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Boortz alert - KENNEDY AND HIS ILK TELL OUR TROOPS TO GO TO HELL.
Neal Boortz website ^ | 10/20/03 | Neal Boortz

Posted on 10/20/2003 9:16:20 AM PDT by Elkiejg

And that's the way it is, folks. The ever-disgusting Democrat Ted Kennedy voted against President Bush's funding request for our operation in Iraq. He wasn't alone. John Edwards and John Kerry were right there with him, opposing Bush's $87 billion funding request for the continuation of our efforts in Iraq. Wesley Clark and Howard Dean say that they would have opposed the funding if they had a vote.

Kennedy, Kerry, Edwards and every other politician who voted against this funding request was sending messages to our troops in Iraq, their families at home, Saddam Hussein and his supporters, Islamic terrorists and the international community.

The messages these Democrats are sending are clear:

To our troops in Iraq -- while we may pay homage to "supporting our troops" in reality, we don't. We are not going to provide the funds that are necessary to continue caring for you in the field. What's more, we do not approve of what you have accomplished thus far.

To Saddam and his supporters -- you had us pretty much figured out. Once you showed that you were willing to wage a war of attrition against our troops, killing a few here and a few there, we folded. We want out. You can now proceed with your plans to return Saddam to the seat of power in Baghdad. What's more, once you have achieved your victory over America you will be free to reinstitute your weapons programs as you see fit. There will be no more inspections, no more cruise missiles, and no more pressure from the United States to halt your weapons programs.

To the people of Iraq -- brace yourselves. As you may have suspected, America does not have the resolve and courage to stick to this campaign. Soon your ruthless dictator will return. This means that the midnight disappearances, the torture, the killings and the mass graves will soon return. If you cooperated with the Americans during our aborted attempt to rid you of this devil, we're sorry. You will most assuredly be targeted by Saddam's thugs and murdered. They have been watching, knowing that soon we would turn tail and run and leave you to their revenge.

To Islamic terrorists around the world -- the way is clear. We will no longer bring the war to you on your soil. We will simply wait for you to bring your jihad to us, or, if you like, we will do whatever is in our power to appease you at every turn. We do not have the stomach for a fight. Appeasement is by far our preferred course of action.

To the International Community -- The United States herewith withdraws from any responsibility to work with our allies in fighting terrorism. We are henceforth going to follow the path of appeasement. You would be well-advised to do the same.

And to the American people -- Brace yourselves. Islamic terrorists around the world will soon be celebrating the return of Saddam Hussein and the Baath party to power in Iraq. We have abandoned the path of confrontation and eradication and have chosen instead the path of appeasement and withdrawal. Saddam will soon renew his production of weapons of mass destruction and his attempts to build nuclear weapons. At some time it is certain that these weapons will fall into the hands of terrorists, and eventually make their way to our country. This will undoubtedly increase the probability of a terrorist attack on our home soil. To prevent such an attack we will be taking even more draconian security measures in our homeland. In short order we will be issuing national identity cards which you will be required to have on your person at all times. You will also be subject to searches of your home, your automobiles and your person at any time. Sorry, but in the face of the terrorist threat we are going to have so suspend nuisances such as "probable cause" or warrants before we conduct these searches, or before we tap your telephone lines and internet computers.

This is the future waiting for America and the world if these appeasers ever regain their much-coveted political power in Washington. Our nation is in far more danger now than it has even been since the Civil War --- and the choice has never been more clear for the voters.

We either confront these Islamic terrorists and those who have and would support them, or we don't. We either confront them on foreign soil, or we enact draconian measures here at home to avoid the confrontation on our own soil. We fight or run. If the party of appeasement takes control after next year's elections many of you will be instituting your escape plans. The rest of you will be wishing you had one.

DON'T YOU THINK THIS MAKES THE CASE?

I guess this is just my day to feel contempt for Ted Kennedy. Of course, that's pretty much been every day since he left Mary Jo Kopechne to die trapped inside his car resting in a few feet of water while he paced up and down the roadside trying to figure out how to salvage his political future.

Here is what Kennedy had to say from the floor of the U.S. Senate last week:

"The American people were told Saddam Hussein was building nuclear weapons. He was not. We were told he had stockpiles of other weapons of mass destruction. He did not. We were told he was involved in 9/11. He was not. We were told Iraq was attracting terrorists from Al Qaeda. It was not. We were told our soldiers would be viewed as liberators. They are not. We were told Iraq could pay for its own reconstruction. It cannot. We were told the war would make America safer. It has not."

