Just today, Barney Franks enumerated the containment philosophy as working with Iraq 'and we could always crush them if they didn't stay contained', he opined. I ask Barney Fwanks, "With what do we crush them if not ground and air forces as are being applied right now?... Is the leftist bilgespittle alternative to failed containment the annihilation of a whole nation? They offer no alternative, and that's their naked treachery ... it's all about bringing this nation down to a vulnerability state that would change our society into a mere dog in the international morass, impotent as sinkEmperor wished US to be, and being converted to Islam at the point of sword, or plastic shredder, as Saddam has shown he will use on his victims.
The alternative they pose is nothing short of socialism; they in no way reflect "democracy", i.e., for the people by the people. The only time the left concern themselves with the people is to garner votes. In between those times, they complain and they deride the opposition with tired old flatulent rhetoric, never giving birth to one new idea other than continued social engineering in all things public and private.
I was a naive fool to be a human shield for Saddam (MUST READ!)
Excerpt:We on the bus felt that we were sympathetic to the views of the Iraqi civilians, even though we didn't actually know any. The group was less interested in standing up for their rights than protesting against the US and UK governments.
I was shocked when I first met a pro-war Iraqi in Baghdad - a taxi driver taking me back to my hotel late at night. I explained that I was American and said, as we shields always did, "Bush bad, war bad, Iraq good". He looked at me with an expression of incredulity.
As he realised I was serious, he slowed down and started to speak in broken English about the evils of Saddam's regime. Until then I had only heard the President spoken of with respect, but now this guy was telling me how all of Iraq's oil money went into Saddam's pocket and that if you opposed him politically he would kill your whole family.
It scared the hell out of me. First I was thinking that maybe it was the secret police trying to trick me but later I got the impression that he wanted me to help him escape. I felt so bad. I told him: "Listen, I am just a schmuck from the United States, I am not with the UN, I'm not with the CIA - I just can't help you."
Of course I had read reports that Iraqis hated Saddam Hussein, but this was the real thing. Someone had explained it to me face to face. I told a few journalists who I knew. They said that this sort of thing often happened - spontaneous, emotional, and secretive outbursts imploring visitors to free them from Saddam's tyrannical Iraq.