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Posted in: Obama sends Congress budget with cuts to 121 programs See in context

This admnistration is guilty of multi generational theft.

Is that an original idea or are you just playing echo chamber?

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Posted in: Russia to expel Canadians in NATO response See in context

Canada is a soft target as calic0cat said. A more serious response would involve Britain or the USA.

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Posted in: Obama announces plan to close U.S. tax loopholes See in context

The War on Prosperity continues...

Actually, that is exactly what war is. War is a hungry beast that Bush unleashed and one that will not heel easily. America is a rich country, no doubt, but these two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, are indeed eating up America's prosperity.

Glad to see you are beginning to see the folly of some of Bush's policies.

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Posted in: Wife, two children arrested for father's murder in Hiroshima See in context

Awesome, she did the right then.

WTF? It was not "awesome". A person was murdered. The wife and children will have to live with their actions (as understandable as they were) the rest of their lives. It was a horrendous choice to make. Nothing awesome about it at all.

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Posted in: Obama: New Justice will combine 'empathy and understanding' See in context

So the enlightened right want a reality-challenged justice who cold-hearted and out of touch?

Well, no real surprise there.

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Posted in: U.S. Justice Souter planning to retire See in context

Arlen Specter just proved again that we need term limits in the legislature.

While not let the voters in Penn decide on whether they agree with his move? Why set more laws and take more power away from the people. For all the b!tching about the SC, it makes little sense in establishing more laws which effectively robs the people their right to decide who represents them.

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Posted in: U.S. Justice Souter planning to retire See in context

Such as someone who insists that precedent set in other countries should decide our laws?

Yeah, like the Magna Carta.

Not unlike the Republican-led congress that forgot its Contract with America and started spending and having scandals like Democrats.

And yet it was a Democrat who ended his presidency with a surplus (could have helped to pay down the debt) and a Republican who ended his with a huge deficit. Tell me, who was the last Republican president to table a balanced budget?

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Posted in: Driver who attacked Dutch royals dies See in context

Oh yeah sarge, taxpayer money is so sacred that it should not be spent on maintaining a just society. Anyway, the guy died and will not face the results of his crimes - lucky him. Now everyone else has to pick up the pieces.

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Posted in: Obama orders review of New York City flyover See in context

And let me tell you something that should be obvious to non-Americans here for any appreciable length of time: the US is envied and despised by millions around the world;there are probably dozens of threats standing at any given time.

And your point is? I just said the same thing ... to recap ... GWB received a PDB clearly stating a specific threat (which stood out from all the other threats you allude to) and he ignored it.

But lower level officials taking the spare plane out for an ill-advised spin over NYC does not even come close to Bush ignoring threats to America i.e. no one died.

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Posted in: Obama orders review of New York City flyover See in context

Wasn't this the Left's charge against Bush - that he should have been personally monitoring the skies from the day he took office?

Umm teleprompter, let me tell you a secret that just about everyone in the world knows but you. Yes, Bush should have been monitoring the skies since he received a PDB titled "Bin Laden determined to attack America". Protecting America was his Job # 1 - and not starting from 9/12 but from the day he took office.

In this case, lower level officials made a bad decision and Obama is taking heat. But, really, it isn't even near the same as Bush's ignored PDB warning, not even close.

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Posted in: Obama orders review of New York City flyover See in context

So what happens next? Does the POTUS receive (with his morning coffee) a daily update on the status of the various planes, helicopters, and batmobiles?

The GOPer whiners have trivialized the responsibilities of the President to one of being a glorified parking attendant. Why should he know what is happening to Air Force 1? He has other higher priorities to focus on. No one at the WH is excusing the fly-over, everyone is calling it dumb, stupid, etc. What else can the President do?

Now when Bush was in office, who took responsibility for ... oh take your pick. Now watch the GOPers grab their pitch forks and demand accountability. That's good, but about one president too late.

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Posted in: Pennsylvania's Specter switches parties, bolstering Senate Democrats See in context

Clearly, developments like this are fascinating for posters here from countries where democracy is dead.

Which is why you're posting here today?

Actually, American democracy is fascinating and what happens in your great country affects many way beyond its borders.

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Posted in: Pennsylvania's Specter switches parties, bolstering Senate Democrats See in context

That 60th vote is not a phone-in. If the radical left get too excited, the spectre of Specter will help cool their heels. In that sense Specter's one vote will help do what the whole of the GOP has failed to do: put country before ideology. Let's see if the Dems as a whole can avoid the same pit fall.

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Posted in: Pennsylvania's Specter switches parties, bolstering Senate Democrats See in context

The GOP's continued rightward radicalism is alienating its own members. By appealing to only the narrow interests of the far right the GOP is losing its relevance. The bonus here is that Specter will offer a counter weight to the leftist radicals in the Democratic Party who mirror their rightist siblings in alienating the interests of the nation in favour of ideology.

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Posted in: Bomb kills 12 children in northwest Pakistan See in context

Ah you're a hoot superlib.

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Posted in: Jet flyover for photo ops in lower Manhattan sets off panic See in context

dumb, dumb, dumb.

