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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Really, Follow the Thread

Do you actually read whole posts before you start to respond? I'm starting to wonder.

Nice try, but you should know better than that.

Where have I once said anything like that?

Right here, actually:

"How many murderous Hussein-like dictators have been installed worldwide, only to create self-serving kleptocracies while we sat idly by (or even encouraged and aided them)? Do we have a responsibility to help citizens of those nations who suffer from similar results of US causal relationships? I guess so, since Bush's 3rd or 4th reason for invading Iraq was to protect its citizens and take out its murderous leader we supported over the years."

But please, offer an alternative reading of those statements.

BTW, I love how some some concerned opinions are concerned opinions, and others are armchair liberals spouting off about duty and honor.

Please, tell me which part of that classification is inaccurate. How many years have you served in the military? Which aspects of military duty and honor have you experienced first-hand? How many times have you put yourself in harm's way in service of your country?

Steve on my information from Mary Matalin, who shared Iraqi poll stats this AM on NBCÂ’s Today Show...

You didn't answer the question. It was asked about your conclusions based on the information Matalin gave. You somehow managed to turn a poll indicating that Iraqi soldiers were, by a margin of nearly 2 to 1, confident about the future into a representative example of the futility of the war. I asked if you had reached that conclusion on your own or if you had gotten it somewhere else. I actually don't know which of the two I would find more bewildering.

Are you reading the posts before you respond?

And you still have not offered any alternative course of action to that suggested by Lieberman (or the President). You have thrown up several straw-men and gotten indignant about some of my responses, but other than simply restating activities that are currently taking place in Iraq, you have avoided answering the question completely. So I'll make it easy for you. Pick one of the following:

A. Stay the course, finish the job, bring the troops home.
B. Pull out and nuke the place until it glows.
C. Colonize Iraq and be done with it.
D. Cut and run.

Those are pretty much the only choices we have. Pick one of those or offer another, if you can. And just so you're not tempted to make this all about me again, I choose A or C. Choice C requires a level of intestinal fortitude I doubt we have, so the realistic choice is A.

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