The main difference between Republicans and Democrats is...

[Ozone]

there are no republicans or democrats in heaven.

 

[candycorn]

Unconditional drooling support from the media including Hollywood is the difference between the partys and guess which party benefits. The main thing is the lack of outrage. If a republican administration was caught lying flatfooted about a bad deal concerning hostages and 400 million in cold cash there would be hell to pay and you would never hear the end of it. It's barely a ripple today.

Bull Shit.

Bush’s CIA cooked the intel going into Iraq that would up costing thousands of US families their sons and daughters. Billions of dollars were wasted going to companies like Custer Battles that formed in 2003 and disappeared just as quickly.

So where did the money go? You can't see it in Hillah. The schools, hospitals, water supply and electricity, all of which were supposed to benefit from these funds, are in ruins. The inescapable conclusion is that many of the American paying agents grabbed large bundles of cash for themselves and made sweet deals with their Iraqi contacts.

And so it continues. The IAMB's most recent audit of Iraqi government spending talks of "incomplete accounting", "lack of documented justification for limited competition for contracts at the Iraqi ministries", "possible misappropriation of oil revenues", "significant difficulties in ensuring completeness and accuracy of Iraqi budgets and controls over expenditures" and "non-deposit of proceeds of export sales of petroleum products into the appropriate accounts in contravention of UN Security Council Resolution 1483".

In the absence of any meaningful accountability, Iraqis have no way of knowing how much of the nation's wealth is being used for reconstruction and how much is being handed out to ministers' and civil servants' friends and families or funnelled into secret overseas bank accounts. Given that many Ba'athists are now back in government, some of that money may even be financing the insurgents.

Both Saddam and the US profited handsomely during his reign. He controlled Iraq's wealth while most of Iraq's oil went to Californian refineries to provide cheap petrol for American voters. US corporations, like those who enjoyed Saddam's favour, grew rich. Today, the system is much the same: the oil goes to California, and the new Iraqi government spends the national wealth with impunity.

· Bremer maintained one slush fund of nearly $600m in cash for which there is no paperwork: $200m of it was kept in a room in one of Saddam's former palaces

· 19 billion new Iraqi dinars, worth about £6.5m, was found on a plane in Lebanon that had been sent there by the new Iraqi interior minister

· One ministry claimed to be paying 8,206 guards, but only 602 could be found

· One American agent was given $23m to spend on restructuring; only $6m is accounted for

This is an edited version of an article that appears in the current issue of the London Review of Books (lrb).

This is less than 12 years ago; hardly a peep about it appears anywhere in the media.

 

[Blackrook]

The main difference between Republicans and Democrats is...

Republicans are sinners, not perfect in any way, but they are basically good and kind people, and most of them will be forgiven their sins, and will go to heaven and spend an eternity with God.

Democrats are also sinners, but they are unrepentant sinners, and they glorify sin and justify in their minds, and call it good, and thereby scandalize the youth and lure them into a life of sin. Therefore, most Democrats, unless they repent, will go to hell and spend an eternity in fire.

Discuss...

“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

guno, the reason the world is ugly and bad is because people like you are in it.

Heaven is a good place because only good people will go there.

guno, I will not be seeing you in heaven.

no thanks being with your kind would be a hell

It would be painful for you to be in the presence of God, the angels and the saints so God will have mercy on you and send you to hell, which is the absence of light, love and all good things, and there you will be for all eternity. Unless you repent.

 

[Blackrook]

there are no republicans or democrats in heaven.

Right, there are only Republicans, like I said.

 

[the_human_being]

How Liberals openly defy the police. This has got to stop. It needs to be nipped in the bud!!

 

[Harry Dresden]

1) Most Democrats don't believe there is a hell.

2) People who don't believe in hell don't take the necessary action in their lives to avoid going to hell.

3) Therefore, most Democrats go to hell.

those so called "religious" people you say are going to heaven are some of the biggest hypocrites on the planet....

 

[Blackrook]

Unconditional drooling support from the media including Hollywood is the difference between the partys and guess which party benefits. The main thing is the lack of outrage. If a republican administration was caught lying flatfooted about a bad deal concerning hostages and 400 million in cold cash there would be hell to pay and you would never hear the end of it. It's barely a ripple today.

Bull Shit.

