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Official NeoGAF US Mid-term Elections 2006 Thread
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threeball said:
You are the only person in this thread to declare he would "serve" his country if it needed him, only to back down when somebody called your bluff.
Thank goodness to Northern Virginia for Old Dominion seems to leaning Blue this time. We have alot of military bases & gov't folks along with conservative voters in rural areas but the motor of the state is NoVA, where it is predominately democrat.
Webb seems to have won by a few thousand votes.
Webb seems to have won by a few thousand votes.
ferrarimanf355
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In that case, the Republicans should throw in the towel. Dems win by TKO.xsarien said:
Lost Fragment said:
i'd much rather have this than some tyrant controlling that country with WMDs and constantly making threats against the country i live in. our country did what was needed. we are finishing the job. and the iraqi people are grateful that we liberated them and are helping them out.
VictimOfGrief
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I can only pray that the democrats don't get Senate. That would disrupt the power that we've brought.... to our new empire.....
Uh... one of our generals over there saying that we had maybe six months to clean things up before we lose the confidence of the Afghani people? That was about 2 months ago, as well. Although I guess he's just a GINO.threeball said:
Since you asked what people would do in Iraq (also note that I'm not a Democrat, more of a Green/Socialist), here's what I would do: since we've been paying lip service to the idea of "Democracy" in Iraq, let's do just that. Put the issue to a vote by the Iraqi people: give them three choices A) Withdrawal of all troops in six months, B) Withdrawal of all troops in eighteen months, or C) no immediate decision on withdrawal, to be voted on again in a year. That saves us face and puts the decision in the hands of the people who have the most at stake, for the first time. Personally, I would prefer option B. I would also try to fix Afghanistan, but honestly I think that might be the more broken situation.
We'll be a hell of a lot closer to pushing through something for stem cells, although I don't believe enough without changing some minds as well. I might guess there will be some vetoes from Bush that moderate Republicans won't agree with.StoOgE said:
Lost Fragment
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Egh, I was trying to have a decent debate since people seem to be too venomous towards the few republicans in this thread, but now it seems like you're just trolling.
PantherLotus
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threeball said:
While you're just miming what Rush and O'Reily say, I don't blame you, because it "sounds" right. Unfortunately, that's not how I or most of the world sees it. Right now, they way that I see it, we've encouraged terrorists more by going half-assed into a war without proper preparation, proper equipment, etc, while avoiding the actual war with the actual terrorists. I'd say that's more of an encouragement to them than anything we're doing in Iraq.
The problem is that we left Afghanistan unfinished, Bin Laden uncaptured, all for a Little-lord Jauntleroy in Iraq to defend daddy's honor. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and we knew it. Iraq had no terrorists in there before hand and we knew it. We KNEW it would be reduced to Civil War. We KNEW that we didn't have the resources or the backbone to do what we had to do (400k thousand on the ground), and we KNEW it was all about the contracts for corporate fat cats that support the GOP.
Leaving now doesn't send a message to the terrorists other than we can learn from our mistakes.
VictimOfGrief
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threeball said:
Wow... just reading this makes me want to ship you off to Iraq to prove a point.
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threeball said:
I'm sorry, I don't even know what this means.
You ****ed up, you contradicted yourself, and as long as you keep blathering you are going to pay for it.
VictimOfGrief
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shit... you just did.xsarien said:
threeball said:
Yeah. Just like the cost of pulling out of Vietnam was that whole domino-effect thing about how all of SE Asia would fall to communists......oh wait.
threeball said:
BECAUSE YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SAID WE NEED TO BE THERE. YOU ****ING TOOL.
WHY AM I YELLING IN CAPS TO A JOKE POSTER
PantherLotus
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VictimOfGrief
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explodet said:
Enjoy your piss poor health care french boy!* :lol
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Link648099
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Getting nasty in here
William Kristol now actually saying that because the Senate, even with a Dem majority, would be close to 50/50, it would make for an "unusual 2008 Presidential election" in which it would basically be up for grabs.
Hell, if that's the case, win 'em both, Dems. I look forward to a Democratic White House in 2008.
Why am I watching Fox? Because it's awesome to see these uber-conservatives unable to deny the power of what went down tonight.
Hell, if that's the case, win 'em both, Dems. I look forward to a Democratic White House in 2008.
