A disgusting vat of filth that no self-respecting intelligent person would wade into.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
What's on the beverage menu tonite?

Paraduxx Red 2004. I anticipate opening up more about my senate experiences tonight. It has been hellish posting here w/o speaking of it, I must say.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
What's on the beverage menu tonite?

The queer thing is, now that I'm not doing that fucking law shit, I have no urge to drink.

I will force myself.

Belvedere.

ETA: I mean, I have less of an urge to drink. Who the fuck am I kidding...

[Sidd Finch]

Our faithful ally Maliki says that "The United States could dramatically and quickly cut its troop presence in Iraq if it provided enough weapons to the country's security forces."

Should we believe him?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Our faithful ally Maliki says that "The United States could dramatically and quickly cut its troop presence in Iraq if it provided enough weapons to the country's security forces."

Should we believe him?

personally i think we should pull out all troops and then send them some neutron bombs. that way I can go to the museum there.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
personally i think we should pull out all troops and then send them some neutron bombs. that way I can go to the museum there.

It's a little hard to understand why you wanted to spend a trillion dollars and a few thousand American lives bringing democracy and freedom to the Iraqis.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

WaPo:

• Senate Republicans scuttled broad legislation last night to curtail lobbyists' influence and tighten congressional ethics rules, refusing to let the bill pass without a vote on an unrelated measure that would give President Bush virtual line-item-veto power.

Nice!

eta: That was a day old, I guess. Here's an update.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
It was a Fox poll. It was designed to be ambiguous, for maximum news making effect. Like most polls by news organizations.

Damn that Fox!

uh, nevermind.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Adder
No, I hope it works (assuming the implementation is inevitable). I would love to have a stable, democratic, U.S.-friendly Iraq. I just don't think it is likely.

And Adder therefore agrees with about 42% of the Republicans polled.

S_A_M

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Paraduxx Red 2004. I anticipate opening up more about my senate experiences tonight. It has been hellish posting here w/o speaking of it, I must say.

Can I come over to your house?? (I mean besides to meet with the Mrs.)

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
And Adder therefore agrees with about 42% of the Republicans polled.

S_A_M

RiNOs!

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Our faithful ally Maliki says that "The United States could dramatically and quickly cut its troop presence in Iraq if it provided enough weapons to the country's security forces."

Should we believe him?

Depends on the result we want.

On the upside, we wouldn't have to worry about the Sunni insurgency or Al Qaeda in Iraq much longer.

On the downside, the Iranian Republican Guard would probably be openly (rather than covertly -- as now) training Iraqis and shipping volunteers off to Lebanon for service with Hezbollah.

S_A_M

P.S. Lt. Gen. (Ret) Oden -- past head of the NSA, had an interesting perspective on this in a recent NPR interview I heard.

He said that our invasion of Iraq has certainly promoted one form of terrorism (i.e. the Iranian/Iraqi/Hezbollah connection) which did not exist under Hussein and which he says was inevitable as soon as we overthrew him.

He also said that the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq (which I get the impression he doesn't favor at this time) would have the benefit of effectively eliminating Al Qaeda in Iraq because, while they are presently coordinating with some Sunni/Baathist insurgents to fight Americans, _every_ group in Iraq has scores to settle with Al Qada in Iraq and will do so as soon as possible, because those guys are killing lots of Iraqis.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
RiNOs!

Your pool is shrinking fast . . .

S_A_M

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Can I come over to your house?? (I mean besides to meet with the Mrs.)

Depends. Are you and the Fringster on break?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Your pool is shrinking fast . . .

S_A_M

You forget we hold a pair of trump cards........G-d and his son, Jesus, are republicans.

But hey, buck up, I hear Allah and his spawn Mohammed are demos!

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Depends. Are you and the Fringster on break?

Hhmmmm, I'm sure glad my confidential IM convos are confidential....