Posted on 10/02/2004 8:15:19 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
WHERE WERE YOU?
Where were you in 1980 when Saddam invaded Iran? Where were you when the chemical weapons filled the Iranian trenches? Where were the protests?
Where were the marches on the Iraqi embassies when well over one MILLION were killed, as weapons of mass destruction were used?
Where were the protests when Saddam invaded Kuwait?
WHERE WERE YOU?
When the systematic rapes began, with women assaulted in front of their children, children raped in front of their fathers,
WHERE WERE YOU?
Where were the speeches? Where was the Hollywood Left?
WHERE WERE YOU?
When Saddam set fire to his own oil fields, when one of the greatest ecological disasters in history was perpetrated by this one single despotic individual,
WHERE WERE YOU?
Where were the environmentalists?
WHERE WERE YOU?
When Saddam used chemical weapons AT LEAST 40 times on his own people, Where were the protests? When 5,000 died in a single gas attack, women and children falling in the streets from the poisonous and forbidden chemicals,
WHERE WERE YOU?
The pictures were shown on television sets across the globe. Saddam gassed his own citizens, as the world watched, but where were the protests? Where was the outcry? Where were the pickets outside the Iraqi embassies? Where was the name calling and flag burning then?
WHERE WERE YOU?
As word of the atrocities in Iraq began to leak out, just as it did not so long ago in 1943 from within the Third Reich, when you're own organizations like Amnesty International and The International Red Cross began to report on the routine use of torture, the rape rooms built specifically for the sexual torture of girls and women, as the stories leaked out of human beings being fed through plastic shredders, feet first, as they screamed,
WHERE WERE THE PROTESTS?
Did you not believe the pictures? Did you not believe the footage on your screens? Did you not believe the Iraqis themselves, the scarred women and hollow-eyed men, as they told their stories and begged for YOUR help?
WHERE WERE YOU THEN?
Where were you, as Iraqis began to suffer under sanctions, as 5,000 starved a month and Saddam built palaces?
WHERE WERE YOU?
Some of you protested your OWN governments for instituting a containment policy that you NOW claim is the only answer, but where were the protests against Saddam?
WHERE WERE YOU?
When Saddam's net worth was reported as well over $ 2 BILLION dollars, as you read of his many, many palaces, and as his people starve,
WHERE WERE THE PROTESTS?
When the Persian Gulf War ended, and the first United Nations resolution was violated by Saddam and his regime,
WHERE WERE YOU THEN?
Where were the protests? What about the second resolution? The third? The seventh? The ninth? The 14th? The 15th? The 17th?
WHERE WERE YOU THEN?
Those of you claiming that the U.S. and the FORTY PLUS countries acting with her today are violating international law,
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THOSE RESOLUTIONS WERE VIOLATED?
Where were the protests and chants and signs and burning flags? As 17 resolutions and 12 years of defiance passed by, as the weapons were built and the inspectors expelled, as the citizens starved and despot grew richer,
WHERE WERE YOU?
Where were you every time Saddam sent money to terrorists in Palestine an act openly boasted of by Saddam on national television? Where were the protests? Where was the outcry?
Where were the protests once the actual people of Iraq, the exiles and dissidents and survivors, told their stories?
WHERE WERE YOU?
As Iraqi women testified before Congress, begging for American help, begging for the end of the Hussein regime,
WHERE WERE YOU?
Where was the Hollywood Left, Martin Sheen, Sean Penn, and the Dixie Chicks?
Where was Sheryl Crow, Susan Sarandon, Barbara Streisand, Michael Moore?
WHERE WERE YOU?
And perhaps most of all, when President Bill Clinton, acting properly and courageously, announced a policy against Iraq in 1998 almost IDENTICAL to that of the current administration,
WHERE WERE YOU?
As the bombs fell in Baghdad during Operation Desert Fox,
WHERE WERE YOU?
Time after time after time after time,
WHERE WERE YOU?
Where was your hatred, your bitterness, your self-righteousness? Where were your signs and marches and rants?
WHERE WERE YOU?
Where were you when it mattered?
Where were you when you could have helped?
Saddest of all today, as war rages on, a war that would have been quicker and more humane without your mindless displays of partisanship, a war that might very well have been avoided BUT FOR your actions,
WHERE ARE YOU?
As our sons, daughter, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters, fight this war, whether that action is right or wrong, Where are you when they need you? Where are those spouting the partisan rhetoric? Where will the hatred and self-righteous attitude from Ted Kennedy, (you know, the guy of Chappaquiddick fame) and others, take us?
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
Kerry says, "Vote for me, I have a plan to end the war!"
Let's Look at Kerry's plan.
Kerry voted to kill the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Kerry voted to kill the M-1 Abrams Tank. Kerry voted to kill every aircraft carrier laid down from 1988. Kerry voted to kill the Aegis anti aircraft system. Kerry voted to Kill the F-15 Strike Eagle. Kerry voted to Kill the Block 60 F-16. Kerry voted to Kill the P-3 Orion upgrade. Kerry voted to Kill the B-1. Kerry voted to Kill the B-2. Kerry voted to Kill the Patriot Anti Missile System. Kerry voted to Kill the FA-18. Kerry voted to Kill the F117.
In short, Kerry voted to kill every military appropriation for the development and deployment of every weapons systems since 1988 to include the battle armor for our troops.
I don't think this plan will protect my grandchildren. How about yours?
With Kerry as president our army will be made up of men and women running around with sticks and clubs.
What else has Kerry done to protect us here at home? Kerry also voted to kill all anti terrorism activities of every agency of the U.S.Government and to cut the funding of the FBI by 60%, cut the funding for the CIA by 80%, and cut the funding for the NSA by 80%.
I just don't see how all of this will win a war, and keep our children safe. The stakes are just too high for our children and grandchildren.
Now he says that Bush has not handled the war properly. Now he wants to add money for intelligence agencies, add money for military funding, which he previously voted against. Now he wants to raise our taxes to implement his plan.
Wait! It is clear to me now!
FLIP-FLOP!
You have a choice and Kerry’s the
WRONG CHOICE!
I have no faith or confidence that the American Sheep will make a smart choice next month.
Thanks blogblogginaway. I had not seen this before and have saved it. Going to send it to a half dozen skerrylibs who are friends and relatives who will promptly take me off their Christmas list after they finish squirming. No loss - tired of their stupidity anyway.
THAT'S good!!!!
I'm bookmarking it, and sending it out via email!
ping
Thanks so much for posting this!
I had not seen it before...
God Bless..
Ms.B
thanks, i e-mailed it out
I have never seen it, and I am glad you posted it. It pretty much says it all. I am afraid for this country right now, because unless the media starts telling the truth about John Kerry's record, we just might have this man in the White house. That would be a very dangerous thing.
Great find !!!! thanks !
It is something to consider after seeing the media's orgasm after the debates. No matter how well Kerry was supposed to present himself, what he said is scary as hell.
Where was I ??
Floating around in the Persian Gulf count??
Jack
I was heading down to SOCCENT when Saddam crossed the border.
bump
Facts mean nothing to Democrats.
That's why I stick up for Spain whenever there is some generalized jab about Spain's manhood in regards to the result of the recent Spanish elections where Zapatero won by a close margin.
American Sheep aren't any different than Spanish Sheep. Sheep are Sheep.
Facts mean nothing to LEFTIST LIBERALS, you mean! This list of Where Were You? needs to be circulated. So, CIRCULATE IT!!
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