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by Barack Obama

DaveW recommends:

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

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I Am America (and So Can You!)
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Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

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The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
by Peter W. Galbraith

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Adventure Divas
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The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
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"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


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Dipping my banner in the wounds of the honored dead?  You sir or madam are sorely mistaken about a great many things.  Nothing I've written dishonors anyone, and ending the Iraq war would have no effect on the dead, honored or otherwise.  Ending the war would save people who are risking currently their lives in a conflict that our own intelligence agencies admit has made us less secure from future terrorist attacks, and has created no measurable benefit to our national security.

If this is a war of the magnitude that some on the right claim, then why has no conservative called for re-instituting the draft?  Why has there been no war surtax imposed to pay for the cost of this crusade?  Why is there no rush among conservatives to join the military?  Why instead do we keep sending the same troops back, over and over again, many suffering from prior wounds, from PTSD, from ruined families and shattered lives?

This war should never have been fought.  Meanwhile the people who engineered the attacks on 9/11 who killed people I knew sit in relative safety in Pakistan, our purported ally in the war on terror, releasing tapes mocking us.  Saudi millionaires continue to fund Al Qaeda.  But you want us to win in Iraq?  How?  You can't say.  You are only able to come here and issue your rants and make your ridiculous claims of honor on behalf of people you don't know but who you assume share your point of view and your goals for endless war in the Middle East.

You have no solutions, no answers, only ad hominem attacks against someone who you despise because his political views don't square with yours. Pretty sad display, frankly.

John McCain hates my wife because she's a "gook."

by Steven D on Thu Oct 4th, 2007 at 05:39:54 PM EST
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I am sorry you consider my comments "ad hominem."

Yet the flood of discredited cliches continue, and you again cite a soldier in distress.

I am "ridiculous, and my comments, which I think are reasoned, are "rants" (is this, I wonder, "ad hominem?"}

Your questions are simplistic (not ad hominem; my comment is directed at your logic); and beg many other questions.

Certainly I do not depise you.  Many of your firmly-held convictions are alternative viewpoints I continually explore and consider.  I seek a debate.  I wonder at your reluctance to engage.

I respect your point of view, and, like you, am concerned.  If I do not reflect your agony, or your vehemence, chalk it up to an old man's reluctance to embrace any emotional point of view, however fervent.

Samuel Johnson once famously siad, "The great differences among mankind are about means, not ends."

I am not your enemy.  

nemo paradise

by nemo paradise on Thu Oct 4th, 2007 at 06:20:13 PM EST
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