Posted on 12/02/2003 3:46:49 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
RUSH: "Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, fresh from her own trip to Iraq, accused President Bush yesterday of conducting the war by a political calendar, saying he had dispatched the wrong mix of troops to secure the country and that victory is not certain. In an interview on The Today Show yesterday," portions of which we played, "Hillary said that her war zone visit last weekend with not only the military but civilian American representatives revealed that, 'clearly what we're doing now is not an effective strategy. Success at rebuilding Iraq,' she said, 'can only come with the involvement of the United Nations, which has been reluctant to aid U.S. efforts.'" Don't forget the story we had earlier: 108 Member Nations of the United Nations Declined to Pursue Terrorists! Right here, folks, for those of you watching on the Dittocam. That's it, that I'm holding up so you can read right there, 108 nations, member nations, UN, declined to pursue terrorists, and here's Hillary along with Howard Dean suggesting that we can only win this if we involve this bumbling bunch of Inspector Clouseaus to help us out. So, my friends, I want to play a little game here. We're going to go back in time, and I want to construct a scenario for you. I want you to imagine that the year is 1943 and that we were attacked nearly two years before at Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941. That's two years after Pearl Harbor, I want you to just picture yourself, put yourself there. Our military forces are spread throughout the world. We either fought or are fighting the enemy among other places the Pacific theater, North Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia. We're fighting on tiny islands and taking huge casualties. We're fighting in jungles and mountain ranges, again taking huge casualties. And along the way we are winning, we are liberating one nation after another, along with millions of people. And then amidst all of this, imagine that there is a left-wing senator from New York. She's never supported the military in her long public career, she has never showed an interest in military needs in her long public career, she was part of an administration that in fact severely reduced and undermined our military force structure, including personnel levels, weapons systems, and armaments, and that same administration largely ignored the growing national security threat posed by the enemy, despite numerous attacks on Americans both here and abroad. Now, we're still in 1943 and just imagine in essence that Hillary Clinton surfaces two years after Pearl Harbor. Now that pacifist, anti-war liberal senator, only two years after the attack on Pearl Harbor uses her position as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee to travel to certain theaters of combat over the Thanksgiving holiday, not to bolster our troops, but to criticize their commander-in-chief. Imagine had this happened in 1943. She questions the war's progress, she questions the adequacy of our troop levels and even the wisdom of parts of their mission. She questions why we haven't already captured or killed Adolf Hitler or Tojo and she does all of this on foreign soil while our troops are taking casualties. This senator's behavior is even worse than Neville Chamberlain's peace-in-our-time proclamation. At least Chamberlain, once he realized he had been deceived by Hitler, became an ardent supporter of the allied war effort. But not so with this senator. Having been a power behind an administration that appeased terrorists and undermined our military, this senator now seeks to exploit the difficulties of war and occupation as a springboard to her own presidency. Yes, my friends, the senator I speak of is Hillary Clinton. Imagine her pulling this two years after Pearl Harbor. The behavior I speak of is Hillary's during her recent trips to Afghanistan and Iraq. And yesterday, when she returned from her so-called fact finding trip, she was greeted as an important voice by the likes of Katie Couric and the others in the mainstream media. You know, times have really changed. It wouldn't have occurred to a Republican senator in 1943 to try to exploit the war effort 60 years ago in hopes of making political gains against FDR, at the expense of our war effort around the world. Imagine the morale boost the enemy in Berlin and Tokyo and elsewhere would have received back then if a leading political figure and future presidential hopeful had acted as Hillary has acted today. Imagine the propaganda value such a visit would have had on these regimes, and imagine how demoralizing it would have been to the men and women on the front lines. We are at war today every bit as much as we were at war in World War II. We are a much more prosperous nation today, and so we don't all have to sacrifice, we don't all have to give away things to the effort, we don't have to undergo and endure rationing, because we're a much more prosperous nation today. So many of us are allowed to go on about our lives and treat this war as some minor little skirmish in caves and mountains and deserts somewhere in the Middle East. Except Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Clinton knows what's at stake here. We are at war every bit as much as we were at war in World War II. We are fighting for the survival of our way of life, and the enemy has the potential of secretly invading our country not with armies but with a handful of wacko fanatics who have the ability of acquiring weapons that can kill tens of millions of people in just, snap, a second. More Americans died on September 11th than died at Pearl Harbor. We are at war. We're fighting this war all over the place on many fronts. We cannot wait for the enemy to lift his head in order to fight back. We have to take this war to the enemy. And when Hillary Clinton uses her public position to do what she's done, it needs to be highlighted and exposed for what it is. While less blatant, Hillary Clinton's behavior is really no less damaging than Jane Fonda's during the Vietnam War, but there is a big difference. At least Jane Fonda was a private citizen, a mere actress. Hillary Clinton is a senator on the Armed Services Committee, undermining our war effort.
She is a moron and an imbecile for sure.......we can all agree on that.
But she attained her seat in the Senate as if she got it from a Cracker Jacks box.
She was handed it by the star-struck voters of New York, who are now realizing, I hope, what a pig in a poke they were sold!!
The esoteric thing here is that the common leftist perception is this irritates us.
In the Pacific we had taken Guadalcanal and a few atolls, but were far, far away from invading the Phillipines, much less Japan.
Indeed, some isolationists sneered at "President Roosevelt's War." He must be rolling in his grave seeing that his party is now the home of the sneering isolationists and defeatists.
Yes and lets not forget that she fobade them the wearing of their military uniforms in the White House while she resided there as co-president. Not only that, but the military was used as waiters and ushers there.
She is truly a witch.
Hillary Rotten is the leftwings most admired and respected figure and she is also, the most polarizing individual in American politics today. I thought she would run in 2004 and am disappointed she didn't take the bait. Who knows, there is still plenty of time for the Democrats to see that Dean isn't the right candidate and demand that Hillary come to their rescue. Either way, the Demlib's will lose.
I'm not sure about Al Smith, but Charles Lindburgh, who was an ardent Isolationist before the war, became one of the top covert operations advisors to the OSS. In addition, Wendal Wilkie, who had run against FDR in 1940, went on a number of special diplomatic operations for Roosevelt, including helping convince Brazil to enter the war on our side. This was a key development in preventing Argentina from entering the war on the side of Germany. If Madame Reichsfuhrer Clinton had been around to pull this stunt during WW2, she probably would have suffered a "regretable" accident.
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