Dixie Chicks still taking their licks - did quip kill goose that laid gold records?

The Dallas Morning News ^ | July 6, 2003 | By MARIO TARRADELL / The Dallas Morning News

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

I'll call up W and see if I can arrange a personal tour through the CIA intelligence section. Hopefully the CIA chief will give you a personal intelligence briefing. That might quiet you and the twenty million other doubting leftists.

[ktw]

Entertainers should stick to entertaining and not politics, it gets them in trouble every time.

[faithincowboys]

So the Kurds who died at the hands of WMD-- that was BS too. And the Iranians that died -- George W made that up?
The scary thing is that he had them and probably sent them to Syria.

I really think your take on this is flawed. You do realize Saddam and his Baathists had the whole run up to the war to disperse and transport the WMD. I'm inclined to think that a despot who has used them before, whose not encumbered by inspections, whose awash with oil money from illegal side deals, whose life goal is to obtain large amounts of WMD, had them. Your faith in Saddam is truly wonderful.

I think the only thing that gives me pause is that there is no counterweight to the mullahs in Iran. Saddam headed a Sunni super-state and kept the mullahs in check, hopefully the homogrown democrats in Iran overthrow the mullahs and usher in a liberal (not Pelosi liberal) Secular Democracy.

[faithincowboys]

Also you do realize that 3000 civilians were killed on our soil? And many more were maimed? I mourn the death of every soldier, but having our service people die on offense is much more preferable to having our civilian population die at work and on domestice airliners.

I think your separation of the two is ridiculous. You simply cannot think of the Iraq war in isolation. We are trying to alter the course of the region, and I have no doubt that Saddam had contacts with terrorism.

You are falling for the propaganda of President's political foes. The same people who like Fidel but hate Ashcroft, the Leninists, the Clintonistas, the Carterites, the Fifth Column.

[Hank Rearden]

Notwithstanding the fact that "country music" is an oxymoron, Maines looks and acts like a pig and it's good to see them face down in the dirt.

[Saundra Duffy]

I am never going to "move on" re. the ditsie clucks. I will never forget.

[MeekOneGOP]

Me either !

[MeekOneGOP]

[Redbob]

"Sales make it clear that the trio appeals to an audience beyond country."

Make that "beyond THIS country!"
LOL!

[Rytwyng]

U there are still idiot Freeper die hards who insist that WMDS will be found?

If remembering the facts and embracing their highly probable implications, makes one an "idiot Freeper die hard", then, I accept the label.

Given the mass graves we've found, it's clear that the Saddam regime was, in and of itself, a weapon of mass destruction. Also, it's well documented that the regime has already used chemical weapons on Kurds and Iranians.

My suspicion is, that Saddam did indeed have new WMDs (which may or may not eventually be found), but in the final analysis, it doesn't matter, becase, Saddam's agreement to not use or develop WMDs - and to allow VERIFICATION of compliance -- was part of his SURRENDER agreement after he was beaten back in his 1991 war of aggression.

Refusal to allow verification, in such a circumstance, is both a defacto and a dejure reopening of the war on his part -- regardless of whether he actually had new WMDs, or was merely thwarting the inspectors to indulge in some twisted ego-gratification or some other motive we can't guess at. A civilian analogy that fits: a convicted criminal on parole, who refuses his drug test or fails to show up for a a check-in with his parole officer, is subject to an immediate arrest warrant, regardless of the reason. Nobody cares if he actually committed new offenses, because his breaking parole is more than enough moral justification to hunt him down. Ditto for the Saddam regime.

Where are the Freeper Chicken hawks patriots willing to give up hearth and home for a midday guard duty posting in downtown Iraq?

I tried, but the recuiter told me I was too old.

[Burkeman1]

Given the mass graves we've found, it's clear that the Saddam regime was, in and of itself, a weapon of mass destruction. Also, it's well documented that the regime has already used chemical weapons on Kurds and Iranians.

Given the fact that the mass graves found date back to 91' and the failed uprising that Bush I encouraged and then abandoned I find that argument rather loathsome. Sadaam may have been a "WMD" to his own people but not to us. And he used gas 15 to 20 years ago agaisnt the Kurds and Iranians while he was our buddy or at least as we turned a blind eye. Hardly what Bush and co. were talking about in their justifications for war.

And we didn't go into Iraq because Sadaam had played games with the UN or to enforce UN resolutions or his failure to comply with twelve year old cease fire agreement. We went in becasue we were told that he was a direct threat to the US bcause of extensive WMD programs and even reconstituted nuclear weapons (as Cheney said he was sure he had).

May I suggest that when an adminstration provides a rationale for war that doesn't seem to be even remotely true that IT DOES MATTER to those who are truly conservative and patriots regardless of the party label of the President in office?

[Rytwyng]

when an adminstration provides a rationale for war that doesn't seem to be even remotely true

It seemed true when we were going in. Saddam's recalcitrance undeniably helped create that perception.