Posted on 08/02/2002 8:17:37 AM PDT by A2J
As I said, maybe Rummy should be president.
My commute is 38 miles each way, on a rural route that has no sidewalks, street lights or public transportation. Try that on a bike.
So enlighten us. I'd sure like to hear how you would handle the problem differently. As of right now, you are in the White House. Let's hear it. What's your detailed plan for eliminating terrorism? For stabilizing the Middle East region? For eliminating the threat here at home? We're waiting Mr. President.........
At least you had a rural route.
Yikes! I'm considering right now and it's scary, allright!
Gore would have blamed it on right-wing-extremist-white guys, and
We'd have the Patriot Act (under some other name)...
We'd be seeing and hearing about white guys, little kids, teenaged girls and WWII vets being strip searched at airports... totally disregarding good sense and the Constitutional rights of said subjects as we are in a war!...
And we'd have the Sec. of Transportation saying he was dead-set against airline pilots carrying firearms into their airplanes.
And we'd have members of our Cabinet meeting with baby-killer Arafat and telling Israel it needs to moderate its actions in defending its citizens from their own internal terrorist threat.
And we'd have the 'Rats all around us yelling and calling us names for questioning what has happened to our Constitution.
My God, man! You're right! It would be awful if we had a Gore regime running things right now.
True - the roads are nicely paved; no off-roading required. :)
US troops need to exact a penalty against the PAs just too let them know that we, The United States of America, will not stand by and let american citizens be killed with impunity. Our response should have been immediate and visible. GWB, by his inaction, has said to the PAs that we will do nothing to protect US citizens in the middle east.
US authorities treat American soldiers at war in Afghanistan the same way they treat prisoners in Guantanamo: both can’t rely upon protection guaranteed by the US Constitution.
American judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rendered a decision according to which people imprisoned in Guantanamo can’t enjoy protection guaranteed by the US judicial system. The decision is an obvious triumph of the George W. Bush administration. Attorneys speaking on behalf of the prisoners affirmed that their clients have the right to know what they are charged with. At the same time, they insisted that the people have the right to appeal against the legitimacy of their imprisonment in Guantanamo in a US Court.
The situation regarding the imprisoned Taliban is perfectly clear; it is of no use to hope that the US Justice will be well-disposed toward them. However, the situation should be quite different when citizens of your own country are left to the mercy of fate.
The losses of US servicemen in Afghanistan make up about 100 people, who are considered missing. Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets informs that US authorities do not conceal information about the number of missing people; on the contrary, they don't even help them.
Member of the RF Presidential Commission for Internees and Missing Persons Leonid Biryukov returned from his business trip in Kabul a week ago. In an initerview, he stated that over 100 Americans are missing in Afghanistan and have given up every hope that the US authorities would pay attention to their problem. Leonid Biryukov says, “I held negotiations with the Afghanistan Ministers for Internal Affairs and Defense, who constantly repeated that number of Americans missing in Afghanistan was considerable.”
At that, the Afghani ministers are surprised not only with purposeful suppression of information by the US authorities, but with no interest from the US Department of State concerning the fate of the American soldiers. In Biryukov’s words, the incumbent Afghanistan government has not yet received a single official or unofficial inquiry concerning the 100 American soldiers missing after military operations in Kabul and Kandahar. The ministers also say that no attempts have been made to obtain information using special services as well.
Dmitry Chirkin
I don't look at it as criticism, but concern over what appears to be Bush's inclination to please the politicians and other foreign leaders more than the people of the U.S.
Besides, I voted for Bush and I have the right to criticize him for not following through with his words.
Don't you agree?
No, no, the bus driver does. :o
It ain't?
This poor fella just kept getting sillier as the thread went on.
I took Dubya at his word when he said the war would be long, in and out of headlines, with battles and victories unseen.
Bless you and your Marine. May you both always be safe and well.
Well, regardless of what you and the previous poster say, it certainly appears stalled to me.
Powell and Rumsfard don't see eye to eye, the debate in Congress intensifies, the "experts" in the Pentagon are now going back to the boards because Rumsfard isn't happy with what they've been saying (this morning's news)...
The suicide bombings continue and Bush manages to spit out that he's furious that Americans were killed in the latest...
And, BTW, where the hell is that Bin Laden fellow?
And you say it's not stalled?
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