AMERICA- The Right Way!! (Day 739) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

All of Us | January 29, 2003A | Freepers and Various News Sources

[Neets]

LOL are you beaming and smiling as much as I am?? I just HAD to back and comment to OLA again...hehehehe

I back our Military 1000% and I back their Commander-in-Chief 1000%...having been there/done that...they have a guy who really DOES believe in them and will support them.

[Molly Pitcher]

LB, considering the x42 years, I can easily understand your sceptism.

But I do NOT believe this particular president is capable of sending our men and women into harm's way on anything but the best evidence and for the best of reasons. NOT this president, and believe me, there are things he does and advocate which I have criticized and will do so again, but NOT this issue.

We disagree, you and I, but that's okay.

[Neets]

I am a New Yorker for 40+ yes (not including the time I served in the Military, which I would gladly do again by the way.)

AND if the Pervert-in-Chief had only taken ONE modicum of SERIOUSNESS with the threats and evidence of terrorism that faced our country in the 8 years of the reign of the WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY, we wouldn't be havening this arguement.

[gulfcoast6]

Tell you something, constitution IS freedom but why hord it here, lets spread it around and if it means kicking a few arses along the way, so be it.

No kids available to be killed in a war. Myself, I droped of of college to go to Korea and have two 1st cousins killed there and did not make it to korea myself. I wanted to go and would not regreat it for one minute if I had gone. If I had a son I would encourge him to go into the service and fight if he was ordered to do so. I have two girls but if they had wanted to and do their thing in the service I would have been proud of them.

[lysie]

LOL are you beaming and smiling as much as I am??

Actually, Neets. I'm a little tear-eyed. Fine men and women like OneLoyalAmerican who know the meaning of sacrifice always make me tear up with great respect.

Is it okay for a civilian to salute a serviceman? If so, sir, I salute you and all our members of the armed services. Thank you.

[kassie]

Thank you for your post and welcome to ATRW.

[Molly Pitcher]

Ahem....it's snowing....again....

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings again ATRW FReepers, et al:

Is it okay for a civilian to salute a serviceman?

Thank you for asking lysie. Every time you salute the USA Colors, you render a salute to ALL servicemen. Past, present, and future.

[kassie]

Just put the dogs out and it's raining here.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings again ATRW FReepers, et al:

Is it okay for a civilian to salute a serviceman?

Thank you for asking lysie. Every time you salute the USA Colors, you render a salute to ALL servicemen. Past, present, and future.

[Molly Pitcher]

Roger Hedgecock subbing for Limbaugh is playing excerpts - he loved the speech - and I'm getting goosebumps all over again. Stay dry, kassie. Back in awhile...

[LBKQ]

THANK YOU and GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Neets]

Time for a humour break!!!

A woman brought a very limp parrot into a veterinary clinic.  As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest.  After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadly and said, "I'm so sorry, Polly has passed away."

 

The distressed owner wailed, "Are you sure?  I mean you haven't done any testing on him or anything.  He might be in a coma or something."

 

The vet rolled his eyes, shrugged, turned and left the room returning in a few moments with a beautiful black Labrador.  As the bird's owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the parrot from top to bottom.  He then looked at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.

 

The vet escorted the dog from the room and returned a few moments later with a cat.  The cat jumped up and delicately sniffed the bird.  The cat then sat back, shook its head, meowed and ran out of the room.

 

The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry, but, like I said, your parrot is most definitely 100% certifiably dead."  He then turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill which he handed to the woman.  The parrot's owner, still in shock, took the bill.

 

"A HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS!" she cried.  "A HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS just to tell me my bird is dead?!"

 

The vet shrugged.  "If you'd taken my word for it the bill would only have been $20, but...  what with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan.....it's $150.00.

[lysie]

LOL...:-)

[nicollo]

You keep tripping over the "moral purity" argument that we should treat all our enemies the same. This is a standard DNC talking point, and relativism at its worst. The only thing pure about doing the same thing in every situation and to every country is stupidity. Your suggestion that since we supported dictators in the past we must support one now is even more inane. Reminds of Emerson's,

"A foolish consistency is the hobglobin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

I have two children approaching draft age all too soon. We must take down Iraq presicely for their safety.

Sorry, I won't trade my children for Saddam Hussein.

[lysie]

President Bush speaking in Grand Rapids....

I wanted the United Nations to be something other than an empty debating team"

Ka Boom!!

[LibertyBelt]

Because I am deeply concerned that the best of America, folks like OLA, would be killed for reasons other than true national security to USA, does not make me a partisan ignoramus? Not sure he meant to say thay, but I am partisan towards liberty, in the USA first.

If sdH has longstanding links with AQ and verified wmd, nuke the whole village he came from and send in the smart bombs. If it turns out that most of the reason is to compete with Fr/Russia in the world oil market, that would be no reason to spill red white and blue American blood. Once again, we don't have the facts, and the fact that in a land of liberty we the people don't demand them is frightening. Of course Bush is not the scum of Clinton.

Other countries have and are going to hell; it is not our job to get Americans killed for them to deal with their dictatorships. I do not want to send any son to a country to die for the American flag if that flag is NOT threatened. AS OLA pointed out, we have a lot of enemy combatants here in our own nation, some in our own Senate! I applaud his duty and I share it.

One last concern: is every veteran who risked his/her life for his/her America, and later came to believe the war was imperialistic or immoral (and there have been hundreds of thousands of such honorable veterans from many wars)....are they now or were they traitors for saying, for instance, that Vietnam, or other wars, was a waste of American blood? (not that I agree necessarily).

I am glad our military is reading and willing to defend us. May it turn out that I am wrong in my doubts, but don't call me partisan for having them??? I take my Bible seriously: there is heaven and hell. A just war is the ONLY war we are morally allowed to wage. Because I am not convinced does not mean I am a moral coward or trying to get the moral upper ground. It ain't about an argument on a listserve, something criminal in many nations. It's about the buckets of blood that may soon water the Earth, and whether this will bring blessing or curse?

[Mr. Mulliner]

I was listening to Glenn Beck this morning and he was asking, "Can you imagine if one month before 9/11 the president had given a speech and said that we are going into Afghanistan to take out the Taliban and Osama? There would be no support and there would be an outcry that they have done nothing to us." Just weeks later, there was a different kind of outcry: "What did you know and when did you know it? Why didn't you do anything about it?"

Whatever evidence President Bush has must be taken seriously, especially by the DNC. They've already tried the "what did you know and when did you know it?" routine. If we fail to stop an AQ attack that is aided in anyway by Iraq, what are they going to say?

[lepton]

The argument isn't even over whether or not they are building WMD, that's just an issue that puts it over the top on its face. The issue is, Hussein conditionally surrendured. We agreed that we wouldn't invade and dismantle his government if he did several things. Hussein agreed to these terms.

One of the things agreed to was that he would not only halt production of WMDs, but destroy any that he had. An inspection regime was put in place to verify that he was doing what he said he was doing.

As example, he and his government admitted to having certain quantities of Anthrax. His responsibility for that is to allow the inspectors access so that they can observe and certify that X amount of Y material was destroyed. Instead, these materials have disappeared with no explanation. It's up to Hussein to explain what happened to the materials, and cooperate so that the inspectors can certify - else there's no real justification, other than laziness on our and the U.N.'s part, for NOT invading and removing his government from power.

[gulfcoast6]

After all the applause for OUR President W, I bet little tommy d is having a bad case of acid reflux, from head to tow.