Dickey:

With all respect, I don't think anyone gives a shot about the socialists of the Internationale. The fact that some marginal mouth says he is hooking into the antiwar movement to use the stupid people therein in no wise has any bearing on the quesion of the rightness or wrongness of war. Nor does it in anyway indicate anything about the people he SAYS he is using, nor any bearing on the intelligence of any individual in that group. It's just a bunch of talk, see?

I suggest, as regards the "go it alone" that you do a pie chart of the amount of funds and troops each of that huge, but really hollow, list of "willing" allies contributed in fact since 2000. I think you will find that the cowboy brag of going it alone is pretty close to the mark, aside from England.

The claim that someone makes upthread about Al Queda in Iraq is unsubstantiated, and is inconsistent with everything known about the secular government of Iraq under Saddam. So it requires some sort of substantiating evidence to be taken seriously, not just a "he said, she said" sort of claim.

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