Comments on: Moral Foundations http://laurenlavoie.com/politics/236 A blog Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:06:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: lauren http://laurenlavoie.com/politics/236/comment-page-1#comment-16374 lauren Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:50:41 +0000 http://laurenlavoie.com/politics/236#comment-16374 I don't always approve the comments that fall in the "vitriolic personal attack" category, but why the heck not... I suppose that's the risk one takes when she puts her blog out in the wild. :) I'm not really interested in arguing the merits of the Iraq war - that's been done by many others who can express their opinions better than I can. But to explain the pronoun - I'd have a hard time calling a war that 54% of Americans want to pull troops out of ASAP (and only 39% want to "wait and see") "America's war." Pew Research poll: http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=355 And a few other polls: http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=28099 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/17/opinion/polls/main3268663.shtml I don’t always approve the comments that fall in the “vitriolic personal attack” category, but why the heck not… I suppose that’s the risk one takes when she puts her blog out in the wild. :)

I’m not really interested in arguing the merits of the Iraq war – that’s been done by many others who can express their opinions better than I can. But to explain the pronoun – I’d have a hard time calling a war that 54% of Americans want to pull troops out of ASAP (and only 39% want to “wait and see”) “America’s war.”

Pew Research poll:
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=355

And a few other polls:
http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=28099
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/17/opinion/polls/main3268663.shtml

]]> By: Jim Steele http://laurenlavoie.com/politics/236/comment-page-1#comment-16348 Jim Steele Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:07:52 +0000 http://laurenlavoie.com/politics/236#comment-16348 "His" war? It's the United States of America's war and it was duly authorized by the duly elected representatives of the American public. It's America's war. It's our war, whether you like it or not. No matter how much you stick your fingers in your ears and You do know that al-Qaeda and all the Islamacist terrorists of the world wouldn't think twice about slicing off your head even if you do hate President Bush. Wake up. They want to kill us all--from the Oh-So-Eco-Conscious Vegan Lefties and 9-11 Truthers to the Red State Republicans. They are equal opportunity slaughter machines. They want to enslave the people of Iraq, the Middle East, and the World entire in a Muslim caliphate. Imagine what the Taliban did in Afghanistan on a world wide scale. You call it "his war" today because you think it's a slander, an attempt to pin what you view as a failure on a politcal opponent of yours. I wonder if you'll still have the guts to call it "his war" when Iraq one day stands among the community of free, secure and democratic nations. It's called human liberty--you know, that thing Liberals used to claim they supported--and it's worth fighting for. “His” war? It’s the United States of America’s war and it was duly authorized by the duly elected representatives of the American public. It’s America’s war. It’s our war, whether you like it or not. No matter how much you stick your fingers in your ears and

You do know that al-Qaeda and all the Islamacist terrorists of the world wouldn’t think twice about slicing off your head even if you do hate President Bush. Wake up. They want to kill us all–from the Oh-So-Eco-Conscious Vegan Lefties and 9-11 Truthers to the Red State Republicans. They are equal opportunity slaughter machines. They want to enslave the people of Iraq, the Middle East, and the World entire in a Muslim caliphate. Imagine what the Taliban did in Afghanistan on a world wide scale.

You call it “his war” today because you think it’s a slander, an attempt to pin what you view as a failure on a politcal opponent of yours. I wonder if you’ll still have the guts to call it “his war” when Iraq one day stands among the community of free, secure and democratic nations.

It’s called human liberty–you know, that thing Liberals used to claim they supported–and it’s worth fighting for.

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