Yeah, I’m just a Stalinist pretending to care about thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. I’m simply doing this for shits and giggles.

Puh-leez.

Put Pogue, the Democrats running for President describe such a dire state of the nation, and here you are claiming, that people aren’t dieing as a result of their inaction.

But Keith, I’m making no such claim. Your pulled quote is unimpressively mocking the Dems for not getting things done about FDA overhaul bills and appropriation bills. Where do you get, “you are claiming, that people aren’t dieing as a result of their inaction.”

I mean honestly, where the hell did that come from???

Besides, that’s not the point I’m making anyway.

The point is, the Democrats made big promises, and are failing to deliver. And they aren’t being shot at. And they’ve had years of practice at this democracy thing.

My point is that your point makes no sense.
It’s the FACT that no one is getting shot at, and we’re not spending hundreds of billions of my tax dollars abroad that makes the comparison fallacious. If it were the opposite, then you might be able to backbite congress.

Otherwise, the comparison is just silly.

Cheers.

As long as they don’t show up on his (her?) news. Which is the big issue in Iraq for the stalinists, it’s taking up pwecious news cycles. Before America showed up, the population was being slaughtered anonymously. Now suddenly we have to hear about it, we have to act like we care. We just can’t abide that, can we Pogue?

What about, all those deaths from global warming, unregulated guns, abortions not being performed, relaxed environmental regulations, fetal stem cells not being collected and turned into miracle medicine, etc…

If things are as dire as they say they are, they ought to have made getting our own house in order a priority.

The point is, the Democrats made big promises, and are failing to deliver. And they aren’t being shot at. And they’ve had years of practice at this democracy thing.

This isn’t to justify anything except a call for a bit of patience and perspective. Something missing from many peoples arguments.

And the same is true for the US congress.
Sure they can’t seem to pass simple legislation due to their own incompetence, and some might argue that that is a good thing, but I don’t see tens of thousands dieing in the street because of that fact.

To compare the two is beyond ridiculous. And to justify our expense at that comparison is moronic.

Cheers.

Who are these people to complain that the Iraqis aren’t making sufficient political progress.

Because, according to you, since we don’t have a well oiled machine for a government, that completely justifies spending hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands and thousands of American lives.

I’ll make a deal with you. I’ll stop throwing rocks, when the Iraqis finally have a house to throw them at.

Deal?