tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post6484164732508421289..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: Comedy CentralJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-46929428854829711222013-03-26T18:34:46.502-04:002013-03-26T18:34:46.502-04:00The Iraq War was basically the clincher for me lea...The Iraq War was basically the clincher for me leaving Catholicism. Living in Hamilton County put me in the Lafayette Diocese and the editor of the Catholic Moment or whatever it's now called made no effort to deter anyone from beating up on any poor letter writer who spoke against the war. The war was "justified" was used over and over. They won the battle to ensure that their Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1265088957649280312013-03-24T16:15:33.542-04:002013-03-24T16:15:33.542-04:00I got nothing nice to say about this old bitch exc...I got nothing nice to say about this old bitch except that she belongs whoring for bread on the streets of Baghdad today.heydavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15509102502417886790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-27900735988553092042013-03-24T10:41:19.877-04:002013-03-24T10:41:19.877-04:00but it was largely manufactured and cynically expl...<i> but it was largely manufactured and cynically exploited, fed--on this side of the Big Ditch--by the American habits of xenophobia and talking to ourselves.</i><br /><br />Not to mention, ahem, Big Business which has always found useful idiots like Nooners to provide blather to support looting the budget to 'protect' us from non-existant threats. Follow the $.El Manquécitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04059656060763349472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-60278471808321208902013-03-23T15:24:51.112-04:002013-03-23T15:24:51.112-04:00"Can the Iraqis be saved from the war on Iraq..."Can the Iraqis be saved from the war on Iraq?"Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-87328492638360300912013-03-23T13:33:07.455-04:002013-03-23T13:33:07.455-04:00i am also sick of these thumbsuckers going on abou...i am also sick of these thumbsuckers going on about "maybe this war thing wasn't such a good idea but -- " especially when i haven't a whole lot of faith that the same people won't make the same mistake the next time the republicans want to start a war<br /><br />jim, some guy in iowaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-3389225462591331612013-03-23T12:31:36.798-04:002013-03-23T12:31:36.798-04:00Sorry, the above drivel was from me.Sorry, the above drivel was from me.R. Porrofattonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-60799471303131407482013-03-23T12:29:44.107-04:002013-03-23T12:29:44.107-04:00Your stuff really needs an op-ed page of its own.
...Your stuff really needs an op-ed page of its own.<br /><i>They started a war and didn't win it.</i><br />Surely, even Peggy must realize by now that "started a war" is the more significant crime in that phrase. <br /><br />Speaking of Reagan's marvelous courage and wisdom in not invading Poland when all around him were pushing the idea, Cheney's parallel intelligence Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-22537818960690942142013-03-23T11:12:06.434-04:002013-03-23T11:12:06.434-04:00Hmm.. not a word about how "Democrats voted o...Hmm.. not a word about how "Democrats voted overwhelmingly for the AUMF" (which is a lie, but which most low info types have come to believe)? Or about how The Surge(tm)kissed all the boo-boos and made them better? Man... Peggers is really slipping!satchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-59707319343568993242013-03-23T04:13:44.561-04:002013-03-23T04:13:44.561-04:00For half a century, throughout the Cold War, they ...<i>For half a century, throughout the Cold War, they were serious about the Soviet Union, its moves, feints and threats.</i><br /><br />Indeed, they were so serious about it they made the Soviet Union their main focus, even after it ceased to exist. (Rice, Cheney and Rumsfeld, when not busy plotting about Iraq, were still scared of Russia, which they treated as the old Soviet Union.) <br />Batocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-40734504461116322612013-03-22T23:39:14.402-04:002013-03-22T23:39:14.402-04:00Reagan's dream was a nuclear free world? Reall...Reagan's dream was a nuclear free world? Really, Ms. Noonan? Do you suffer from some sort of mental disease or defect? Because I don't, and I recall quite specifically the nuclear freeze movement, a movement that was ruthlessly exterminated by the Reagan administration, using all the old tricks of COINTELPRO.<br /><br />Holy smokes, who pays for the tripe she writes?gratuitousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-14263687079308179662013-03-22T16:24:01.366-04:002013-03-22T16:24:01.366-04:00Amazing how Nooners and so many establishment type...Amazing how Nooners and so many establishment types are only now beginning to recognize they, themselves, have done to their party over the last 25 years.<br /><br />Let Peg and the rest shed unnumbered tears the next time the GOP loses a "safe" seat because the Teahadists primaried the sitting candidate and put some ultra-rihgt lunatic on the ballot instead.<br /><br />DerelictAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com