"Since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1..."

Coalition Provisional Authority, White House ^ | Oct. 19, 2003 | L Paul Bremer, VP Cheney (w/ liberties taken by me)

[PISANO]

Thanks for reminding US ALL there is NOTHING more precious than FREEDOM.

[prognostigaator]

ditto writ huge

[HarryH]

!ping

Thank you!

[NutCrackerBoy]

I shed a fierce tear reading your wonderful post. If that makes me a pansy liberal, so be it.

I am for freedom in Iran, Cuba, ... It happens that our security is on the line in establishing Iraqi freedom.

[blackie]

The evidence is there ~ Too bad that the pro-terrorist democrats and their left-wing lackeys in the media are so brain dead!

Be Well ~ Be Armed ~ Be Safe ~ Molon Labe!

[blackie]

For your information, Lady.

[tsmith130]

I think the message in RC's post is to point to the fact that many milestones have been reached on the Iraqis Road to Freedom (in a short time and by many courageous people). You seem to want to beat her up over the last 3 words..."Iraq is Free". I think that's an unfair assessment of her intentions.

[Cacophonous]

I'm not trying to beat up on anyone; I've read enough of Cowgirl's posts to know she's nothing if not absolutely sincere, intelligent and purely patriotic. I wouldn't insult her at all.

Perhaps I came on a little strong, and for that I apologize. But here is my point:

We all know how eagerly the libs and dems latch onto words uttered without thought (remember the 16-word "imminent threat" hullabaloo).

You can bet that if the GOP uses in its campaign the words "Iraq is free", the dems and libs will jump all over it with the same questions I had (though in an entirely different spirit). "If Iraq is free now, why do we need to be over there? If Iraq is free, why are US troops being shot?" You know the drill, and you know I'm right. So I'm just warning the GOP of the obvious: be careful what you say.

A better - and truer - thing to emphasize is how much better off the Iraqis are, and how much better things are going to get, emphasizing that it ain't over yet.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Because we're not finished yet.

Not only that, but leaving behind the sort of unstable situation we see every day there, is the equivalent of doing a half-assed job, something normally attributed to liberals.

If you want a more complex answer, Iraq also acts as a base of operations for the broader War on Terror, as well as a rented battlefield.

Let them come at us there, on foreign soil, not here on ours.

We will leave when the job is done properly, instead of leaving behind a different problem like we've done so many times before.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Nice job RC.

[Luis Gonzalez]

One last thing.

The last japanese soldier surrendered in 1974.

Sometimes, things take time.

[be-baw]

22,000,000 vaccinations to Iraqi children? That works out to an average of more than 120,000 per day.

Incredible...

[maica]

He was also welcoming a carrier home that had been at sea, FOR A YEAR!

His visit was their "parade".


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And our anti-military media will never acknowledge that fact for many reasons. One of them is that mentioning that deployments are long, arduous, and dangerous and then they END would somehow be praiseworthy of the military might of the US. That is something our Old Media can never do. For them, that would be almost as difficult to say as to say that President Bush was legitimately elected. Words that cannot pass their lips, without turning them to stone.

How many battle groups do we still have on station in the vicinity of Iraq? Does the anti-Bush media even care to know the answer. I didn't think so!

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Big TEXAS sized G.W.B. BuMpS

[Malsua]

BTTT

[Naspino]

So are you saying you agree with Koppel or that his statement proves his twisted logic?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1001817/posts?page=54#54

[Naspino]

thing to emphasize is how much better off the Iraqis are,

That wouldn't be a phrase to latch on to either. They've already made their mantra "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?".

[Cacophonous]

It would be pretty difficult to argue that Iraqis are worse off now than with Saddam.

[Naspino]

Koppels logic is to quote his only friends Some, Many, and Polls. He then uses their quotes to contradict all fact. When desperate he brings on someone that has very little connection with anything; gets a quote from them and then uses it as a quote from Bush. Then he justifies his own bias and lies by stating that Some, Many, and Polls think Bush is a lier too.

[Naspino]

It would be pretty difficult to argue that Iraqis are worse off now than with Saddam.

You'd think. But I just watched a special the other day that rapes and murders were out of control and the usual quote from some guy in a robe saying "This did not happen under Saddam.."