Kennedy Introduces Legislation To Stop Escalation

YES!! You Go Guy! (4.00 / 1)

What a perfect opportunity for a bipartisan effort --- it just not may  be the type of bipartisan effort Joe had in mind...

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by: greenpeas @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 16:37:28 PM UTC

Interesting (4.00 / 2)

So the proposed escalation surge just brings troop levels back to where they were a year or so ago.

And we all know how well that worked.

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by: BranfordBoy @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 16:51:47 PM UTC

Devil's Advocate line (4.00 / 1)

The difference being this time they won't be spread around. they'll be concentrated around Baghdad, pretty much going door-to-door wreaking havoc quelling sectarian violence.

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by: Scarce @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 17:16:38 PM UTC

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The first surge in 04 (4.00 / 1)

..produced Fallujah--or should that be 'reduced' Fallujah?

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by: Scarce @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 17:35:34 PM UTC

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I had to laugh (0.00 / 0)

when a diarist threw up an "In support of Jope Lieberman's surge" diary (that wasn't the title, but it was the basics of the content and it generated a lot of comments, but not many recs), and one of his successes listed was Fallujah.

Yep, destroying an entire city with such horrors as White Phosphur (Used in ways that are, by definition, war crimes) and constant bombing, destroying nearly all infrastrusture in the city, outrageous levels of "collateral damage" flattening so many homes nearly no one could live there anymore, creating a road block to keep even young boys in there, shooting ANYONE seen on the streets regardless of if they posed a threat, leaving so many bodies lying in the streets that the wild dogs were feeding on them. Yep, and in the end, creating an entire city's worth of mothers and sisters that had no fathers and brothers and nowhere to live. Iraqis loved that susccess.

Sounds Joe Neocon Lieberman's idea of success. Rinse and reapeat.


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by: Connecticut Man1 @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 17:59:49 PM UTC

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AWWW MAN! (0.00 / 0)

I want to yank your graphic and post it, but Blogger is down again. I am really starting to think I should just pay for another .com just to blog on. They were downlast night for a bit, but we could at least read the Blogs... Today they are completely gone? Or is it just my access that has been cut off? lol


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by: Connecticut Man1 @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 17:42:27 PM UTC

Blogspot issues (4.00 / 1)

It appears that blogspot is down - all the Blogspot blogs that I get RSS feeds from aren't sending feeds.

BTW, the blog I used to run, Democracy for Virginia was hosted on TypePad.  It has great features and was always really reliable, with a low monthly fee.

The trend now is WordPress, which I hear raves about.

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by: Maura @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 17:47:59 PM UTC

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The one issue... (0.00 / 0)

is not the money... It is always the change of address. Everytime a blogger switches it is like starting all over from the begining. sigh


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by: Connecticut Man1 @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 18:03:48 PM UTC

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I should also mention (0.00 / 0)

that sometime in the last couple of weeks someone must have flagged my Blog as a "Spam Blog" and for the last couple of weeks I have had to enter one of those letter codes like you need to comment in blogs JUST TO POST TO MY OWN BLOG. It is annoying as heck. I don't mind, and understand the need when it comes to "comment spam", but on your own Blog??? lol

Anyone else on Blogger having, or had, this problem? Just curious?


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by: Connecticut Man1 @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 18:16:34 PM UTC

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My Blogger Sites Are Fine (4.00 / 1)

No problems, ever!

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by: Jon Kantrowitz @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 19:21:42 PM UTC

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no wonder... (4.00 / 1)

I'm not getting anything new from CTBob!  As annoying as this is, it's better than what I thought, which was the "Rellpolice" finally got to him! Whew!

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by: Harriet @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 20:28:37 PM UTC

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I was worried that they shut me down (0.00 / 0)

after being reported as a "spam Blog" but sighed in relief when I tried some of the other Blogspot Blogs that I regularly visit. lol But it still pisses me off how often they go down.


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by: Connecticut Man1 @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 20:34:03 PM UTC

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Elections (0.00 / 0)

Can you overlay the elections with this graphic? There was a big surge after the '04 and '06 elections, and the decision to go to war was right before the '02 election. The entire thing is political theatre gone bad.

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by: joejoejoe @ Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 23:52:47 PM UTC