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Bushies Betray Free Speech (NY Post editorial on islamic cartoons)
NY Post ^ | Feb 4, 2006

Posted on 02/04/2006 6:40:55 AM PST by doctora

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To: doctora

But everybody shuts up when the Muslims people of "Peace" hack off the head of a Journalist, or Blow up thousands of men women and children who are innocents.

Our "State Department " should have been cleaned out years ago.

Bush would better serve the American People by Doing SOMETHING ........ANYTHING to stop the invasion from Mexico.


21 posted on 02/04/2006 6:54:55 AM PST by chatham
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To: coconutt2000
What I heard was a call for common sense.

Of course, you did.

22 posted on 02/04/2006 6:55:31 AM PST by raybbr (ANWR is a barren, frozen wasteland - like the mind of a democrat!)
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To: no dems

The Arabists at the state department?


23 posted on 02/04/2006 6:56:02 AM PST by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: coconutt2000

Printing inflammatory cartoons that are offensive to a militant and terrorist religion is only asking for trouble"


You being alive writing that is offensive to militants and terrorits...

get it?


24 posted on 02/04/2006 6:57:22 AM PST by kajingawd (" happy with stone underhead, let Heaven and Earth go about their changes")
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To: coconutt2000
I don't read any opposition to Free Speech in the quotes.

Chief Editor Arrested for Cartoons

25 posted on 02/04/2006 6:58:01 AM PST by raybbr (ANWR is a barren, frozen wasteland - like the mind of a democrat!)
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To: satchmodog9
You elect republicans to project strength and uphold your values.

It ain't the republicans it is the old and very liberal State Department giving their Politically Correct rhetoric...again.

26 posted on 02/04/2006 6:59:12 AM PST by yoe
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To: coconutt2000
Printing inflammatory cartoons that are offensive to a militant and terrorist religion is only asking for trouble.

Trying to be sensitive to a maniac cult serves no purpose.

Barbarians don't understand or appreciate 'sensitivity', they only see it as weakness.

Several European newspapers have printed the cartoons...some more than once.

We are supposed to defend free speech. The State Department's version of political correctness will be interpreted instead as political cowardice.

They SHOULD have said the same thing as the Danish government:

We do not have the right, as government, to tell the newpapers what they can and cannot print.

27 posted on 02/04/2006 6:59:33 AM PST by MamaTexan (I am NOT a ~legal entity~, nor am I a *person* as created by law!)
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To: coconutt2000
I don't read any opposition to Free Speech in the quotes. What I heard was a call for common sense. Printing inflammatory cartoons that are offensive to a militant and terrorist religion is only asking for trouble. We, the U.S, are too busy fighting terrorists in the Middle East to come to Europe's rescue when they piss of their resident Muslims.
Thank you!

I've said the same thing in other threads.

Don't forget our troops. They have Muslim allies they are working with in the field. Don't stab our troops in the back to come to the aid of a bunch of euroweenie ingrates who will piss in our faces when it's all over anyway, whether we help them or not.

28 posted on 02/04/2006 7:00:17 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Mercat
It's a rude comment.

"Politician" is a rude profession. It ought not be a profession at all. The only chance a "politician"'s soul has to remain integrated is for the public to be as contemptuous and cynical as possible at every opportunity toward every utterance and action.

29 posted on 02/04/2006 7:02:31 AM PST by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: yoe

Then fire them and project strength and values. Like I said.


30 posted on 02/04/2006 7:02:38 AM PST by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: dawn53
I haven't seen the cartoons.

Just do a search on FR for cartoons if you'd like to see them.

Be aware though, there are 3 cartoons NOT in the original printing. They were added by one of the Islamofascits 'leaders' HIMSELF.

Guess he thought the original 12 cartoons weren't hateful enough.

31 posted on 02/04/2006 7:02:52 AM PST by MamaTexan (I am NOT a ~legal entity~, nor am I a *person* as created by law!)
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To: satchmodog9

my brain boiled out of my ears when I read the US "governments opinion on this subject yesterday. You elect republicans to project strength and uphold your values. We wind up with liberal pc crapola."

It IS the State Department, always has been and always will be left-leaning, the-rest-of-the-world-is-more-important, among its professionals. Administration in power doesn't much matter.


32 posted on 02/04/2006 7:03:14 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: MamaTexan

Thanks for the info.


33 posted on 02/04/2006 7:07:57 AM PST by dawn53
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To: EDINVA

That's why you clean house when you get into office.


34 posted on 02/04/2006 7:09:05 AM PST by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: xcamel
The person from the state dept press office was a 4th string clintonista that is getting an administrative beat-down for saying anything at all.

Stop excusing Bush for his own State Department. If he disagrees he should say so publicly. He has done so at least once before. If he does not, we must conclude that he agrees with them, siding with the Sharia-Uber-Alles crowd over Western values. The main problem in this is how everyone keeps saying "Islamic law forbids visual expressions of the 'Prophet'". So what! The people who made these cartoons were NOT Muslims. Are we to conclude that just because Muslims are prone to violence at a moment's notice, that non-Muslims now have to obey Muslim laws? It is absurd, and the State Department's statement was repulsive.

35 posted on 02/04/2006 7:15:40 AM PST by montag813
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To: kajingawd
PC Hypocrisy
36 posted on 02/04/2006 7:16:37 AM PST by DogBarkTree
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To: satchmodog9

"That's why you clean house when you get into office."

For some reason it never quite works that way, especially at State. Below a certain pay grade, they are protected under civil service protections. There really is no excuse for keeping the higher level people from a prior Administration. It would take a full generation to clean house there ... a generation of GOP presidents uninterrupted by a Dem, and that has never happened.


37 posted on 02/04/2006 7:23:29 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: samtheman
Don't forget our troops. They have Muslim allies they are working with in the field. Don't stab our troops in the back to come to the aid of a bunch of euroweenie ingrates who will piss in our faces when it's all over anyway, whether we help them or not.

Please do noy resort to such a spurious argument. We stabbed our Christian troops in the back in 1991 when we ordered them to remove their crosses at the behest of our Muslim "allies" when they were posted those nations. It made a mockery of our supposed defense of "freedom" for Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. It also made a mockery of our own values, in deference to the barbaric Sharia Law.

These cartoons are a crucial line in the sand for the West in its defense against a resurgent Islam. A line we must defend with everything in our power. We are ALL troops in that larger war. The cultural and religious war to preserve Judeo-Christian values against Islam is more important that the conflict in Iraq, and may last 100 years. But we MUST prevail. And if we give in to Sharia Law in our own nations over freedom of speech, we will have lost a critical battle in that war.

38 posted on 02/04/2006 7:27:21 AM PST by montag813
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To: coconutt2000
What I heard was a call for common sense.

Common sense would be publishing more of these cartoons so as to draw the Mooseslime idjits into the open for everyone to see what 8th century murderers and nutballs they truly are.

39 posted on 02/04/2006 7:27:33 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: doctora
"These cartoons are indeed offensive to the belief of Muslims," said department spokesman Kurtis Cooper. "We all fully recognize and respect freedom of the press and expression, but it must be coupled with press responsibility."

In diplo-speak this could be read another way: Yes, we know you Muslims find the cartoons offensive, but you too should act responsibly with your own press.

40 posted on 02/04/2006 7:30:17 AM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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