He said (again); " I would rather lose the elction - than lose 'The
War'.
What 'machismo' !
What idiocy !
What fricken 'war' was that idiot talking about?
There is no 'war' - the 'war' is over. (if there ever was one)
GW done declared 'Victory!'. Years ago.
It's all over.
For the second year running the fricken Iraqis have already (again)
asked us to leave... like soonest.
Is the idiot McLame going to start a war with them - in order to have
the privilege of wasting another 3.2 TRILLION - for nothing?
What's the deal here?
Are the neocon war mongers stupid - or what?
Do they think all voters are as stupid as they are?
Are the idiot democrats ever call insane neocon war-mongers 'war-
mongers'?
You, of course, have quotes to back up those claims.
You seem to be unable to understand the english language..
Let me help:
"paranoid
adjective 1. (Informal) suspicious, worried, nervous, fearful,
apprehensive, antsy (informal) "
Clearly then any presidential candidate (such as McLame) who believes
that the US is still at war with Iran is needlessly:
-nervous
-worried
-fearful
-suspicious and
-apprehensive
..if not an abject idiot.
So.. what do you have to say about you and your paranoia?
After WWII, having learned our lesson, the United States instituted
the Marshal Plan which, in today's money, cost trillions. Thanks to
that forward looking plan, we know have powerful allies instead of
powerful enemies.
So tell me - why do you want to emulate the plan that brought us Adolf
Hitler instead of the one that brought about lasting peace?
Them's the breaks, eh?
(ever here of runaway inflation caused by the Versailles Treaty?)
> After WWII, having learned our lesson, the United States instituted
> the Marshal Plan which, in today's money, cost trillions. Thanks to
> that forward looking plan, we know have powerful allies instead of
> powerful enemies.
A wunnerful a wunnerful.
> So tell me - why do you want to emulate the plan that brought us Adolf
> Hitler instead of the one that brought about lasting peace?
???
Why are you attempting to analogize permanent occupation of other
peoples countries - with Marshall Plans?
That's stupid.
And illegal.
> .
> Don't you ever read a newspaper? I mean, seriously, these were lead
> stories.
Did you attend the Obfuscating Weasel School of Journalism?
This is where we usually get the "do your own homework" or "already
posted it" type of answers.
You have a long history of simply ignoring posts after I've spent
hours looking them up, or pretending they say things they simply don't
say.
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A quick google groups search for the last two months (something that
Vallely claims takes hours)shows no posts from him or his sock puppet
showing that either Obama or the Times said that we won the war.
A google news search also turns up nothing relating to this fantasy.
Don;t be surprised if he denies making the claim and then accuses me
of lying or taking his words out of context if I repost his claim.
Some people may not understand this but at the end of
the day it all comes down to someone not wanting to
be seen "like a 4 year old willing to accept choclate and
nuts in return for gold" Regardless of anything else.
You even quoted yourself above where you said I ignored posts after
you "spent hours looking them up".Once again you accuse me of lying for
repeating what you said and then you are kind enough to repost what you
claim you never said.
Unlike modern Democrats, President Truman was not a historical
illiterate nor a fool. Determined not to repeat Wilson's short
sighted, tragic, blunder, the Haberdasher green lite the Marshal Plan
- which cost far more in today's money than Operation Freedom. We
still have troops in Europe to this day, the Europeans overwhelmingly
want us to stay, and they've had uninterupted peace with each other
since 1945.
Where would you rather live? In Germany in 1926, or Germany today?
Would you like to explain why Wilson's approach is superior to
Trumans?
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean.
But that couldn't happen again.
We taught them a lesson in 1918 -
And they've hardly bothered us since then.
Tom Lehrer
"MLF Lullaby"
> It had nothing to do with the presence of US troops.>
.
How could it? We ran for the high grass after winning the war. There
were no American troops to stop Hitler. Why do you demand that we
repeat Wilson's tragic mistake?
.
> Compare for example Vietnam...>
.
We piled onto the last helicopter out of Saigon, which resulted in the
mass executions to people who supported America, and lead directly to
the genocide of millions of Cambodians. Inspired Saddam and bin Laden
that America could be safely fucked with, too.
And you feel that this is a good thing because ....?
>... and Korea.>
We've had troops there for almost 60 years. No genocide in South
Korea. North Korea, OTOH, is the sort of place that Orwell would have
examined in horror and whispered "I didn't make "1984" evil enough.
