Posted on 06/16/2004 6:31:45 PM PDT by wagglebee
I'm beginning to believe that some Americans aren't bright enough to figure this out until they and everyone else starts getting blown to pieces as they drive down the street. I can not believe the total ignorance of some people.
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With all due respect, I disagree. Were it merely the left, I'd find some solace in your presentation. It would mean the "right" is on the proper course.
Today, June 16, 2004, President Bush declared Pakistan a "major non-NATO ally". In a statement released by the White House, President Bush said, "I hereby designate the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as a major non-NATO ally of the United States for the purposes of the act and the Arms Export Control Act".
Major non-NATO allies are granted significant benefits in the area of foreign aid and defense cooperation.
We've been down this path before. One of our most significant enemy states arose from the ashes of a dictator deposed by Islamic fundamentalism. That was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. No Arab, Middle Eastern, Islamic state benefited more in military equipment, expertise, and aid from the United States then Iran prior to the Islamic revolution in 1979.
Much like Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Pervez Musharraf, the President of Pakistan, came to power by a coup, and like Pahlavi, has assumed dictatorial powers to control his government and country. Attempts on his life have come close. There is no heir apparent to his position. Islamic fundamentalists command great power within Pakistan. If, as in the case of Pahlavi, an Islamic state follows on the heels of Musharraff, we will face yet another enemy, but one more potent then Iran. Pakistan already possesses both nuclear warheads, and missile delivery systems. Each missile test ushers in missiles with greater range and capability.
If this were the lone case to pacify, it might mean little. Unfortunately, it is not. Yesterday President Bush said the United States would not oppose a political role for radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Rather then seeking victory against the militias al-Sadr brought against our troops and his own countrymen, President Bush has granted legitimacy to an enemy of all that oppose his fundamentalist Islamic beliefs.
Something in the "War on Terrorism" is so far astray from our democratic principals, and love of liberty that it is increasingly difficult to tell where the left ends and the right begins.
"Yesterday President Bush said the United States would not oppose a political role for radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr." I'm afraid you'll have to show me the source for that assertion, it's so outlandish a notion.
The statement was made yesterday while President Bush and Afghani President Karzai met with reporters.
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5440768
I thank you for the link to a journalist's take, but I would like to see a transcript of such a comment. What was in the link as said by Dan Senor doesn't exactly mesh with the assertion attributed to Bush.
Actually, I think the ultimate goal of the left is to destroy America and fold the country into the UN or EU."
We have a winner.
Someone give the man a cigar.
I was afraid of this almost 2 years ago
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/721240/posts
Oh wow, cool find. That's a really super old Dr. Suess cartonn isn't it? From when he was a political cartoonist? I never even knew he had done that until he died.
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