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POST YOUR FAVORITE LIBERAL PUT-DOWN (show your patriotism, shut-up a liberal today)

Posted on 08/03/2003 1:35:52 PM PDT by Liz

Conservatives are sometimes forced, against their will, to converse with liberals maybe at work, or at parties, or in other places the loathsome lib-creatures congregate.

Savvy conservatives are always ready with a quip with which to silence a blathering lib.

This is your chance to defend your country, show your patriotism and shut-up a liberal.

Post your favorite liberal put-down here.


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To: Liz
"What color is the sky from Planet Zongo?"

This is actually a combination of two great putdowns I read on FR, and I can't remember whom to credit. I read so many fine zingers on this site that I could never remember them all. I KNOW I have forgotten some truly great ones from here.

21 posted on 08/03/2003 2:40:10 PM PDT by Irene Adler
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To: MayDay72
Issue: Gun Control versus Gun Rights
Response: "I guess I'm pro-choice on that issue."

Zing..........

22 posted on 08/03/2003 2:42:49 PM PDT by Liz
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To: hemogoblin; Liz; LibWhacker
Thank you Ann Coulter! ;-)

Indeed. I love one of Ann's recent comments regarding this war:

"When FDR was running World War II, you didn't see Republicans taunting him 'You haven't caught Hitler!, You haven't caught Hitler! You haven't found any death camps! Show us the death camps!'".

23 posted on 08/03/2003 2:51:23 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (http://righteverytime.blogspot.com - home to Tall_Texan's new column.)
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To: markcowboy
Great........
26 posted on 08/03/2003 3:32:21 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Maria S
Where did you get that quote from Uday? I've got to put that on my cubicle wall.
27 posted on 08/03/2003 3:44:01 PM PDT by GenXFreedomFighter (I keep chasing the carrot, but all I get is the STICK!)
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To: GenXFreedomFighter
The £20m jackpot
(Filed: 27/07/2003)
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/27/wirq127.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/07/27/ixnewstop.html

Olga Craig in Mosul reveals how Uday and Qusay Hussein were betrayed by a family friend to whom they were worth far more dead than alive.

All day, glaziers from Nawaf Al Zaidan's contracting firm had been working on the windows of their employer's ornate, three-storey villa on the boulevard of Al Falaha in Mosul. Mukhlis Jubori, Zaidan's next-door neighbour and closest friend, was curious. The windows did not need replacing and glass has been scarce since the war. Where was Zaidan, he wondered? He hadn't seen him for almost three weeks.

That Sunday a week ago, as he watched the house, Zaidan finally appeared in his garden, and Jubori beckoned him to his porch. "I offered him tea and I saw how his hands shook as he reached out to accept the glass. I remember thinking how pale and frightened he seemed," he says, recalling what was to be his last proper talk with Zaidan. "He looked at me for a long time, and told me he was having bullet-proof glass installed. Then he told me why.

"He was trembling so hard his legs seemed to give way. He had to squat down on the steps of my house."
Zaidan's confession shocked Jubori. It explained, too, why his neighbour had been so elusive of late. Until a few weeks ago, it had been Zaidan's habit to take plastic chairs from his home and place them on the pavement outside his house each evening. Neighbours would wander by and drink Pepsi and sweet tea with him, discussing events.
Zaidan had money, standing and, most importantly, powerful connections. He was, in Western parlance, "nouveau riche" - his house was expensive, yet his furnishings, in keeping with his humble background, lacked taste. That said, he also had the patronage of the President before the war and his status in the town still commanded prestige. His walls were adorned with pictures of himself with the Husseins.
But the casual neighbourly meetings on the pavement had ended abruptly. Hardly anyone now saw Zaidan or Shalan, his 19-year-old son, his wife and five daughters. What neighbours had noticed, however, was a new BMW parked at the side of his house.

Five days after his last conversation with Zaidan, Jubori sits again on his porch and smiles broadly, showing a mouthful of gold fillings. "[Zaidan's] eyes were full of fear," says Jubori. "He said to me: 'They asked to stay with me in my house and how could I refuse? But I knew this would be a disaster for me.'

