Take that, Ned
 

As long as Nagin or the Landrieus are not involved I feel okay.

London Calling
 

How you fight the war on terrorism might depend at least a little on whether you think future attacks will come from residents of Middle Eastern countries or residents of, e.g., Great Britain.

London Calling
 

Why? Are you really asserting that the profile of the enemy combatant has materially changed based on what passpourt they carry?

Say it ain't so, Joe
 

If it was any country other than Israel, they wouldn't be referred to as "occupied" territories.

Kos
 

I have never heard of Kos but when I went their for the first time the headline was, "Britain pays the price for their support of Bush" (not the United States). Cleary this is an untrustworthy partisan Blog. Why would you try and defend it?

London Calling
 

Actually, the common denominator is Islam, so you've got a pretty damn good place to start.

Say it ain't so, Joe
 

That is simply wrong. They are referred to occupied territories because that is what they are. Israel has never annexed them, and itself governs them as occupied land that is not a part of Israel.

Unless you are suggesting that any country other than Israel would have annexed them by now, which is a tougher call. Perhaps.

Kos
 

Are you for real?

Kos is now the heart and soul of the Democratic party - and has been since Dean was made party Chairman.

Where the hell have you been hiding?

Say it ain't so, Joe
 

Why isn't Guam referred to as an occupied territory? Western Sahara? Northen Cyprus?

aV

London Calling
 

Profiling is law enforcement work. Hank was just pointing out that this is war. We need to decide which countries to invade. If they're coming from Great Britain, our supply lines will be much shorter and we already speak that language. (Well, most of us.) And we've got unfinished business -- they burned the White House in 1812.

London Calling
 

Follow. the. money.

London Calling
 

Oh, wait, didn't the MSM compromise our ability to do that? What fifth columnists?

Kos
 

I find this incredible. Moving along....

I was more interested in pointing out that Sebby was wrong than I was in defending Kos. Like its right-wing counterparts, you can count on finding wingnuts saying stupid, inflammatory things in the comments there. Slave and Penske and others here like to drag some of them out from time to time to make the rest of us look bad. We don't do the same to them with Little Green Footballs and the like because we have too much class, because we find it distasteful to spend time on those sites, because we don't want the page hits to give them advertising revenue, and because Penske flings enough absurd monkey shit around here as it is.

Kos specifically is a website that hosts a massive amount of content. Some of it is worthwhile. Some of it isn't. I have a good friend who is an elected public official who is a part of that community and thinks highly of it. Personally, I rarely go there.

Say it ain't so, Joe
 

Because we signed a peace treaty at the end of the Spanish-American War that made Guam a U.S. territory.

Many people believe that Western Sahara is an occupied territory. But there is a more fundamental disagreement there about who has sovereignty over Western Sahara.

According to Penske's favorite reference work, Wikipedia, "the European Union continues to consider northern Cyprus as EU territory with a disputed foreign military presence." Sounds like occupied territory to me.

Say it ain't so, Joe
 

When is the last time anyone referred to Gaum or Western Sahara? As for Cypress, who is occupying whom?

But fine, what would you prefer them to be called?