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Gijith
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Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns'
#3363208 - 11/15/04 09:07 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I guess we all saw this coming. One of the few people in this administration worth having respect for has bitten the dust. I suppose that's what happens when you're the voice of reason.
Anyone have thoughts?
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Gijith]
#3363215 - 11/15/04 09:14 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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yah,
did you have sleepwalking nightmares about pink elephants when you were a kid?
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Innvertigo
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Gijith]
#3363234 - 11/15/04 09:21 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I can't blame him for leaving.
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Gijith]
#3363245 - 11/15/04 09:26 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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a real voice of reason would have walked out the door once it became clear that bush had made up his mind...
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Gijith]
#3363273 - 11/15/04 09:36 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm not surprised or upset. We're still going to keep trudging along like the bullheaded Americans we are, I will go to work in the morning, I will eat my lunch, I will hate my commute home, and I will sit in my apartment in peace just as before. I think I am done caring about politics until the next election, simply to save my own sanity.
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Gijith]
#3363307 - 11/15/04 09:51 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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there was some quote from him about how "fucking crazy" the administration neocons were... this country is going to get really shitty, i hope all the red states are happy
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: adrug]
#3363312 - 11/15/04 09:52 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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adrug said: I'm not surprised or upset. We're still going to keep trudging along like the bullheaded Americans we are, I will go to work in the morning, I will eat my lunch, I will hate my commute home, and I will sit in my apartment in peace just as before. I think I am done caring about politics until the next election, simply to save my own sanity.
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Innvertigo]
#3363314 - 11/15/04 09:53 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I can. You don't see me running off to Canada
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Tao]
#3363317 - 11/15/04 09:55 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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TaoTeChing said: I can. You don't see me running off to Canada
Aren't you in England right now?
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Tao]
#3363456 - 11/15/04 10:37 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I can. You don't see me running off to Canada
I believe you're waiting for the draft to do that.
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Innvertigo]
#3363473 - 11/15/04 10:43 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Innvertigo said: Quote:
I can. You don't see me running off to Canada
I believe you're waiting for the draft to do that.
Technically Canada is no longer an option for draft dodging. But I'm all for it, dodging that is. Hurting and killing people isn't something you should be forced to do. You should have to be enough of a sick uncaring asshole to volunteer to do it.
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Gijith]
#3363502 - 11/15/04 10:53 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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he's already been re-elected, now is the time to usher in an entirely new age of assbackwards policy and christian zeal in the whitehouse.
I, for one, feel David Duke will do a great job as Secretary of Education.
I heard they've fingered Ken Lay for Energy Secretary...
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: unbeliever]
#3363520 - 11/15/04 10:59 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Technically Canada is no longer an option for draft dodging. But I'm all for it, dodging that is.
and I'm all for letting those people leave. As long as they never come back.
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Innvertigo]
#3363556 - 11/15/04 11:07 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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you'd fight if drafted, or are you self-righteously above the age limit?
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: afoaf]
#3363570 - 11/15/04 11:09 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've already served but would fight if I was asked. It's not a popular position I know but it's one that I believe.
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Innvertigo]
#3363652 - 11/15/04 11:29 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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On a related, but side topic, Education Secretary Rod Paige steps down too.
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Paige was the first black secretary of education. Paige drew fire earlier this year when he called the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union, "a terrorist organization" because the union had been highly critical of Bush's "No Child Left Behind" law. He later apologized for the comment.
Holy shit... what a moron! Too bad for him that's what he's remembered for when he steps down...
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Blastrid]
#3363680 - 11/15/04 11:35 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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On a related, but side topic, Education Secretary Rod Paige steps down too.
also the energy secretery Spence "I'm a bufoon" Abraham stepped down, he's from Michigan and the only time you ever heard from him was 2 weeks before election. He's the first republican that I voted against when he lost his bid for re-election in Mich.
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Gijith]
#3363717 - 11/15/04 11:43 AM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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how fucked up the administration must be to have a fuckup like Colin Powell resign.
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Innvertigo]
#3363897 - 11/15/04 12:25 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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Innvertigo said: I've already served but would fight if I was asked. It's not a popular position I know but it's one that I believe.
I agree with you, I would fight if asked, but I would not sign up to do so just incase there was a conflict of interest.
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Re: Good Bye Diplomacy; Colin Powell 'Resigns' [Re: Gijith]
#3364610 - 11/15/04 03:04 PM (19 years, 4 months ago) |
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You mean now we can have an even more right wing administration? Yay!
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