"He might have been frightened then but I knew he would weasel his way out," Jubori continues. "I know Zaidan, he is a schemer. Always he plots, he thinks 'What can I get out of this?' That is his reaction to everything. Zaidan did, in the end, what he always does. He made money out of Saddam Hussein. A lot of it, this time. The jackpot."
This weekend, seven days after confessing to Jubori that Uday and Qusay, the infamous, sadistic sons of Saddam Hussein were holed up in his luxurious villa, Zaidan is a fugitive. His £250,000 home is in ruins, he and his family are living in protective custody with the US military and he has been denounced as a dishonourable outcast by his former friends.

He is, however, an extremely wealthy fugitive. In their lifetime, the sons of Saddam Hussein may have showered him with money, land and favours but, unwittingly, in death, they bequeathed him much more: $30 million (almost £20 million), the reward President George W Bush put on the heads of the Ace of Hearts and the Ace of Clubs in the coalition's deck of most-wanted "cards".

Uday Hussein, the playboy sadist who branded the women he raped with the letter "U" and humiliated them further by sending money to their fathers, and his brother Qusay died holding the rank of brigadier generals: on April 4, while the coalition forces pounded the city of Baghdad, Saddam called his sons to a secret meeting to promote them. He could give them no insignia, all he could do was make the pronouncement.

Two days later, on April 6, Uday sent for Ala'a Makki, the former director of his television station. He asked Makki what the Iraqi people were thinking. "He was depressed," says Makki. "Since he was disabled in the gun attack on him in 1996 he had become increasingly erratic and inhumane.

"His final words to me were: 'This time I think the Americans are serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end'."

Three weeks ago, increasingly isolated and running out of places to hide, the brothers teamed up, taking with them Mustafa, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and Abdul Assamad, a close family friend. They left the safe Sunni triangle of Falludja, Baghdad and Tikrit for Mosul: once there, they called in their favour from Zaidan. He was in no position to refuse.

Unknown to them, however, Zaidan held a grudge. Two years ago Sadan, Zaidan's younger brother, a drunk who traded on his brother's prestigious position, had boasted once too often that the brothers were cousins of Saddam. Such an erroneous claim carried a prison sentence and Sadan was condemned to seven years. While he was released within a month, Zaidan still brooded about the family humiliation.
For the past 12 years this once humble builder whose first home was a tiny, three-roomed building in an outlying village, has prospered greatly thanks to his President. When Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1991 Zaidan rallied the Al Bunaser tribe to respond to Saddam's call in Mosul, not a natural Saddam stronghold.

"Zaidan was an opportunist," says Shahir Al Khazraji, who lives in a pink villa directly opposite him. "He knew he could curry favour with Saddam. The President needed supporters, Zaidan delivered the Al Bunasers.

"When the first Gulf War ended Zaidan went to Baghdad and petitioned Watban Hussein, Saddam's half-brother. He insisted that, although distant, he was related to Saddam. He had been loyal, all he wanted, he said, was a letter. He got it. It made him head of the Al Bunaser tribe, a venerated position that promised an annual payment of $200,000. It also brought him patronage.

"Saddam himself never visited Zaidan's new, luxurious home, but his sons and many of his relatives did. And that led to much more.

"Uday gave him 2,500 acres of fertile farmland that had once belonged to Kurds. He gave him lucrative contracts worth millions of dinars. And in January came the biggest prize - a contract worth £300,000 to build Saddam's new mosque in Mosul. I suspect Saddam knew that mosque would never be built; that money was a payment for future help. And three weeks ago Uday and Qusay called in his debt: they turned up on his doorstep."

Raisa, Khazraji's sister, saw the brothers, Mustafa and Assamad arrive after midnight in a Mercedes three weeks ago, although she did not recognise them. It was also the last time she saw the Zaidan family.

Mustafa, who was unknown in Mosul, did the family's shopping. According to the owner of the grocery store next to Khazraji's home, the family's weekly bread order rose from 10 to 70 loaves a week. Mustafa bought dozens of cans of Coke from the nearby newsagent. When asked, Zaidan would say only: "My wife's relatives are staying."
No one, save Jubori, knew the true identity of his house guests. Their arrival had thrown Zaidan into a frenzy of anxiety. He owed everything to the brothers, he could not turn them away.

Then, on July 13, when the Americans advertised their bounty for information on the whereabouts of Saddam and his sons, he saw a rich opportunity for revenge. All he needed to do was secure the safety of his family.
Last Monday, when he told the 101st Airborne Division that he could lead them to the brothers he knew his name would soon adorn a cheque for £20 million - if he held his nerve. The next day, at 6am, he drove his wife and daughters to safety before returning home. As pre-arranged, two officers "arrested" him and his son and, four hours later, surrounded the house. A bloody gun battle ensued. The Hussein brothers, together on the first floor, fired AK 47s from the bathroom window at the first patrol that approached.

