Libertarian Harry Browne: Bush Did Not Liberate Iraq

HarryBrowne.org ^ | Dec 15, 2003 | Harry Browne

[ForOurFuture]

Our ideas are sound, but our nut-cases seem always to define us.

I agree. Liberty should be easy to sell. It's unfortunate that Libertarians by and large do a horrible job of it.

[Starve The Beast]

Whoops, sorry for the double-post.

[eyespysomething]

The LP lost their perspective when they started trying to forc people to believe in exactly what they believe in...or else...


NO SOUP FOR YOU!

[Verginius Rufus]

I was not trying to be obscure, but maybe I needed to explain my reasoning more fully.

Before the war began in March, I believed the analysts who argued that Saddam was trying to acquire nuclear weapons and might manage to do so in another year or two if left alone. I still see no reason to doubt that he might have succeeded. Meanwhile, President Bush was under a lot of pressure to give Saddam another 6 months or more to "comply with UN resolutions." If Bush had backed down last spring, it would have been seen as a victory for Saddam, and it may well have proven impossible to take action later...so Bush would have wound up looking weak and (I feared) might well have been beaten in 2004. I don't want a Democrat to win the White House in 2004 (or later) but I was worried that that would be the consequence of appeasement or indecisiveness on Bush's part. Fortunately he's a Churchill, not a Chamberlain.

So, if Bush had not acted, some people would be alive now who are dead, but a larger number of people would be dead because of Saddam's tyranny...and the odds might be in favor of a Democrat victory in 2004 and the serious negative consequences that would have for our national security.

[Cultural Jihad]

They do a horrible job because they see the world colored by the glasses of their humanist moral-liberal ideology, and hence they do not see Reality.

[woodyinscc]

They cost Thune the Senate seat in SD, even when their candidate backed out and said support Thune, they still cast 3000 votes for him. Thune lost by a little over 500 votes.

[ForOurFuture]

They do a horrible job because they see the world colored by the glasses of their humanist moral-liberal ideology, and hence they do not see Reality.

Ah. That must be it.

[Republican Wildcat]

Wow, what a defense of Browne's article.

[Cultural Jihad]

... and the odds might be in favor of a Democrat victory in 2004 and the serious negative consequences that would have for our national security.

George Soros took all that into account.

[nopardons]

Oh, Harry Brown and the crazy Libertarians ? They haven't managed to get anything correct, since they were formed and are destroying themselves from within. Facts? They don't need no stinking facts...just pass the bong.

The LP is a collection of the very young, cases of aressted developement, and/or the " nobody ", who imagines that being a member of the " weird ", will make them a " somebody "; erroniously. LOL

[Mad Dawgg]

"And this is the voice of the Libertarian Party?

See, this is my problem with the Libertarian Party. Most of their platform I heartily agree with but then Nutzy Harry opens his mouth and destroys any chance at all of getting main-stream recognition of the party.

It is maddening I tell ya.

[Howlin]

Now that you explain it that way, it all makes perfectly good sense.

I just didn't get the part about 2005!

[Reagan is King]

Was he sober when he wrote this tripe? No wonder the Libertarian Party is going down the tubes.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

The Libertarian doctrine of "Less Gubbermint! More Freedom! Fewer Laws! Etc,,,,Is just what caused a catastrophe like 911 in the first place.

In this dangerous new world we live in, we need more protection. We can have that by simply making our current government work more effectively as well as efficiently without making it larger.

Freedom is an idealogical concept that is misunderstood by the "Tinfoil Brigade". They mean well but to put it simply, we do not build a fortress by removing the walls. And, by having that extra measure of precaution and security, it makes us able to live freely as a result.

[willyboyishere]

Harry,Harry, Harry!!!! It's difficult enough even for a country like the USA to live up to your pious Libertarian standards. Don't expect a nation like IRAQ to live up the them, now or EVER!!

[woodyinscc]

They don't need no stinking facts...just pass the bong.

I'm still laughing.!!

[nopardons]

You and me both! LOL

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

"Harry Brown and the crazy Libertarians"

Aren't they a Polka Band from Minneapolis?

[TheDon]

I don't know who is less relevant, or able, on foreign affairs, Cynthia McKinney or Harry Browne.

[nopardons]

They act as SPOILERS and since you aren't smart enough to firgure that out, then just pull the lever for President Bush and don't even attempt to " think " about what you should you. ;^)