I'm considering voting early and asking the doc for a strong coma-inducing drug. I'll wake up on Nov. 3rd and (hopefully) it will all be over.
Just saw an ad on CNN. Young, bearded man facing the camera: "When they sent me to Iraq, they said there were weapons of mass destruction, but they couldn't be found. They said there was a link between 9/11 and Iraq, but none could be found. They said we'd be home soon after peace was established, but none was to be found and we're still there. I find myself reaching for my right arm....but there's none to be found". (I'm paraphrasing).
Let's see if the "fact checkers" get this one right----it took me all of two minutes:
1. "They sent me to Iraq"? Didn't you volunteer?
2. No one said Iraq was linked to 9/11 (tho I believe it).
3. No one said we'd be home soon. They said the opposite.
Now the zinger: He's lost an arm so no one is allowed to take issue with him.
ugh!
But I did see a great ad last night for the Fla. Senate race. It was on a Mobile channel, I guess aimed at the P'cola audience. It was a former INS officer telling the truth about the Dem's candidate who refused to deal with the terrorists in her midst when she was head of FSU. Martinez is lookin' good.
I'm with you. Let's take the lala drug. I'm so sick and tired of this race. I'm so tired of the lies of the Kerry campaign. I'm so tired of NOT hearing about Kerry's real record - his Senate record.
Let's just vote and get on with it!
By all accounts, Saddam actively supported, funded and harbored Al Qaida terrorists (I again think of the 1999 Sheila MacVicar report on ABC News which said exactly that). So how, when 9/11 is Al Qaida's crowning achievement, can it be said that Saddam's longstanding support of that group did not contribute, even tangentially, to that event?
He's lost an arm so no one is allowed to take issue with him.
Another Max Cleland. Given the mendacity of the Democrats, moveon.org and other Kerry-supporting 527s, I don't think it's unreasonable to want proof that this young man really is 1) a former soldier and not just an actor, and 2) missing an arm (think Gary Sinise in "Forest Gump" and the wonders of digital technology); and if both are true, then it was lost in combat.
a former INS officer telling the truth about the Dem's candidate who refused to deal with the terrorists in her midst when she was head of FSU.
I haven't seen too many Martinez ads and Betty Castor (his opponent) is trying like crazy to side step that little al Arian problem. She's down right hawkish on terrorists and I haven't heard her say that Iraq was a mistake,,, yet.
Gen. Franks out there swinging!
NICEVILLE, Fla. - The United States should have quickly reformed the Iraqi army after most of its soldiers walked off the battlefield and got them "working for us," retired Gen. Tommy Franks said Tuesday.
Franks, who oversaw combat in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites), told reporters it may have taken "a couple billion dollars," but that he would have liked to have put Iraqi troops "back on the payroll right quick."
"What we could have done better, should have done better, what I would have liked to have seen done better, once they were gone, is hire them back," the former Army general said before making his first Florida campaign appearance for President Bush (news - web sites).
Neither Bush nor Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld should be blamed because Congress never appropriated money for that purpose and no other country offered to pay for it, Franks said.
"I fault bureaucratic behavior in my own country and in the international community," he said.
Franks spoke with reporters before addressing a staunchly Republican, pro-Bush crowd of about 800 at Okaloosa-Walton College in this military town. Niceville is within earshot of warplanes landing and taking off at nearby Eglin Air Force Base.
Visiting the Florida Panhandle after appearing with Bush in Colorado, Franks also disputed statements attributed to him in "Intelligence Matters," a new book by Sen. Bob Graham (news, bio, voting record).
The Florida Democrat wrote that Franks told him in February 2002, more than a year before the Iraq invasion, that his resources already were being shifted for that conflict.
Graham also contends Franks told him fighting terrorism in Afghanistan, Somalia and elsewhere should take priority over invading Iraq.
"Not at one point — ever — did I ever question the need to move into Iraq," Franks said.
Franks said Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) already was harboring terrorists and that eight years of U.S. pilots getting shot at while enforcing sanctions against Iraq was enough and it was time to act.
Funny, that's just what he wrote in his book. Gen. Franks has never struck me as the type to talk out of school, Graham on the other hand... Well I'm sure Bob will produce his notes on the conversation from his little daily diary. The Graham Cracker crumbles again.