Time to oursource that Imperialism thing to China, dammit, they've had two thousand years of experience at it!

You left out:
3. Bush IS the greatest terrorist on earth.

"We" suffered 2300 deaths in combat? Oh, was Burgess' son killed? His daughter? His mail carrier's next-door neighbor's nephew's grandmother?
Love that "we" stuff.

Ah, the old good 'have to enforce the UN resolutions' talking point:

First, knowing what every intelligence agency was sure it knew by early 2003, it would have been criminal negligence had the president not enforced the U.N.'s resolutions and led the coalition into Iraq.

Second, no soldier dies in vain who goes to war by virtue of the Constitution he swears to defend.

Oh, sorry, apparently not each one, only those who died in combat:

We have suffered more than 2,300 combat deaths in Iraq so far. Not one was in vain. Not one.

Paul Burgess must have been the writer on 'South Park' who penned Eric Cartman's infamous diatribe: "Demcrats piss me off!"

Isn't there also the small matter of Hugo Chavez being democratically elected? So, "Central American" is wrong, and "dictator" is wrong, leaving...

How "obvious" is it that he's referring to Chavez?

Mr. Burgess respects our troops in Iraq so much he misstates the number that have died there. We have suffered more than 2800 deaths so far.

This is my favorite part: "These lies, contradicted by reports, commissions, speeches, and public records, are too preposterous to mock, but too pervasive to rebut, especially when ignored by abetting media."

In other words, "I can't be bothered to mention any of them, but they exist, dammit! THEY EXIST!"

JustZisGuy:

They're only dictators when we don't like them, obviously.  Was Pinochet a dictator in 1973?  What about Saddam in 1984?  No, these men did not become dictators until they were no longer useful allies of the U.S. power structure.  Chavez is not a useful ally, therefore he is a dictator.  It's all very straightforward.

Burgess puts the 'nut' in wingnut. What a bowelful of Republicanism.

1. According to this op-ed, Paul Burgess was "director of foreign-policy speechwriting at the White House."
2. VENEZUELA IS IN SOUTH AMERICA

It is not in spite of, but because. But in all fairness I must admit I have never heard of Spotsylvania County. Spotsylvania?

Abb1, do dead lady soldiers get 72 boy virgins? That Foley fellow may be tempted to volunteer at this late date -

The word to describe a US-friendly dictator is 'leader'.

Central-American-Dictator-befriending was Reagan's job. Can't this guy get anything right?

"Firemen sometimes die in burning buildings looking for victims who are not there. Their deaths are not in vain, either."

Yeah, but the mayor of the city in which these firemen work didn't lie to make everyone believe that there were people in the building, didn't send a deputy mayor to lie to the City Council about there being people in the building, didn't strongly imply that there was an imminent danger of there being people in the buidling, etc.

"So I intend to vote on Nov. 7. If I have to, I'll crawl over broken glass to do it. And this year I'm voting a straight Republican ticket right down to dog catcher, because I've had it. I'm fed up with the deranged, lying left. They've infected me. I'm now a hater, too."

First, I'm glad he's willing to crawl over broken glass to vote. I just hope that his automated-voting machine doesn't mis-record his vote--especially for dog catcher--but since he's a republican, I guess that won't happen.

Second, he's really never hated before in his life? I guess he's a real Zen master, this guy.

"Thus have I come to hate Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who called the Sept. 11 victims of the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns"; Nicholas De Genova, the Columbia professor who loudly wished "a million Mogadishus" on American troops in Iraq; and Kevin Barrett, the University of Wisconsin professor who teaches his students that President Bush was the actual mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks."

I know, I know, it's hard when there are only 3 university professors in all of America, and nowhere else that students can possibly pick up the other point of view. And we know that all of America's youth are going to parrot these views down the line.

--SF (sorry for the length)

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Firemen sometimes die in burning buildings looking for victims who are not there.

... but firemen rarely die in buildings that were not on fire until after the alarm was activated.

no soldier dies in vain who goes to war by virtue of the Constitution he swears to defend.

Except the invasion of Iraq has no Constitutional sanction what-so-ever. That would have taken 2/3 of Congress making a Declaration of War. Has this Burgess guy even graduated 3rd grade yet??

Why to rich lobbying interest hire such stoopid people to represent them?

WRT central american dictator, you think he might be talking about castro? cause i hear they REALLY hate castro in Washington.

of course cuba is a Caribbean country, so he would be wrong anyway, but just a thought.

Being a Bushbot must really hurt nowadays. From 9/11 to 'Mission Accomplished' the Commander-In-Chief War President was hailed as a cross between Churchill, Lincoln and Jesus. Now Republican candidates in close races don't want to be associated with him.

i was hoping someone would mention the oaxaca madness. i cant seem to get a good handle on the situation...

also, i took way too long to post that previous comment, so hedgehog came out in front. DAMN YOU INTERNET!

you're being a little unfair to Burgess re the central american dictators comment. he was obviously talking about the historical context of the left's support for central american dictators rather than any current support, a fact only obscured by his (entirely forgivable) failure to grasp the concept of past and present tenses. I'm sure we all remember Harry Belafonte running weapons via Israel to Efraim Rios Montt in clear breach of congressional human rights legislation. And who can forget Cindy Sheehan's involvement in training and funding death squads drawn from elite army units while she was Hollywood's ambassador to Honduras. Danny Glover of course evaded prosecution after being charged with organizing terrorist training camps near Ilopango airforce base in an attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nicaragua, but we shouldn't let that blind us to the fact that he was guilty as hell and escaped censure only due to his powerful political connections. And Michael Moore of course is still Fat