Among the soldiers below was Sergeant Ed Carr, 35, from Charlie company, the 3rd battalion of the 101st. He had known since 9am that this was an important and dangerous mission. "I did what I always do going into battle," he said the next day. "I kissed my wooden carving of Kimberly, my wife, and asked her to pray for me."
As the brothers repelled all efforts to storm the house, Carr's job was to fire tow missiles, 20 in all. When the smoke cleared, Uday, Qusay and Assamad were dead: only Mustafa continued to fire until he, too, was killed.
This weekend the brothers' bodies lie in refrigerated units at Baghdad airport, victims of greed and betrayal. As Iraqis across the country fired off guns in celebration, Saddam's dream that a Hussein dynasty would rule the country must be fast fading. The former Iraqi dictator's only hope now is that both he and Ali, the 16-year-old son of Samira Shahbandar, his second wife, do not share the fates of Uday and Qusay.


Also mentioned in:

Closure on Nuance
By Ann Coulter
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 31, 2003
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9174


28 posted on 08/03/2003 4:22:08 PM PDT by Maria S ("This time I think the Americans are serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end" Uda)
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To: Liz
If you're not a liberal in your twenties - you have no heart. If you're still a liberal in your thirties -you have no brain.
29 posted on 08/03/2003 4:29:22 PM PDT by austingirl
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To: austingirl
Any other links for that quote from Husseins son?>

Never seen it mentioned b4 , and Daily telegraph hasnt been most reputable sourve to date?
30 posted on 08/03/2003 6:01:49 PM PDT by Irish0028
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To: austingirl
That one is bullship.

I actually *cared* about people in my 20's...and that's WHY I was conservative .

You can't care *about* people you don't know by attempting to take over their lives as though they were children caring *for* them.
31 posted on 08/03/2003 7:43:02 PM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: Liz
From Teddy Roosevelt:
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

32 posted on 08/04/2003 1:52:44 AM PDT by anglian
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To: Liz
A liberal is someone who has their two feet firmly planted in the air.
33 posted on 08/04/2003 1:54:10 AM PDT by poet
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To: poet
Heheh....good one. Nice mental pic.
34 posted on 08/04/2003 8:27:53 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Ff--150; Brian S; shaggy eel; Donna Lee Nardo; LiteKeeper; agrace; ErinsDaddy; Black Agnes; ...
Savvy conservatives have a zillion quips at the ready with which to silence blathering libs. This thread's got a collection of beauties so far.

Here's a chance to demonstrate your patriotism; Defend your country, shut-up a liberal today. Post your fave lib put-down here so we can all enjoy it.

35 posted on 08/04/2003 8:42:44 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
Here's a good one. When you discuss homosexuals call them "Sodomites". When you discuss abortion call the leftists "pro-abortion" or "pro-infanticide". These two things drive them crazy. BTW someone from FR gave me this idea.
36 posted on 08/04/2003 9:57:24 AM PDT by I got the rope
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To: I got the rope
Good idea........that'll shut 'em up.
37 posted on 08/04/2003 10:01:56 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
What's your name and what does your dad do?
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>It's the first day of school and the teacher thought she'd get to know the
>kids by asking them their name and what their father does for a living.
>
>The first little girl says: "My name is Mary and my daddy is a postman
>
>The next little boy says: "I'm Andy and my Dad is a mechanic."
>
>Then one little boy says: "My name is Jimmy and my father is a striptease
>dancer in a cabaret for gay men."
>
>The teacher gasps and quickly changes the subject, but later in the school
>yard the teacher approaches Jimmy privately and asks if it was really true
>that his Dad dances nude in a gay bar.

>He blushed and said, "No, my dad raises money for the Democratic Party,
but I was just too embarrassed to tell everyone."

38 posted on 08/04/2003 10:48:28 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in groups or whole armies.....we don't care how we getcha, but we will)
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To: Maelstrom
Go complain to Winston Churchill - it's his quote.
39 posted on 08/04/2003 10:53:37 AM PDT by austingirl
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To: BOBTHENAILER
Good one.......heheh.
40 posted on 08/04/2003 12:29:35 PM PDT by Liz
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