War in Iraq: Not Over Yet!
In case you'd been holding your breath:
In an ominous sign for the Democratic legislative campaign to end the war in Iraq, the Senate on Thursday rejected a resolution that would have required President Bush to begin withdrawing U.S. combat troops within 120 days after it was enacted.
Two Democrats joined one independent and all but one Republican to reject the measure, 50 to 48, marking the third time in the last six weeks that an antiwar resolution has foundered in the closely divided Senate.
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And so what you ask
war on terror and on drugs
forever amen
Closer every time.
One of these days it will work.
Keep on pushing, Dems!
sage,
Are you implying that the war in Iraq is part of the war on terror? How totally retro-neocon of you. Happy Paddy Day.
Democrats boldly
predicted the fall of Bush
Yet no bill is passed
Did I miss the national haiku day declaration?
Brian plaintively
asks Why the haikus today?
Because sage did it.
Brian Doherty
check out the thread that's below
the one on warming
Sage started it all
with a silly haiku verse
now it's all the rage
Brian Doherty,
Read the global warming thread
where this all began.
Pleasenote please help me!
Bush finally brainwashed me
Iraq not terror!
Brian Doherty
is living in denial.
Cares not for Haiku.
For a magazine
Called Reason you are quite slow
Everybody drink
This "Haiku Friday"
is a great idea. But it
needs Tim Cavanaugh.
not "haiku Friday"
it would be too much weekly
how 'bout once a year?
Tim desert us for
L.A. rag, is first against
wall when we rise up
I get nothing done
I write too many haiku
I may get fired
Reason writers should
post in haiku form, else I
cancel subscription
Good thing that welfare
exists for haiku number
he gets free handout
As long as Iraq
is linked to war on terror
it will never end
"Sage started it all
with a silly haiku verse
now it's all the rage"
By definition
The last line in a Haiku
That is not your dog
The vote on the resolution was 48-50. However, if you assign each Senator 1/2 of his state's population, the vote was approximately 147,700,000 yea - 114,100,000 nay (using 2000 Census figures).
That's 56.5% yeah, 43.5% nay.
I wonder what it would look like to break down yea,nay votes by adding up the total votes that when to each Senator the last time they ran.
Haiku Form:
English-Language haiku is incorrectly said to have a prescribed form, three lines of 5-7-5 syllables and a seasonal reference. However, there is a great deal of debate about the form of English haiku and few agree that the 5-7-5 season reference form is the only acceptable form.
What then is the form of a haiku? Some of the critical aspects of haiku form that have been mentioned are:
brevity [one to three lines totaling 17 syllables or less]
three lines -- some would insist of 5-7-5 syllable structure, some suggest a structure of three lines with 5 or less, 7 or less, 5 or less syllables.
when read aloud, can be completed in one breadth
avoidance of traditional English poetic forms, such as rhyming and metaphor.
JUXTAPOSITION ? TWO ELEMENTS OR LINES OF THE HAIKU INDIRECTLY RELATE TO A THIRD.
descriptiveness ... haiku describe, they don't prescribe or tell.
Must stop must stop must
stop must stop must stop must stop
must stop must stop now.
is that pedantry?
you make yourself sound so smart
you should loosen up
joe shows Senate not
Majoritarian, and
Founders say, "no shit."
joe is a demo
says majorities should rule
democracy sucks
GOP?.against ending War(s)
It is noteworthy that Sen. Hagel voted against the resolution to start winding down the war. Not really much of an "antiwar Republican."
Antiwar conservatives and libertarians really have only one choice in the Republican primaries - Ron Paul.
joe, in the winter
wrote that just to show, the nay
votes are out of touch
i hate government.
republicans suck.
so do the damn democrats.
poetry police...up against the virtual wall...assume your (previously staked out) position
Gore won popular
yet he is not president
electoral rule.
In the springtime
the blood of iraqis flow
terror not so bad now.
terror blooms in mind
when reason is in a bind
peace is hard to find
Clorine gas truck bombs
Not so bad, I guess, when you're
Home, safely typing.
Drug war shills tell us
Good numbers mean stay the course
Bad number do, too.
chlorine gas truck bombs
are the work of peace makers
terror, what terror?
Flailing at straw men
Is so much easier than
Facing truth, eh wayne?
OK, admits wayne,
There are horrible, growing
Attacks. But...hippies!
Terror experts here
Democrats all peddling fear
hail cotton eyed Joe.
Good night, Joe!
Those Democrats who
"Peddle fear," wayne tells us
If they win, world ends.
the problem is not
the democrats' politics,
it's the enemy.
radical islam
has become the mainstream creed
in too many states.
the first people that
will lose their heads to a sword
are the kindly libs.
joe dies protesting
that he supported their right
to kill their own kind.
little did he know
that their ambition extends
beyond killing jews.
too late that we learn
their religion is a threat
if you don't believe.
i'm an atheist
which makes me an attractive
try for a two-fer.
for killing a jew
who is also atheist
paradise awaits.
If democrats win
the world continues apace
lib pockets lined now.
edna,
You can come out of the safe room. "Radical Islamists" aren't going to be taking over the United States any time soon.
Bedwetters.