How big of you to admit that.
Posted on 10/23/2005 3:06:09 PM PDT by churchillbuff
The Okie from Muskogee speaks out. Merle Haggard Takes Another Musical Stand: Outspoken Musical Icon Urges, "Rebuild America First." No audio yet, but Haggard's new Chicago Wind CD, out next Tuesday (Oct. 25), includes the tune in the headline.
Chet Flippo (yes, the early Rolling Stone senior editor, now at Country Music Television as CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director) quotes some of it:
"Yea, men in position but backing away/Freedom is stuck in reverse/Let's get out of Iraq and get back on the track/And let's rebuild America first."
Haggard also comments on the current political and social scene in the song, "Where's All the Freedom?" He describes a country almost paralyzed by uncertainty, a nation where the Ten Commandments can't be displayed, where the grandparent of a soldier in Iraq can't afford to buy gasoline to drive to the grocery store, where individual rights are uncertain anymore.
He concludes: "Are we a nation under God anymore/How long do we cower down/Is this really still our ground/Our country is like a prisoner of war/Where's all the freedom that we're fightin' for."
You're so delicate.
Chamberlain is your ideological ancestor. I realize that kind of truth might chafe for you, but you need to accept it sooner rather than later. It's less painful for you that way.
LOL
As if you would need any slime tactics! You're a pariah here. A laughingstock.
Unlike you, apparently, I really don't like fundamentalist Islam. So I have a real problem with an American invasion that had the effect of creating another official Islamic state - - closely allied with Iraq's former enemy, Iran.
Second, I want the perpetrators of 9-11 caught and executed. I'm not a pacifist. I want a war against the people who took down the towers. Instead, we got a fools errand in Iraq.
Third, I want smaller government and lower taxes. The billion-dollar-a-week escapade in Iraq is giving us just the opposite.
Just as it's possible to be a liberal and support the Iraq stupidity - examples: Hillary, Biden and Reid -- it's possible to be a true small government freedom loving conservative (who voted for Reagan and both Bushes) and to consider this invasion and occupation and tragic mistake.
Being honest doesn't always buy popularity. But this is supposed to be a "free"republic forum - so I'll continue to speak freely.
How would you know?
But this is supposed to be a "free"republic forum - so I'll continue to speak freely.
The "free" doesn't refer to the forum, moron, it refers to the republic we're hoping to restore.
Were you born stupid, or do you take supplements?
You have become incoherent with stupidity.
How big of you to admit that.
Winston would not be happy with this poster co-opting his name.
Petronski is right -- you are incoherent.
Pulling out of Iraq will indeed give you an Islamic TERRORIST state, willing to supply every America hater with WMDs.
This might be difficult for you and Merle to understand, but you can display the 10 Commandments all you want. Just as you are free to display your ignorance. Nobody gonna stop you. We haven't stopped you yet. LOL!
That's right. And he didn't support terrorists, except for the ones he did. And he didn't train anyone at Salman Pak in the art of airplane hijacking. And he didn't pay "Palestinians" who killed innocent Jews. He didn't try to kill Bush I. Didn't shelter any of the terrorists who tried to destroy the WTC in 1993.
Nope, poor Saddam was just an innocent guy that we decided to pick on for no reason at all. Are you going to mourn when Assad falls in Syria? Or when the mullahs in Iran are finally taken out?
Could this be another 'Carlin'?
You keep good company.
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