Sgt Otter: Well, that's two people who didn't RTFA.

Reading is for liberals.

Afternoon_Delight: Only angry liberals could take the news of Iraqis returning to Iraq and somehow twist it into bad news.

Only a complete schmuck could read an article about 2 million refugees and an additional 2 million internally displaced persons and somehow read that to mean that "Iraqis are returning to Iraq". That's not at all what this article says. That America is "graciously" accepting .0008% of these refugees (which is not as much as the .0018% that they'd hoped for)* is the point of the article. Those numbers are, especially when compared with the numbers of refugees created by America's other wars, horribly low.

Apparently reading really IS just for liberal eggheads.

*all numbers are my own calculations and I suck at math and I didn't really try very hard to make sure I didn't make a mathematical error. feel free to correct these percentages. however you slice it, 1600 out of 4 million is a really small number.

Afternoon_Delight: You can't spin this thing libtards, no matter how hard you try...

Who needs spin? You obviously can't comprehend the article placed in front of your nose. You pasted in a segment of it, so it's clear that you clicked the link, but the meaning of all those letters and words on that page seems to have escaped you entirely, as your post of 03:58:45 PM clearly shows.

So to prove that you can make a coherent argument you....post a lame cartoon?

"Words" aren't your friend. I think even you realize that, which is why you use weak pictograms instead of factually-based arguments.

Befuddled: Exactly what has the Cheney/Bush administration done that I should feel good about?

As a screaming "libtard", may I answer this?

1) I've always thought that the "roadmap to peace" was a good plan. I somehow get the impression that making Israeli/Palestinian peace is Condoleeza's pet project, and good on her for taking on such a difficult task. Let's see if the upcoming summit bears any fruitful olive branches (yay! mixed metaphors!)..but even if it doesn't, the Bush administration has done (i think) as good a job as any previous administrations (and better than several) in working towards peace between Palestinians and Israelis.

2) Bush was really fast to jump on Burma (and to use the name "Burma" as a fark-you to the regime!) for their recent crackdown and for generally being repressive asshats. Thumbs up. Me approve.

3) I liked the way he handled himself in the days after 9/11 (once he put that damn Pet Goat book down) and I think the things he said, initially, gave comfort to a stunned nation and a stunned planet. I wished he'd gone in Afghanistan SOONER and was glad when a rerun of StarTrek was interrupted by "We take you now to Afghanistan..." and night-vision shots of bombs going off.

How's that? Do I lose my flaming libtard merit-badge?

Stopheles: I hope you ARE a paid shill, just for the fact that it would mean that you're wasting your bosses' money with your incredibly ineffective, poorly-read, knee-jerk responses.

I cannot imagine that the same RNC which comes up with artful work like "Swift Boat Veterans" and the big scary face of Willie Horton and "It's Morning in America" and other such finely-crafted attention-getters would have anything to do with Mr. One-Note-Samba and his witless cartoons.

(Personally I'm impressed that he's managed to keep Chappaquidick out of the conversation!)