Posted on 10/18/2004 1:46:56 PM PDT by JessieHelmsJr
Sometimes in life you have to stand and fight, even if it means extreme discomfort. That's what's going on in Iraq right now.
Iraq may not be the right place to engage Islama-fascism, but it is the reality America faces. Incredible circumstances like Sept. 11, faulty intelligence on weapons of mass destruction and a unique world war against terrorism have conspired to bring America a brutal challenge. But to surrender to that challenge would open a door of unintended consequences that would threaten all of us.
An Iraq run by terrorists would be another Afghanistan under the Taliban. Jihadists would be trained and dispatched to spread fear and death around world. Eventually, the nuclear scientists in Iran could provide that kind of weaponry to the terrorists in neighboring Iraq. That's a doomsday scenario, if there ever was one.
You would think the rest of the world would understand the threat, but many countries simply look the other way, calculating that America or Israel will take the brunt of any high-tech terrorism. We know now that Saddam Hussein bribed high-ranking officials in France and Russia and perhaps even China through the UN oil-for-food program. So it's not hard to understand why those countries refused to move against a gravy-train dictator spending billions to keep himself in power. But Saddam's gone, so why not help stabilize Iraq now? Surely that would enhance world security.
The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and China have no answers to that question. So the chaos in Iraq is being confronted by the U.S. and a few allies when every civilized nation should be clamoring to help defeat the terrorists inside Iraq.
This fight is a defining moment in U.S. history. All the screwups in the past mean little when the future of that country is considered. Both President Bush and John Kerry have failed to define the seriousness of the situation to Americans, many of whom are still in an anti-war fog induced by Howard Dean and other cut-and-run types.
The difficulty and frustration of the war in Iraq is painful to contemplate as Americans die nearly every day. But no President can allow terrorists to create a nuclear jihad zone.
And there is no question that is what the terrorists want - a place where they can operate with impunity, a place of hatred and unlimited violence.
"Both President Bush and John Kerry have failed to define the seriousness of the situation to Americans, many of whom are still in an anti-war fog induced by Howard Dean and other cut-and-run types."
Thats why I dont like O'Reilly because I think Bush has defined the seriousness of it you damn pervert!
What about the other 31 countries?
Wait 'til Australia hears about this.
What the hell has Bush been talking about for 3 damn years? Its the MSM like O'Reilly who has tried to down play Bush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its a scandal that O'Reilly was alone the last time he had sex.
And O'Reilly calls himself a conservative.
Yeah, isn't that the truth? I wonder how HIS scandal will play out.
I wonder if O'Reilly's prosecuter is very liberal?
He'll starting sucking liberal ass so they wont be so hard on him.
BOR-E is not a conservative, he's a poseur making money off of being contrary. Ann Coulter nailed his method cold: Bill immediately takes the middle of any two positions, regardless of the facts of the matter.
Of course this reasoning would scold both the Jews AND the Nazis for the Holocaust...
Bill O'Reilly should stick to whispering phone calls to subordinates with his vibrator at the ready. At least the rest of us wouldn't have to listen to his tripe.
O'Reilly calls himself an independent. Independent = liberal hit a bag on his head.
Where on earth have you heard O'Reilly say he is a conservative???
BUMP!
To check later if this has morphed into a "hate O'Reilly" thread.
Shut up, O'Really. You've become irrelevant. Go defend yourself in your sex scandal.
I absolutely hate people who argue both sides from the middle. Take a position and stick with it, I say!!!
Right here on FR. It was posted earlier on an Ann Coulter thread.
I don't think there were enough pictures of Ann though, so most FReepers probably missed it. ;)
Bill says the strangest things when he has a dildo stuck in him.
But I don't think our military really needed any help winning the war in a couple weeks. And they don't seem to mind the accomplishments they are achieving there now in assisting a grateful people to rebuild from 30 years of tyranny.
I do notice his voice sometimes jumps up an octave or two. Now I know why.
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