Comments on: O Ye of Little Faith http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/ Forward Movement Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:04:43 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Davebo http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/comment-page-1/#comment-23236 Davebo Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:01:09 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/#comment-23236 "Your “data” are estimates made up by the Brookings authors. See the footnote:" Got it, O'Hanllon in the Times... Good! O'Hanlon from Brookings.... Bad... “Your “data” are estimates made up by the Brookings authors. See the footnote:”

Got it, O’Hanllon in the Times… Good!

O’Hanlon from Brookings…. Bad…

]]> By: Davebo http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/comment-page-1/#comment-23235 Davebo Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:58:36 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/#comment-23235 Oh yeah, it's all just made up data. Heck, even the Iraqi government is getting into the game. BAGHDAD -- The number of Iraqi civilians killed in the country's brutal civil conflict rose by more than one-third in July despite a five-month-old surge in US troop levels, government figures showed Wednesday. At least 1,652 civilians were killed in Iraq in July, 33 percent more than in the previous month, according to figures compiled by the Iraqi health, defense, and interior ministries http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070801-070035-3436r Oh well, at least I've learned how to parallel park a 1/30th scale model of a Bradley. You may now return to your regularly scheduled delusions. Oh yeah, it’s all just made up data. Heck, even the Iraqi government is getting into the game.

BAGHDAD — The number of Iraqi civilians killed in the country’s brutal civil conflict rose by more than one-third in July despite a five-month-old surge in US troop levels, government figures showed Wednesday.

At least 1,652 civilians were killed in Iraq in July, 33 percent more than in the previous month, according to figures compiled by the Iraqi health, defense, and interior ministries

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070801-070035-3436r

Oh well, at least I’ve learned how to parallel park a 1/30th scale model of a Bradley.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled delusions.

]]> By: Terrye http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/comment-page-1/#comment-23076 Terrye Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:31:08 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/#comment-23076 Alphie: An election? That is such a hoot. Left to the likes of you Alphie, the only election taking place in iraq would be the kind where Saddam the Sadist gets 100% of the vote. Alphie:

An election? That is such a hoot. Left to the likes of you Alphie, the only election taking place in iraq would be the kind where Saddam the Sadist gets 100% of the vote.

]]> By: saltydog http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/comment-page-1/#comment-23052 saltydog Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:13:51 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/#comment-23052 Sorry for the rant, my fellows. I know it only feeds the hateful thing, but there are times when I reach a level of disgust that overflows the bounds of good-manners. Sorry for the rant, my fellows. I know it only feeds the hateful thing, but there are times when I reach a level of disgust that overflows the bounds of good-manners.

]]> By: saltydog http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/comment-page-1/#comment-23050 saltydog Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:08:03 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/#comment-23050 I've agreed that there were serious mistakes being made within a couple of months of the invasion. Unlike you and the rest of the drones, however, I've managed to say so without ever showing disrespect for the president or the presidency, trying to overthrow the Constitution, spitting on this great country, or slandering the men and women who go into harms way to protect their families and their country and countrymen, including even drones like you. I am not anti-American, I love my country because I recognize that, for all her faults, she's still better than any other country--and I've even been to other countries, so I know whereof I speak. The only thing wrong with her are the anti-human philosophies that have taken over and are trying to wipe out everything that makes her great. That you wallow in everything that would destroy her doesn't make you superior, but an ant that follows thoughtlessly ideas you do not understand (assuming the best). You and your like don't care what the consequences are for your country or others. You mouth the platitudes and bromides you've heard without respect to the truth. You don't give a damn, Alphie, not for America, Americans, Iraqis, or Muslims in general, unless they are thugs and murderers--and I suspect that you don't even give a damn about them, except as something to use as an excuse to spit on your betters. You stand for evil. You excuse evil. You extol evil. Whether you do so innocently, or out of ignorance, or out of childishness, or because you actually back the evil makes no difference. The death toll still rises regardless of your motive and you own some responsibility for that. That you see no difference between dying <i>for</i> something honorable and dying for evil makes you responsible. I’ve agreed that there were serious mistakes being made within a couple of months of the invasion. Unlike you and the rest of the drones, however, I’ve managed to say so without ever showing disrespect for the president or the presidency, trying to overthrow the Constitution, spitting on this great country, or slandering the men and women who go into harms way to protect their families and their country and countrymen, including even drones like you. I am not anti-American, I love my country because I recognize that, for all her faults, she’s still better than any other country–and I’ve even been to other countries, so I know whereof I speak. The only thing wrong with her are the anti-human philosophies that have taken over and are trying to wipe out everything that makes her great. That you wallow in everything that would destroy her doesn’t make you superior, but an ant that follows thoughtlessly ideas you do not understand (assuming the best). You and your like don’t care what the consequences are for your country or others. You mouth the platitudes and bromides you’ve heard without respect to the truth. You don’t give a damn, Alphie, not for America, Americans, Iraqis, or Muslims in general, unless they are thugs and murderers–and I suspect that you don’t even give a damn about them, except as something to use as an excuse to spit on your betters. You stand for evil. You excuse evil. You extol evil. Whether you do so innocently, or out of ignorance, or out of childishness, or because you actually back the evil makes no difference. The death toll still rises regardless of your motive and you own some responsibility for that. That you see no difference between dying for something honorable and dying for evil makes you responsible.

