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ANY point I refuted in this list of sh!t and I'll back what I've typed up with any number of journals, articles and links from respected publications, not op-eds, propaganda driven material or snippets from the latest Moveon.org sponsored infomercial.
Please, pick one. I fully welcome scrutiny on what I have put forth.
I don't think as high of myself as I do as low of some of the acolytes of ignorance that "cut and paste" election-year propaganda and misinformation and try to hang their unthinking ideology all over it. I refuse to maintain a "civil" discourse when such insipid ignorance is flashed in front of me and is passed off as FACT. I freely state some of my aggrivation of this current administration's failures and agree with a few points in the article, but of course this totally escapes you.
10 minutes of reading on Iraq in People Magazine doesn't make one an expert on the subject; years of reading about Islam, Iraq, the intelligence community here in the US and knowing folks within it's circle as well as having a fairly decent command of history doesn't make me ANYWHERE near an expert, either. I am, however, versed well enough to see through the partisan feces that is often passed around by those that refuse to take the time and care to really reseach what they are unthinkingly regurgitating.
In short, I call things like I see them. When I'm not being singled out and lumped into a column and when I'm not being presented with unthinking propaganda, I keep my fingers off the keyboard or approach it with a much better measure of respect and civility.
The attention to detail that the mainstream media has paid Iraq and the issues leading up to the invasion of it is ABSOLUTELY abysmal. The distortions are beyond frightening and the VAST majority of them boil down to a) political muck or b) journalistic sensationalism, or a combination of both. When I see material like this boiled down even further to serve as a cornerstone of smear (and I've seen volumes of it puked out in a great many places), it makes me want to retch.
There are liberals and differing viewpoints I do respond to in a civil fashion on this site (though I'll admit I still usually maintain a small level of causticness even then

); the difference between them and others is that their viewpoints are much more carefully thought out and presented in a light that is less distorted that bile such as this.
Since you've spared me of any blatant ignorance on your part, you'll notice I haven't retorted in any nasty fashion towards you.
So, with that, I'll address the following quote in your direction:
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt