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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 05:31 PM
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"But we havnt been attacked in 7 years"
If i hear that one more time, i am going to scream....:grr: :grr: :grr: :hi:
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 05:32 PM
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1. That ridiculous arguments taken further ...
implies that to prevent attacks we only needed to strip privacy rights, torture, kill hundreds of thousands of innocent peoples and sacrifice on a war alter over 5,000 Americans and counting.....
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 05:36 PM
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6. I've felt attacked all seven years -- by the Bushistas.
And those who have been illegally jailed, renditioned, denied rights to counsel, and so on have it much worse than the rest of us -- they have REALLY been attacked, and they include American citizens.
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 05:33 PM
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2. And before that, we weren't attacked for 60 years - even on that standard
Bush is still a failure - he couldn't prevent what numerous other presidents (of both parties) managed to do.
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timtom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 06:59 AM
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37. Excellent and oft-overlooked point.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 05:33 PM
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3. We weren't attacked most of the previous years either.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 05:33 PM
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4. Yo Parche
When Clinton was President we weren't attacked for eight years. Clinton wins.

Conservatives are pathetic fucks. Never, NEVER taking responsibility for anything. bush let 9-11 occur. Yo conservative pukes, how did that work out?
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4 t 4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 05:35 PM
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5. weren't attacked her but so many died
dead is dead IMHO
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 07:58 AM
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20. Clinton didn't bray on at the end of his term
about how we weren't attacked. bush wanted to go to war in Iraq without one iota of concern for the lives of the servicemembers he was using for his own warped pathology.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 05:38 PM
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7. Hey Boss
Just read this book i found at the Libree



It was ok, not as good as the previous ones

:patriot: :hi:
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 08:01 AM
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21. Yo Parche
I'm loaded up with fiction crime stories and a couple of books about Cajun Culture (gotta stay on top of Boo-dro) right now, putting the miltary stuff on the backburner for a short while. I did get a gift card to BN for Christmas. Happy Reading.
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 10:39 PM
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29. During Clinton, the World Trade Center was bombed. Small in comparison.
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Gemini Cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 12:45 AM
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33. Yes, that's right.
And the terrorists responsible for the act were caught shortly thereafter. Just like the terrorists responsible for Oklahoma City were caught. Clinton, unlike bush, actually did something to catch the terrorists.



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theoldman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 05:43 PM
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8. I have not been bitten by a mosquito all day.
Maybe it's because there are no mosquitoes in my house. The same analogy can be applied to a terrorist attack. Have any of you heard about us finding a terrorist and preventing an attack? You cannot find something that is not there. I still feel that anyone can attack us if they put their mind to it.
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 06:14 PM
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17. The only "terrorists" I've ever heard about in the past few years
have been people who didn't even have the firepower to bomb a common housefly off a dog turd in the yard.

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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 05:51 PM
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9. Me, too! NO is in ruins, the world hates us and our treasury is empty, but
Bush gets kudos for not letting America get attacked AGAIN.

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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 05:54 PM
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10. Not be people with guns or bombs. T-bills and penniless jobs, maybe.
"national security" is far, far, FAR more than just keeping the murderous thugs out. Information technology and data (you know, information, the stuff that so many spy shows from the 1960s pertained to!!) are important as well.
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 05:59 PM
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11. Bill Clinton kept us safe after the first world trade center bombing
at least by the same criteria
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 06:02 PM
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12. we dont need Osama with that F'n wet brain alcoholic Psychotic NARCISSISSY in the White House.. we
are attacked every day, Osama could have never hurt us as bad as that appointed pResident
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 06:09 PM
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15. NARCISSISSY.
:spray: :rofl: :thumbsup:
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 06:11 PM
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16. i Coined that term, please feel free to use it "Liberally", if he wasnt a privilaged punk assed
Edited on Tue Jan-13-09 06:19 PM by sam sarrha
bitch, he'd be hav'n the DT's is some back alley on skid row.. or already OD'd on Sterno

but instead he's the son of the most powerful Mafia Don in the world
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 10:16 PM
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25. I like your term for the drunken hideous little bastard!
:yourock:
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 06:03 PM
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13. why would we be attacked?
when Bu$h and the repukes have been doing a bang up job of destroying the country themselves? :(
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 10:36 PM
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27. the enemies within.
bushco our own homegrown terrorists.:puke:
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zorahopkins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 06:06 PM
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14. Bush/Cheney HAVE Attacked Us
OMG!

