Thought this would be a "How we conceived Chelsea" thread.
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Posted on 05/16/2004 9:06:04 AM PDT by Jimbaugh
Where's the outrage? I have had enough with the Senate hearings and the politicians' and media's selective outrage and obsessive fixation on the "abuses'' at the Iraqi prison. Where is the outrage at the slaughter of Nick Berg?
The left's political agenda is shamelessly being put ahead of the safety and mission of our troops and our national security. R.I. Democratic Sen. Jack Reed's badgering of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz repeatedly asking whether "sensory deprivation which would be a bag over your head for 72 hours is humane" was absurd. We are at war! I only wished Wolfowitz would have answered, "Better a bag over your head than your head in a bag.''
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This is a great quote it should be used often.
I agree..and in the SF Chronicle!
And in San Francisco, no less, where many of these acts are considered an acceptable 'alternate lifestyle.'
If Mark Morford was in these pictures, they'd be vacation snapshots.
Ah, I see. It's just the Chronicle's annual view beyond gay and from the "other side." A letter to the editor.
This reminds me of a scene from the movie/musical 1776. They're debating the language used in the Declaration of Independence, and one of the delegates says that the wording is too harsh towards the English Parliament.
Finally, John Adams yells... "This is a Rev-o-lu-tion dammit! We're going to HAVE to offend SOMEBODY!"
great letter!
Thought this would be a "How we conceived Chelsea" thread.
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One of the most disgusting sights of the prison "scandal" was not of anything that happened in the prison, but of the members of Congress "posturing" and giving sound bites for the cameras of the liberal press!
Why excerpt a 3 paragraph letter to the editor?
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Editor -- Where's the outrage? I have had enough with the Senate hearings and the politicians' and media's selective outrage and obsessive fixation on the "abuses'' at the Iraqi prison. Where is the outrage at the slaughter of Nick Berg?
The left's political agenda is shamelessly being put ahead of the safety and mission of our troops and our national security. R.I. Democratic Sen. Jack Reed's badgering of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz repeatedly asking whether "sensory deprivation which would be a bag over your head for 72 hours is humane" was absurd. We are at war! I only wished Wolfowitz would have answered, "Better a bag over your head than your head in a bag.''
Effective interrogation is a necessary part of war. These prisoners are there because they are trying to kill our troops and have information about terrorist activity. To even describe these "abuses'' as "atrocities'' is outrageous. This political posturing in a time of war is damaging and very dangerous. It has got to stop!
BUMP! Good article.
LOL, I wish he had said that too!
Nick, you really need to get a copyright on your musings. $;-)
Someone is reading our pages. :-)
Look at #126 on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1134846/posts
What can you say, great (FReeper) minds think alike!
I'm beginning to think that Karl Rove panicked and Bush handled this wrong.
Instead of apologizing, he should have said, "Yes, we're sorry that a few people got out of line, and we have been investigating it for the past several months. But the lives of our troops are at stake, and the prisoners in that jail are terrorists, murderers, and worse.
"If we are to combat terrorism by separating the terrorists from the general population behind which they are hiding like the cowards they are, then we need good intelligence. As the 9/11 commission has already said, there is no substitute for accurate intelligence when dealing with the terrorist threat to our country and our way of life."
How did Rove let himself be blindsided like that? Why doesn't he have informants in the media like clinton, so he will be prepared to counter these propaganda outbursts? And why don't the punish the reporters and editors who produce these propaganda attacks? If clinton were still in office, he would have seen that the makers of that 60 Minutes show were all fired by now, or he would have socked CBS with a regulatory attack.
An amazing thing. . .
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