Comments on: There Aren’t Any Flowers in Baghdad Today http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2006/05/01/there-arent-any-flowers-in-baghdad-today/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:35:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: john http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2006/05/01/there-arent-any-flowers-in-baghdad-today/#comment-11970 john Mon, 01 May 2006 19:49:51 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2006/05/01/there-arent-any-flowers-in-baghdad-today/#comment-11970 NOTE: This post represents the opinions of John, not the UNO Democrats community as a whole. I'm sure some would have liked to leave the "top-post" a while longer on the Tribute to the Fallen post. Several people where starting to add comments that were getting increasingly partisan, so I thought we needed a new post to let that emotion out on. I think it is only natural. Last week we felt sadness, grief, lament. Now we feel anger, a desire to do something to stop the dying. At least that's what I feel. The morning we put the flags up I told a Vietnam Vet who lost a leg, and a good bit of his hearing and eye-sight in the war, about the flags. Keep in mind this is a man who is a registered Republican, who votes Republican most of the time. The first thing he said to me was, "doesn't it break your heart to know now that it was all for lies?" The Center for American Progress has an interesting graph on the dichotomy of "mission accomplished" vs what the last three years have brought us. http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/01/mission-accomplished-by-the-numbers/ NOTE: This post represents the opinions of John, not the UNO Democrats community as a whole. I’m sure some would have liked to leave the “top-post” a while longer on the Tribute to the Fallen post. Several people where starting to add comments that were getting increasingly partisan, so I thought we needed a new post to let that emotion out on. I think it is only natural. Last week we felt sadness, grief, lament. Now we feel anger, a desire to do something to stop the dying. At least that’s what I feel.

The morning we put the flags up I told a Vietnam Vet who lost a leg, and a good bit of his hearing and eye-sight in the war, about the flags. Keep in mind this is a man who is a registered Republican, who votes Republican most of the time. The first thing he said to me was, “doesn’t it break your heart to know now that it was all for lies?”

The Center for American Progress has an interesting graph on the dichotomy of “mission accomplished” vs what the last three years have brought us.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/01/mission-accomplished-by-the-numbers/

]]> By: Brian http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2006/05/01/there-arent-any-flowers-in-baghdad-today/#comment-11971 Brian Mon, 01 May 2006 21:44:31 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2006/05/01/there-arent-any-flowers-in-baghdad-today/#comment-11971 Interesting polling data over at Politics In Nebraska website: http://politicsinnebraska.blogspot.com/ Interesting polling data over at Politics In Nebraska website:

http://politicsinnebraska.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Dave Sund http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2006/05/01/there-arent-any-flowers-in-baghdad-today/#comment-11974 Dave Sund Tue, 02 May 2006 00:12:44 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2006/05/01/there-arent-any-flowers-in-baghdad-today/#comment-11974 Is that relevant to this conversation at all, Brian? 2,400 dead now in Iraq. Three years from the day that Bush played dress up, and we've lost so many since then. Excellent post, John. I just hope that there is an end in sight. And that we aren't about to embark on another mistake. Is that relevant to this conversation at all, Brian?

2,400 dead now in Iraq. Three years from the day that Bush played dress up, and we’ve lost so many since then. Excellent post, John. I just hope that there is an end in sight. And that we aren’t about to embark on another mistake.

]]> By: Brian http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2006/05/01/there-arent-any-flowers-in-baghdad-today/#comment-11975 Brian Tue, 02 May 2006 04:14:47 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2006/05/01/there-arent-any-flowers-in-baghdad-today/#comment-11975 Hi Dave Sund at http://davesund.blogspot.com/: I think it could be relevant---it really depends on whether or not someone thinks it is or is not relevant, or relative. Have a great day! Hi Dave Sund at http://davesund.blogspot.com/:

I think it could be relevant—it really depends on whether or not someone thinks it is or is not relevant, or relative.

Have a great day!

]]> By: john http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2006/05/01/there-arent-any-flowers-in-baghdad-today/#comment-11982 john Tue, 02 May 2006 16:12:45 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2006/05/01/there-arent-any-flowers-in-baghdad-today/#comment-11982 Dave, I hope you're right about not embarking on any more mistakes. I can't even begin to think about what Iran would be like. Let's hope anything about that war is pure speculation. Dave, I hope you’re right about not embarking on any more mistakes.

I can’t even begin to think about what Iran would be like. Let’s hope anything about that war is pure speculation.

]]> By: James McClow http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2006/05/01/there-arent-any-flowers-in-baghdad-today/#comment-26072 James McClow Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:06:11 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2006/05/01/there-arent-any-flowers-in-baghdad-today/#comment-26072 Could you imagine whats next with korea. I mean iran on one hand but we are facing an even mnore threatening path with korea. Iran=future nukes and korea=nut job KIM! Could you imagine whats next with korea. I mean iran on one hand but we are facing an even mnore threatening path with korea. Iran=future nukes and korea=nut job KIM!

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