[Rhodes22-list] Politics

[Herb Parsons]

Slim,

I'm not trying to convince you to "trust this administration". I have no 
reason for you to trust this administration. If they were running for 
something, and I was trying to get them elected, I might have need to 
try to convince you. They're not, I'm not.

As it stands, they apparently didn't convince you to trust them, but 
they DID convince those that voted for them, and thus got the job.

However, if I may remind you what started this little bit of silliness 
was the statement you made:

"Brad, I don't know how much farther our country can decline before you 
realize how much damage has been done by the current occupant."

Though you directed the question to Brad, I assumed it was open to all, 
so I simply asked what damage. You haven't convinced ME (or Brad, I 
suspect). You and Rummy both have put up a lot of nonsense from others, 
but I've yet to see a thought out description from either of you 
PERSONALLY of the "damage" you've talked about.

I suspect it's not going to come.

I suspect there's a reason too...


Steven Alm wrote:
> Brad, not sure what you're taliking about.
>
> Herb, since you're so into the facts, why don't you start with some.  Give
> me the facts on why I or any of us should trust this administration.
>
> Slim
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 2:04 PM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Slim,
>>
>> Out the door and running late!  What were we talking about?  Did Grant get
>> surprised at Shiloh in 62' and should he have thrown his forces into the
>> "Hornets Nest" during the afternoon?  Oh, we're talking now?  OK, what is
>> the Messiah's vision for Iraq in 2010?  Inquiring minds want to know.
>> Don't
>> give me hope, I got that.  Change?  No shit, Sherlock!  Things damn sure
>> change.  Give me the plan! Any plan will do as long as it doesn't use the
>> word "hope" or "change" without defining what the meaning of change "is".
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2008 1:45 PM, Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Feb 12, 2008 1:00 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> The question as to whether or not the Bush administration was a
>>>> "catastrophe" is definitely open to debate. The person writing is
>>>> expressing an opinion, not fact.
>>>>         
>>> So you're saying this has NOT been a catastrphe?
>>>
>>>       
>>>> The question of wether or not the Iraq war was a "tragedy" that was
>>>> caused by the Bush administration is open to debate, again expressing
>>>>         
>> an
>>     
>>>> opinion, not fact. (The FACT is that the war was authorized by
>>>>         
>> congress,
>>     
>>>> and the result of many violations of a cease-fire agreement, and
>>>> agreement that was structured during the previous Bush
>>>>         
>> admninistration,
>>     
>>>> and violated numerous times during the Clinton administration, but
>>>>         
>> hey,
>>     
>>>> let's not let facts get in the way of a good Bush-bashing).
>>>>         
>>> So you're saying the war in Iraq is NOT a tragedy ?
>>>
>>>       
>>>> The "shame" of Guantanamo is that so many leftists have made it out to
>>>> be something worse than it its.
>>>>         
>>> So you're saying the situation in Guantanamo is OK?
>>>
>>>       
>>>> The "shame" of Abu Gharib was NOT the result of "the Bush
>>>> administration", that's hyperbole.
>>>>         
>>> Wasn't Donald Rumsfeld part of the Bush administration?  What ever
>>> happened
>>> to "the buck stops here?"
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Slim
>>>>
>>>>         
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