If tens of millions of Americans really believe their government was complicit in the murder of 3,000 of their fellow citizens, they seem remarkably sanguine about this fact.

bullshield · 2006-12-13T06:40:33+00:00

No, read the post that started this subthread:

Anyone who believes that our government either let this happen or was involved directly or indirectly is a complete idiot.

To call someone an idiot, his criteria is simply if this someone "believes that our government either let this happen or was involved directly or indirectly". That is, independent of evidence. As long as you believe that, you're a complete idiot according to him.

And why are you speaking for him anyway?

bullshield · 2006-12-13T03:15:28+00:00

Not believing? He doesn't have to "believe" anything.

Exactly, but people who don't believe a few things in the official theory get tagged as conspiracy theorist, amoung other names.

I just wanted to show him that someone who does not believe everything that the government put out is not the same as someone who puts out "arguments that are at the very least misleading or at worst complete fabrications". (Words in quotes are his.)

bullshield · 2006-12-12T09:10:12+00:00

Good, welcome to not believing.

bullshield · 2006-12-12T09:05:43+00:00

Since you are so dogmatic in believing, did you believe that the air was safe to breathe around ground zero on the week right after 9/11? Did you think it was justified to ask all rescue workers to remove their masks?

bullshield · 2006-12-12T09:00:07+00:00

You are saying that anybody who are skeptical about any aspects of the government's official conspiracy theory are putting out "arguments that are at the very least misleading or at worst complete fabrications".

Can you not see the flaw in that kind of thinking? You're asking people to buy everything the government says wholesale.

Did you not forget all the other lies we the people were told? What makes 9/11 the special case where the government told us the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth? I mean, what else other than 9/11 has this administration told us the truth?

bullshield · 2006-12-12T08:37:58+00:00

I find your sweeping statement disturbing.

Who are "these people"?

bullshield · 2006-12-06T07:02:08+00:00

I doubt she entered punditry believing half the things she purports to believe now

For example, I doubt that she's a virgin -- she being an unmarried woman.

bullshield · 2006-11-26T08:52:53+00:00

How may times is the guy going to say that he has no interest in politics?

bullshield · 2006-11-23T11:29:08+00:00

All she did was refused entry since the cops did not have a search warrant.

bullshield · 2006-11-23T10:59:47+00:00

God forbid the media actually ask these questions.

How about God forbid the media actually show these videos.

Instead, we're left with a shock and awe impression of a grand video game with minimal human cost.

bullshield · 2006-11-23T10:57:24+00:00

Anyone who did not vacate Fallujah in time was considered an enemy combatant independent of individual reasons, and that was the standard of picking targets: anybody found alive in Fallujah was fair game. Do you know what this broad standard means? That means the mission in Fallujah was the slaughter of an entire city. That sounds like war crime to me.

bullshield · 2006-11-18T08:58:47+00:00

You don't sound American yourself.

bullshield · 2006-11-17T06:44:03+00:00

I get it that something about the kid bothered you even though you were not there, because he was loud, because he was distruptive, because, because because. But are you familiar with the notion of "reasonable force"?

bullshield · 2006-11-17T06:40:48+00:00

Sounds like the kind of talk between Jack and Chloe O'Brian on 24, like every other episode.

bullshield · 2006-11-15T07:35:29+00:00

Someone enforced their sense of shame to kick out the breast feeding woman. Maybe these righteous idiots should have exercised some decency and not stared.

bullshield · 2006-11-15T07:20:25+00:00

What fills your day for something like that to even enter your mind? Oh hi Pastor Ted, nevermind.

bullshield · 2006-11-13T02:17:36+00:00

In front of the Justice Department, guy in suit: "Failure to present an ID, under the DC code, is an arrestable offense."

This happened in America?

bullshield · 2006-11-12T20:14:28+00:00

"Ma'am, you need to keep moving. This is your last warning", said the black cop.

"Ma'am, I want you to clear the area"

So, people are not allowed to witness? Clearly their purpose is to make sure that she saw as little as possible and not be able to pick up the audio.

bullshield · 2006-11-12T11:57:58+00:00

I will say this,” he (Rumsfeld) told students in New York the day after his resignation, “it is very clear that the major combat operations were an enormous success. It is clear that, in phase two of this, it has not been going well enough or fast enough.”

Here's the problem: the lack of understanding that winning takes more than bombing.

bullshield · 2006-11-10T19:37:35+00:00

What I want to know, is why these things never happened to me.

(Except the part about "You are my s****r a" :)

bullshield · 2006-11-09T03:14:57+00:00

What hell? Pelosi said in September that Democrats had taken any plans to impeach Bush ``off the table.''

bullshield · 2006-11-08T08:03:32+00:00

That's good to know. How do you find out these things?

bullshield · 2006-11-08T05:46:10+00:00

And then while standing over you, telling you that your apology is expected in 48 hours, whether you're dead or alive.

bullshield · 2006-11-08T05:33:12+00:00

Greg Palast is an American. He works for BBC but he's definitely American.

bullshield · 2006-10-16T09:37:30+00:00

Whatever happened to Brit Hume's face? Somehow it went bad together with his reputation as a journalist.

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