Posted on 05/20/2004 10:06:34 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Four decades separate the war in the jungle from the war in the desert, yet the current president from Texas sounds eerily similar to another president from Texas.
George W. Bush says, "Now is the time, and Iraq is the place." Lyndon B. Johnson said, "The time is now, and the place is Vietnam." Bush says, "Bring 'em on." Johnson said, "Nail the coonskin to the wall."
Bush says, "We are fighting that enemy in Iraq... so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities." Johnson said, "If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco."
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When it was pointed out he quickly disappeared and didn't come back for several days. I guess he's getting his courage back.
The hook, line and sinker, I see.
"It was Al Quade that killed 200 in Spain recently - triggering their withdrawal from Iraq. "
Funny how Al Qaeda seems to think that Iraq is far more important and connected to their terrorist agenda than you do.
How can I be an isolationist when I want Bush to return the focus of the WOT to the folks who did 9-11 -- I want him to redeploy our forces against al Queda and Osama. Remember Osama? Remeber 9-11? Have you really forgotten who did the evil that day? I'm no isolationist, by no means. I want us to fight and kill the people who did 9-11.,
Funny how Osama despises Saddam.
So what would you call that sarin gas shell used against our troops the other day?
This is the Clinton quagmire, war, death and billions of expenses.
If he had done his Presidential duty, he would have taken Bin Laden when offered to him and none of this would have happened. END OF STORY!
Bush is cleaning up after Clinton on both terrorism and the economy.
The strategy of stateless Terror was made expressly for people like you!
So maybe we should clean Saddam up and let him go?
You do remember the sarin gas shell...the one that was capable of killing hundreds of people?
Oh,and just WHO,pray tell, has informed you that we are no longer searching out and fighting the al Qaeda in Afghanistan,looking hither and yon for binny/his remains?
"Call me a "troll," but what I'm more like is the medieval jester who told the king the hard truths that his fawning courtiers didn't have the courage or sense to voice..."
Like I said, his agenda is larger than just being a gad-fly.
al Qaeda are all through Iraq and Saddam was dealing with them and paying homicide bombing terrorists families to kill Jews and us.
Seems we had a reason for just us, then add mass graves, jailed children and of course...THE FRENCH!
Osama Mama is (was) only one tentacle of the hydra.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi said the raid on his compound Thursday was engineered by Baathists who control the Iraqi police and who are now protected by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Senior coalition law enforcement and justice officials said the raid on the compound of the Iraqi National Congress was part of an investigation of "suspected fraud in a government ministry." But Chalabi -- who is head of finance in the Iraqi Governing Council and leader of the INC -- was not named in the warrant. Iraqi police and U.S. military personnel who conducted the raid took away computers and documents but arrested no one, Chalabi told reporters at a Baghdad news conference. Chalabi, who was previously a close adviser to the Pentagon, said the CPA is dissatisfied with his demands for Iraq's provisional government to be given full control of the Iraqi Army after the June 30 handover and for control of the investigation of fraud in the U.N. oil-for-food program. "When America treats its friends this way, then they are in big trouble," Chalabi said. He called Thursday's raid "the penultimate act of failure of the CPA in Iraq." He said his relationship with the CPA is now "non-existent." When asked about that comment, CPA spokesman Dan Senor only noted that Chalabi "worked closely with us over a number of months." Senor said questions about the raid should be addressed to the Iraqi police. "It was an Iraqi-led investigation, an Iraqi-led raid. It was the result of Iraqi arrest warrants," he said. Chalabi said an emergency meeting of the Iraqi Governing Council has been called for Friday afternoon to respond to the raid. When asked what could be expected, he said, "Wait and see." The coalition officials said three locations were searched under the warrant issued by an Iraqi judge. "Several people" named in the warrant were arrested, but some were not found, they said. The investigation involved "fraud, kidnapping and associated matters," they said. Chalabi's nephew, Salim Chalabi, who serves as Iraq's war crimes prosecutor, said U.S. military personnel and Iraqi police entered his uncle's home with their weapons drawn, threatened Chalabi's security personnel, put a gun to Chalabi's head and threatened him. Iraqi National Congress spokesman Entifadh Qanbar, speaking to CNN from Washington, said the compound was raided "in a very savage way.... Doors were smashed despite the offer to unlock it. Computers were smashed. Even pictures on the wall were smashed. Even his holy Koran, his personal holy Koran was taken as a document."
Didn't you know that we can't walk and chew gum at the same time?
There are other tentacles here in this country...doing their best to undermine the war effort.
So should we release Saddam and leave?
Just because the media chooses to ignore what's going on outside of Abu Ghraib doesn't mean that nothing's going on. We're still in Afghanistan. We've got irons in the fire all over the world. And if you know where Osama's at, please get the President on the horn. He'd like to know (unless you're so far gone you now agree with Michael Moore that we're keeping him in an cushy apartment somewhere). Otherwise, we'll just keep doing what we're doing and we'll get him eventually.
I'm sorry you're so short-sighted, though. So, you think we should just get the people directly involved in 9/11 and call it a day? Good plan. Then we can just wait for the next 9/11 and go after the ones involved in that.
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