Your plan has been tried again and again. It brings genocide and
destruction. Why do you support it?
"America won WWI"?
Are you for real? Do you know ANYTHING about this subject?
>Quite correct - and those reparations would not have happened without
>the approval of President Woodrow Wilson. After America won WWI, "The
>Great Teacher" cut a deal with the French - in exchange for their
>support in Wilson's budding "League of Nations," America would rubber
>stamp the evil Treaty of Versailles, bug out of Europe,
He said as if Wilson would have an option about bugging out of Europe.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/msg/beb83ea6818d8a2b?hl=en&dmode=source
The problem is that even Obama and the New York Times admit that we
won the war.
Here is Vallely answering a request to back up that claim by asking
if I read papers and telling us they were "lead stories".
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/msg/372f043889b1146b?hl=en&dmode=source
> You, of course, have quotes to back up those claims.
.
Don't you ever read a newspaper? I mean, seriously, these were lead
stories.
And here is Vallely instead of posting a link saying that it takes
him hours to find links to back up his claims. One would think if Obama
said we won the war that comment would be easy to find.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/msg/f7dc059f47484498?hl=en&dmode=source
> I read at least three print papers each day including the NY Times
> and several more on line. Since they were lead stories you should have
> no trouble posting them.
.
The problem I have is not posting the article, it's wasting time
looking up articles for you.
You have a long history of simply ignoring posts after I've spent
In any case, Wilson's folly give the lie to the idea that countries
should simply pull out after winning wars.
> > .
> > I've openly admitted that "Dead Kennedy Haters" is a glitch -
> > sometimes my posts are labeled by that name. Don't know why it does
> > that, I wish it didn't.
> >
> I am curious, how do you suppose that could happen? It appears you
> are using google groups. When I post from google I have to either log on
> with my user name and password or have them saved in my computer. Either
> way the user name immediately appears on the top of the page yet you
> claim that sometimes you have no control over that.
>
>
It must be frustrating trying to control a computer when you have no
idea how to use it.
Poor Billy.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/msg/f7dc059f47484498?hl=en&dmode=source
> I read at least three print papers each day including the NY Times
> and several more on line. Since they were lead stories you should have
> no trouble posting them.
.
The problem I have is not posting the article, it's wasting time
looking up articles for you.
You have a long history of simply ignoring posts after I've spent
> .
> > >The problem is that even Obama and the New York Times admit that we
> > >won the war.
> .
> > SO we can go home then?
> .
> That was the approach we used after WWI. By abandoning Germany and
> returning home after the war, we allowed Adolf Hitler to rise to
> power.
>
> After WWII, having learned our lesson, the United States instituted
> the Marshal Plan which, in today's money, cost trillions. Thanks to
> that forward looking plan, we know have powerful allies instead of
> powerful enemies.
>
> So tell me - why do you want to emulate the plan that brought us Adolf
> Hitler instead of the one that brought about lasting peace?
>
>
The difference is that with the two Marshall Plan countries, we were
dealing with countries that both had a strong sense of nationality, and
both were very sick of war. Thus it made sense to build them up.
In contrast, the Iraqi's have already been fighting each other for
thousands of years (and will prolly be fighting each other for another
thousand) and have more of a tribal mentality than a national
mentality... there's nothing to build on. They could give a shit less
about a strong "Iraq." The nation is meaningless to them. The Japanese
people WANTED to rebuild Japan, as well as the Germans. Thus it made
sense to rebuild them and make them our allies. How do you make someone
want to rebuild something they don't care about?
I read all of this BEFORE we invaded. Too bad morons like you and the
neo-cons don't have access to things like the USA Today or something.
> On Jul 22, 8:16 pm, dead kennedy haters <bvall...@aol.com> wrote:
>> .> >The problem is that even Obama and the New York Times admit that we
>> > >won the war.
>> .
>> > SO we can go home then?
>>
>> .
>> That was the approach we used after WWI. By abandoning Germany and
>> returning home after the war, we allowed Adolf Hitler to rise to
>> power.
>
> Them's the breaks, eh?
> (ever here of runaway inflation caused by the Versailles Treaty?)
>
>> After WWII, having learned our lesson, the United States instituted
>> the Marshal Plan which, in today's money, cost trillions. Thanks to
>> that forward looking plan, we know have powerful allies instead of
>> powerful enemies.
>
> A wunnerful a wunnerful.
>
>> So tell me - why do you want to emulate the plan that brought us Adolf
>> Hitler instead of the one that brought about lasting peace?
