The main counterargument is that a Kurdish-Shiite invading army would have made it even harder to deal with Sunnis after Saddam fell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Iraq Has No Army] Reference

The last counterargument is literally an ancient one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Getting Medieval On Your Assets: Four Reasons Foreclosure Fraud Really, Really Matters] Reference

The counterargument is that there are trillions of planets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science] Reference

A counterargument is that troops are needed not just to fight but to show political will.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Rumsfeld Got Right] Reference

The main counterargument would probably be that such terrorists have not committed treason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Azeem Ibrahim: UK Law Should Recognize That Terrorists Aren't Just Criminals, They're Traitors] Reference

But the counterargument is that it's just the way technology works — things replace things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Tech Collectibles] Reference

The other counterargument is that the costs involved in fixing SS may be such that it makes sense to make the transition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comment of the Week, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Another socialist counterargument is that some things are almost inevitably commons, notably the quality of the physical environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism] Reference

My basic counterargument is that Chile is incomparable both on scale of the crimes and the overall policy picture instituted by Pinochet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism] Reference

Of course this counterargument is wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of Introspection, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Critics, however, have a powerful counterargument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher J. Farley: Where There's Smoke] Reference

Can Barack Obama have a compelling counterargument?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2008] Reference

Of course, in a democracy, there's a counterargument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lisa de Moraes on Katy Perry's 'Sesame Street' controversy] Reference

He's got to have a compelling counterargument to that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2008] Reference

If you disagree, I would like to hear a counterargument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Krugman: "Most Of The Venom" In This Race Comes From Obama Supporters] Reference

The Obama's counterargument is: Look, I won Pennsylvania.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 7, 2008] Reference

You know, I think that we could also make a counterargument.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2005] Reference

The counterargument to that is can the system handle it all?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2009] Reference

DOBBS: We'll hear your counterargument to that in just a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2008] Reference

GUTIERREZ: Well, the counterargument is, A, they pay sales taxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2007] Reference

The Obama campaign's counterargument is: Look, I won Pennsylvania.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 7, 2008] Reference

The problem is: they can't because there's no good counterargument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edwards Camp To Press: Wake Up, We're Running A National Campaign] Reference

Obviously, they have a counterargument to that in the Obama campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2008] Reference

The counterargument from many Republicans and fiscal conservatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2009] Reference

Easy counterargument - Clinton fired all of them and emplaced loyalists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rahm Emanuel: GOP's Motto Is "Ask What Your Government Can Do For Our Party"] Reference

I was busy thinking up my counterargument rather than really hearing him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nikki Stone: How to Help You Win an Argument] Reference

Consider this counterargument: calling McCain out is crucially important.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Camp: McCain Running "A Campaign Not Worthy Of The Office He's Seeking"] Reference

(One counterargument is that men work longer hours in higher-paying fields.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tracking the Wage Gap] Reference

Need an effective, realistic and easy-to-explain counterargument and policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Obama's Lead Slips In Michigan] Reference

The counterargument has always been where's the direct evidence for the connection?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: Your Genes Made You Do It? Guilt, Innocence, and Behavioral Genetics] Reference

BLITZER: And later, there was this counterargument from Gore attorney Laurence Tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Al Gore Calls for a New Count of Disputed Ballots; Bush Campaign Insists All Florida Votes Have Been Counted - November 28, 2000] Reference

And that's -- that -- those are the sort of argument and counterargument right there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2009] Reference

She still has not answered the counterargument that experience is not an end in itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Hillary Ad: It Takes Both Strength And Experience] Reference

You just have to present your counterargument differently than you would in a classroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Like a Worker] Reference

But when framed with an explicit counterargument, the idea receives a more tepid response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Actually Supportive of Health Plan] Reference

The counterargument, however, is convincing if our purpose is to compare welfare over time.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3] Reference

KING: Obama's counterargument is quite interesting, because he says go back in time as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2008] Reference