Posted on 02/13/2005 11:53:43 PM PST by JohnHuang2
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Amid a general chorus of U.S. approval for the Iraqi election results yesterday, Rep. Charles B. Rangel called the vote "a success by Republican standards" and said Americans "don't want their children to die for other people's freedom." "I don't believe that the American people think that it was worth the lives of 1,200 Americans and 25,000 men and women in the armed services wounded, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Iraqis dead," the New York Democrat said. Mr. Rangel, a Korean War veteran, told NBC's "Meet the Press" that the war in Iraq is a "fraud" and that the United States cannot and will not bear the price of its children's blood to spread democracy abroad. "We cannot afford to free people all over the world. We don't have that many lives to give up," Mr. Rangel said. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, also appeared on "Meet the Press" and challenged Mr. Rangel, saying people yearn for freedom beginning at birth. Mr. Grassley defended President Bush's State of the Union speech and its call for liberty. He and Mr. Rangel agreed yesterday on the need to spread freedom to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, North Korea and China.
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Come on Charlie, admit it, the only thing you really care about is drawing a government paycheck. You can thank our military for that.
Exactly what this fat dirtbag would have said. These Rats are utterly heartless. It's one thing to say we shouldn't die for other people's freedom when a war is being considered. It's another thing to say this in order to belittle a current situation, in this case the success of Iraq's first free election in 50 years.
The Democratic party is committing moral suicide. It may well regain power in 2008. But morally, it is on its deathbed.
Why does anyone listen to that fool Rangel? Isn't he the one who proposed a bill to reinstate the draft and then voted against it (along with everyone else)? What a dope.
The successor to adam clayton powell once again proves himself to be a bloated leftist idiot. His best act is when he pretends to be a patriot. If you can overcome the gag reflex, it's really funny to watch this greasy fat commie wrap himself in the flag.
he proposed a bill to re-instate the draft, then insisted that Bush's plans included a secret draft to be initiated right after the election.
what a maroon.
If "Americans don't want their children dying for other peoples freedom", then I wonder how it is that Charlie Rangel is a fat cat Congressman--and not a slave working in the fields of some slaveowner?
Americans aren't perfect Congressman, but somehow we always keep coming back to our ideals. Freedom is our lodestone and we've given lots of blood and treasure to maintain it for ourselves and others.
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