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Did he say "fully" trained?

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Exactly. Now the islamic terrorists blow up Iraqi children on Arab soil, not our children on US soil. The downside of this (and this is not to be taken lightly) is that US soldiers also die and get maimed.

Iraq = flypaper.

However, there is no evidence that the Iraqis are any more or less secular or religious now. All that has happened is that foreign islamicists have invaded Iraq. Instead of attacking us, which they would have been doing if they weren't now in Iraq.

You mean Saudi Arabia? That is where those terrorists came from. You prepared to give up your gas-guzzling SUV or are you still driving with OBL next to you.

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A few thoughts:
- I actually think Bush may have been hurt by the rules his side pushed for, esp the "no direct questions" rule. Instead of repeating his soundbites later in the debate he could have start posing "when did you stop beating your wife" questions about Kerry's alleged flipfloppery. I understand they were worried about Kerry pouncing on Bush with his prosecutorial cross examination techniques that worked so well against Weld, but I think it was just as likely that any such questioning would have backfired on Kerry, made him seem too shrill. Esp based on the comments I've read on here since the debate.

- I don't think Kerry did as well as some do, but he certainly found a way to discipline his answers a little better than he normally does on the stump. Maybe the campaign should bring the box with the little colored lights with them when he campaigns.

- I am developing a facial tic every time Bush says "we brought the network of AQ Khan to justice."

- While the polls have said for several months that GWB's strength is national security, I think he's going to be in a much better position for debates on domestic issues. I mean, them undecideds may not know much about bilateral negotiations, but they sure do know what the term "tax relief" means. All Bush has to do while Kerry talks about his health plan is to rub his thumb and forefinger together while he's on the split screen. I can just hear the undecideds now. "Taxes....the thumb and forefinger thing means the big Frenchman wants to raise our taxes...." Bush wanted to do something like that last night but had to check himself.

- As I said yesterday, it is honestly weird how it doesn't matter what I, or anyone who cares enough about politics to follow current events, thinks about this debate.

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And ponies. Once we give everyone in the Middle East a pony, they'll all be too happy and busy with their ponies to focus on killing us. If they'd only stop shooting for long enough for us to get the ponies distributed.

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Then it probably should have been nat security types instead of campaign types, don't you think?

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BUSH: Let me first tell you that the best way for Iraq to be safe and secure is for Iraqi citizens to be trained to do the job.

And that's what we're doing. We've got 100,000 trained now, 125,000 by the end of this year, 200,000 by the end of next year.

http://www.thekcrachannel.com/politi...96/detail.html

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Easy there, pardner. You elect Kerry, and he's still got to deal with a GOP Congress, which means less wasteful spending, but the only taxes that get enacted are passed over Tom DeLay's dead body.

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The President of Poland recently said about Bush et al.:

• They deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction, that's true. We were taken for a ride.

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Pray tell, what are the national security reasons to have a representative of the Bush-Cheney campaign helping to write Allawi's speech?

And for the love of God, think about what you're saying. If the U.S. is "coordinating" what he says with what the President says, that makes him a puppet. You're not disagreeing with Lockhart any more, you're just saying that we need a puppet there so we can bring democracy to them.

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Bribes won't work, either.

Democracy and a viable middle class will free the middle east from the chains of islam. Nothing else short of anilation via nuclear bomb will stop the evils that islam has perpetrated on the rest of us. I don't think the american people support bombing the arab world off the face of the earth.

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Talk about selective editing.

Find me the full quote. Nowhere in that soundbite does he say Bush, et al. He very well could be describing Saddam Hussein

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Bush lied!

He is such a lying liar. Liar liar liar.

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My question was regarding last night's speech - not some quote from the past.

If I linked to every time that Kerry changed his mind, or misspoke or lied, we'd exceed our bandwith.

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First of all, let's be clear that you're not accusing me of selective editing, you're accusing the Australian radio network that reported this. Their story very clearly implies that the President of Poland was upset that we misled them about WMD. Second, unless you have access to the original French interview -- and surely you don't speak French, mon ami -- you don't have any reason to think that the Australian network misrepresented what the Pole Prez said. And it's hard to imagine a context in which his comments could have been aimed at someone else.

In sum, Poland's maybe not the best example.