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And Ann Coulter calling people who are against the war traitors isn't slander? She's accusing them of a criminal activity, indeed, a capital crime, without any basis for that statement. That certainly qualifies as slander.
Personally, Coulter and people like her make me ashamed to admit I'm a conservative. Her writing serves no purpose except to inflame. Nothing constructive comes from anything she writes; her writing serves only to divide, to criticize, to SLANDER, and to tear down anyone who does not share her views. Her style of self-masturbatory rhetoric is no different from a billion others I've seen, on both sides. Nothing but trying to divide the world into "my side" and "your side" and trying to make "your side" look foolish. People like her give conservatives a bad name. Simply having read the articles on her website makes me think I'd rather drink varnish than ever read her writing again -- it was painful how terrible it is. I'm halfway tempted to become a liberal simply so I could say I have nothing whatsoever in common with people like her (although, there are too many liberals I despise equally much for me to be happy with that).
And Drisley, sure, some people on both sides are doom and gloomers. It sells. But no intelligent person would really think Iraq would be a hard war. It'll be a hard peace, though. We've only taken the first step in Iraq, and the first step was by far the easiest.
As to the Arab world inflamed, they ARE. Two weeks ago, a poll (conducted by a respected US polling firm) showed 90% (plus or minus one percentage point) of the citizens of 5 Arab nations thought unfavorably of the US. As to more terrorism, it may well yet happen -- certainly nobody thinks we've heard the last of Al Quaida, and their pattern, so far, has been one of a single strike and then a period of inactivity, but the strikes are also steadily increasing in severity. Anyone who thinks there will never be another terrorist attack is insane.
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