The Democrats aren’t the ones being indicted under charges stemming from using dirty politics like Tom Delay and Lewis Libby.

That's because the ones directly involved in the Democrats' dirty tricks have already been convicted and sentenced.

Since the things they were doing really were dirty tricks, it didn't require a two-year-long wheel-spinning independent counsel investigation to come up with a single indictment having no direct bearing on the reason for the investigation, nor a grand-jury-shopping Democrat DA trying to indict a man for breaking a law that didn't exist at the time of the alleged act.

No, in the case of the Democrat dirty tricksters, it only took presenting the evidence to a trial jury and letting justice run its course.

Insurgents will become "illegal immigrants from neigboring countries" "political malcontents" "enemies of Iraq" "terrorists" "criminals" "revolutionists" "war lords" and "militant occupiers"

The Democrats aren't the ones being indicted under charges stemming from using dirty politics like Tom Delay and Lewis Libby.

I agree, too, on the Michael Moore thing and have said so. Unfortunately, it's an outgrowth of the seemingly permanent campaign mode that both sides are in. That's particularly problematic in the context of a war.

Finally, while I chide Rumsfeld on this to a large degree, I understand where he's coming from. The fight to control the language of the debate is quite important, especially in a counter-insurgency operation. He's going too far in saying there's no insurgency but he's right that it's a label that doesn't fit Zarqawi and Co.

Of course not, because then US casualties would fall to zero.

The "D students" thing is my frustration at the level of debate. Like banning a freaking word ... or calling someone a "Michael Moore" as the Whitehouse press secretary did ... how, just infantile.

And who, exactly, are the "D students" in question? Bush was a mediocre undergrad, to be sure, although he did manage to get a Harvard MBA. Cheney and Rumsfeld, though, were brilliant students. To say nothing of Rice, whose intellectual accomplishments are rather impressive.

A rational person can distinguish between "guerilla warfare" and "terrorism" as components of "insurgency."

A rational person can also experience some frustration when a fragement is used to describe the whole.

Of course, this president and his core supporters are all about "revenge of the D students" and such logical •ò€Áistency is not really part of the game plan.

There's no better way to allude to the future of those who blow up innocent civilians for no better reason than creating instability.

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