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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 11:53 AM
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So if a tanker truck loaded with toxic waste crashes into your yard
Edited on Tue Jan-09-07 12:02 PM by cboy4
and house, spilling its contents everywhere....making an enormous mess that could take decades to completely clean up...who should be responsible for the clean-up?

The company which owns the 18-wheeler or the innocent property owner?

Of course, it should be the company.

**Why do I bring this up?

Because I hear all of these Republicans go on and on about how the Iraqis should be doing more to secure their country so we can leave. And they're really angry and sarcastic about it!

Excuse me but the last time I checked, it wasn't the Iraqis who crashed the 18-wheeler loaded with toxic waste.

It was the United States.

Yes, the Iraqis (even though this whole mess with the war wasn't their fault) need to work together to secure their country.

But I'm so fricken sick and tired of listening to these smug politicians (who voted for the war) sigh and make faces and go on and on about how the lazy Iraqi people need to be doing more. :wtf:

Believe me, I want our troops home yesterday.....but, It's not the Iraqi's fault that we put them in this situation of having to start from scratch to take charge. x(



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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 11:57 AM
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1. Excellent analogy.
We broke it. It's our job to fix it or pay for it. And we should be conscience that we broke it, and make every effort to stop breaking it some more!
x(
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:04 PM
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3. Exactly!! =)
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 11:58 AM
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2. Then you're going to LOVE Bush's $1 BILLION jobs proposal
Details forthcoming, of course. :evilgrin:

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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:17 PM
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4. I know. I'm already loading up on Pepto-Bismol in anticipation
of that! :puke:
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:20 PM
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5. If it happens in my yard, I'm suing the shit outta somebody.
Just sayin'.

Bake
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:29 PM
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10. Yea, well I think that option is off the table for the Iraqis.
Know what I'm sayin?
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 01:36 PM
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14. Metaphorically speaking, yes it is.
I was simply responding to your literal question. The Iraqis have no recourse whatsoever.

Bake
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 01:37 PM
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15. Oh, gotcha. Yea, you're right. n/t
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:21 PM
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6. Yuh have to laugh at the complete inversion of reality
that passes for news and opinion.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:22 PM
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7. shut up hippie!!
i'm sure next you wanna sign them aLL up for weLfare and abortions. typicaL commie Lib.
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:27 PM
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8. Oh it's just lucky you're my home boy or I would have had to lash
out at you. x(

Signed,

hippie/typical commie lib
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:29 PM
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9. i'm just trying to get punished
:loveya:
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:29 PM
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11. Yea, well you'll have to wait in line.
;)
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:30 PM
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12. Funny how repukes say people are lazy when it was the repukes
fault to begin with.

You can use that analogy with just about anything they say that they don't want to take the blame for.
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:31 PM
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13. Great analogy.
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