OK, seriously, what are the odds that the administration would allow the verdict to be issued two days before the election if there were any doubt whatsoever about the outcome?
I think that, in the abstract, the Republican party, and particularly the high-ranking members of the Bush administration, should get credit for the fact that Saddam is guilty of war crimes. He couldn't have done it without them!
4 demonstrates a very poor grasp of history. Relatively recent history, at that.
Well, a lot of the crowd in this current administration did spend a lot of time during the 80's selling the dude weapons. And it wasn't a particularly glorious moment either when Bush Sr. encourage an uprising, then looked the other way while Saddam viciously crushed it.
I vicious insult based on poor reading! 5 retracted with apologies. I don't know why I read "the Republican party, and particularly the high-ranking members of the Bush administration" as "George W. Bush".
Clearly the rumor that it may be postponed is so that when it is announced Nov 5, the WH can say that it wasn't certain they were going to announce it to end up in the last news cycle before polls open, it just worked out that way.
Q:What are the Republicans calling their new Iraq exit strategy?
A:No Diplomat Left Behind.
<waves hand< I know! I know! Robert Coover.
Who is Uncle Sam?
Now, now. You people are all so paranoid. This is what's wrong with the left today. There's absolutely *no way* that the independent judiciary of Iraq could *possibly* be influenced by the US electoral process. What a completely ridiculous conspiracy theory.
And with that, I'm going to go to bed and set the alarm for October 31, 2008.
OT: If one senses that one is about to get dumped, is it unethical to o the pre-emptive dumping? Or would that make one just as bad as the Bush administration?
Or would that make one just as bad as the Bush administration?
Only if one burns down the guy's house with his grandmother inside, shoots him in the face, and then breaks up with him in the ICU.
I would say that if the signs one is getting that indicate that one is about to get dumped are making the relationship uncomfortable enough that one would rather not have to deal with it anymore, then that's as good a reason to dump someone as any.
Well, in this particular case "pre-emptive dumping" is more like "pretend while getting dumped that yeah, this is what I want, too!"
That sounds more "simultaneous" than "pre-emptive"; I don't see any problem with it.
Excellent. I'll report back in like an hour.
M. Leblanc is dumping Saddam? Now, in his time of crisis, when a Real Girlfriend would be there in court every day, weeping into her lacy handkerchief? Sheesh!
Hey, an early boyfriend and I simultaneously dumped each other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art when I was 15. It was great. We'd been good friends before we started going out, and didn't enjoy dating each other much, and stayed friends afterward. The relief in the air when the two of us each realized the other one wanted out too was palpable.
But it sounds like m. leblanc might not really want to end things: pretend while getting dumped that yeah, this is what I want, too!
A) If you want to end the relationship, and you feel like the other person wants it too, then you can do it preemptively, go ahead.
B) If you don't want to end the relationship, but you feel like the other person wants it too, it doesn't make sense to do the preemptive dump. What if you're wrong about the other person's intentions? All you accomplished was pretending to prevent some possibly imaginary hit to the self-esteem.
Only if one burns down the guy's house with his grandmother inside, shoots him in the face, and then breaks up with him in the ICU.
No, first you have to promise to rescue him. Then you burn down his house, barbecue his grandmother, shoot him in the face and break up with him in the ICU. "It's not me, it's you. I just can't rely on you," you say.
What if you're wrong about the other person's intentions?
Then they'll beg you to reconsider and you can graciously agree.
Well, that didn't work. My pretending skills are poor.
25: Hey, m., was the pretending so the other person didn't feel bad? Otherwise, why pretend at all?
My sympathy, m. leblanc. Breaking up sucks, especially when you didn't want to.
Oh, and sorry it didn't go well. That sucks.
Sorry, m. Will lift a glass in your direction here shortly.
Eh, if he didn't have the sense to want to stick around, he doesn't deserve you and you're well shut of him. But it's no fun, anyway, even if it's all for the best. Sorry, M.
No, the pretending was to maintain my personal dignity. It's for the best, but I tire of these things. I feel sometimes like my love life is just same damn thing over and over again.
I'll be lifting my own glass shortly.
Best to you, m. In the ideal future, condolence threads will become flash mobs, and a throng of Unfoggetarians will instantly whisk you away for drinks.
Awww, that sucks. Sorry to hear it, condolences, his loss, have a drinky-winky.
Sorry to hear that, m. life is just one damn thing after another, until it isn't.
no capitals? fucked my right arm somehow, just woke up in pain from shoulder to wrist. Everything works and looks normal, just hurts and doesn't get better. lady says its carpal tunnel, but hand and wrist are fine, and she just wants me to stop blogging...oh and she has had surgery and knows myriads of CTS sufferers. Forearm, upper arm, and shoulder twinge and pang and ache. pulled or torn something i suppose.
but resting the arm on pillows and trying to mouse and type left handed. poor doggies, but i aint putting 75 lb leash strain on the arm, or shifting the car with my right hand. Ain't spending 500 for a doctor to tell me rest and tylenol.
This too will pass and be forgotten,
A bit late, m., but sorry. Try throwing something.
Really late, but sorry to hear it, m.