I, on the other hand, have been called a Nazi (that’s the original hardcore Nazi, sonny boy, not the lame modern-day wannabe) AND accused of being Jewish (not that there’s anything wrong with that) by the same lout. Top THAT, Mr. Big Man!
So you can keep your hard-earned scoops and your Instalanches and your other triumphs over me. At least I got THAT honor hung on my wall, and you don’t. Stick THAT in your pipe and smoke it, colleague o’ mine.
J.
(Hmm… does this brown shirt really go with these jackboots and the Star of David cape?)
I’m also pretty sure that comment was the product of the Lefterator: http://www.spinline.net/cy/lefterator.pl