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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:29 PM Original message |
Rummy's "that the insurgency could last as long as a dozen years" comment |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. Twelve. Fucking. Years. |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. That way they can blame the next president for the war's failure |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Yes, especially if it reads like this: |
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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-05 09:09 AM Response to Reply #1 |
17. Here is what Think Progress has re Rummy's comments pre-War. |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-05 09:58 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Thanks for looking that up, Pirate. Now if we could just afford |
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ole_evil_eye (93 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. well hopefully by then |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. I don't think they help their case by suggesting that |
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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:59 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. I don't either. I think they are responding to all the people saying they |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-05 08:57 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. They're still not being honest about their plan for permanent US presence. |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
5. I thought it was in its "last throes"?? |
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The Magistrate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:41 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. 'Last Throes", Mr. Bear |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
7. What they (bushadmin) are trying to do: |
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meti57b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
9. at $100 BILLION a year, ... twelve years would be $1.2 TRILLION. |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:50 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. And at 1500-plus U.S. dead in the first two years, |
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funflower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
11. That "generational commitment" crap is straight from Rove. Now it's |
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FloridaPat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
12. He said there were numerous definitions of "last throes" so maybe |
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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-05 11:02 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Is that like Mary Cary saying porn years are like dog years? 1 year = 7 |
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FloridaPat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-05 08:47 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Yes! |
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mopaul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-05 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
18. it won't be so bad, no sacrifice is too great for empire |
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eauclaireliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-05 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
19. When you add that 12 |
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