Never has a prominent politician made a statement so full of complete and unadulterated provable BS. We'll do some of that on the show today, but first I'm going to engage in a little cutting and pasting from a speech excerpt posted on the Internet:

This is part of a speech by the president outlining the reasons for going to war with Iraq. I am going to ask you to read this excerpt and then tell me whether or not you think the president made the case. Come on now. This is a serious matter ... give it a read. These are remarks made by the president prior to the beginning of the war to oust Saddam Hussein:

Iraq repeatedly made false declarations about the weapons that it had left in its possession after the Gulf War. When UNSCOM would then uncover evidence that gave the lie to those declarations, Iraq would simply amend the reports. For example, Iraq revised its nuclear declarations four times within just 14 months, and it has submitted six different biological warfare declarations, each of which has been rejected by UNSCOM.

In 1995 Hussein Kamal, Saddam's son-in-law and the chief organizer of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, defected to Jordan. He revealed that Iraq was continuing to conceal weapons and missiles and the capacity to build many more. Then and only then did Iraq admit to developing numbers of weapons in significant quantities--and weapons stocks. Previously it had vehemently denied the very thing it just simply admitted once Saddam's son-in-law defected to Jordan and told the truth.

Now listen to this: What did it admit? It admitted, among other things, an offensive biological warfare capability, notably, 5,000 gallons of botulinum, which causes botulism; 2,000 gallons of anthrax; 25 biological-filled Scud warheads; and 157 aerial bombs. And I might say UNSCOM inspectors believe that Iraq has actually greatly understated its production. . . .

Next, throughout this entire process, Iraqi agents have undermined and undercut UNSCOM. They've harassed the inspectors, lied to them, disabled monitoring cameras, literally spirited evidence out of the back doors of suspect facilities as inspectors walked through the front door, and our people were there observing it and had the pictures to prove it. . . .

Over the past few months, as [the weapons inspectors] have come closer and closer to rooting out Iraq's remaining nuclear capacity, Saddam has undertaken yet another gambit to thwart their ambitions by imposing debilitating conditions on the inspectors and declaring key sites which have still not been inspected off limits, including, I might add, one palace in Baghdad more than 2,600 acres large. . . .

One of these presidential sites is about the size of Washington, D.C. . . .

It is obvious that there is an attempt here, based on the whole history of this operation since 1991, to protect whatever remains of his capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction, the missiles to deliver them, and the feed stocks necessary to produce them. The UNSCOM inspectors believe that Iraq still has stockpiles of chemical and biological munitions, a small force of Scud-type missiles, and the capacity to restart quickly its production program and build many, many more weapons. . . .

Now, let's imagine the future. What if he fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction and continue to press for the release of the sanctions and continue to ignore the solemn commitments that he made? Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction.

And some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal. . . . In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now--a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers, or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed.

If we fail to respond today, Saddam, and all those who would follow in his footsteps, will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council, and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program.

So, what do you think? Did the president made the case? It may well be that you believe that this is just more of the lies being told by George Bush just to get us into a war against Saddam Hussein, all so he can enrich his big corporate friends. Well, you would be wrong. I can prove to you that these are not the lies of George W. Bush, because these are not the words of George W. Bush. These are the words of Bill Clinton delivered in a speech on the steps of the Pentagon on on February 17, 1998.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: appallingdems; kennedyslime; nealboortz; tedkennedy
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GO NEAL!!!!
1 posted on 10/20/2003 9:16:20 AM PDT by Elkiejg
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To: Elkiejg
I wonder if my senator, one Ted Kennedy, would read this if sent to his office. Probably right after monkeys fly out of my butt.
2 posted on 10/20/2003 9:20:59 AM PDT by SpinyNorman
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To: Elkiejg
What was the actual yeas & nays on the funding, both House & Senate? Do all nay voters fit the description of TK?
3 posted on 10/20/2003 9:26:01 AM PDT by familyofman
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To: Elkiejg

Senator Teddy, wearing his controversial neck brace, leaves St. Vincent's Church with his wife, Joan, after the funeral Mass for Mary Jo Kopechne.

4 posted on 10/20/2003 9:33:53 AM PDT by Restore
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To: Elkiejg
Great post! This is what drives me absolutly bonkers. The liberal left acts as if the issue of WMD in Iraq just came up in the past two years.

