The Hun Is at the Gate

FrontPageMag.com ^ | November 29, 2001 | Ann Coulter

[Radioheart]

The Hun is at the Gate
By Ann Coulter

Various congressmen are trying to haul Attorney General Ashcroft before them to answer questions about military tribunals for suspected terrorists. In fact, the Supreme Court has already found that even U.S. citizens can be tried by military tribunals. When Ashcroft is forced to waste his time in Senate hearings this week instead of protecting the nation from more terrorist attacks, he should remind them that there's no exemption for senators either. continue…

[clintonh8r]

The RATs are so blinded by ideology they can't see how this will backfire on them. Is there anybody in the senate (Shrillary excluded, of course) more repulsive than Patty Lay-he?

[Cicero]

(Incidentally, this ought to prove once and for all what a bunch of paper tigers the Russians are. What were they doing over there for 10 years? It hasn't taken us 10 weeks.)

Well, there's a good deal of truth in that. Our weapons are far superior to theirs. But the situations are completely different. We are in there to drive out a gang of unpopular foreigners who insinuated themselves into the country and then took over. The Russians were there (as the USSR) to take over the country for themselves. If we get in, do the job, and get out, the locals are glad to help us. That wasn't true for Russia.

Besides which, why rub it in? Everyone can see that it's the second time that our weapons clobbered theirs, as they did in the Gulf War. Maybe the Iraqis were incompetent, but I think their Russian-supplied weapons were inferior as well.

[bobono]

Ann is, as usual, brilliant - her description of acts deemed lawfully appropriate for military tribunal treatment appears to extend to the Clintons.......indeed, what about senators that act in traitorous and treasonaous manner in a time of war? And former impeached presidents?

Bush must act!!!

[bobono]

Ann is, as usual, brilliant - her description of acts deemed lawfully appropriate for military tribunal treatment appears to extend to the Clintons.......indeed, what about senators that act in traitorous and treasonaous manner in a time of war? And former impeached presidents?

Bush must act!!!

[chatham]

Schumer and Leahy are two useless Leftist loonies who are erotically fascinated by Power and toward that end will do anything to be center stage before a camera and a microphone.

you only need to remember Schumer's roll during events immediately after Sept.11 when he personally blocked the way of firefighters during the opening of the stock market..

He was joined in that charade by the ever evil Hillary, another Marxist Liberal Leftist loser,

Needless to say they were shameless in that exhibition and during subsequent events when they Elbowed the true Heroes out of the way to put their ugly faces front and center.

Nasty must be in their genes.

[JohnGalt]

I think this is more of a show for left critics who felt abandoned by the alleged protectors of civil liberties when the anti-terrorism bill passed, with the only voice of dissent coming from the Right.

Since the press will never concede that the left is morally bankrupt and that the right, the far right in the press's eyes, remains the only voice of liberty in the Congress, the press and the Democrats can use this show to prove what staunch defenders of civil liberties they (still) are.

[Nimitz]

Who is this Ann Coulter? Perhaps if I had a picture to refresh my memory something might stir.........

[Liberty Ship]

She's wrong about one thing: The Hun isn't just at the gate, he is over the wall; he is in the congress and occupied the White House for 8 years!

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

"no exemption for senators either"
Rotflmao...lets get "Leaky" Leahy up on the witness stand,along with his little,tiny sidekick, Daschle!!

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

Ann is a constitutional lawyer,syndicated columnist,consevative with a genius I Q, and a great HUMORIST.

[hgro]

VERMONT, STATE POPULATION - 593,740, SQ. MILES - 9,249

TEXAS, STATE POPULATION - 20,044,141, SQ. MILES -261,914

SENATORS ALLOWED FROM EACH STATE - 2

ENOUGH SAID!

[JasonC]

Bon mot - "bills to fund comically useless government programs"

Spades are spades - "In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is." That is the sort of line that makes Ms. Coulter a treasure.

Only slip - "what a bunch of paper tigers the Russians are. What were they doing over there for 10 years?" Omits the most relevant point - in politics, an evil and oppressive cause is in no way comparable to a just one. We dropped food; the Russians dropped land mines disguised as toys. We bombed the front lines and precise military targets; they flattened whole villages and salted the wells. The Afghans rose against the Taliban's "virtue police" to be free to listen to the radio; they also rose against the Russian's communist lackies to be free to pray.

For those who hadn't noticed the Kipling reference in the article title, see "For all we have and are", 1914. It is one of the best patriotic poems of all time. Just thinking of that next to today's whining left shows how shallow they are.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

Based on your numbers, Texas should be entitled to at LEAST 2 more senators.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

Ms. Coulter is indeed a treasure. Her column is a must read for anyone with a brain.

[yoe]

It boggles the mind that Senator Leahy can be so hypocritical, he did nothing to stop Janet Reno who along with her boss thwarted the U.S. Constitution for eight years. They circumvented the congress anytime they wanted and did so many times. Senator Leahy refused to convict Bill Clinton when the evidence was overwhelming; he broke his oath of office by not upholding his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution.

This is the man who should be answering questions about his conduct. He is now obstructing the war on Terrorism with his petty attempt to show how important he is. Make no mistake about it he is conducting his own tribunal.

contact the senator and tell him to back off and let John Ashcroft to his work. He managed to let Reno run roughshod over the country for eight years.
senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov

or call: president@whitehouse.gov

and let the President know how you feel.

[Puddleglum]

Now is the time for President Bush to use his bully pulpit and turn the tables on Leahy, asking why he has time to hold these hearings but no time to take action on the countless backed up judgeship appointments. The President needs to let America know now that Leahy is a roadblock to the swift operation of justice in this country.

Seriously, I am pretty agitated That President Bush not done more to take on both Leahy and Dashole, to get his strong opposing viewpoint to them out in the media. How can we send a message he might actually receive and heed, letting him know that now is the time to act?

[wcbtinman]

Ann may be technically correct about the legality of this, but her pro-whatever-the-administration-wants stance is going to come back to haunt her (and the rest of us) in the very near future.

Military tribunals, for the stated purpose of prosecuting terrorists as a means of getting around civil due process will not be tolerated by many Americans, legality be dammned. Someone will die before I will ever submit to such an act.

[clintonh8r]

I believe the vast majority of Americans support the use of tribunals. The only outcry one sees is among the bankrupt left and the self-styled libertarians and constitutional pecksniffs. The president has stong support on this issue. I imagine the only people who will "die" will be some deserving terrorists.