Originally posted by ALightinDarkness

Originally posted by mental modulator
In order to appease your protests, however I could not edit my OP...

You still don't get the point do you? The point was that politics involved backstabbing, Scott was fired for incompetence, and is now trying to "get back." Its not shocking, it happens with someone every presidency. Your urge to make it more than it really is just showed you were heavily media programmed.

Originally posted by mental modulator
First of all I do find it very strange that I have been accused of being "TRENDY"
by three people... I am convinced that there is a shared source for this theory and
the term "TRENDY"

The "source" for this theory is - and I urge everyone to sit down for this part - the peer reviewed research on social trends. I know, I know. Most of ATS can't be bothered to source anything beyond a conspiracy blog, and the thought of using actual academic research to form your point is shocking.

Originally posted by mental modulator
Did the other two people copy your theory in regards to the genesis of my opinions and thoughts?

No, they did their research. You should try it, you'll be surprised how much you learn when you go beyond the propganda.

You see man this is why I made this thread... You are assuming a whole bunch about
me,,, You don't even know me!

Who did I vote for in 2000?

HUMMMMM!

I have a question for all the "I have always been against this war crowd" out there- where were you when the idea of this war was floating around Congress? All I remember is a huge surge of patriotism after 911 and don't recall hearing any anti-war sentiment, not even from CNN. Bush's approval rating was high and everyone was sporting American Flags chanting "Lets Roll" ready to take on the evildoers. Now there is a "trend" to be anti-Bush and anti-war, most of it set forth by the MSM when the war ended too quickly to keep their projected ratings up. Yes - being anti-war at this point is as trendy as having a crush on your favorite left wing movie star.

Originally posted by slicobacon
I have a question for all the "I have always been against this war crowd" out there- where were you when the idea of this war was floating around Congress? All I remember is a huge surge of patriotism after 911 and don't recall hearing any anti-war sentiment, not even from CNN. Bush's approval rating was high and everyone was sporting American Flags chanting "Lets Roll" ready to take on the evildoers. Now there is a "trend" to be anti-Bush and anti-war, most of it set forth by the MSM when the war ended too quickly to keep their projected ratings up. Yes - being anti-war at this point is as trendy as having a crush on your favorite left wing movie star.

Lets roll to AFGHANISTAN WAS me -- IRAQ --- HELL no,,, not so much!

Is the this "trendy" tag a Right-wing triangulation --- to OBAMA...
Considering he was the lone UNPATRIOTIC TERRORIST LOVER LIBERAL who
was against IRAQ

this surge of the word "TRENDY" would make sense!

When I learned about history as a child, I was saddened and dismayed at all the wars that have occured throughout our history as a species. When I was a little bit older, I was opposed to Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. I was opposed our campaign in the first Gulf War. I was opposed to Milosevic's campaign in Kosovo. I was opposed to our air campaign in Kosovo. I was opposed to Iraq's lack of cooperation with the U.N., but also to our numerous air campaigns against Iraq under Clinton. I was opposed to what the terrorists did to us on 9-11, like anyone would be. I was opposed nonetheless to our war in Afghanistan as well. So was my (at the time) fiancee. She was at work in a factory when the news of our bombing Afghanistan came on the TV. Everyone around her cheered, and wondered why she didn't. It was her first taste of the, "You're not patriotic," stigma, one I was already quite familiar with. I was opposed to our invasion of Iraq. I'm opposed to any future air (or, obviously, any other) campaign against Iran.

Obama was going to be the first person I ever voted for, until he started talking about vowing that Iran would never have a nuclear weapon (of course I don't want Iran - or anyone - to have nuclear weapons either) and saying that military force was on the table. Now, as usual, I won't be voting for anyone, so people shouldn't accuse me of being partisan (though, they do anyway, even though my Democrat friends and family members are annoyed at me for not voting for him.)

I certainly don't feel like I'm being trendy. I feel like a pariah to be honest. A lot of people don't like or understand my point of view that war is never justifiable, and that even when we fail to find it, there is always another way; that war is a failure on our part, not an inevitability. After the 500th time of saying, "I respect the views of those who see the world differently than I do, and I don't judge or blame them for feeling the way they do. We're all different," and yet still being called a terrorist sympathizer, coward, non-patriotic, naive, a liberal nut, or just plain crazy, it's hard to feel like part of a trend. At times I feel like my only recourse is to blatantly apologize for being just as bothered by Afghani people being blown to bits as I am by planes flying into buildings and killing thousands of our own people, but then I remember... this is America; I shouldn't have to.

Maybe that's just me, though.

[edit on 7/28/2008 by AceWombat04]