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Eric Alterman is silly

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http://msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3694453&p1=0

Apparently, Colin Powell's (who may have prostate cancer) prostate is the reason we went to war.
Eric Alterman wrote:I wonder if we went to war in part the way we did because Powell was too sick to mount a fight and did not have the courage to resign.
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Bush was way too determined to go to war to let anyone, including a healthy Colin Powell, stop him.
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Joe wrote:http://msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3694453&p1=0

Apparently, Colin Powell's (who may have prostate cancer) prostate is the reason we went to war.
Eric Alterman wrote:I wonder if we went to war in part the way we did because Powell was too sick to mount a fight and did not have the courage to resign.
that is one of the dumbest things I have heard in a good while.
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Death from the Sea wrote:that is one of the dumbest things I have heard in a good while.
Indeed, and I wonder if the writer was able to type the whole thing up by themselves, or if they needed the help of a monkey?
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Sea Skimmer wrote:
Death from the Sea wrote:that is one of the dumbest things I have heard in a good while.
Indeed, and I wonder if the writer was able to type the whole thing up by themselves, or if they needed the help of a monkey?
on behalf of the brotherhood of the monkey , i respectfully request a retraction of that insult. :wink:
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Joe wrote:http://msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3694453&p1=0

Apparently, Colin Powell's (who may have prostate cancer) prostate is the reason we went to war.
Eric Alterman wrote:I wonder if we went to war in part the way we did because Powell was too sick to mount a fight and did not have the courage to resign.
WTF does he mean by that?? :?
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he is grasping at straws.... so much so that it doesn't even begin to make real sense/
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