A top aide to former Secretary of State
Colin Powell said Monday that wrongheaded ideas for the handling of foreign detainees arose from White House and Pentagon officials who argued that "the president of the United States is all-powerful" and the Geneva Conventions irrelevant.

In an Associated Press interview, former Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson also said President Bush was "too aloof, too distant from the details" of postwar planning. Underlings exploited Bush's detachment and made poor decisions, Wilkerson said.

Wilkerson blamed Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and like-minded aides. He said Cheney must have sincerely believed that Iraq could be a spawning ground for new terror assaults, because "otherwise I have to declare him a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard."

I think Bush has bought into the mythology that America's goodness and primacy is automatic and eternal. We ARE the guys in the white hats, everybody knows that.

Only problem, that sort of delusional pride leads to overconfidence and irrationality. Most religions have something about being on careful guard against pride and carelessness.

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I'm not surprise the democrats are ranting up a storm.....they have no credibility outside of their own......patting each other on the back while the thinking man looks at them and wonder how they are able to tie their shoes in the morning....

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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

that thinking man of yours ain't thinking. he is clicking his heels. Sieg Heil!

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RedMeat cartoon

That's a good way to kill a thread.........):

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Sold ->

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93 300E w/ 3.2
85 300D-
79 300SD
82 300CD
83 300CD - CA
87 190E 5 spd
87 Porsche 924S

"..I'll take a simple "C" to "G" and feel brand new about it..."

this is a site about german cars. german can't be disallowed?

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RedMeat cartoon

Spoken like a true follower of the CoC

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1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Sweet.

Godwin's Law, I believe...though I'm not certain if it invoked by inference, or if it requires an actual Nazi reference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

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Kirk hasn't changed his fixation, just his name.

Again.

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how the hell do you know if it is kv or not.. the mods have been wrong more then once on this already... who cares, is that the only thing you can come up with, since you obviously can't come up with a viable argument?

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I'm using CMAC's method. By intuition alone I divine the truth. Nothing can dissuade me, especially facts.

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cool method! I prefer instead to select at random one internally inconsistent story book and hold all contents to be literally true. Every year at new years I change books. 2001 was a strange year; Uncle Wiggly... But, if it works for millions, why ask why?

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This is just a drive by.



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"A liberal is someone who feels they owe a great debt to their fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."

From the mouths of babes....

BotsenvieStuukenlouvre:

You a brilliant sign-tist an' all but your positions are cast in stone, Bwah! Life is more flexible than you.

Take your wife out dancing, take some yoga....something. I have every confidence that you can eventually move that stuck mass through your system.

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