Effing Tweety fell off his meds. Again.

[madamesilverspurs]

"Americans like quick wars." Then he cited Grenada and Panama. Really, Tweety? Really???

Reagan's contrived misadventure and Bush the First's illegal invasion and kidnapping hardly compare to what we're dealing with in the real world today.

Slobbering fuckwad.


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[WingDinger]

1. Realpolitik

[Angry Dragon]

2. should be ... 'some Americans like quick wars'

A lot of Americans do not like wars at all

[n2doc]

4. And the plutocrats love long wars n/t

[Riftaxe]

8. However Many DU'ers have lately

developed a newfound love of them.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. He figured the last two would be short & good for bush's ratings as I recall.

[SoCalDem]

5. He keeps proving what a dunce he is, doesn't he?

The MAIN "problem" we have with wars...ANY wars, is that the MEDIA always gets it WRONG....

Grenada?? really??

Panama?? really?

Two examples of totally wasted use of our military power,used just so they could blow some shit up and maim & kill some poor brown-ish people, and to burnish a record of an ineffective president who wanted to fight someone....some one easy.

[Thunderstruck]

6. Lulz at "Slobbering fuckwad" ...

I swear to God he spattered me the other day!

[damntexdem]

7. When was he ever on his meds?

[Motown_Johnny]

9. he must keep building up a tolerance

since this happens fairly regularly

[eShirl]

10. Americans "like" a war less the longer it drags on

[OwnedByFerrets]

11. Next he will be humping this Presidents leg just as he did

Monkeyboys.

[Angry Dragon]

12. That is not a pretty picture

[DirkGently]

13. He's not helping, but he's not exactly wrong, either. "Quick wars" sell well politically. Or did.

He might point out that 1) no war is "quick" and 2) it's despicable and idiotic to glibly buy into the notion that any kind of war, quick or otherwise, is something America ought to be into just because it can be "sold" to us politically.

Chris has the glib speak of a D.C. insider, but his heart's usually in roughly the right ... county, anyway. Just doesn't get it how incredibly stupid D.C. "wisdom" is on these things.

[dennis4868]

15. the long Iraq war....

got Bush II reelected......

[abelenkpe]

14. Hmmmm, I don't like any war any time. nt

[dennis4868]

16. so you were against the USA getting involved...

in WW2?

[abelenkpe]

19. Wasn't alive then

But YES. Really it doesn't get any plainer than thou shall not kill.

[dennis4868]

20. So you would have been against....

WW2 if you were alive then?.....If so, your policy would have been to let the jews continue to burn in the ovens....THOU SHALL NOT KILL.....

[abelenkpe]

22. First of all

this is a false comparison. WW2....The US stayed out of it for a very very long time and would not have been involved at all if we had not been attacked. So the US was drawn into that war against it's wishes. The US in Iraq or pretty much anywhere else? That is war by choice. It's very different.

Every war has atrocities, involves people killing one another. Am I OK with people killing jews during WW2? No. It's despicable.


No one knows what would have happened if the US wasn't drawn into that war. But I would not have chosen to get involved in it, and apparently neither would our government. That's why it took an attack to get us involved. So bite me and go bait some one else loser.

[dennis4868]

24. Okay....

At least we have you on the record to be willing to allow jewish people to be put into the ovens by Nazis all in the name of THOU SHALL NOT KILL....very good! :-(

[Marblehead]

17. may as well have

a slow war and get your money's worth

[PurityOfEssence]

18. That statement doesn't sound like he's condoning those wars or saying Americans did either

it sounds like he's saying that we like them to be tidy and quick. If so, he's right: we like everything to be easy and immediate; it's part of our national character.

I will watch it later today and see if this is the case.

I'm getting sick of the binary thinking on this board. Somehow if one is against the war, one loves Qaddafi and doesn't care about innocent civilians. Somehow if one disagrees with method, one is in disagreement with intent. Somehow if one person on one side of a debate says something one disagrees with, everyone on that side is in agreement, thus an asshole and a moron, and thus their point of view is not only incorrect but heinous.

Matthews is his own man, for all the annoyance that brings, and he often says the hard truth as he sees it. We DO like painless domination. It's not our best trait as a people, and it's indicative of a feeling of privilege. Let other people (enlistees, not our drafted children) fight to dominate foreign peoples for us and do so in a way that doesn't interrupt our vapid fixation on College Basketball or American Idol.

Remember: everyone who brings up uncomfortable points hates everything good, is physically repusive, stupid, close-minded and has horrendous bodily odor. Life is easy and simple, and that's why everyone's in a good and productive mood all the time.

Makes sense to me.

Try Scope; it works.

[GeorgeGist]

21. Odyssey's are long.

[robdogbucky]

23. It does remind me of the dentist I had in 2003, who said to me

in about February, 2003, "We'll just go in there and kick their ass and take their gas and be out before the hot summer weather begins." That was the day he made a botched extraction and I had to rush to an oral surgeon the next day to finish that job. That was the last day he was my dentist.

I think that dentist is dead now. Iraq? They say we are leaving, but murders are still happening at a frightening pace

Iraqi Delay Hinders U.S. Plans for Troop Withdrawal
By JACK HEALY and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

Waiting for Iraq to finalize its government has complicated the Obama administration’s plans for after the end of the year, when the last American troops are supposed to leave.

March 15, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/world/middleeast/15iraq.html?_r=1&ref=iraq


Suicide Bomb at Iraqi Military Post Kills 11
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and DURAID ADNAN

The attack in the city of Kanan underscores a tenuous situation in cities north of Baghdad where members of Al-Qaeda’s Iraq chapter have been active.

March 14, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/world/middleeast/15iraq.html?_r=1&ref=iraq