Why am I watching Fox? Because it's awesome to see these uber-conservatives unable to deny the power of what went down tonight.
PantherLotus said:
how do you know there were no WMDs, terrorists, etc.? are you in the CIA? and capturing bin laden wouldn't be easy. lets see you capture one guy in a large world with plenty of places to hide? its not like he has a tracking device on him. its like trying to find a needle in a haystack, actually, more like trying to find a grain of sand in a haystack. ill be damned if anyone ever finds him.
No. It's like someone pointing at a rollercoaster and saying "Man, that rollercoaster is messed up." And another saying "I LOVE that rollercoaster! That' rollercoaster is the greatest! I'd go on that rollercoaster ten times a day! Because I'm A MAN!"threeball said:
"ok fine, go on it."
"I, uh, gotta play a football game or something."
Catch the difference there? Sorta subtle. I can bold it if you'd like.
Outdoor Miner
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threeball said:
I think people are slamming you because you're spewing every single Republican talking point near word-for-word. Some points even being years old that those living today within your party have moved on from (WMD's?). It's like you were frozen in 2002 and just woke up or something.
Eh
Christopher
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hi threeball.
I'm not registered to vote around here so I didn't ;( sadness.
I'm not registered to vote around here so I didn't ;( sadness.
Lost Fragment
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Because those things you listed might be true in an alternate dimension, but not the one that I'm familiar with.
PantherLotus
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I won't deride ANYONE for choosing not to serve until the day they vote for somebody that presses for an unneeded and unwanted war. Continued support of such a policy is a conviction of that belief, and not supporting that whole heartedly is as cowardly of an act as there is.
I serve my country by believing that we can do better, and for saying so when its needed the most. And your ass better believe when China comes knocking on our door in about 20 years, I'll be on the front line. But I'm not about to join some war that I don't believe in, that I can't help by joining, when I would just be some statistic used to support one thing or another.
I serve my country by believing that we can do better, and for saying so when its needed the most. And your ass better believe when China comes knocking on our door in about 20 years, I'll be on the front line. But I'm not about to join some war that I don't believe in, that I can't help by joining, when I would just be some statistic used to support one thing or another.
Personally, I want to cop to being way off on Lieberman/Lamont/Whatshisname.
The Democratic Party couldn't throw everything it had at him, even officially supporting Lamont, because of the possibility of him winning and defecting. Which was totally predictable right from the primaries, and I didn't figure out because I was stupid.
Thanks everybody for not taking the bet!
The Democratic Party couldn't throw everything it had at him, even officially supporting Lamont, because of the possibility of him winning and defecting. Which was totally predictable right from the primaries, and I didn't figure out because I was stupid.
Thanks everybody for not taking the bet!
ronito said:
No, I earned my red badge of honor for taking trollbait. I shouldn't have done that. I know better now.
3B hasn't really done anything wrong insofar as I've seen. Maybe he will eventually, but this forum can't be so ideologically bigoted as to think being a Republican should equal insta-ban.
We all love games, can't we all just get along?
im done with this thread. im not going into it anymore. its useless and pointless of me, just one republican, trying to go up against several and several non-republicans. theres no use.
now that i am leaving the thread, this thread is just going to be a bunch of democrats preaching to the choir. might as well just be a democratic support thread since im gone from it.
and if you try to poke at me in other threads, ill just ignore the post. keep it in here.
and if i get banned becuase of what i have posted in this thread, its because the mod who banned me has a problem because i am supporting the republicans, not because i am trolling. i havent made one trolling post this entire thread. the posts you democrats have thrown at me are more trollish than anything i have posted, its just that since all you agree with those posts that it doesn't seem like trolling. but from a republican standpoint it does.
adios!
now that i am leaving the thread, this thread is just going to be a bunch of democrats preaching to the choir. might as well just be a democratic support thread since im gone from it.
and if you try to poke at me in other threads, ill just ignore the post. keep it in here.
and if i get banned becuase of what i have posted in this thread, its because the mod who banned me has a problem because i am supporting the republicans, not because i am trolling. i havent made one trolling post this entire thread. the posts you democrats have thrown at me are more trollish than anything i have posted, its just that since all you agree with those posts that it doesn't seem like trolling. but from a republican standpoint it does.
adios!
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PantherLotus
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threeball said:
Ok, you're just an asshole. Sorry I tried.
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