Posted on 07/16/2014 10:44:25 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
Every Neil Young song you’ve ever heard (Dana Carvey)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHk7c5aUXVs#t=197
“I hope Neil Young remembers, A southern man don’t need him around any way”.
Sounds like it wasn't his call.
Too hard to rhyme pancake and Corrie?
It's old but it's good.
I’m not blaming Neil Young, and it is safer this way.
Are you sure that cat isn’t Bob Dylan or Buffy Sainte-Marie?
Buffalo Springfield.
“Bush I stopped at the gates of Baghdad”
Bush pere didn’t drink the utopian ‘democracy will convert the heathen’ koolaid and had enough sense not to try.
Understood, but it seems like some people are.
> Too hard to rhyme pancake and Corrie?
If I could do it, they can too:
Landfill
(To the tune of “Landslide,” by Stevie Nicks)
I took my bullhorn, took it down
Helped terrorists in Gaza Town.
I saw my reflection on a bulldozer blade,
and the landfill’s where I stay.
Oh, choppers in the sky,
What is dumb?
Can I play chicken with Israelis?
Can I face down heavy equipment?
Can I take sixty tons on my chest?
Well, I’ve been afraid of flattening,
‘Cause a D-9 can hurt you.
But morons are bolder,
Flag-burning gets older,
And IHOP is calling too...
Oh, mail me home, flat rate’s fine,
Fake some photos, moan and whine.
If you see my reflection in a bulldozer blade
Well the landfill’s where I’ll be...
If you see my reflection in a bulldozer blade
Well the landfill’s where I’ll be...
Bush pere didn’t drink the utopian ‘democracy will convert the heathen’ koolaid and had enough sense not to try.
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That is not why he stopped at the gates, and I suspect you know that.
The Coalition did not support regime change, it was about getting Saddam back inside of his borders.
revisionist history looks no better on the right than it does on the left.
“I hope Neil Young remembers, A southern man don’t need him around any way”.
Ronnie loved Neil Young, “let Mr. Young remember that too!”
There’s nothing ‘revisionist’ in what I posted. Bush 41 surrounded himself with foreign policy realists, Brent Scowcroft being a significant example. His goal was to push Saddam back into Iraq and punish him for attacking Kuwait. And having achieved that he stopped.
Bush 41 never expressed regret that he failed to conquer Iraq. An essay he cowrote with Scowcroft mentions the danger of trying to do exactly that:
“Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in “mission creep,” and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs.
“Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well.
“Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.’s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish.
“Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different—and perhaps barren—outcome. “
https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/169/36409.html
Bush 43 was unimpressed with his father’s good judgement and his own crackpot utopian streak was on full display in his second State of the Union address, where he tasks the United States with ending tyranny in the world. It’s a vision Woodrow Wilson would have been proud to proclaim.
“So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world. “
Neil Young - Four Strong Winds
I'm a longtime fan.
Hey, hey, my, my
Rock and Roll will never die
(except if you’re in Israel and getting bombed everyday)
What a cave-in from Mr. “Keep on rockin in the free world”
But I still like ol Neil no matter what leftist garbage he spouts
Kind of dittos. What pissed me off about Iraq war #1 was that George Bush called on the Shiites to rise up against Saddam. We then let them get slaughtered by Saddam. We did not give them weapons they were led to believe we would help them when we encouraged them to revolt.
A huge betrayal! Aside from this George Bush senior showed better tempered judgment than George Bush junior when it came to Saddam/Iraq and making war
BTW Brent Scowcroft was brought in later on to advise GWBush as the Iraq war turned sour
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