edcrbnsoul
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The weatherman this a.m. said that there is an El Nino brewing and we could have a mild winter. 

edcrbnsoul said:I dont know this thread is going down hill too much Sax and Violins.![]()
View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck was defending the proactive strategy followed by the Bush administration in removing the Taliban government in Afghanistan and toppling Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
"I mean, it's been five years, we have not been attacked," Hasselbeck said. "We're also in a- We're on the on the offense here. We have to be, because we were attacked five years ago."
O'Donnell interrupted.
"One second, We were attacked, not by a nation," O'Donnell argued. "And as a result of the attack and the killing of nearly 3,000 innocent people we invaded two countries and killed innocent people in their countries."
Hasselbeck continued, arguing that she believed the U.S. was not attacking the countries, but the Islamo-fascist beliefs of those who support and carry out terrorism against the U.S. and its allies.
"But do you understand that that the belief funding those attacks, okay, that is wide spread?" Hasselbeck asked O'Donnell. "And if you take radical Islam and you want to talk about what's going on there, you have to..."
But O'Donnell interrupted, again, before Hasselbeck could finish her comment.
"And just one second," O'Donnell said. "Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have a separation of church and state. We're a democracy here."
Hasselbeck seemed shocked by the comparison.
"Hang on," Hasselbeck interrupted. "We are not bombing ourselves here in the country. We are being attacked."
"No," replied O'Donnell. "But we are bombing innocent people in other countries. True or false?"
View co-host Joy Behar had been supportive of O'Donnell's comments, earlier in the program, criticizing the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina. But O'Donnell's attacks on Christians were, apparently, too much for Behar.
"But, but Christians are not threatening to kill us. There's that difference," Behar said. "This group [radical Islamists] is threatening to kill us."
Later in the show, O'Donnell indirectly accused the White House of fear-mongering regarding the potential for a future terrorist attack against the U.S.
"But in life, you have two choices always, faith or fear," O'Donnell said. "A government should lead by faith, never by fear."
"I think we are leading by faith," Hasselbeck responded.
"How about rationality?" Behar asked. "What happened to that?"
O'Donnell then dropped the adjective "radical" when referring to the Christians with whom she disagrees.
"And faith is not Christianity," O'Donnell stressed, "faith in humanity, faith in equality."
edcrbnsoul said:I dont know this thread is going down hill too much Sax and Violins.![]()
MUFFYCAT said:Bob- you did a good job on that working mother thread!![]()
edcrbnsoul said:How did Rosie get away with this?
Radical Christianity is as dangerous as Radical Islam.![]()