Fred Thompson on Benazir Bhutto assassination (Fox Interview)

Fred08 ^ | December 27, 2007

[Fred]

Huckabee loves to speak in platitudes

[Tlaloc]

To me it sounds like Huck is getting talking points from Newt Gingrich: "The dictatorship in Pakistan has never had control over Wiziristan. Not for a day. So we've now spent six years since 9/11 with a sanctuary for al Qaeda and a sanctuary for the Taliban, and every time we pick up people in Great Britain who are terrorists, they were trained in Pakistan. And our answer is to praise Musharraf because at least he's not as bad as the others. But the truth is Musharraf has not gotten control of terrorism in Pakistan. Musharraf doesn't have full control over his own government. The odds are even money we're going to drift into a disastrous dictatorship at some point in Pakistan. And while we worry about the Iranians acquiring a nuclear weapon, the Pakistanis already have 'em, So why would you feel secure in a world where you could presently have an Islamist dictatorship in Pakistan with a hundred-plus nuclear weapons? What's our grand strategy for that?"

[steve8714]

I don’t think he’s as inactive as we are told by the national punditry, who all have written him off since the start. This is no conspiracy, rather a smug “Why haven’t you been running since we’ve been interested?” kind of thing. I think most voters in the country are just beginning to take note, and frankly think it disgusting the way we are forced to make early choices for the candidates. That’s how we got Bob Dole, and why we no longer have him in the Senate.

[HoustonTech]

While I think Gingrich has made some dumb remarks regard the WOT, this statement is far cry from what Huckabee and other Democrats have been saying. This paragraph rightly voices a concern about having “an Islamist dictatorship in Pakistan with a hundred-plus nuclear weapons,” but what Huckabee wants to do would do more to insure that an Islamist dictatorship would rise up in that state.

Musharraf may not be the ideal statesman in Pakistan, but he is at least a secular leader. The very nature of Pakistan demands that our next President has a good understanding of cause and envent in the diplomatic world. We cannot afford a neophyte in the White House, and that is what we would have with any of the Democrats including Mike Huckabee.

Huckabee scares me to death. Nearly any of the Republican candidates (save Ron Paul) would be better, and Ron Paul would only be equally as bad.

[counterpunch]

I think most voters in the country are just beginning to take note, and frankly think it disgusting the way we are forced to make early choices for the candidates.

I agree there. It also goes to show how stupid Iowans are that they set their caucus date so that their campaign season would peak from Christmas to New Years. Dolts.

 

[LucyJo]

AMEN!

I sent a note to someone this morning in light of the Bhutto assassination, telling them that we had better pray that Fred Thompson is elected POTUS, because we are going to need someone leading this country who knows more than how to be a slick politician.

[G8 Diplomat]

Pakistan ۋﮧ۱م

FReepmail if you want on or off

[Tlaloc]

How will Huck insure that Islamists will take over Pakistan by bombing them to smithereens and killing them? We threatened to bomb Pakistan into the stone age if they didn’t help us destroy al-qaeda. It’s well past time to face the fact that they are not helping us get the job done. Are the threats of the USA hollow, or do we really mean it when we say “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

For what did..... the Huckster apologize?

We're all trying to figure out what he meant. And English his native tongue too.

[Fred]

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[HoustonTech]

You should apply for the Secretary of Defense position within Huckabee’s campaign. It couldn’t be any worse than he has right now.

[SierraWasp]

"In this age of Lawfare" Interesting new word you've coined there, Little Ray!!!

Kinda reminds me of Jamie Gorelick!!! (Warfare vs Lawfare)

Hitlery would have coined it Lawfair... Phhhhhhhht!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the Vets4FRED Website:

"Our country is in a global war of historic proportions,
and not enough people realize that yet..."Fred

[Little Ray]

I didn’t invent it - it is literally inconcievable to me. I think I picked it up on the Strategy Page.
In a sane society, lawyers waging lawfare on the behalf of terrorists would be arrested, tried before a military tribunal, convicted, and hanged for treason the next morning.

[ejonesie22]

Just shows that Huckabee is totally and absolutly clues on figthting this war.

Has it ever occurred to you there is a tactical reason the the mightiest military in the world has not captured some thug in a cave?

Of course not, you support that Bush bashing gitmo closing idiot...

[bray]

This is a war and until all of America realizes it the worse it is going to be. AQ wants to destroy the west and especially America.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[BOBTHENAILER]

Kinda reminds me of Jamie Gorelick!!! (Warfare vs Lawfare) Hitlery would have coined it Lawfair... Phhhhhhhht!!!

OK...I'll say it. KILL THE BASTARDS

[SierraWasp]

Yew cain’t say theyat, ewwwwwwwwww!!! That’s terribly mean spirited yew mean NAILERMAN!!! Confess yer sin ta Saint Huckabeensuckedin... den go an sin no mo!!! (/dripin slovenly sarcasm wif a suthern baptistan acceyent)

[BOBTHENAILER]

Yew cain’t say theyat, ewwwwwwwwww!!!

Yas I cain. Thas not raght yew a compairin' me to Mr. Huckleberry. That makes me thank o' that moovie about Tombstone, whar that feller ol'Doc Holiday said to de guy raght for' he kilt him, "I'm yer Huckleberry"

Then he done went an' shot I'm in de haid.

An' thas whut I thank we needs ta dew, Shewt 'em in de haid.

[Marine_Uncle]

Fred did ok. But the guy the media should be interviewing, Duncan Hunter, is avoided like the plague because he is the best choice for POTUS this next time around. While others where doing whatever they where for the past eight years, Hunter was a super advocate of strong national defense, strong military in general, protecting our borders regardless of required funding in a way of a sufficiently double tiered fence approach, strong on somehow reversing the flow of business so that corporations would stay in the US, and not lose our long legaciy of being the best in engineering and research, strong on prosecuting the GWOT etc.. The rest of the pack on both sides can not stand up to the level Hunter has worked at on a daily basis.
Hey. He has called for an end of Chinese taking over our west coast ports etc..
But this guy is dangerous to both sides because he would do all that is required without reservation to keep this nation strong and safe and at least attempt to turn the tide on globalization where it weakens the in place industrial and scientific institutions and industry.