An apology from USMC Lieutenant General Chuck Pitman

Watch out for this guy, Kendra. He's a notorious forum troll (lookup Stankleberry on Google). He's already been temporarily suspended once and I imagine it's only a matter of time before he's ejected completely.

The thing to notice is that he tries to bait individuals using predictable techniques (almost like a bot):

1. Starting posts with laughter, such as "Hahaha".
   
2. Calling names, such as "teens", "hippies", etc.
   
3. Using ethnocentric labels, such as "leftist religion", etc.
   
4. Adopting an extreme right-wing simple-man's view of politics.

When posting, he walks the line to (try) stay out of trouble while enticing others to cross the line. Just thought I'd warn you.

~Ulrika~

I'll take saying "Fuck you" over someone advocating carpet bombing innocents with Daisycutters, but I'm just a softie like that.

Hah, innocents Dear ghod please bring back the draft, kthxbye.

As a moderator on several left-wing political websites, I know all about folks like Mr. Stanky.

Ok..a few mistakes in your reply.

The "World" didn't believe he had weapons of Mass destruction stockpiled, as evidenced by the U.N. telling the US that there wasn't enough hard evidence to prove it, and that further inspection and diplomacy was called for. In fact, a very small percentage of the "world" believed it, or pretended to believe it, cause it was, after all, based on intelligence gathered by U.S. Intelligence agencies and skewed and misrepresented by our loving President.

As for the Uranium in Iraq, there certainly wasn't any quanitiy of weapons grade uranium or plutonium in Iraq, or Bush would not have had to lie about their seeking it repeatedly, even after being told by his own intelligence advisors that the report was false.

Now..on to the good old banner. It was hung before Saddam was captured and if you mean after the "overthrow", seems to me, a war is still going on over there. Did you know that President Bush, in a press conference, lied, once again, and said the banner was the idea of the Ship's captian and crew and he had no knowledge of it until he showed up. About 5 minutes later it was proven that he and his White House staff not only came up with the idea, but commisioned it's creation and ordered it to be hung on the ship.

Finally, about the 9/11 and Iraq tie-in. While President Bush didn't say it directly, he certainly implied it numerous times in his speeches, while touting our good old bad-boy Dick Chenny out to actually say it in plain words, over and over again. After Chenny lied and said he "Never said anything about Iraq being involved in 9/11", tons of folks pulled up footage, about, I think, 30 different occasions, of Chenny saying they were involved in 9/11.

And apparently, you once again were hypnotized by O'Rielly, and missed President Bush saying that there were fewer terrorist attacks since he went to war on terrorism. He was immediatly taken to task for this statement, and embaressed, with proof that terrorist attacks had increased wolrd-wide since the War on Terror. The president, in his usual fashion, ridiculously came back to qualify his statement, saying he was talking about attacks on the U.S....

And your statement about Haliburton...do you mean what other company, with a major stock holder holding the second highest seat in our government, got an illegal no-bid contract while being under investigation for ripping off the U.S. Government, and had been investigated for similar misconduct on three seperate ocassions, and who have since been proven to have lied and continued their dirty dealings with while working in Iraq?

I don't have any need to make up conspiracies. I can't hardly read the paper or watch tv these days without them being very evident.

Perhaps you're the one that needs to do some research? It might open your eyes a bit on all the fun you've apparently been missing...

I got more proven misdeeds and lies by our President to throw out there if you want..

yes, dear --innocents.

Well DEAR, I shan't retread over and over my eyewitness account of 2003 any more. Believe what you will. I'm backing out now because it is fruitless, and I need to buy popcorn for the re-runs of the Alito confirmations and the Iran announcements.

Hahaha, yes, find some more idiotic reasons to dismiss me. That way you won't have to deal with the fact that you're wrong about everything.

Hahahaha, the sufferers of truth pains have to stick together.

Sensitive people like you really shouldn't give people like me a list of the things that make you angry...

"Left-wing moderator" = "person that bans anyone that doesn't believe the same thing as the rest of the lefties do"

No, the world did believe that Saddam had WMD stockpiles. Intelligence agencies in quite a few different countries agreed. Chirac said that Saddam had them. Etc. You just like to pretend that Bush lied about it, though, so you ignore the facts.

I didn't say there was "weapons-grade uranium", I said there was a large amount of yellow cake, which is what they make weapons grade uranium out of. Saddam was probably saving it for no reason though, right? Yea.

Oh, Saddam had to be captured for the overthrow of Saddam and the Baath party to count? No, that's not how things work. The US held Baghdad at that point, so Saddam was overthrown. That was the mission. But you keep making up little excuses so you can pretend that the banner was another "Bush lie". Hilarious.

Oh, Bush implied it. I think you're just confused about what Bush said, because you've spent so much time hating him. What Bush said, and what is true, is that the Middle East's dictators are what create people that want to blow themselves up when they're standing next to some children. So, yes, Iraq was linked to terrorism, but not directly to 9/11. You refuse to even try to understand what that means, though, because you are obsessed with talking about how Bush lied. That's why you're so in the dark about this stuff. All you have to do is open your mind, man.

Haha, I like when hippies talk about the "increase in terrorism" in the world, which is mostly because of all of the attacks in Iraq. Then those same hippies refuse to call the people making those attacks "terrorists". Hilarious.

Uh oh, Halliburton got an illegal no-bid contract. Oh wait, it wasn't illegal, you just made that up. Again, which other companies are able to do what Halliburton has been doing in Iraq? Please list them. There are a lot, right? And what did Halliburton lie about?

You are consumed by hate. You ignore all sorts of facts so you can continue to hate Bush. You believe in silly conspiracies. It's sad.

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