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 Webb: Just What Is a Permanent Base?Posted on Apr 11, 2008
While the Bush administration has told Congress it will not seek permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq, Sen. James Webb still wonders what the word permanent really means. In an exchange at a Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Thursday, Webb received a very psychedelic response from two administration officials. The exchange was among Webb, State Department Iraq coordinator David Satterfield and Assistant Defense Secretary Mary Beth Long.
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By Sean Maurice Hunt, April 12, 2008 at 2:47 pm #
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Webb is a truth teller and a real Patriot much like Scott Ritter…Senator Webb’s thoughts and actions are a template for all warrior spirit minded change agents.
Report thisBy Leefeller, April 12, 2008 at 10:12 am #
By “Pisses”?
Wonder if it has something to do with the gas water and electric company answer machines giving us 10 different language choices, maybe they should add one for political language?
Report thisBy cyrena, April 12, 2008 at 6:58 am #
I bet I hate it more than you do. Pisses me off a whole bunch too.
But, thanks to GrammaConcept, we know the authors of this piece at least used the correct words to describe what’s been coming out of these criminal mouths for far too many years now…
“a psychedelic experience hallucinatory, trippy, dream-like, mind-bending, mind-altering, mind-expanding, mind-blowing, bizarre, surreal.”
Yup..that’s a start.
Report thisBy DarthMiffy, April 12, 2008 at 6:20 am #
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FYI: Language has always been used as a weapon. Any research into past history will show this. Don’t be sidetracked by the language, please, but rather by the minds that appropriate the language…and their purposes. Always instructive.
Report thisBy republicanSScareme, April 12, 2008 at 5:13 am #
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I was surprised to read that the United States has 737 military bases overseas. It sounds to me like an “American Empire” already exists.
At least Jim Webb is asking the right questions. Yes, the response was psychedelic…the more I thought about it, the dizzier I got. But better to have a psychedelic experience than ask straight questions and get comical answers that just leave everyone with stupid looks on their faces. And if the American public goes “Huh?”, no one has to look embarrassed or confused.
Question for inquiry: How congressional hearings drove sit-coms off television.
Report thisBy Gmonst, April 11, 2008 at 5:10 pm #
I agree. The word game has been a major curse of this political age. The words become tools to use and manipulate. Common meanings are turned on their head, and red herring arguments over the meaning of words ensue. The common denominator becomes that no one has to stand by their word because the meaning of the word can be changed at a later date as the situation merits. Sadly, this practice seems to come from all quarters. I would love to say it was just neo-conservative republicans, its not, they are the undisputed champions of this kind of word play, but all parties get into it. The first time I remember being acutely aware of this was Bill Clinton trying to argue that “sexual relations” somehow excluded blowjobs.
Its things like this that give me the nausea and dizziness of being too-long on a roller-coaster. One slowly realizes that the very fabric of law and society (words)is being torn apart by this endless word play that essentially makes discourse meaningless.
Report thisBy atticus, April 11, 2008 at 4:15 pm #
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Just a note, Blackspeare: pax romana established peace in the empire; POX Americana spews death and disgrace everywhere in Bush’s would-be empire.
Report thisBy Thomas Billis, April 11, 2008 at 3:27 pm #
Let me say this slowly.The executive cannot appropiate funds.Get off your rhetorical ass and cut the funding.One more time.CUT THE FUNDING.
Report thisBy Blackspeare, April 11, 2008 at 3:16 pm #
Oh, c’mon——you can’t built an empire without bases around the world——why even the Romans knew that and they had a Pax Romana for 100 years. The USA has hardly started and besides its their turn now!!!!
Report thisBy TDoff, April 11, 2008 at 2:39 pm #
C’mon, Jim Webb, a ‘permanent base’ is the level at which republican politicians operate, it represents the nadir of human morality, below which no sentient being can sink. It is the negative standard established by the Bush Cabal, giving the nation the certainty that any and all future administrations will rise and operate above what we have all suffered these past seven+ years.
It is the depth we can look back on, come January 2009, with fear and loathing, and collectively swear,
Report this‘Nevermore, Nevermore’.
By GrammaConcept, April 11, 2008 at 2:20 pm #
in the introduction here describing the answers received from ‘officials’:.....
psychedelic
adjective
1 a psychedelic experience hallucinatory, trippy, dream-like, mind-bending, mind-altering, mind-expanding, mind-blowing, bizarre, surreal.
Yup.
Report thisBy Aegrus, April 11, 2008 at 1:26 pm #
Why do our politicians insist on defining and re-defining every word in the English language to further their own political agendas? I hate this practice so much.
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