]]> By: OldManTyme http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/comment-page-1/#comment-23010 OldManTyme Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:37:49 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/#comment-23010 'The wingnut military “experts” are now saying the first four years in Iraq were a failure and a mistake...' I keep pointing out to you that the narrative you useful fools have tried to sell the last 6 years is collapsing and new scripting is needed. Now, I grant you that looking around the useful fool sites doesn't show any evidence of a coherent new script surfacing. But coherency was never the hallmark of the marching moron crowd and spouting the same old extremely stupid and extremely ignorant simplification hiding a lie isn't working at any level worth mentioning, jihad boy. ‘The wingnut military “experts” are now saying the first four years in Iraq were a failure and a mistake…’

I keep pointing out to you that the narrative you useful fools have tried to sell the last 6 years is collapsing and new scripting is needed. Now, I grant you that looking around the useful fool sites doesn’t show any evidence of a coherent new script surfacing. But coherency was never the hallmark of the marching moron crowd and spouting the same old extremely stupid and extremely ignorant simplification hiding a lie isn’t working at any level worth mentioning, jihad boy.

]]> By: OldManTyme http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/comment-page-1/#comment-23004 OldManTyme Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:15:45 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/#comment-23004 "To me the great mystery is why the Dems went so far over to the side of “all is lost” after confirming Petraeus." Their majority is razor thin and the shift to Dem control of congress mostly the electorate rejecting the business as usual republican congress. The marching morons would like to paint it as a rejection of a republican war and even though the marching moron vote is relatively and absolutely trivial except in a few concentrated areas, the dems need to use what power they have when they have it to try to get back into the White House in 2008. It's early in the election cycle, but it appears that trying to appease and keep the marching moron vote on their side by casting Iraq as a failure riding that strategy to the White House may have been a bad gamble. Hanging their hats on that strategy is killing their credibility with an electorate who sees through the lie and doesn't see defeatism and surrender of a few as representing their personal or the country's interests. The fact that the MSM is reading the wind and jumping ship isn't helping either. “To me the great mystery is why the Dems went so far over to the side of “all is lost” after confirming Petraeus.”

Their majority is razor thin and the shift to Dem control of congress mostly the electorate rejecting the business as usual republican congress. The marching morons would like to paint it as a rejection of a republican war and even though the marching moron vote is relatively and absolutely trivial except in a few concentrated areas, the dems need to use what power they have when they have it to try to get back into the White House in 2008.

It’s early in the election cycle, but it appears that trying to appease and keep the marching moron vote on their side by casting Iraq as a failure riding that strategy to the White House may have been a bad gamble. Hanging their hats on that strategy is killing their credibility with an electorate who sees through the lie and doesn’t see defeatism and surrender of a few as representing their personal or the country’s interests. The fact that the MSM is reading the wind and jumping ship isn’t helping either.

]]> By: the nailgun http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/comment-page-1/#comment-22971 the nailgun Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:06:47 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/#comment-22971 Saltydog - thanks for that, I was trying to dream up which media organisation's initials spelt CYA so maybe I was really off the mark or maybe not ? Saltydog – thanks for that, I was trying to dream up which media organisation’s initials spelt CYA so maybe I was really off the mark or maybe not ?

]]> By: alphie http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/comment-page-1/#comment-22968 alphie Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:49:08 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/#comment-22968 The wingnut military "experts" are now saying the first four years in Iraq were a failure and a mistake, salty. Do you concur? The wingnut military “experts” are now saying the first four years in Iraq were a failure and a mistake, salty.

Do you concur?

]]> By: saltydog http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/comment-page-1/#comment-22966 saltydog Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:45:23 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/07/30/o-ye-of-little-faith/#comment-22966 CYA = Cover your arse. Ever notice how Alf is so thick that he displays his ignorance with nary a blush? It's enough to make me blush for him. His malevolence is something else, of course. I fear he would be that way even if he did have brains. CYA = Cover your arse.

Ever notice how Alf is so thick that he displays his ignorance with nary a blush? It’s enough to make me blush for him. His malevolence is something else, of course. I fear he would be that way even if he did have brains.

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