[S]ome days I think I’ve got the post to end all posts lined up in my head and I will discover to my shock and chagrin that Digby or Glenn Greenwald has already written about it, and I’m totally hosed. Approaching a topic after one of those two has already handled it is kind of like approaching the all-you-can-eat food bar at Ryan’s Steakhouse after Rush Limbaugh has come through. There’s, like, nothing left.Well, a lot of times Glenn Greenwald just chews up food and spits it out all over the floor and the walls and the furniture month after month until it piles up and congeals and grows into mold, turning the room into a repulsive, health-threatening mess. Then, there's a lot left.
What is it with these lefty bloggers and their food metaphors? It's enough to make you think they're all... doughy.
ADDED:
"Wheeee! I'm blogging!"
SPECIAL MESSAGE TO TREX:
"Wheeee! I'm blogging!"
AND: David Lat says: "Ann Althouse: We love it when she gets medieval -- or should we say me-diva? -- on a hapless blogger's a**." Hey, that's good for the banner!
UPDATE: TRex writes, then deletes, something about me.
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«Pinakaluma ‹Mas luma 201 – 211 ng 211revenant said:
Well you had us going for a minute there, but you gave away the game with the "grab for oil" and "Iraq as a US colony" gaffe. That sort of silliness has no traction outside of the political fringes. Come back when you're serious about politics, hm?
so the US is not their for oil? oh, i really am a fool. silly me! will you please completely and concisely explain why the United States invaded Iraq?
perfecthair, here ya go. About the oil: the cheapest way to get oil is to buy it on the open market. If the point was to obtain cheap oil, we would have done what the French and Russians were doing, that is, making deals with Saddam Hussein based on the notion that the UN sanctions would be lifted. It would have saved the US a lot of money and given us cheap oil, but Iraq would still have been a terrorist headquarters and, for its people, a totalitarian hell run by sadistic lunatics.
so the US is not their for oil? oh, i really am a fool.
If you're still buying into the "we invaded Iraq to get its oil" nonsense at this late date then, yeah... "fool" pretty much sums it up.
will you please completely and concisely explain why the United States invaded Iraq?
Nah, you're not worth my time.
Great pics, Iam. I remember them from before. It's so wonderful the first few times you observe your young child absorbed in serious, voluntary reading. But they can't really participate in our feelings as we observe them.
"If you're still buying into the 'we invaded Iraq to get its oil' nonsense at this late date then, yeah... 'fool' pretty much sums it up."
Seconded.
I'm with Revenant, it's inconceivable that two old oil men invaded a country unprovoked with the world's 3rd largest oil reserves.
Only kooks like Alan Greenspan buy into this nonesense.
ok, i'm a "fool" and you're a jelly doughnut.
if you think that oil was not the number one reason that the US invaded Iraq you are deluded. you are in denial like an alcoholic, a smoker or an obese person who refuses to recognize that they have a problem.
you could keep believing Bush's "freedom" crap, or what some conservative blogger said, or you could open your eyes and gather evidence from the real world. we are running out of oil. i am sure you think that "peak oil" is just another left-wing scare tactic, but it is real, it is beinning right nowNational Geographic, which is not known as a liberal publication leaning a little bit to right if anything, did i think a cover sotry on peak oil a few years.
Simon,
Back to the ludicrous argument that anybody who wants us out of Iraq...just doesn't want to "win?"
Just these old right drivel, over and over and over again.
And Sgt. Ted compares Iraq to Germany and Japan...???
Good Lord...
garage mahal said..."Only kooks like Alan Greenspan buy into this nonesense."
Yeah, that crazy, fly-off-the-handle Greenspan.
and stealing s***, such as another country's natural resources, is immoral. it's un-American.
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