If there's anyone who should be held responsible for the problems we're having in Iraq, it should be the people who have been making the decisions over there, not the ones who are pointing out what the problems are.
Talk about blaming the messenger...
2007-03-09 15:54:25
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answered by magistra_linguae 6
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I'm so glad you asked because my two cats have been expressing disturbingly pro-terrorist sentiments lately and I feel like I should report them to someone.
P.S. "The *either-or fallacy* (often called the false dilemma or false alternative fallacy) unreasonably limits the choices available, usually to two diametrically opposed options. For example, a popular slogan in the 1960s was 'America: love it or leave it.' Put less succinctly, this meant that you must either accept all U.S. policies or emigrate. You might break this argument down as follows:
Major premises: Loyal Americans do not challenge governmental policies. Only loyal Americans deserve to remain in the United States.
Minor premise: These protestors are not loyal Americans.
Conclusion: These protestors do not deserve to live in the United States.
By putting the argument into its deductive form, we can see that the first premise unreasonably limits the definition of 'loyal.' Most Americans - liberal and conservative alike - would probably agree that citizens have a right and a duty to challenge policies they disagree with. The definition of 'loyal' in the first major premise unreasonably excludes other ways of being loyal. Thus, the admonition 'love it or leave it' is revealed as a false choice. You should become automatically suspicious whenever someone proposes an either-or choice. Nearly every situation allows other alternatives."
- _The Seagull Reader_, college freshman English textbook, editor Joseph Kelly
2007-03-10 00:00:08
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answered by Anonymous
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on 9-11 we were attacked by terrorist. Not one of them was from Iraq. Bush's response to 9-11 was to attack Iraq. They were not a threat to us. The war in Iraq has weakened our efforts to fight the war on terror. Therefore it appears it is Bush who is strengthening the terrorists. Did you know that there have been more terrorist attacks in the first 2 months of 2007 than in all of 2003, 2004, and 2005 combined? Stop worrying about the Democrats and start worrying about the guy you helped get elected.
2007-03-10 00:00:46
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answered by truth seeker 7
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You and millions of other Americans desperately need better sources of information. Stop watching FOX "News" and start watching "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS. If you love your country you will make the effort to learn the truth, before you form opinions and make ridiculous statements in public.
2007-03-09 23:59:43
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answered by Question Everything 2
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The "copperheads" who Lincoln had stabbing him in the back while he was trying to win the American "civil war", or the appeasement monkeys in the UK who wanted a truce with Hitler, or the American Bund who wanted to do the same here, or the lefties & commies who spied and and cooperated with the USSR and China against their nation (USA), for all Hollywood tried to paint McCarthy as a whacko, the Venona Transcripts that leaked out of Russia (before being bought up by American university "scholars") proved McCarthy had barely scratched the surface. That is why we are now dealing with North Korea and the Taiwan/China issue today (China's general saying he will nuke the USA if we intervene on Taiwan's behalf I take as a declaration of hostile intent). Then you have Carter, who gave away the Panama Canal to whoever bids highest (China), allowed the nutjobs to takeover in Iran, ignored North Korea launching a nuke program, siding with former nazis, taking a generally anti-Isreal and anti-semitic stance, failing to use the military to resolve the Iran crisis, panicked and lead to a disasterous air collision, lied to us about Three Mile Island, did nothing but block alternative energy projects and acted surprised when high fuel costs lead to runaway inflation, killed a highly trained assasin rabbit with a canoe paddle, and now has the gall to say Isreal needs to give up more land for peace, when every inch they surrendered now is openly being used for attacking or training to attack Isreal. And then there is Ted Kennedy, with classified security access double dealing with the Soviets. We lost in Vietnam because the politicians would not let us do the job that had to be done. Reagan won the freedom of Eastern Europe by having the resolve to look the Soviets in the eye while the people rose up and took their countries back. people like Ted Kennedy and Sandy Berger were crying it would never work, it would lead to war, we would lose, wah wah wah.
2007-03-10 00:09:08
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answered by Anonymous
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You sound like a barker at a carnival trying to get people to come into the tent for the side show. Except, we've seen the show and we "ain't buying any more tickets because we know how this show is going to end."
2007-03-09 23:57:54
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answered by Anonymous
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Whoever we are fighting--and I don't think that anyone knows with any certainty who that might be--wouldn't belong to any "party"; they hate the West and our whole way of thinking and being....
2007-03-10 00:12:48
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answered by Joey's Back 6
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The Democrats most resemble the Republicans. Different packaging, same nasty surprise inside.
Do you let the media do your thinking for you?
(And no, I'm not a liberal.)
2007-03-09 23:55:22
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answered by ? 6
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Liberal democrats resemble traitors ..so does their behavior .
It's not hard to know who terrorists root for..it's Democrats because they already know Bilk & Hitlery Clinton gave them a pass after they bombed the WTC the 1st time . Our biased liberal media gave terrorists the floor , when they endorsed the democrat party and told Americans to vote democrat .
2007-03-09 23:56:51
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answered by missmayzie 7
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