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Posted in: Bomb kills 12 children in northwest Pakistan See in context

So what if the article doesn't mention Afghanistan, I am not responsible for what the article writer includes and excludes. Do you think that what America does or doesn't do in Afghanistan has no effect in Pakistan? Actually you don't - you even said above that the Taliban should be wiped out in Afghanistan so that Pakistan will be more secure, which is basically what I am saying but in a historical context.

Why you want to bother arguing about something that you already agree with in principle is a bit puzzling.

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Posted in: Bomb kills 12 children in northwest Pakistan See in context

Thank you for your condescension.

Yes, Pakistan has much to answer for and it seems it will only get worse. However, unlike you it seems, I do recall when America forces had the Taliban and Quaida on the run and then took instead of finishing the job, Bush & Co went off to Iraq. This gave both groups time to rearm.

There is nothing radical about that. What Bush did and didn't do have consequences that extend beyond his term in office, if that isn't obvious enough.

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Posted in: Bomb kills 12 children in northwest Pakistan See in context

superlib the mission 6 years ago was in Afghanistan. Bush & Co failed that mission because of their desire to invade Iraq. This failure allowed the Taliban to grow and rearm in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Now we have a much more serious problem than we had six years ago.

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Posted in: Bomb kills 12 children in northwest Pakistan See in context

Superlib because Bush failed to fully pursue the original objective the Taliban has been able to regroup and rearm and gain strength. Six years ago America had the initiative, now the Taliban are gaining strength in two countries (one with real WMDs).

You currently argue that the Taliban should be wiped out

in Afghanistan so that Pakistan will be more secure

All I am saying is that because Bush failed to do that, Pakistan today is less secure as the murder of 12 children clearly shows.

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Posted in: Bomb kills 12 children in northwest Pakistan See in context

What a silly thing to say, buddha.

The Taliban gave comfort to those who planned and executed the terrors on 9-11. Bush & Co were given a wide berth and support in going after them by the international community. Then the CinC of the American forces lost the plot and started another war. The Taliban and Quaida were on the run and America had Pakistan's co-operation, now the Taliban are a threat in two countries and probably more.

12 children may not have died had Bush not ignored his original mission.

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Posted in: Bomb kills 12 children in northwest Pakistan See in context

One wonders if Bush & Co. had not ignored Afghanistan for their bogus war in Iraq perhaps the Taliban would have been severely hobbled. But instead they were left to fester and now threaten to destabilize a nuclear armed Pakistan.

Absolutely disgusting.

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Posted in: Clinton: U.S. stands by Iraqis, withdrawal on track See in context

Ah the pulsing of the Bush/Cheney Legacy: more blood, more death, more hatred. Do you stay and bleed more or do you leave and let the others bleed? There no longer remains an honourable end to this war.

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Posted in: Porta-potty numbers along expressways to be tripled during Golden Week See in context

I'm relieved!

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Posted in: Craigslist death renews calls for limiting sex ads See in context

A pragmatic solution instead of posturing would be more welcome.

A "what" solution to the world's oldest profession and one of its oldest crimes? Would it be better that the vermin prey on people above ground so that those you know and love are victimized? Scrubbing Craigslist will not end this kind of murder, but since a pragmatic solution is not easily at hand (do you have one?) disrupting one avenue of finding victims may save a life or three it worth the effort.

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Posted in: Obama 'seeks a new beginning' with Cuban relations; also meets Chavez See in context

Castro will be dead in a few years but Cuba will remain. It is time for America to look to the future and a new relationship with Cuba. This is not to ignore the painful past, but to reach toward a better future so that those who died can be openly remembered and mourned. Otherwise it will be more of the same until the end of time.

Castro is a mere mortal and will soon turn to dust. What happens then? Civil war? And then another generation of suffering and divided families?

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Posted in: Anti-Obama 'tea party' protests mark U.S. tax day See in context

Its actually nice finally seeing real Americans from all across the country who actually contribute to society demonstrating their disapproval toward out of control government.

And those who support Obama (i.e. the majority) are non-contributors to society? Wow, there are so few of you to maintain the world's largest economy and military. Keep up the good work!

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Posted in: U.S. sea captain freed from pirates in swift firefight See in context

Indeed it is good news but in the future don't expect the pirates to hold hostages as long as they did in this case. The danger increases for the hostages as the navies start attacking. But there really are not that many alternatives.

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Posted in: Top U.S. general meets Afghan tribes, says he's studying Koran See in context

Of course he doesn´t study the Koran; otherwise he would quit his job and stop wasting Western lifes on this idiot mission impossible.

And you know this because ... you studied the koran so you know what you are talking about?

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Posted in: Obama to Muslim world: No U.S. war with Islam See in context

These words by Obama will get America a new day to mourn.

Yeah the last day of mourning was preceeded by these words: Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US which were ignored.

What Obama is trying to do is to give the Jihadist recruiters one less reason they can cite for attacking America. It is a defensive move to reduce the influence of the Jihadist rather than the head-in-the-sand policies of the summer of 2001.

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