Phil Donahue gets spanked

[Mulhollanddose]

[island911]

Excellent, Mul.

[fintstone]

Originally posted by Rodeo
Nice job parsing words. Let me guess, Bill Clinton is your hero?

So what exactly what was the "mission" of that particular ship that was "accomplished?"

Remember your words: "The "mission" of the ship and crew were "accomplished." That's what the banner meant.

Summing up the mission as coming safely home is apparently not acceptable to you, so tell us how you describe this ship's "mission" that was worthy of such celebration?

What is not acceptable to me..and most other folks...is to be so badly misquoted...so as to aid your argument...or lack thereof. But if it makes you happy, this is how Wikipedia describes it:
Abraham Lincoln and the carrier battle group and airwing helped deliver the opening salvos and air strikes in Operation Iraqi Freedom. During its deployment, some 16,500 sorties were flown and 1.6 million pounds of ordnance used. The carrier returned home in May 2003, in the process receiving a visit from President George W. Bush before officially ending Lincoln's deployment by docking at San Diego.

Just the fact that it was the longest deployment in 30 years is significant in of itself. I do not understand why you choose to make light of what these brave men have accomplished...and of their sacrifice. They had every right to put up that banner on their return home.

[CamB]

This thread went to "awesome" over the weekend.

My favourites (biased, of course):

Winner of the "at least I'm honest" award:

Originally posted by fintstone
Your politics color your perspective. On the other hand both [Donahue and O'Reilly] are weenies...and far to liberal to suit me.

Winner of the "hypocracy only happens to other people" award:

Originally posted by Mulhollanddose
Their allegiance is to what they want to believe and whatever fits that preconceived conception...anything that discredits or weakens their belief system gets the memory-hole...They are wound up and/or their strings are pulled by the real puppet-masters in the media left and DNC.

I've actually got nothing all that meaningful to add to this debate. All that occurs to me is the futility of arguing. I'll bet there isn't a person alive (except possibly Dick Cheney) who wouldn't change the way this whole episode was prosecuted if they could turn back time.

Yet we argue about whether there should be accountability for (preventable) mistakes...

[Rodeo]

Originally posted by fintstone
***I do not understand why you choose to make light of what these brave men have accomplished...and of their sacrifice. They had every right to put up that banner on their return home.

What am I doing? Why am I arguing with you? You are flat out insane.

[fintstone]

Originally posted by Rodeo
What am I doing? Why am I arguing with you? You are flat out insane.

Then what exactly is the point you are trying to make?

Originally posted by Rodeo

...So what exactly what was the "mission" of that particular ship that was "accomplished?"

Remember your words: "The "mission" of the ship and crew were "accomplished." That's what the banner meant.

Summing up the mission as coming safely home is apparently not acceptable to you, so tell us how you describe this ship's "mission" that was worthy of such celebration?