I canNOT believe that people are really repeating this ridiculous meme.

The fact is that Bush/Cheney and the entire regime of thugs and cronies have been attacking US for every day of their terrible past eight years.

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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 06:27 PM
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18. I wonder how long it took for the terrorist killings in Ireland by both sides
to reach the figure that died as a result of 9/11? A fair few decades I suspect.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 06:28 PM
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19. apparently, 3000 dead people were a free pass
:puke:
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 08:05 AM
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22. "Cause and Effect" really isn't a Repuke strong point . . .
CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP

"Why are you clapping?"

"DUH! To keep the TIGERS from attacking me, of course."

"But . . . there aren't any tigers anywhere."

"Damn, this clapping thing's working better than I thought."

SAME damned thing.

Yet the worst terrorist attack on American soil happens on BEWSH'S watch (and arguably, with BEWSH's foreknowledge . . . I mean, what, only 11 or more nations warned him) and they still don't see how absolutely DUMB the whole "becauz of Bush, no terrst attcks sins 9/11" statement is.

Unreachable and in fairy tale land until the end times, I guess.
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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 08:33 AM
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23. Anthrax Attacks - They happened AFTER 9/11
So Bush did not keep us safe on his watch after 9/11.

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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 08:51 AM
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24. I have the best counter argument for that; used it on a freeper the other day
and he shut right up.

* November 2001: After the genuine 2001 anthrax attacks, Clayton Waagner mailed hoax letters containing a white powder to 554 clinics. Waagner was convicted of 51 charges relating to the anthrax scare on December 3, 2003.

* July 4, 2005: A clinic Palm Beach, Florida was the target of an arson.

* December 12, 2005: Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana. The device missed the building and no damage was caused. In August 2006, Hughes was sentenced to six years in prison, and Dunahoe to one year.

* September 13, 2006 David McMenemy of Rochester Hills, Michigan crashed his car into the Edgerton Women's Care Center in Davenport, Iowa. He then doused the lobby in gasoline and then started a fire. McMenemy committed these acts in the belief that the center was performing abortions, however Edgerton is not an abortion clinc.<13>

* April 25, 2007: A package left at a women's health clinic in Austin, Texas contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death. A bomb squad detonated the device.<14>

* May 9, 2007: An unidentified person deliberately set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Virginia Beach, Virginia.<15>

* December 6, 2007: Two unidentified persons set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico.<16>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion-related_violence

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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 10:34 PM
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26. Why would they have wasted their resources doing that?
Bush/Cheney were the greatest asset to the terrorist they could possibly have hoped for. They were so easily manipulated to instilling fear and paranoia to the public and wiping away civil liberties with the stroke of a pen, it was futile for the terrorist to waste time on another US attack. Bush was putty in their hands. The best friend any terrorist ever had.
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Shardik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 10:38 PM
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28. There was once a man standing on a Corner in NYC banging a metal garbage lid with a hammer.
"What are you doing?" I asked.

"Why, I'm keeping lions and bears away!" he replied between the bangs.

"But there are no lions and bears in NYC," I said.

He looked at me, smiled and said, "You see! It works! Mission accomplished!"
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eowyn_of_rohan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 11:01 PM
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30. Nah- they've just destroyed us from within.
Edited on Wed Jan-14-09 11:02 PM by eowyn_of_rohan
:mad:
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 11:10 PM
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31. When you hit your target, you are done.
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 11:50 PM
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32. It's all due to my teddy bear, Al Pacca. He's why we no attacks since 911. And I can prove it.
My teddy bear, Al Pacca, has kept us safe from attacks the past 7 years.

The proof?

We haven't been attacked the past 7 years.












But wasn't the attack that happened on George W. bUsh & the Republic Party watch MORE THAN ENOUGH???
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SPQR Donating Member (315 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 02:24 AM
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34. Exactly how many times
must a country be attacked before it's a black mark on your record? 1+ it seems.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 03:19 AM
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35. And Germany hasn't invaded Poland in DECADES
:)
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 05:53 AM
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36. Too bad about that pesky little event on
Sept 11 that chimp had been warned about by the Clinton's and he choose to ignore. :mad: I will never gived him credit for keeping us "safe" ... FUCK that SHIT!!!! :mad: :grr: :nuke:
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