>
> ???
> Why are you attempting to analogize permanent occupation of other
> peoples countries - with Marshall Plans?
> That's stupid.
> And illegal.
Mostly it is unnecessary and unprofitable.
--
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of society but the people themselves; and
if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
them, but to inform their discretion by
education." - Thomas Jefferson
http://GreaterVoice.org/extend
Vallely needs to find a forum where they don't archive his posts.
He can then pretend he isn't a pathological liar, or a hypocrite more
easily.
The pattern:
Vallely makes a claim.
He is asked to back up that claim.
He says he never made the claim.
His claim is reposted.
He denies making the claim but includes the repost of his words in
his reply.
The words are reposted along with his denial.
He accuses the poster of lying.
If,as Vallely claims, one is lying when one reposts a Vallely
message doesn't that mean that Vallely lied?
Your own source said... "(Wilson) agreed to the resolutions drafted in
his absence, but it is clear that the war guilt clause was not his
creation."
So, Woodrow didn't agree with the Treaty, but signed it anyway.
He then bugged out of Europe, and sat by as Hitler rose to power.
And this is the tactic that you demand we duplicate in Iraq?
You're an idiot.
1. America abandoning Europe after WWI lead to the rise of Hitler?
2. Truman was President when the Marshal Plan was launched?
3. Truman was once a haberdasher?
4. We have troops in Europe to this day?
5. There has been uninterrupted peace in Europe since 1945?
.
> Truman did have the benefit of Keynes paper on
> Reparations and their responsibility in giving us Hitler and WWII. See
> "The Economic consequences of the Peace."
.
And Truman, not being an historical illterate like yourself, refused
to repeat Wilson's tragic mistake.
Why do you demand that we repeat Wilson's tragic mistake.
The Japanese?
My father was a Marine Sargent in the Pacific Theater during WWII, and
was penciled in to invade Japan.
Japan was gearing up to fight to the last man, woman and child.
LITERALLY. Casualties were expected to run about a million to a
million and a half.
To convince the Japanese that surrender was their best option, we
nuked Hiroshima, quick frying 86,000 people. (My father tells of being
woken up by his corporal who screamed "Jesus, Vallely, the just
dropped the biggest damned bomb on Japan in world history, and killed
something like 100,000 of them." My father said "good", and then went
back to sleep.)
The Japanese's reaction? They basically said "we don't think you can
do it again" So we did, this time killing 69,000.
It took an internal overthrow to convince the Japanese that they lost
the war.
THESE are the guys that you claim lost their taste for fighting?
The next question is "why would two countries with strong nationalism
be MORE open to letting another country leave their troops there than
a country with a weak national idenity?
.
> In contrast, the Iraqi's have already been fighting each other for
> thousands of years (and will prolly be fighting each other for another
> thousand) and have more of a tribal mentality than a national
> mentality... there's nothing to build on.
.
So, you're saying that Arabs are savages, unlike the civilized Nazis?
My, aren't we the proper little racist?
In any case, the debate is over.
Your side lost.
Iraq hasn't degenerated into civil war.
They have a constitution that works.
The country is pulling together.
They're prepping for their second election.
Claims that both Obama and the NY Times have said we won the war.
Asked for a site he asks if I read papers because they were lead stories.
When I noted that I read multiple papers and never saw that item
Vallely says he is not willing to spend hours finding a link.
I noted that if they were lead stories it would not take hours to
find them.
Vallely denies saying it would take hours and is kind enough to
include the quote from an earlier post of mine where I reposted his
claim that he spends hours looking for links.
I note that Vallely never posted a link to back up his claims and ask
why they do not turn up in a google search.
Vallely loses interest in the topic.
>.
>> >Quite correct - and those reparations would not have happened without
>> >the approval of President Woodrow Wilson. After America won WWI, "The
>> >Great Teacher" cut a deal with the French - in exchange for their
>> >support in Wilson's budding "League of Nations," America would rubber
>> >stamp the evil Treaty of Versailles, bug out of Europe,
>.
>> He said as if Wilson would have an option about bugging out of Europe.
>.
>He had tons of options - insisting that the Treaty of Versailles not
Oh yes. He could "insist". And then what? And how is that an option
about bugging out of Europe?
So you are suggesting that he should have threatened France and
England by remaining at war with Germany? What the hell did they care
if he signed the treaty?
>
>He then bugged out of Europe, and sat by as Hitler rose to power.
