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Dude, I think you're kind of losing it here. Even in the "hardcore Saddam areas," there has been good cooperation with tribal leaders and the population as a whole. A crowd here or a crowd there might chant slogans of defiance over the wreck of a Humvee, but you could probably find a few...

Sunday, July 20 Report: Incident occurred months before alleged assault -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESPN.com news services The Colorado woman who has accused Kobe Bryant of sexual assault overdosed on pills and was rushed to a...

Saddam's fall causes terrorist cash shortage Downfall of dictator also results in power vacuum in Arafat's Fatah -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 18, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern The downfall of Saddam Hussein has led to a shortage...

[/b] This last, in a nutshell, is how Optional777 has been working: He can't show why "containment is a strong argument," he simply asserts that it is strong, ignores how it contradicts his other (inconsistently maintained) arguments (that, for instance, his policy would not objectively...

If it was a good thing, then questions about the process have much different implications then if it wasn't. If you are going to admit that it was a good thing, then the intellectually honest and consistent position would be to cease arguing the morality and the actual - as opposed to the...

There's every reason to believe that Saddam, like some of the tyrants before him whose methods he has studied, has long seen peace activists and related groups as components of his political strategy, going back at least to Gulf War I. It's obvious to anyone who has watched his behavior over...

Why the sneer quotes around the word "liberated"? Looks obviously like your way of sneakily re-introducing doubt about whether or not getting rid of Saddam Hussein and his regime was a good thing. For the umpteenth, if not the ump-hundred-and-teenth time, you repeat a manipulative and...

As you probably know, Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War. Rumsfeld is a Navy veteran, though there was no hot war going on at the time. I hear Colin Powell had a hitch in the service, but I may have to check on that one. I don't believe Condoleeza Rice was...

So now you stoop to mimicry - and can't even sustain it coherently. Every day, you're becoming more like msfe, who also has resorted to this childish diversionary tactic. Such posts say nothing more than "Optional777 is upset" or "Optional777 disagrees" or "Optional777 dislikes KymarFye" or...

Needless to say, you don't show that you even read the piece that was linked. Instead, yet once again, you demonstrate an incapacity to deal with arguments and issues, and instead turn to contrived personal attacks - it's how you deal with Bush, it's how you deal with me and others on this...

Victor Davis Hanson's summary of what Bush has accomplished since 9/11, from a thoughtful essay on whether Bush's policies are better viewed as "corrections" toward a more moderate relationship with the world rather than the excessively compromised, gullible, and dangerous complacency and...

Very thoughtful essay explaining (again) why a committed European leftist supports Bush against many self-identified leftist critics and politicians. Includes a thoughtful comparison to Cold War Era US policy, and some comments on Chomsky and Schroeder, among others. (Scroll down to Bush and...

Yes, all Presidents, generals, and other war leaders should be put in solitary confinement for the duration of any conflict, and forced to survive on bread and water. Or maybe they should be forced to commit ritual suicide prior to ordering troops into battle. That would be an EXCELLENT...

Sorry, just not persuasive unless you put it in size = 8 at least. We've all seen how large fonts can turn even the crudest simplisms, most inane misreadings, most benumbing repetitions of previously disposed-of canards, and most juvenile insults into devastating weapons of intellectual...

It's those big fonts... your own WMD... it drives us all into the same corner.

Oh my, he did it while I was typing - but directed it elsewhere. Poor hapaboy... He must be devastated. Is there a doctor in the thread?

Hey, I'm already huddling in fear here... What if he brings out... the big font!? Then I'll really be in trouble...

Very manipulative tactic: Ask open-ended questions, then provide simplistic, conclusory answers without evidence or reasoning. [b] Another manipulative tactic: Find the one poll response that appears to back up your position. Considering that this poll was taken at the height of the...

DÉJÀ VU IN D.C. By RALPH PETERS July 16, 2003 (excerpt) The current attacks on President Bush over who knew what and when, over who supposedly lied and the merit of crucial decisions, are based in politics, not in a sincere concern for our national interests. Lincoln endured nearly...

More news on Optional777's favorite "immorally" deposed regime: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030717/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_mass_graves_1