Bush’s CIA cooked the intel going into Iraq that would up costing thousands of US families their sons and daughters. Billions of dollars were wasted going to companies like Custer Battles that formed in 2003 and disappeared just as quickly.

So where did the money go? You can't see it in Hillah. The schools, hospitals, water supply and electricity, all of which were supposed to benefit from these funds, are in ruins. The inescapable conclusion is that many of the American paying agents grabbed large bundles of cash for themselves and made sweet deals with their Iraqi contacts.

And so it continues. The IAMB's most recent audit of Iraqi government spending talks of "incomplete accounting", "lack of documented justification for limited competition for contracts at the Iraqi ministries", "possible misappropriation of oil revenues", "significant difficulties in ensuring completeness and accuracy of Iraqi budgets and controls over expenditures" and "non-deposit of proceeds of export sales of petroleum products into the appropriate accounts in contravention of UN Security Council Resolution 1483".

In the absence of any meaningful accountability, Iraqis have no way of knowing how much of the nation's wealth is being used for reconstruction and how much is being handed out to ministers' and civil servants' friends and families or funnelled into secret overseas bank accounts. Given that many Ba'athists are now back in government, some of that money may even be financing the insurgents.

Both Saddam and the US profited handsomely during his reign. He controlled Iraq's wealth while most of Iraq's oil went to Californian refineries to provide cheap petrol for American voters. US corporations, like those who enjoyed Saddam's favour, grew rich. Today, the system is much the same: the oil goes to California, and the new Iraqi government spends the national wealth with impunity.

· Bremer maintained one slush fund of nearly $600m in cash for which there is no paperwork: $200m of it was kept in a room in one of Saddam's former palaces

· 19 billion new Iraqi dinars, worth about £6.5m, was found on a plane in Lebanon that had been sent there by the new Iraqi interior minister

· One ministry claimed to be paying 8,206 guards, but only 602 could be found

· One American agent was given $23m to spend on restructuring; only $6m is accounted for

This is an edited version of an article that appears in the current issue of the London Review of Books (lrb).

This is less than 12 years ago; hardly a peep about it appears anywhere in the media.

You care about all this, but you don't care that Obama and Hillary are doing the exact same thing. You are a partisan Democrat, not a patriot.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

I'm not a neo-con. Do you even know what a neo-con is? You probably do not.

You may not be a neo-con but you are a ridiculous rightwing coward and liar.

 

[Blackrook]

1) Most Democrats don't believe there is a hell.

2) People who don't believe in hell don't take the necessary action in their lives to avoid going to hell.

3) Therefore, most Democrats go to hell.

those so called "religious" people you say are going to heaven are some of the biggest hypocrites on the planet....

Right. Democrats are not hypocrites, they openly embrace evil and do evil exactly as they say they will. For example, they not only advocate tearing a baby limb from limb out of a woman's womb and tossing it in the trash, when they get pregnant they pay an abortionist to murder their own baby, and then they go get drunk with their Democrat friends and laugh about the baby they just killed.

But God will have the last laugh, because most Democrats will go to hell. Unless they repent.

 

[Uncensored2008]

The main difference between Republicans and Democrats is...

Republicans are sinners, not perfect in any way, but they are basically good and kind people, and most of them will be forgiven their sins, and will go to heaven and spend an eternity with God.

Democrats are also sinners, but they are unrepentant sinners, and they glorify sin and justify in their minds, and call it good, and thereby scandalize the youth and lure them into a life of sin. Therefore, most Democrats, unless they repent, will go to hell and spend an eternity in fire.

Discuss...

democrats have no integrity. The big point of the left is that this is a group of sociopaths running wild.

There is no right or wrong to democrats, only party. There is no truth, only party. There are no lies, only party.

We are truly fucked as a nation.

 

[Blackrook]

I'm not a neo-con. Do you even know what a neo-con is? You probably do not.

You may not be a neo-con but you are a ridiculous rightwing coward and liar.

How is it cowardly to say what I mean and put up with all your insults and abuse? That sounds brave to me.

Also, tell me one time I have ever lied on this forum?

 

[Uncensored2008]

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You may not be a neo-con but you are a ridiculous rightwing coward and liar.

YOU calling someone else a coward?

HOLY FUCK..

You run off and piss yourself in fear in every thread you stumble into.