5 posted on 10/20/2003 9:35:14 AM PDT by PogySailor
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To: Elkiejg
Okay Neal, sure, we'll hand over an $87 billion dollar check of taxpayer money without any scrutiny or disagreements. No problem. Any other larger, future checks of taxpayer money we'll rubberstamp, too, because we are just that rich.
6 posted on 10/20/2003 9:38:49 AM PDT by Tony Niar Brain (Choose your enemies carefully, for you will become like them...)
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To: Tony Niar Brain
Go back to DU with the RATS who love Kennedy.
7 posted on 10/20/2003 9:53:19 AM PDT by Paulus Invictus (RATs are scum!)
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To: Tony Niar Brain
From your description:
"I try to seek a middle ground, and not to start partisan squabbles. I hope I'm succeeding. "
Keep hoping. 87 Bil is a bargain for this operation and we'll surely see more return than pi$$ing away the money squandered by the Department of (Mal)Education.. But, you know this already, right?
8 posted on 10/20/2003 9:57:46 AM PDT by gatorbait (Yesterday, today and tomorrow.....The United States Army)
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To: Elkiejg
Petition to Censure Senator Kennedy

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1002647/posts

call Senator McConnell at
(202) 224-2541
Stop whatever you are doing and attend to this now. The sot should not get away with this. Go here and call at least three Senators in their Washington offices. Try as I might, this probably won't link so paste it in your address bar.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

9 posted on 10/20/2003 9:59:13 AM PDT by yoe (Term Limits - and 2 terms are the limit for all elected to a Federal office!!)
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To: Tony Niar Brain
Okay Neal, sure, we'll hand over an $87 billion dollar check of taxpayer money without any scrutiny or disagreements. No problem. Any other larger, future checks of taxpayer money we'll rubberstamp, too, because we are just that rich.

Why not try getting your facts straight before making a jackass out of your self. Here's a couple to start with. All but $20 billion go for our troops. A certain percentage of that would have to be paid whether the troops were in Iraq or North Carolina. Because of the Iraq liberation, the troops and pilots (and the associated costs) previously stationed in Saudi Arabia are no longer there. The No-Fly zones, a previous drain on military resources, are no longer needed. (I hope you at least know that No-Fly zones have nothing to do with bug control)

10 posted on 10/20/2003 10:01:13 AM PDT by Go Gordon
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To: Elkiejg
Not only telling them to go to hell; they're also giving encouragement to those who think that the surest way to get us out of Iraq is to kill American soldiers. Ted Kennedy is the best friend Saddam ever had.

11 posted on 10/20/2003 10:05:54 AM PDT by Agnes Heep
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To: Restore
Should have been a noose, not a neck brace.
12 posted on 10/20/2003 10:11:29 AM PDT by bfree (Liberals are EVIL!!!)
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To: Restore
Teddy bears a strange resemblance to a young Herman Goering in this pic.
13 posted on 10/20/2003 10:12:55 AM PDT by johnny7 (If it initially seems wrong... it usually is.)
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To: Go Gordon
I said nothing about where the money was going. I was commenting how jackasses like Neal Boortz will complain night and day about the spending of taxpayer money except when he feels the occasion is right. He's a libertarian like I'm a dentist.
14 posted on 10/20/2003 10:24:34 AM PDT by Tony Niar Brain (Choose your enemies carefully, for you will become like them...)
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To: Elkiejg
BUMP
15 posted on 10/20/2003 10:26:22 AM PDT by jcb8199
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To: Tony Niar Brain
I was commenting how jackasses like Neal Boortz will complain night and day about the spending of taxpayer money except when he feels the occasion is right.

And if he feels the occasion is right, he should still complain? That doesn't make any sense at all.

L/libertarianism doesn't mean that there is no government spending on anything. Even you might be able to concede that there is an interest in national security in this.

But you are probably too busy finding an occasion that feels right to you and still complaining about it.

16 posted on 10/20/2003 10:43:38 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (I'm a RINO. I'm far too conservative to be a real Republican.)
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To: Tony Niar Brain
Who gives you your talking papers? Schumer or Daschle? Do any of you Democrats ever have original thoughts? Do you ever want to... or does the suggestion itself scare you...?
18 posted on 10/20/2003 10:57:21 AM PDT by Gargantua (Embrace clarity.)
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To: SpinyNorman
Address the message to one of his STAFF!
19 posted on 10/20/2003 11:15:48 AM PDT by CyberAnt
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To: Elkiejg
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my gun.
20 posted on 10/20/2003 11:17:38 AM PDT by TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa (Foe Hammer!)
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