What are you babbling about? Wilson was dead when Hitler started to
rise to power. And once again, Wilson had no option about bugging out
of Europe.
> But yes I argued in 2001 we should have stayed out of Iraq and
> Marshall planned Afghanistan to turn it into the prime example of
> nonsectarian democratic Islam. We could have flooded them with
> schools, rebuilt their universities and made them the next South Korea
> and had more positive impact on US respect in the region.
>
Imagine if Bush had pumped a trillion dollars into Afghanistan instead
of Iraq, and actually killed bin Laden in Tora Bora?
He'd prolly be still having historically high approval ratings, the Pubs
would still be controlling both Houses, and the next President would
almost certainly be a Pub.
And righties act like it is us mean ol' lefties fault their "permanent
Republican Majority" flamed out in 6 years... never to be seen again..
prolly in any of our lifetimes.
"You fucked up... you trusted us." Animal House
I'm through treating you like an adult.
Waste somebody else's time.
Standard response when you can not back up your fantasies. Can you
refute these facts?
You claimed the the NY Times and Obama both said we have won the war.
You never posted links for either claim.
google searches fail to show anything about either claim.
You said both were lead stories but you are unwilling to spend
"hours" finding them.
You denied saying it would take hours but included your own words to
that effect in your reply.
Whenever you are asked to back up your fantasies you say doing so is
a waste of time.
Waste someone else's time.
At the end of WWI, Wilson set about on a strategy similar to the one
Obama demands - bug out at the first possible chance, and leave the
country to fend for itself. The result was the rise of Adolph Hitler,
the Holocaust and 40 million innocent souls dead. Let's refer to this
plan as "Operation Short Sighted Shitheads".
At the end of WWII, Truman set about a program similar to what George
Bush wants. The Marshal plan has led to uninterrupted peace in Europe
since 1945, prosperity for that continent, and strong allies for the
United States. Let's refer to this option as "Operation Eternal Peace
And Happiness Which Is Hated By Shortsighted Shitheads".
Why do you insist that we repeat Wilson's idiotic, shortsighted
mistakes, while ignoring Turman's option, which is the most successful
post-war operation in world history?
BTW, if you had your way, Saddam would still be funding terrorism.
He's still be dropping people into wood chippers.
He'd still have professional rapists on his payroll.
He'd still be filling mass graves with the bodies of little girls.
Now, there is a constitution and free elections in Iraq.
NO THANKS TO YOU. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE ON THE SIDE OF THE FASCISTS,
ASSWIPE?
Translation:Once again Vallely can not back up his fantasies.
After I asked for links for your claims that Obama and the NY Times
said we have won the war you claimed to wasted hours hunting for links
that back up those fantasies . When I noted that you said both items
were lead stories and thereby easily found your explanation was you did
not want to waste time finding them.
Any reason you never posted links when you made those claims?
No, but the implication was that it would take hours. If they were
lead stories as you claim they should be easy to find and,more telling,
you could have posted them when you made the claim.
I never implied any such thing.
This is EXACTLY the reason that you're not worth the time it takes to
look up references. You'll either ignore what I post, or pretend it
means something entirely different.
I'm not playing your troll games anymore.
I will not waste time with your troll games anymore.
> > After I asked for links for your claims that Obama and the NY Times
> > said we have won the war you claimed to wasted hours hunting for links
> > that back up those fantasies .>
> .
> I did, and they weren't fantasies.
>
I'm sure you wouldnt mind reposting them. I'd also like to see them
saying we won the war.
When did we win?
> .
> > >Your plan has been tried again and again. It brings genocide and
> > >destruction. Why do you support it?
> .
> > You have only your straw man. You have no idea what my "plan" is or
> > would be.
> .
> Are you telling me that you don't support Obama's idiotic timetable?
>
>
The timetable that Maliki supports?
The timetable that a majority of the USA supports?
Yea... fuck that.
Keep scooping against the tide... let's see in Nov how many candidates
win with 33% support!
> The timetable that a majority of the USA supports?
A time table with set dates in place? The vast majority do not agree
with setting withdrawal dates etc. They do agree with a time table
based on specific conditions on the ground, but not dates.
http://mindmined.com/public_library/fiction/ed_chapin_the_great_bologna_conflict.html
Ed
Why should be believe your claims that a candidate who opposes the
war said we have won, that a paper that opposes the war says we have won
and that both were lead stories when you refuse to offer anything to
back up your claims?
Neither did Yugoslavia