WORTH THE PRICE? (Neal Boortz - 12/22/05 Good Read)

Nealz Nuze ^ | 12/22/04 | Neal Boortz

[Elkiejg]

Oops - title date should read 12/22/04

[stylin_geek]

Nah, there was no collusion by MSM to avoid reporting good economic news. And I also believe in the "fake but accurate" defense of Rathergate.

[beaureguard]

You beat me!!

Did a search, but didn't see yours.

Good article today - Boortz isn't taking off for Christmas yet.

[Alien Gunfighter]

Iraq is not worth what the US has put into it. I blame Arabs who don't want peace, muslims who only want to murder in the name of their filthy, violent religion, and a US government that is more concerned with being loved by foreigners and 24 hour news networks than with winning a war and saving the lives of common soldiers.

It must be seriously demoralizing to the average soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan to know that getting caught doing his job (shooting 'insurgents') by a terrorist-sympathizer journalist with a camera (pretty much all of them) will get him court-martialed and jailed.

Let the scum fight it out amongst themselves, I say. We'll buy oil from the winner. Or maybe (just maybe) we'll get smart...and NOT buy oil from the winner.

[conservativeharleyguy]

"OK -- SO YOU DON'T WANT US TO BE THE "WORLD'S POLICEMAN" When asked a similar question ("Should the U.S. be the world's policeman?"), Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn replied "Better the U.S. as the world's policeman than the Soviets as the world's jailers". Since the Soviets are the model for communist repression everywhere, that is generally regarded to mean all communists by extension.

One can make an effective case of that applying to Saddam as well, since the Russian Soviets were his suppliers and military and political (which, under communism, are distinctly connected) mentors for decades. Now to be fair, so were we, but we bailed when we found out what how bad he was.

People in the West don't often see it, because the radical Arab world has done a great job of obfuscating it, but the politics behind Radical Islam are thinly veiled Communist doctrine and dogma. It's been taught in the universities in the Arab world for decades, and it's the root of the "haves vs. the have-nots" mentality of their "struggle". Strip away the religious connotations, and one sees basic dialectic Marxism at the core.

It is how they are able to murder millions of people around the world under the guise of religion.

[blaquebyrd]

"Iraq is not worth what the US has put into it."

Couldn't agree more and I'm not jumping on the bandwagon, that's been my view since this war began. If Bush had sold the war as the war to liberate Iraq vs rid Iraq of WMD the Amercan public would have never backed it. That's what we have now American's dying to liberate Iraq while Iraqis protest and tell us to go home. So no Iraq is not worth one American life. Let Iraqis fight and die for their liberation.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

WORTH THE PRICE?

Freedom is a bargain at any price.

[abc1]

Better to fight them there now than here later.

We have lost a 1000+ well trained, good soldiers fighting these murdering punks.

Imagine the lives lost if we had to fight them in America with the resources of the police.

This is no slight against the law enforcement community, but, they are not equipped to deal with what these Islamofascists are doing now in Iraq now.

Never mind that now even the military is having to deal with the likes of the ACLU and the second guessing of the left.

The population of this country lacks the perspective of history to judge the losses and the cost of failing.

Just this week the History channel ran a documentary on the battle of Antietam during the American Civil War. There were 23,000 dead in one day.

One day, on one battlefield.

On D-Day at Normandy, the Americans suffered 2,400 casualties at Omaha on June 6.

That was on one day one of five (Gold, Juno, Sword, Omaha and Utah) sections of one battlefield.

This war was made on us. We have to answer the aggression lest we succumb to it.

To appease these malcontents as France and England did Hitler would be to suffer the same fate.

[angcat]

My liberal co-worker who is just so livid that "everyone hates us" tried to defend the Japanese the other day. His son went to Japan for a visit and he remarked how they hated him and would not let him in certain restaurants. I remarked, "Payback is a bitch". Of course he said "all those women and children". I knew he was going to sympathize with Japan. He would never mention Pearl Harbor nor sympathize with what happened to us. I believe this man is a miserable nut case.

[democrats_nightmare]

Great post!! Enjoyed reading this!

[Ready4Freddy]

Especially for the Iraqis - they get the freedom (maybe), while someone else is paying the price.

Unfortunately, the whole country will probably devolve into warring religious factions, with the shiite-heads on top and allied w/ Iran.

Freedom is a bargain at any price.

[winodog]

I am suprised to hear that. Nonetheless it will not be long before the red dragon starts breathing fire again and the Japanese will love Americans.

[Senior Chief]

Spoken like a true Chamberlain.

[Senior Chief]

Are you not up to date with reality? Even in the article, NB points out that a: Iraq has had and used both Chemical, and Biological weapons against Kurds, Iranians, Kuwaitis, etc. b: Iraq had a very active Nuc weaps program. Have you forgotten the Nigerian yellow cake uranium? Have you forgotten the weapons convoys to Syria? The only thing prior to Iraq II that prevented Hussein (sp) from actively attacking the continental US was rear of reprisal!

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Especially for the Iraqis - they get the freedom (maybe), while someone else is paying the price.

The million + in mass graves is part of the price they have already paid. Since the war has started, many more Iraqis have lost their lives attemting to gain freedom than Americans. We are not the only ones paying the price. Not all Iraqis are enemies.

Freedom is never free. Iraq has it's patriots yearning for freedom too.

[roses of sharon]

Dont' bother, for some history begins when they awake in the morning!

After 9/11, Bush could not fight a war with the Islamic cults with Saddam and Sons over his shoulder. (if not for the deposing of Saddam, his goons would be in Afganastan right now, killing us)

As for the Iraqi population, I saw no refugees before the war, during the intitial war, and I see none leaving now.

I would say that 25 million Iraqi souls now have a chance at a civilized society.

And millions of other Islamics in the ME and their children can see that the way of suicide, murdering innocent infidels, is in the past, and no longer "fruitful" for them as a society.

[blaquebyrd]

We knew about the chemicals during the Iran/Iraq war. We backed Iraq so we looked the other way. The Bush administration has publicly stated that the yellow cake story was inaccurate. The Brits are sticking with the story but I have to take the word of our administration. No evidence has ever been presented on "weapons convoys to Syria". Our government has never made that allegation and if we knew it (saw it) we would have stopped it. As for the nuc weapons program, our investigators found that Iraq possessed no nuclear material. So to answer your question Chief, yes I am up to date with reality, as up to date as our government investigations have revealed.

[Uncle Vlad]

As usual, Neil Boortz is dead-on. If all Libertarians had his good sense, we'd be a majority party, instead of having our national conventions at the breakfast bar of the Red Roof Inn.

[showme_the_Glory]

Boortz isn't taking off for Christmas yet...

I got the impression listening to Neal that he is not for Christ mas.