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Probably when they find out when it is I'm thinking what I thought in 2002: Iraq as a "nation building" exercise is bull sh--. Throw Iranian-backed Shi'ia, a Ba'athist Sunni minority, and Kurds with hopes of independence into a pot together. Give the Sunni's absolute power over the other two groups. Take it away after 70 years. Now tell me: precisely what nation building process is going to succeed in that mess? And that's above and beyond the ridiculously paradoxical idea of shoving democracy down a people's figurative throat. "You'll be a democracy whether you want to or not!" The major flaw of the administration's Iraq policy was that it put an otherwise justifiable military action (because let's face it, no one shed a tear over Hussein losing power outside Iraqi Ba'athists) in an abstract philosophical context that was utter bull sh-- and made it virtually impossible to "win the peace". And what scares me most is some yahoo getting into the White House on the promise of a pure "cut 'n' run" strategy, thereby throwing the Iraqis to the wolves (btw, bet you didn't know that most of the killings in Iraq these days are in areas outside US and US-allied control. What do you think happens if we un-ass the whole country at once?) and thereby degrading US foreign policy even more in the eyes of the rest of the world.

Why would you? Basing your opinions on a complete misunderstanding of statistics is so much more effective.

That's pretty much the same thing I've been saying (and BiB used to say) for years, though. They DO have a plan. It may not be any good, but they DO have a plan. And we can't know if it's any good, because their marketing sucks more than Mike Foley on a Thai fact-finding junket. But they DO have a plan.

You forgot to complain about liberals...

Damn, I'm sorry. Now where are you going to find a job?

Well, if you insist... Meazza, you're an idiot.

I hate to be repetitious, but...

He told me he has an interview tomorrow. Arby's I think. Line cook. I think he's underqualified, personally...

You read this board; how many of these people do you think made it to high school?

Five others who don't have jobs?

It's those damned liberals, I tell you. Clearly the solution is to ban Tag...

Actually, it wasn't too far off the mark, either. Not that they had soundbytes back then...but the Emancipation Proclamation did in part cause a morale crisis in the Union Army. Lots of Northerners were fighting to maintain the union, but didn't want to fight to free slaves. History tends to be a lot different than what we learned in elementary school...

I can't believe they're wasting their time with this while the number of "Red Rover"-related injuries has increased 70% over the past three years.

I hate it. It's putting me out of business. If VABills ever starts using it, I'll be devastated...

But in his defense... ...well... ...uhhh, his spelling's really good. Must be an only child...

Take a wild guess, Frodo.

Ed...your car is gay.

Didn't see it reported then. See it now. Ergo, am exclaiming that it's stupid now, because I'm just becoming aware of it.

Want to borrow my bungee cord? Yours is probably a little worn by now...

But Brees himself is only 2-4...

Mom had lots of kids, didn't she?

While it's correct to say that American casualties are light relative to both the size of the force in Iraq and to past wars...damn near everything else in your post is nonsense. And the Democrats did make the same comments on the Civil War. George McClellan ran as a Democrat in 1864 on a platform on roughly the same anti-war platform modern Democrats use ("Lincoln bad! Debacle! No blood for emancipation!")

Clarence. Main & Sheridan area. Looks like he'll be without power until December. When the power lines went down, they pulled a chunk of the wall out. He's got to get a contractor and electrician out to fix the house before National Grid will run new lines.

That would still be a result of the invasion, which is all the Lancet study was saying.

So you don't know what a correlation coeffecient is. Your understanding is extraordinarily wrong. And you still didn't answer my second question: how do you (you, specifically. The rest of the world knows better) get from a correlation between siblings to a correlation between parent and child?