OK, now I’m convinced you’re Oliver’s sock-puppet when he’s had too much to drink.

If not, have fun at your little hippy tea-party!

The year before conservatives take back America in the 2010 elections — what else?

In what fucking Detective Comics “Elseworlds” alternate-reality storyline does that take place?

…You’re kidding right? You do realize that there’s a difference between extending deadlines for completing a task and lying about the reason to do said task in the 1st place? God, you America-haters make me sick sometimes.

Metaphor police! Freeze! Now put your hands in the air and back AWAY from the keyboard!

it’s a fact that Americans very much wanted payback after the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001. Most people approved of and supported President George W. Bush’s efforts to strike back at the enemy in order to assure our safety at home.

And then Mr. Bush invaded a country that had nothing at all to do with 9-11 and posed no threat to “our safety at home.”

The year before conservatives take back America in the 2010 elections — what else?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…ouch my sides!

So the reasons for going to war changed based on what was happening on the ground, and that’s a good thing?

You better be a parody, or you are in serious trouble.

Atanarjuat: “The year before conservatives take back America in the 2010 elections — what else?”

Wanna bet?

The year before conservatives take back America in the 2010 elections — what else?

-A

P.S. ed, the parameters of the War in Iraq were adjusted as conditions on the ground changed. That’s called wisdom and flexibility, admirable traits that liberals failed to appreciate in President George W. Bush.

Huh- this is funny, maybe I’m blanking them out but from what I remember the vast majority of the left in this country and the vast majority of the citizens around the world were in favor of responding to 9-11 and backed the invasion of Afghanistan- the large scale fracturing only occured when some moron decided to go well beyond responding to 9-11 and attempted to use said tragedy as an excuse to do something they had wanted to all along. I mean call me crazy but I remember support for invading Afghanistan topping 90% in the US while support for the invasion of Iraq was (despite months of what now appears to be at best misinformation and at worst propaganda approaching treason) significantly lower- there’s a reason that the Senate- body not often seen as fickle- backed the former unanaminously but didn’t even reach 80% approval for the latter.

What year do you think it is?

Soooo…there were WMDs in Iraq after all? Huh, I must have missed that. I mean, George Bush, Jr. said there were, even well after the awesome invasion, but I don’t recall they ever found any.

You didn’t care when it was happening 4 years ago, why the hell should we listen to you now?

No, but to expand on my prior comment, it’s a fact that Americans very much wanted payback after the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001. Most people approved of and supported President George W. Bush’s efforts to strike back at the enemy in order to assure our safety at home. The anti-war “protesters” were on the wrong side of history, to put it kindly.

You DO realize that the anti-war protests were about the Iraq War, not the one in Afghanistan, right? And you DO know that the reason that was given to going to Iraq was for Saddam’s imaginary WMDs, right?

Again, the anti-war protesters were proved right in the end.

But go ahead and go Galt, it’ll be funny.

We tried it your way for 8 years, and that’s what got us into this mess now. Thank God we managed to not privatize Social Security, or that would be in the toilet too.

No, but to expand on my prior comment, it’s a fact that Americans very much wanted payback after the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001. Most people approved of and supported President George W. Bush’s efforts to strike back at the enemy in order to assure our safety at home. The anti-war “protesters” were on the wrong side of history, to put it kindly.

Now, move fast-forward to 2009, right now. President Obama has kicked the future of the nation into a car with no brakes that’s headed right over a cliff, and we’re all helplessly along for the ride. As more Americans learn what will result from all this wildly extravagant government spending that is guaranteed to boost the national deficit into the stratosphere and beyond, they become rightly concerned and naturally want their voice to be heard. The Tea Party protests are a conduit to get the message out, and wider exposure of these events means that more people will join in the chorus of voices that loudly demand for Obama to steer the country away from that metaphorical cliff.

To recap:

Anti-war protests: keeping America secure is a devious Republican conspiracy to secure their rule by fear and to enrich Halliburton.

Tea Party protests: preserving America’s future is crucial.

Simpler still:

Anti-war protests are inspired by tinfoil hats, whereas Tea Party protests are inspired by patriotism. The difference is starkly clear.

-A

But the Republicans are a minority. The lunatics ARE the Republicans (to be fair, this wasn’t always true).

If you want to use that as a standard, then you should have no problem with conservatives using Maxine Waters, for example, to evaluate the sanity of most Congressional Democrats. Somehow, I don’t think you’d appreciate that. Please be fair.

Probably would if anyone knew who that was.

The anti-war “protests” were filled with feckless, unpatriotic opportunists who attempted to convince Americans that the War on Terror was nothing but a conspiracy by the Military-Industrial Complex, rather than a serious commitment to keep America safe.

And look how well the Iraq War turned out…oh wait…

In other words, what the left dishonestly protested against and what the right is righteously protesting against are two VERY different things, overheated partisanship notwithstanding.

So what you’re saying is that they’re completely different because you support one but didn’t the other, and that you’re opinion is the be-all and end-all of what is and isn’t “valid”. More empty talk for the elitist right.

Poor Atanar, why do you hate America so much?

So are you.

Atanarjuat: “That’s false equivalence.

The Tea Party protests are a direct response to a heedless government that’s recklessly spending the nation’s future into oblivion. This is undeniable.

The anti-war “protests” were filled with feckless, unpatriotic opportunists who attempted to convince Americans that the War on Terror was nothing but a conspiracy by the Military-Industrial Complex, rather than a serious commitment to keep America safe.

In other words, what the left dishonestly protested against and what the right is righteously protesting against are two VERY different things, overheated partisanship notwithstanding.”

Oh fucking hell… You are a parody.