wow oh wow....Schneider.....

[berner59]

Just said that Kerry has "found his voice" and this was a clear message... I'm almost fell out of my chair...

Bush guy now repeating that Kerry thinks we're safer if Sadaam was in power...that's all they have...HA!!

[Renew Deal]

1. At this point

Some people probably do believe that we are safer with Saddam in power. "He could control those animals."

[billbuckhead]

2. At this point most Iraqis think Iraq was better with Saddam

[Crunchy Frog]

5. With Saddam in power,

Iraq was stable, contained, secular, and posed no military or terrorist threat to anyone. With him gone, Iraq is a hotbed of insurgency, nascent as well as established terrorist groups, a rallying point for anti-Western and anti-American sentiment, and an increasingly radicalized population. It also represents a destabilizing force on the entire region.

This is a completely separate issue from whether Saddam was a bad man and a vicious, cruel dictator, which he was. There are many such dictators in the world. That fact, however, had no relevance to our own security, or the safety of the world.

I really don't see how it can be argued that the world is safer with Saddam gone. It has nothing to do with Iraqis being "animals", just the natural dynamics of what happens to an already divided society under the pressure of foreign military occupation, in a highly volatile part of the world.

[FrankBooth]

6. Reminds me of Tito in Yugoslavia

A repressive dictator who was able to keep long-standing ethnic conflicts from erupting (albeit through repressive means.) Within a decade of Tito's death there was a nasty civil war and the country disintigrated.

[bagnana]

7. yuk

your pictures gross me out (only the ones on the left)

[GOPNotForMe]

8. It's a Bush camel toe. *shudder* (n/t)

[grasswire]

9. yeah....

....we'd better hope that the grannies at freerepublic don't see these animated crotch shots. They already get hot over the still photos, posting the crotch shots on a W photo thread every day and swooning.

[skygazer]

10. My husband's father was Italian

And lived in Italy under Mussolini. According to my husband, he always spoke highly of him.

But then, a lot of people speak highly of Dubya, too.

[City Lights]

11. Your rotating chimp crotch almost made me yak-up my breakfast.

:puke:

[TrustingDog]

15. me 2. what a disgusting package that is. Hurl.

[jimshoes]

17. History will prove to be a harsh judge

of this period in US history when looked at through 20/20 hindsight. Bu$h has thrown the proverbial rock at the hornets nest and the hornets are just following their natural survival instincts.

[Hello_Kitty]

16. Actually, a lot of people I know think that

Because of the proliferation of terrorism there.

[Carla in Ca]

18. I have the clip of Jennings

setting the record straight.."what Kerry really said. How do I get it from 'favorites' to my reply? Also, is there any way to copy more than one item at a time to paste in a reply? Thanks.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Look at it this way: Saddam and Osama bin Laden were mortal enemies

n/t

:evilfrown:

[DeepModem Mom]

4. I think it's possible Schneider is on the verge of being outed as AEI...

Schneider, on the payroll of both an ultra-conservative think-tank and a "trusted" news source, and with an undeniable political agenda. His assertion that Osama and AlQaeda support Kerry was way over the top --

[burythehatchet]

12. In a sane world this revelation would be scandalous

in our world it merits an "oh really?"

CNN was taken over by the pod people at some point when we weren't looking.

[City Lights]

13. Well wouldn't that be something.

I do hope you're right about him being outed. It's inexcusable that CNN gives him air time without disclosing his ties to AEI. I zapped off a nasty email to them yesterday at the urging of Media Matters. I've sent them numerous similar ones that seemed to have fallen on blind eyes, but maybe David Brock after them will have an impact.

[DeepModem Mom]

14. That's what I'm hoping -- and the quote was in an article...

on WP, page one today, about the Republicans going too far in their rhetoric. Dana Milbank used Schneider as an example of an "independent" commentator who had said similar. Some might have emailed to set Milbank straight on that -- that Schneider is not independent, but AEI.