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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    05/22/09

    In reply to Hippie Yells At Rumsfeld, We Are Conflicted
    Nice one Pareene.
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    Image of El Matardillo El Matardillo
    05/13/09

    In reply to Hippie Yells At Rumsfeld, We Are Conflicted
    Hopefully next time these ladies will immolate themselves in a pillar of righteous and cleansing fire, then turn themselves into bats and flitter away.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    05/13/09

    In reply to Hippie Yells At Rumsfeld, We Are Conflicted
    I had to have my breakfast dinner at Cafe des Artistes next to effing Donald Rumsfield two years ago. Almost ruined my appetite.


    I had to bite my tongue, but I was like: time/place?


    This is totes fair game though.

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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    05/13/09

    @HiredGoons: I mean birthday dinner. Wow. I need coffee.
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    Image of southernbitch southernbitch
    05/13/09

    @HiredGoons: telling off donald rumsfeld during a fancy bday dinner would have been awesome, though! it would've been your best present to yourself ever.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    05/13/09

    @southernbitch: It was sooooo tempting.
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    Image of Ohcaptainmycaptain Ohcaptainmycaptain
    05/13/09

    In reply to Hippie Yells At Rumsfeld, We Are Conflicted
    God, I love Rummy. Why should he take shit from a conspiracy-theorist loon?
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    05/13/09

    @Ohcaptainmycaptain: I like to laugh at the conspiracy theorists as much as the next man, but equating this person to them merely illustrates how out of touch you are.
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    05/13/09

    In reply to Hippie Yells At Rumsfeld, We Are Conflicted
    After the amount of effort that GWB and his cohorts spent to gag Americans, it's about time they STARTED to get some free speech right in their face.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    05/13/09

    In reply to Hippie Yells At Rumsfeld, We Are Conflicted
    Boy does this take me back a couple of decades. My step-mother could be so shrill.
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    05/13/09

    In reply to Hippie Yells At Rumsfeld, We Are Conflicted
    I would rather see him get a pie in the face or something.
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    Image of Anthony De Rosa Anthony De Rosa
    05/13/09

    In reply to Hippie Yells At Rumsfeld, We Are Conflicted
    The use of the royal "we" just seems kind of clumsy here.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    05/13/09

    @Soup: Dear Soup, Please clarify. We don't know what you mean. Thank you, Us.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    05/13/09

    @Soup:


    Once again, it refers to "Me and the Montauk Monster in my pocket"

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    Image of pacific_reporter pacific_reporter
    05/13/09

    In reply to Hippie Yells At Rumsfeld, We Are Conflicted
    Worse than Robert McNamara? You have a seriously skewed view of history.
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    05/13/09

    @pacific_reporter: At least McNamara realized it eventually.


    If you have never seen "The Fog of War", I highly recommend it. It will almost make you feel a little sorry for the guy. Not that he would even call himself a sympathetic figure, but you do get the sense that he was coming clean, and that what he was saying was finally the real truth. So when he does say that he was wrong, but he was caught up in a system that wanted him to make the decisions he made, it doesn't sound like an excuse. And he gets very specific about all the mistakes that were made - things that he vigorously defended right up until that documentary.


    Will Rumsfeld one day have such an epiphany? It won't suddenly make it all better if he does, but at least it would vindicate all those who criticized his decisions, which would (you would hope) make it less likely for others to repeat them.

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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    05/13/09

    @badasscat:


    There's a simple rule to follow: If anything you do involves people dying, and it cannot be justified as true self defense, it is indefensible.

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    Image of jbwan jbwan
    05/13/09

    In reply to Hippie Yells At Rumsfeld, We Are Conflicted
    This is actually hilarious. The best part "here comes the war criminal!"
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    Image of Thatcornellguy Thatcornellguy
    05/13/09

    @jbwan: Crazy hippies FTW!
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    05/11/09

    In reply to Greta Van Susteren Is Not Her Friend's Husband's Handler
    "Next on Fox, Greta Van Susteren gets the whole story from Piper Palin: just what does she carry in that Hello Kitty backpack?"
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    05/11/09

    In reply to Greta Van Susteren Is Not Her Friend's Husband's Handler
    Todd was just volunteering to help find dumb white girls lost in the Caribbean. Starting with Bristol.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    05/11/09

    In reply to It Was Totally OK To Enjoy the Correspondents' Dinner This Year
    Okay, can we talk for a second about Sklar's piece? (Sorry, Rachel: here we go). Her justification for the thing's existence is that it allows reporters to cozy up to and establish relationships with sources who wouldn't otherwise show up if not for the celebs. She also takes the Krucoff defense ("It's for charity!").


    Can somebody help me understand the many different degrees of "wrong" I feel about this?

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    Image of dado dado
    05/11/09

    In reply to Greta Van Susteren Is Not Her Friend's Husband's Handler
    Are you there vodka? It's me, Handler.
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    05/11/09

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