Posted on 01/05/2005 4:53:00 PM PST by Congressman Billybob
Good article. Thanks.
Secret Meeting, Clear Mission: 'Rescue' U.N. -- The apartment gathering on Dec. 5
Any "article" that purports:
"US helicopters were flying tons of water, food and other supplies into areas...", while "a group of white, liberal, American Democrats, led by former Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, held a hush-hush meeting in New York with Kofi Annan..." - when this meeting actully took place on Dec. 5/04 - can hardly be considered a "good" article.
Yes, by post 16, the "author" fessed up. Sort of.
Very shoddy stuff. And given the fact that the UN "took the lead" about an hour ago PST, it's not just shoddy - it's now become entirely moot. (Not to mention it kind of reflects bad on the part of the author - as well as FR.)
I agree. I know it makes me sound cold hearted, and
maybe I am. I'm just tired of watching our money go
overseas to one disaster or another. In a few years,
I'll get to collect whatever is left for social security,
I've worked and paid in for 40 years now. How about our
elected officials think about those of us in this
country before giving (what isn't theirs) to people
who may not use it for what we intended, and certainly
won't appreciate the gift for more than a month or two
until the next problem.
There are a lot more dead than 140,000. That figure is just what they have counted. My estimate has been 500,000 from the beginning. You need to remember than some of these countries don't have a good count to begin with.
"I know it makes me sound cold hearted, and
maybe I am."
Several have accused me of being hard hearted etc., but we cannot discard our common sense or our Constitution in foreign aid. The emotionalism being promoted by the left just weakens us and aids some of our enemies. Bandeh Aceh was a terrorist base.
thanks for replying. Unfortunately when I did the Google search which you suggest in your article, i did not find anything... Have you got some links?
Gotcha. And agreed.
Your question seems a little suspicious to me.
If it's actually just a question, I apologize.
However, the number of South Vietnamese people (fighting for their freedom) bombed, shot and otherwise killed by the US Army, Navy and Air Force may number in the tens of thousands.
The number of South Vietnamese people shot, burned, hacked and starved to death by the communist enslavers numbers in the millions.
This is so typical of the Dem's machinations. They cling to their floating fragments of sinking ships, when perfectly good life rafts are rowing past them.
Is it "ego" that prevents them from "moving on", or is there more to this than meets the eye?
Ego? Perhaps.
More like these guys are used to pocketing free money from OFF and other venues.
"Still, much of the world clings to the benighted view that the US should have negotiated more with Hussein. . .any competent observer should realize it is as useless to negotiate with a mass murderer, as with a tsunami on its way across an ocean.
"Both will continue on their path until their power dissipates. Both will kill all in their path until that time." These words needed restating for obvious reasons. Thanks!
However, if you're going to criticize the author of this thread, make certain you don't use shady methods to try to devalue his article.
If you will re-read, you will see that he did not say the helicopters were delivering aid WHILE (your claim) the secret meeting was being held. What he said was:
"Meantime, a group of white, liberal, American Democrats, led by former Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, held a hush-hush meeting in New York with Kofi Annan."
Most of us knew already that the meeting was held earlier in December, because we saw the interview which revealed it. Besides, "meantime" could mean "the day before," or even, "six months ago."
You see, Ol' Congressman BillyBob is not the uninformed 'hick' his pseudonym might imply to a Northeastern Liberal Elite, or to a defender of one.
I am certain that, from prior dust-ups, the US will never put US military people under the command of anyone but another American. My article was published before the UN announcement.
And, of course, there is nothing "moot" about saying that the UN is both dishonest and corrupt. Those are very lively subject, even if you read the New York Times (inside pages next to the pet obituaries).
Your comment reflects poorly on you. Nothing in my article reflects poorly on me or FreeRepublic.
Have a nice day.
Billybob
What part of europe are you from?
Here are a few of the biggest natural disasters in a list, many with greater numbers of deaths than the recent tsunami.
http://across.co.nz/WorldsWorstDisasters.html
We may be having a regional problem with semantics, here.
In most dictionaries, and in the north, "meantime," when used as a noun, is the time interval between two events. When used as an adverb, "meantime" refers specifically to "during the interval between two specific events or times."
In the south, on the other hand, "meantime" is frequently applied to the time period before the commencement of a single event. It's a subtle difference, but it can lead to misunderstandings.
***Disclaimer: this response should in no way be construed as support of Cedex' other comments.
I think the way it is written, the use of "meantime" is used as "simultaneously".
This version is used widely all over television, such as: "So Tiger Woods winds up with 4 on #12, and in the meantime Sergio Garcia has hit a beautiful drive on 8, let's look at it"
Yet another is a series of fine prose. Thanks John.
Jamie
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