 

[konradv]

The main difference between Republicans and Democrats is...Republicans are sinners, not perfect in any way, but they are basically good and kind people, and most of them will be forgiven their sins, and will go to heaven and spend an eternity with God. Democrats are also sinners, but they are unrepentant sinners, and they glorify sin and justify in their minds, and call it good, and thereby scandalize the youth and lure them into a life of sin. Therefore, most Democrats, unless they repent, will go to hell and spend an eternity in fire. Discuss...

Wrong forum. If you want to discuss sin and hell, there's a board for that.

 

[Blackrook]

I always throw "Unless they repent" at the end of every statement that so-and-so is going to hell.

It is still not to late for any of you.

Repent now, reject the Democratic Party and its worship of Satan, and you can have eternal salvation with all the saints and angels.

I am warning you because I am genuinely concerned for your fate.

 

[Harry Dresden]

I'm not a neo-con. Do you even know what a neo-con is? You probably do not.

You may not be a neo-con but you are a ridiculous rightwing coward and liar.

jones shut the fuck up....you calling someone a coward?.....at least rook is brave enough to respond when someone questions his shit....unlike you,a real example of a coward....care to respond?....

 

[Harry Dresden]

1) Most Democrats don't believe there is a hell.

2) People who don't believe in hell don't take the necessary action in their lives to avoid going to hell.

3) Therefore, most Democrats go to hell.

those so called "religious" people you say are going to heaven are some of the biggest hypocrites on the planet....

Right. Democrats are not hypocrites, they openly embrace evil and do evil exactly as they say they will. For example, they not only advocate tearing a baby limb from limb out of a woman's womb and tossing it in the trash, when they get pregnant they pay an abortionist to murder their own baby, and then they go get drunk with their Democrat friends and laugh about the baby they just killed.

But God will have the last laugh, because most Democrats will go to hell. Unless they repent.

right?.....i wasnt talking about democrats.....nice dance though.....

 

[Harry Dresden]

The main difference between Republicans and Democrats is...

Republicans are sinners, not perfect in any way, but they are basically good and kind people, and most of them will be forgiven their sins, and will go to heaven and spend an eternity with God.

Democrats are also sinners, but they are unrepentant sinners, and they glorify sin and justify in their minds, and call it good, and thereby scandalize the youth and lure them into a life of sin. Therefore, most Democrats, unless they repent, will go to hell and spend an eternity in fire.

Discuss...

democrats have no integrity. The big point of the left is that this is a group of sociopaths running wild.

There is no right or wrong to democrats, only party. There is no truth, only party. There are no lies, only party.

We are truly fucked as a nation.

There is no right or wrong to democrats, only party. There is no truth, only party. There are no lies, only party.
are you saying that a republican of today is different?....

 

[Uncensored2008]

are you saying that a republican of today is different?....

In the rank and file, absolutely.

Trump is a mistake, but he illustrates the average Republican revolting against the corrupt leadership.

You will NEVER see this with democrats, because the rank and file are just as corrupt as their rulers. Yeah, we had Bernie, but not only did the corrupt DNC ruler crush him, not only did he lick the feet of his masters as they kicked him, but his cowardly followers flocked to Hillary.

 

[Harry Dresden]

are you saying that a republican of today is different?....

In the rank and file, absolutely.

Trump is a mistake, but he illustrates the average Republican revolting against the corrupt leadership.

You will NEVER see this with democrats, because the rank and file are just as corrupt as their rulers. Yeah, we had Bernie, but not only did the corrupt DNC ruler crush him, not only did he lick the feet of his masters as they kicked him, but his cowardly followers flocked to Hillary.

if you say so.....the posts from many righties here sure as hell dont convince me of that.....party is everything.........

 

[Nosmo King]

The main difference between Republicans and Democrats is...

Republicans are sinners, not perfect in any way, but they are basically good and kind people, and most of them will be forgiven their sins, and will go to heaven and spend an eternity with God.

Democrats are also sinners, but they are unrepentant sinners, and they glorify sin and justify in their minds, and call it good, and thereby scandalize the youth and lure them into a life of sin. Therefore, most Democrats, unless they repent, will go to hell and spend an eternity in fire.

Discuss...

“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

guno, the reason the world is ugly and bad is because people like you are in it.

Heaven is a good place because only good people will go there.

guno, I will not be seeing you in heaven.

Cast not the first stone.