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Originally posted by sgtclub
Fucking classic. From the party that was calling "quagmire" three days into the war.
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This is a bullshit response, because you're both accusing me of trying to have it both ways, while having it both ways yourself. If you're bothered by the (ostensible) use of the word "quagmire" three days into the war, then you ought to have a real problem with the actions -- not statements, but actions -- taken by the Republicans who are actually running the fucking government, like holding up the creation of the Department of Homeland Security so that they could smear Max Cleland. Or the crap they're pulling in the House with intelligence reform. But you don't, as far as I can tell.
But we apparently both are willing to pay lip service to the idea that when the country is at war.
If Bush had been running the war in a bipartisan way, then it would have been too cute by half for the Democrats to take their part in running it, and to criticize its prosecution at the same time. But since Bush wasn't willing to proceed in this way, it is quite simply beyond me why you think that anyone was trying to have it both ways.
I don't recall the Democratic Party using the word "quagmire." In fact, an awful lot of Democrats, like Kerry, voted to authorize the war. Seymour Hersh used the word in a New Yorker article, and it got a lot of play, but your "argument" -- I use the word loosely -- is a little like my accusing you and the rest of the Republican Party of calling Democrats "traitors" because Anne Coulter said it. If this appears to rankle me, perhaps you remember bilmore accusing me of using the word, and then ultimately having to acknowledge that I hadn't.
